The sucker pictured was acquired at my bank today. A bank employee came down the line and handed some out to show the bank's appreciation for our, the customers', patience. Now that's what I call...

Not not a contest

Blake Butler/Lamination Colony is not not doing a neat (and free) contest involving words and fun prizes.

I will be using this as an excuse or occasion to write a story, which I can apparently only do if I'm under a deadline. And the deadline for this thing is not not a week from Friday. Between 1-2000 words. OK. I think I can make that work. I have a feeling I'd have more success with stories if I always just focused on word count, rather than character, plot, setting, whatever. Those "elements of storytelling" always fuck me over.

Information is here to be found.

SONNET


Vote for me
It would really make me happy
Cross your fingers for me please
From Avignon to Geneva

Yes, I want to play computer games easily
Do you work in advertising?
I didn't see anything funny about debt
Until I saw my garbage

Is it sad that I'm extremely tempted to buy this shirt?
Is it sad to see what people are eating?
Oh oh, mein Server kommt nicht hoch
I am up, I now have a large cup of coffee in me

Somehow this is not a scenario
That makes me yearn to burst into song

WOW!

This rain is real! Wow! It has been consistently raining

For quite some time!

Check out the disposable memory project

The smell of the Turkish coffee!

There are literally millions of people

Searching every day for products, trials, discounts

Check out the big money MEN selling AVON

Who won the Lakers/Nuggets game! 

Charlotte Gainsbourg putting on a bikini

Watching a show where the cop was a killer 

And stole the lady's money!

Paying respect to another's dimension 

Is one of the most important aspects of awareness

Your source for fitness tips and motivation and everything Turbo!

SONNET

Why is this world full of shameless people
Today just seems to be dragging
"I can see, I can see, I'm going blind..."
Is genital warts curable?
I think my internal clock is set to Hawaii time
I just took 12 vitamins
I love the mickey! So cute!
Got my confirmation letter
Am I awesome or am I awesome
My dumb sleepy self
Looked up tonight and saw a satellite
Just our side of the street
Everyone huddling outside
Home at last goodnight

HELLO TO SUMMER AND WELCOME


Luck runs into obstacles like fortified yak habitats

Abandoned for love, speaking of which

C'mere! I want to touch part of what makes you

Really incredibly glad to be here

Not one for tornado-craving

I'd prefer hula seminars over such as they

Who seek to destroy my swollen headphones

Knocking around the windless corners of

This uninhabited moon base

I call my own even though I can't see what others see

I trust them more than I trust myself

Now I'd like to eat, sleep, go for a ride in a truck

Through parts of Texas and New England

ON MAY 20, 2009 I FINALLY ACQUIRED THE COLLECTED POEMS OF TED BERRIGAN


My new haircut
Was walking up
5th Avenue tonight
Under which I
Thought about Ted
Berrigan and my
Ambition to be
As good a
Poet as he
Was. I didn't
Really think about
That at least
Not in a
Conscious way anyway
My new haircut
And I were
Discussing what to
Do this evening
I had no
Idea and neither
Needless to say
Did my haircut
(Turns out I
Spent tonight wearing
Clothes and breathing
Air on West
A hundred and
Thirty-ninth Street)

Really irritated about people coming here looking for that facebook quiz question from like 3 months ago.

GONE!

Non-traditional ketchup applications

FUTURE PROJECTS


Long on ideas, short on light bulbs,
we're thumbing prematurely. Last place's
looking pretty good right now,
we know for a fact. Not even
a sinking sun can interpret
the gash in my side as a souvenir of happier secrets
from back when raisins were popularized—
and Fig Newtons polarized.
It (time) will tend to glom on
to otherwise persuadable skeptics
of love (as it's known), sending smoke
rings out with each one, and
at some point you ask: Are UFOs in this movie?
I was asked to join a group about them,
but no one showed up, not even the president,
whose ideas for future projects
would go largely unexpressed.

BEST Fight Scene Ever

Secret scientist: Mira Aroyo

Don't you love it when someone you had no idea was a scientist turns out to be a scientist? A lot of musicians seem to be scientists. I can think of one example anyway, and that example is Mira Aroyo of Ladytron. (That's Мира Аройо in her native Bulgarian.) Says Wikipedia:

"Besides her musical interests and abilities, Aroyo has a PhD in molecular genetics from Oxford University, where she was a postgraduate research geneticist in the University's Biochemistry department.[2] She co-authored an article on 'Species specificity in the activation of Xer recombination at dif by FtsK', published in Molecular Microbiology, 2003 [3]."

These strangers 

aren't me     they

only live here     I am only 

trying to stay 

alive before the ground 

gives way

and all the other people who

are running like mad

I am mad like running like

this isn't a rehearsal

Majel Barrett Roddenberry 1932-2008

So sad to hear about this today as I was browsing Shatner clips on YouTube. I don't know why I didn't hear about it until now. Anyway, I'm glad she was able to complete her work on the new movie, as the voice of the computer. It'll be nice to hear her one last time. Goodbye, Majel.

Facebook quiz question of the day

6. do you care about money and clothes ??

    —No, as long he just loves me its fine !!  
    

    —JEEEEEEEEEEEP
    

    —no, but maybe the clothes are a little importent ??
    

    —not really, but you don't want a gay who looks like a slub and can't take care of you