SADDAM HUSSEIN

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MORON CULTURE

JESUS CHRIST

you can pre-order the journal SENTENTIA now. the journal published a chapter from something i wrote. the journal also has mary miller in it and some other people. paula bomer is one of the editors and she is a nice lady.

also, someone gave me a copy of the computer program Final Draft. i wrote a full length play/script/something-to-read using the program. i don't know what it's called yet but it is slightly less shitty than some other shit i did, though shittier than some other shit. it is close to the level of shit that can be observed in a conversation i have with someone i haven't seen in a while.

i read "a cake appeared" by shane jones and i liked it. i think each little section could be turned into a whole book. it's a book that i liked to read.

if someone has a copy of "the nicomachean ethics" and wants to trade or mail it to me for free, that would be cool.

i will have copies of THE SELF-ESTEEM HOLOCAUST COMES HOME this week and i will sell them for cheap.

also, for some reason i just imagined a man in a confessional at church. and when the priest asks the man how he has sinned, the man says, "i kick too much ass" and then he puts on sunglasses and walks out the church and clicks a button and the church explodes.

fuck you.

UPDATE: MOVIE IDEA

here is a movie idea anyone can have if they write it. it's a movie called "minimum wage." it's about a young man who makes minimum wage. he is tired of his life. so he joins a poker tournament to help support himself and his wife and daughter. after many hard games of poker, and much time away from his wife and daughter, he eventually makes it to the last game where he can win a lot of money. his "enemy" bets on the last hand or whatever, and then while the main character is staring off, contemplating, the dealer goes, "are you in or out boy, the minimum wage is ____." the man character then looks at the dealer and says, "yeah but maybe i already wagered too much" and then he runs home to his wife and daughter and hugs them both at the same time.

THE INSURGENT

you can now buy noah cicero's new book, THE INSURGENT. i've read it twice and it's good.

you can also mail me blotters and i will write something especially for you.

BAD FATHER

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UPDATE: somebody told me about this. I AM GOING TO CLONE MYSELF THEN KILL THE CLONE AND EAT IT can win a major award with your help. somebody showed me on goodreads that CLONE has been tagged as "no thanks" a total of one time. the highest "no thanks-ed" book only has three "no-thanks" tags. if you've ever wanted to publicize a non-choice, or at the very least if you'd like to see the book win a major award, then "no-thanks" the book. i think we can make it happen. they should have a tag that says, "maybe, we'll see."

FIVE THINGS

david peak interviewed me. it's an interview where we talk about writing. doing the interview really felt good. i like david. we used to live in the same area of chicago. we didn't know each other though.

also, a while ago when the journal NO COLONY opened up submissions for novella sized pieces, i started writing a long piece with sean kilpatrick. we are still working on it and i think it will be cool.

two books that i really want to read right now and would buy if i had a job are A CAKE APPEARED by shane jones, and ADAM ROBISON AND OTHER POEMS by adam robinson. THE INSURGENT by noah cicero is also coming out soon and i have read it twice and it's awesome.

also, if anyone has the album "hairdryer peace" by the band "the hospitals" and would like to email it to me, i would appreciate it. or any album by "thee oh sees." i promise i will then buy the album when i have money. last time someone tried to email me an album it didn't work though.

also, i just remembered that i read "james and the giant peach" when i was younger and i really liked it. i think the internet will soon know about roald dahl, "the john updike of the giant peach novel generation."

CALAVERAS

i have some poems (i think three or four) in a new thing called CALAVERAS. if you click on the link it goes to an interview the editors of CALAVERAS did with the poetry foundation. CALAVERAS is like, a set of seven pamphlet-like books that come together in a sleeve. i recognized these people in the contributor list: Julie Carr, Matthew Rohrer, Claire Donato, Emily Kendal Frey, Zachary Schomburg, Michael Earl Craig, Mike Young, Johannes Göransson. i think i might get two copies because of an address error, an address error which resulted in a mailman hanging himself from a tree out front of the apartment with a note in his pocket that said, "forgive me." if i do get two then i will give one to someone who wants it and will read it.

here is a picture of james toney. he's from detroit.