Monthly Archives: July 2011

tm lurhmann describing a high quality treatment center operating in makeshift conditions:  ”Most of the doctors had been well and expensively educated.  They followed contemporary fiction.”

wrote little blog for tin house about gogol sentence, wonder if there are blog ethics relevant to plunking it here, too.  well I don’t need it here, anyhow, as I am so very busy with art.  i am btwn chapters … Continue reading →

tried michelle cliff again.  I’m always interested in a 3rd person that’s a masked first, but there’s a arch knowingness to her tone that bugs me, I think b/c I don’t like it in myself when I feel it coming … Continue reading →

just to log:  finished and sent off little movie piece which was more fun to write than I expected it to be and I think it might be a little substantial for kicks.  read a little lynn tillman, a little … Continue reading →

okay here is a sentence by mr heidegger that I like but I can’t tell if he means to be funny:  All ways of thinking, more or less perceptibly, lead through language in a manner that is extraordinary.  today I … Continue reading →

I am supposed to write something for a writing professor of mine who is turning eighty so I decided to read two articles he gave me that I never read.  One is Heidegger on technology.  It’s like 25 pages and … Continue reading →

yesterday watched this british tv doc The Trap which is almost Oliver Stone.  I believe everything in the sense that it’s one true path through a series of things that more or less happened.  It is starting to dawn on … Continue reading →

So I now have three solid pages of dead baby jokes I am turning into sentences such as: A baby with a punctured lung is blue and flies around the room at high speeds.  Which I think is at least … Continue reading →

Finished first draft of chapter four, called simultaneous.  this afternoon I’ll try to fill in a few of the remaining things– a series of helen keller and dead baby jokes, for instance.  I once saw a famous writer tell jokes … Continue reading →

went there and bought a postcard for michael martone.