A blog rewriting Dennis the Menace as a regency novel.
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Last night, while I was trapped at work in a pastiche of Kafka and Catch-22, I managed to drag my benighted soul out of the depths of despair's gutter by listening to the podcast of Jennifer L. Knox's reading at FSU, which took place, fatefully, on the same night as the BGB reading. O tempora, o mores! At the very least, listening to this gave me the opportunity to hear any number of words "that are not appropriate in a professional environment" being uttered by someone other than an aging lawyer who has sworn a vendetta against Microsoft Word.
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I am going to be waiting the end of the work day with baited breath, as I have one million things to do this weekend. Some are errands of a Christmasy nature: I need to buy a string of lights and a little wee tree stand (I'm going to have my first ever tree this year) and then design and hopefully start printing my Christmas cards.
On the Big Game front, I must continue to bind and print Big Game Revues, and I am hoping to get started on the great Oranges redux, reprinting and rebinding all the copies that I screwed up in October.
I will also be monitoring the progress of the aloe plant. I cannot yet tell what color the flowers are going to be, but the individual buds have started to separate out of the large wheat-looking things at the end of the stalks.
Okay, now it is time to flee to the workaday world...
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I keep an unconscionably large aloe vera plant. I recently brought it inside for the winter, whereupon it began throwing up long spindly weird stalks that look like wheat. This means, according to my internet researches, that the plant is going to bloom, which would be a real treat if I were a hummingbird. Tasty aloe! At any rate, I will respond by posting photos of said flowers, should they appear, which will allow you to get some flowery color even in the midst of winter, as well as make wondering remarks on the sanity of a woman with a plant that big in her house.
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Sandra Beasley kicked off the reading...
followed by Ada Limon!
Alex Battles sang us many songs...
after which Logan Ryan Smith read more poems...
as did Shafer Hall!
Meanwhile, dug and I demonstrated the mightiness of Big Game to all and sundry.
Huzzah!
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Pictures should be online tonight! Whoo!
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This coming Tuesday, Big Game Books will be featured in the d.a. levy lives series up in Ye Olde Newe Yorke. There will be poets and music and cheese and wine and crackers and books and bookmarks and even some Big Game magnets. Hopefully I will be over my cold by that time, so that I will not, as I introduce the poets, etc., sound to you like I am coming from ten feet underwater. Les details:
Tues. Nov. 27, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free
ACA Galleries
529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC
Featuring readings from
Sandra Beasley
Shafer Hall
Ada Limón
Logan Ryan Smith
and music from
Alex Battles
Be there or be a regular quadrilateral with sides of equal length.
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