Friday, January 18, 2008

 

Because I am a sneaky copycat, I totally stole Sandra Beasley's idea of ordering mini-cards from Moo.com as little calling cards for AWP. They arrived the other day in a cute little box, and with a cute little book of stickers as well. Huzzah!



If you can't make it out, the flipped-over card on the bottom left reads "Maureen Thorson/BIG GAME BOOKS/We make our own fun."

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

 

Happy Jeff Day!



It is Jeff's birthday. Yay for Jeff!

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

 

Last night I dreamt that I knew Batman. And he totally was Bruce Wayne! I know that, and you know that, but in the world of Batman, only Batman knows that. And Alfred, but Alfred is just Batman's second, elderly British brain.

And the Joker's nefarious plot was to interrupt people doing yoga so they would lose concentration and get cranky. Diabolical! It was like the Joker was playing a joke on his own crimes. Don't be so meta, Joker! Go back to shivving people and shrieking.

Not sure how I feel about smeared-lipstick Heath Ledger as the Joker. The posters are insanely good and make me feel very "Oh yes I love comic books whee!" but I am just not sure about the hobo Joker. I like my Joker a bit of a dandy.

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

 

This Week at In Your Ear

TINA DARRAGH & FRANK SHERLOCK

TINA DARRAGH is a poet and librarian working in Washington, DC. She has published several small press books, the most recent being Dream Rim Instructions from Drogue Press (1999).

FRANK SHERLOCK is the author of Over Here (Katalanche Press), Daybook of Perversities & Main Events (Cy Gist Press) and Wounds in an Imaginary Nature Show (Night Flag Books). A collaboration with Brett Evans entitled Ready-to-Eat Individual is forthcoming on Lavender Ink Press in the spring.

3 p.m., Sunday, January 20. Admission is $3.00, at DCAC. For directions, see the DCAC web site at http://www.dcartscenter.org/plan_location.htm

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I will be up in Connecticut, looking at snow and fish, so I will miss the reading. Boo. But you can go! And you! And you! And afterwards you can drink yummy beer and eat hamburgers with the poet people of the world.

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Sunday, January 13, 2008

 

For his birthday, I bought Jeff this crazy egg mcmuffin machine, mostly as a joke. But when he opened it, he got this look on his face like I had offered him the keys to heaven, along with a new car and a pet giraffe. And indeed, in the past two days, we have made a very large number of egg sandwiches, all of which were totally yummy. Our quality of life has skyrocketed. Who knew?

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