The gift for breeders

Last night I stayed home and drank a little Svdeka, Lewis left it over here the night before, and watched a rerun of SNL featuring John Ham. It was terrible.

During the show they ran this Kindle ad:



Those people don't look like they read--maybe they do, but I'm pretty sure they don't. If they lived in Kansas City, they'd hang out in Broadway Cafe all day and hold Mother Night or Cheese Monkeys to their faces, eyes darting for others around the place. Maybe not Mother Night, but Everything is Illuminated.

They'd then come to Dave's Stagecoach and try to drink at tour table, commend Lewis for his jukebox picks, patronize the one black customer--the guy with pitbulls in his pickup truck, who loves thrash metal. The Kindle Kids will ask him if he loves Lil' Wayne.

I have a lesion on my face from something, that's why I'm crabby.

Jimmy Chen posted HTMLGiant's official Kindle Post a few weeks ago. It was funny and I never thought about the 1996 implication. Remember Newton?

I started reading Mother Night--a .48 paperback copy. The paper smells like cinnamon. About page 60, I met Reverend Doctor Lionel Jason Jones D.D.S, D.D and the other and the other "antiqued fascists." Jones praises Howard W. Campbell Jr., the Nazi propagandist/American spy, for telling the truth "when everybody else was telling lies." Clearly, Campbell told lies--the truth Jones and his friends embraced were not real at all. Campbell doesn't say anything. Yet, at least. I'm still working through it.

I wonder if Glenn Beck might be like Campbell in some way. What does he say when Mr.Upper-Middle-Class-Guy from Cincinnati, who threw dollars at Parkinson sufferers at a Teabag Rally, shakes Mr. Beck's hand and calls him a ray of light. Deep down, I want Beck to really be a sham, a guy who undermines the right in secret. A Kurt Vonnegut character.

I like the smell of cheap books. I like the sentences of the rust-belt intelligentsia.

Also, via HTMLGiant

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/03/the-tea-partys-rank-amateurism/38077/

I found Triple Canopy today thanks to HTMLGiant. The second piece I read came from Triple Canopy 5: Television for the People.

In high school, I took video production classes and hung out in the studio all the time. One video segment I made every week was Stag Beetle--I played a luchador with the power of the bug. Instead of a colorful mask, I used my dad's ski mask.

Nothing seems to work right now.

New Book Rundown, Hayden's Ferry Contributor Spotlight

What I have new:

Motorman David Ohle

EVER Blake Butler

The Black Automoton Douglas Kearney

A Sunday in God Years Michelle Boisseau

Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Hart Crane

I've also been re-reading Larry Levis--Elegy, Dollmaker's Ghost, The Afterlife. Have a bunch of Simic too. My reading of all these has been very buffet. I read a poem here, a poem there. Motorman became my focus last night.

I wrote a contributor spot for Hayden's Ferry Review. They let me reference Sam Bowie.

Maybe things are picking up.