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debauchery in women's writing

2008-06-27T23:56:10Z

after reading what seems like the ten millionth scene of Bacchanalian male transcendence-through-debauchery, I find myself wondering if this phenomenon exists in any women's writings? the scene in Last Exit to Brooklyn for example, in which the waif is fucked nearly to death in the back of an junked car, was written by a man, yes? Are there any women who have written of the transcendent potential of orgiastic excess for women?

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call for submissions...

2008-04-22T03:35:55Z

i'm looking for new, experimental, unsettling, wild, imaginative writing. please check it out and make sure to read the guidelines before submitting!

http://acetylene-fever.com/fever/

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Conspiracy History compilation DVDs torrents

2008-03-06T14:46:55Z

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Greetings to all my relations.

This is the last step of our project History Watch. If History is
defined and known by the texts, we can now add to this definition the
recorded events of the filmed archives. Animated images are harder to
deny than printed words. Our objective is to spread out freely some of
the little broadcast, even hidden informations about our collective
History.

We put online a collection of 391 documentaries and other selected and
recut videos, to offer to a wide public the best of the infos
available on the net in english and in french. If you are interested,
you have the time, the right equipment and connection, all you have to
do is open the joint document and decompress it if needed (but normaly
your system should do it automaticaly). You'll find therein nine links
that will open the torrents for the nine DVDs we compiled (around 4.6
Gig each, for a total of a little over 41 G, being over 100 hours of
videos).

Otherwise, you can go directly to btjunkie.com and search for these titles.

11 Septembre 2001 - 9-11
Bush family & friends
Capitalist & Communist regimes
Capitalist conspiracy
Mind Kontrol - Secret Programs
New World Order - Secret Societies
Secret services - cover up - covert ops
Secret weapons - UFO
Terrorism Theories propaganda

Torrents are a system of peer to peer data transfer. The more people
download a torrent, the faster it spreads and the longer it stays on
the net. If you don't have a bittorrent software, we suggest that you
download uTorrent on utorrent.com. If you want to participate in
facilitating the diffusion of these infos about our collective
History, download these torrents on as many computers as possible,
whether it is in cybercafes. It takes one or two minutes to open up
the links and the downloading will keep proceeding on its own.

Please spread this out, take part in this action for social education
on a planetary scale. Thanks.

For more info: watch.history@gmail.com History Watch

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New Hunter S. Thompson Documentary

2008-01-29T00:07:14Z

Dear Friends,
This is a VERY funny and poignant film director Blue Kraning made about Hunter S. Thompson. You can follow this link to where the trailer is posted up on Tribe:

http://people.tribe.net/ef16dbc2-...e40916ff6d

or you can follow the other links to his website www.gonzopatriots.com to see the trailer and buy the film.

I went ahead and copied the text from the tribe page below so you get a better idea of the work.

Please support the spirit of independence in which this film was made AND BUY THIS FILM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Much Love To All,
Lisa Ferguson (aka Petunia Maple Cake)

New Hunter S. Thompson Documentary
This is the trailer for the fun-loving but poignant film that is a tribute to Gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson, and a document of how his legacy continues to live on in the hearts and minds of his fans. Blasted!!! follows the many "Gonzo Patriots" across America that volunteered their personally owned artillery to fulfill the good doctor's last wish to have his ashes fired from a cannon. Before Johnny Depp became involved with the ceremony, and paid over 2 million dollars for a professional fireworks company to blast his friend's ashes from a 200 foot tall 'Gonzo fist,' an essay contest was held by the Aspen Daily News (at the request of Hunter's family) to see who would be available to provide the service of firing his ashes. Over 50 private cannon owners applied and though these letters were published in Harper's magazine, these brave men and women, who had come forward to fulfill the dying wish of their hero...were eventually forgotten.

DVD's for this film can be purchased at www.gonzopatriots.com

Blue Kraning, Los Angeles based documentary director and Emmy Award winning writer, has just released the DVD of his film, Blasted, The Gonzo Patriots of Hunter S. Thompson, which recently premiered at the Starz Denver International Film Festival and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

Three years in the making, this film is a tribute to a great journalist and renowned physician. Kraning says the film, “is intended for any fan of Hunter S. Thompson or just anyone who likes to see large stuffed animals blown to bits by a homemade Bowling Ball Cannon fired by a man in a purple polyester suit, or see transgender Civil War re-enactors blast their aptly named mountain howitzer...’Lucrecia,’ while reciting Hunter’s wisdom. I made this film entirely as a one-man-band, in the tradition of Gonzo individuality and artistic freedom, so I will be distributing the film entirely by myself by selling the film off my website at www.gonzopatriots.com”

"Hunter S. Thompson embodied the American ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Blue Kraning's Blasted!!! is a twisted, anarchic, fun, and funny tribute to Hunter, those ideals, and Americans who don't merely mouth the Declaration of Independence, but live it." - Michael Simmons, The Huffington Post

“These are not the famous actors, politicians or even journalists. These are Hunter's readers who are “his people” in the purest sense, an army of thoughtful citizens who are inspired by Hunter's work and who do a fine job of carrying on his legacy.” –Anita Thompson, wife of the late author, Hunter S. Thompson

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10/27 - Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's LA tour

2007-10-19T15:14:12Z

http://www.esotouric.com/buk

This tour focuses on Bukowski’s great passions: writing, screwing and Los Angeles. We’ll take in the canonical locations of his life and myth: the Postal Annex Terminal where he gathered the material for “Post Office,” the De Longpre apartment where he briefly experimented with marriage and fatherhood, one of his favorite bars Musso & Frank, and many other spots. Along the way, we’ll explore the people and ideas that made up the warp and weft of Buk’s rich inner life. This Esotouric bus adventure is hosted by Richard Schave and John Dullaghan, director of the acclaimed documentary Bukowski: Born Into This

This tour debuted in August 2007 as part of a five-day gala Bukowski’s Birthday celebration, commencing on 8/15, which would have been his 87th birthday.

MORE INFO: "Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's LA" spans Bukowski's personal city, from Skid Row to once-genteel Crown Hill, East Hollywood liquor stores to Musso & Frank, Hollywood's oldest restaurant. At Musso's, passengers have a chance to toast the bard with an adult beverage served by one of Bukowski's favorite bartenders. The tour's new co-host John Dullaghan will share stories and answer questions about the ten-year making of his Bukowski documentary and of Hollywood's Bukowski-centric Baroque Bookstore and its late, cantankerous owner Red Stodolsky.

Esotouric has made its name with true crime bus tours (Black Dahlia, Pasadena Confidential) and explorations of literary LA (Raymond Chandler, John Fante, James M. Cain). Now they turn their creative attentions to Bukowski, the prolific poet, novelist and screenwriter whose rough-hewn tales of boozing, wild women and rotten jobs never obscure the deep vein of sweetness and hope that runs through all his work. In one of his finest poems, he described this as a bluebird he kept caged, and that bluebird is been represented in the Bukbird, Esotouric's new logo by cartoonist Tony Millionaire, a pale blue version of his beloved alcoholic crow character.

German born, Bukowski spent most of his life in LA, working for the US Postal Service, as "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" columnist for the Free Press and writing the screenplay for the autobiographical "Barfly." The city and its characters are everywhere in the work, so this tour celebrates the artist within his city with visits to places that were important to him. "Haunts of a Dirty Old Man" is a guided bus tour to the writer's homes, favorite bars and bookshops, plus locations from "Barfly." Passengers will enjoy a cocktail mixed by one of Buk's favorite Musso and Frank bartenders, tour a downtown postal sorting facility like the one he writes about in "Post Office," visit Skid Row and discuss the area's history and see the Central Library reading room where Buk discovered his "God," L.A. novelist John Fante.

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the way to Christ is simple

2007-10-11T12:34:53Z

God's Blessings often benefit all people. But many of His promises are only for His own children. If you're not sure that you're a part of God's family, He offers you this invitation. The way to Christ is simple:

1. Admit that you have a need.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:23

2. Believe that Jesus is God, the Son, who paid the wages of your sin.

For the wages of sin is death [eternal separation from God]; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:23

3. Call upon God.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Romans 10:9

King James Version

The Holy Bible

ISBN 978-1-58660-198-0

Barbour Publishing

www.barbourbooks.com

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ULTRACULTURE JOURNAL ONE—IRA COHEN & BRION GYSIN

2007-03-26T08:21:54Z

http://www.ultraculture.org

Ultraculture Journal One is AVAILABLE NOW.

UC1 collects under one cover the most volatile and direct magickal writing currently available in the English language. It will change you at the cellular level. You have been forewarned.

6" x 9", 418 pages, perfect bound, $23.

This is the "Beta" edition as the publication is currently awaiting an ISBN and barcode for distribution on Amazon and in stores; it is available to purchase now without a barcode in what is sure to soon be a limited collector's item...

It is also available as a $10 shareware download.

This issue includes:

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on the holographic Garden of Eden

Brion Gysin’s travelogue of his journey to Alamut, the citadel of the Assassins

Lalitanath and Shivanath on the Magick Path of Tantra

Jason Louv’s essential guide to Western magick

Peter-R. Koenig on the occult career of David Bowie

Beat legend Ira Cohen on John Dee and the Kumbh Mela, the biggest religious festival in the world

Dave Lowe and Hans Plomp travel across India’s mountains and rivers without end

The psychedelic rantings of Ganesh Baba, the world’s most tripped-out guru

Johnny Templar broadcasts live from the tomb of Christian Rosenkreutz

Mordant Carnival on working with Loki, the Man With the Tattered Smile

Elijah casts a Spell to Open the Sky

Joel Biroco on the “War on Terror”

Prince Charming interviews Tibetan Tantric Adept Monica Dechen Gyalmo

New fiction from Jason Louv

New lyrics from the late Jhonn Balance of Coil and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

Treasure chests full of rituals, reviews and wish-granting genies

Cover by Nelson Evergreen

The first in a series, Ultraculture Journal promises to catalyze a twenty-first century actually worth living in.

Welcome to the psychedelic make-out party at the beginning of history.

http://www.ultraculture.org

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Baudelaire

2006-12-14T18:49:31Z

I just bought a book called the Defeat of Baudelaire by Rene La Forge....can't wait to get into it....blah, blah...It is a psychoanalysis of the great poet....

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VIAL Magazine accepting submissions for TEETH, THORNS, VIOLENCE

2006-12-10T11:03:18Z

The theme for the sixth issue of VIAL is:

TEETH, THORNS, VIOLENCE

Each aspect of the theme is open to interpretation.

Some material to consider:
The Graiae (also known as The Graeae)
Lust
Psychopomps
Thresholds

As ever:

Scribes:
Nonfiction dreams and nightmares are accepted for each issue.
Dreams that are excessively redundant or confused will not be accepted.
Wordcount for all text: 1,000 words maximum.

Visual artists:
Images may be emailed or sent via disk or hardcopy to the address below.
Images must be grayscale and have a resolution of no less than 300 dpi.

Musicians:
This is not a forum for reviews.
A dream or other form of artwork/wordsmithery must accompany your cd.

Know that if you have difficulties grasping the rules of English grammar, I am going to revise your writing.
Please do not send originals or anything that needs to be returned.
Always include contact information with anything submitted.

VIAL
Box 225124
San Francisco, California
94122-5124
usa

DEADLINE: 07 January, 2007, for a Spring 2007 release.

Address inquiries/email submissions to - - - furia at vialmagazine dot com - - - .

_____________________________________

SPECIAL FOR TRIBE MEMBERS: I am moving out old issues to make room for the impending; get all five issues of VIAL, plus Cadavres Sonique, for $25, shipping included. Paypal - - - omen at disinfo dot net - - - , and put “TRIBE” in the notes.

Issue V contents: http://www.vialmagazine.com/v.html
Issues I – IV contents: http://www.vialmagazine.com/history.html

xvx,
-Patricia

--
VIAL
vialations
vialmagazine.com

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>:)

2006-10-28T17:46:41Z

pLEASe ReaD My BLOG.

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BLUES4KALI- ExperiMental Metafiction for those who prefer ZANITY to SANITY

2006-08-06T23:42:11Z

Dear Family,

Blessings!

We're pleased to announce, at long last, the unveiling of AMPI's Pilot Project, Blues4Kali. AmanaMission Publishing Ink is extremely excited to invite you to enjoy this pre-print preview of the online edition.

Blues4Kali is the third metafictional delight by author Indi Riverflow, and the first to be available under the label of AmanaMissionPublishingInk Alternative Press, created specifically to address the shortage of prose poetry like this in the modern marketplace.

Please accept our invitation to preview the electronic edition at our website:
www.KarmaAllianceLightInstitute.com

This novel is our gift to you and we hope you enjoy this strange
chronicle of the counterculture. Please feel free to contact me at this address, with any comments or concerns about the website. Blues4Kali is the result of nine months labor, and our very first child together. Whether she lives or dies may be up to you, so please spread this link in any way you find fitting.

Artists of all stripes: be sure to check out the Blues4Kali "Scholar's-Hip" Program for your free copy of this enlightening ebook.

In Joy,
Om Shakti Kali Kali Om,
Amana Mission & Indi Riverflow
AMPI Alternative Press,
Our intentions are PLURAL
(Peace Love Unity Respect Acceptance Light)
www.karmaalliancelightinstitute.com
www.blues4kali.com

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For that summer read:

2006-07-15T05:13:42Z

two great finds:

'The Trial of Gilles De Rais" by the recently mentioned Georges Bataille.
and for the kids who are just crazy about that Disney new classic, there's "Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean"
by Barry R. Burg .

guaranteed to break the ice around the community pool.

Best,
P

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Free Adventure

2006-06-22T16:28:17Z

Who would you be if you could be anyone? go anywhere? do anything? Well, you can! Luke Soloman will show you how.

It's my pleasure to introduce BEGINNER'S LUKE. My eponymous protagonist is more than merely self-conscious. He is sui generis, literally believing himself into being. BEGINNER'S LUKE is the first novel in a series of six madcap adventures that, collectively, make up the imaginary life of this lovably irreverent modern-day Walter Mitty. Luke's obsession with self, sex, satire and slapdash highlight a serious point: consciousness creates. The point is there is a point to living in the imagination–for only through it can we reinvent our ourselves and our world.

A respected New York publisher, whose authors feature a National Book Award finalist in addition to dozens of prestigious award winners, recently offered me a contract (subsequently declined in favor of an experiment in self-publishing) for the BEGINNER'S LUKE Series, which made it out of a yearly “slush pile” of nearly 8,000 manuscripts. One early reader confided, ”I've had quite a journey ever since you shared BEGINNER'S LUKE with me. I'm more careful, these days, when someone gives me a book. I haven't been the same since reading it, as if I contracted the disease of restlessness and have spent months reconsidering every facet of my life. Your novel changed me forever and I blame you for it.”

Starting today, I'm giving away the first 2012 electronic copies of BEGINNER'S LUKE. To take advantage of this totally FREE offer, simply visit http://www.beginnersluke.com/page7.html .

To the Adventure!

Sol
http://www.beginnersluke.com

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Undercover Surrealism / Georges Bataille event

2006-06-22T10:17:23Z

LONDON
Conferences & Symposia
The Use-Value of DOCUMENTS: Bataille/Einstein/Leiris
23-24 June 2006
Hayward Gallery and Courtauld Institute of Art
£45 (£20 concessions)

The conference is held in conjunction w/ the exhibition "Undercover Surrealism: Picasso, Miró, Masson and the vision of Georges Bataille" at the Hayward Gallery.

Conference details:
http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/news/events.htm

Surrealism/Bataille gallery talks & events details (various, through July):
http://www.hayward.org.uk/talks.asp

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JT LeRoy Hoax

2006-06-21T19:43:00Z

Have you all read the copious articles? Thought?

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william s. burroughs tribe

2006-06-21T18:02:30Z

Here's a tribe I created about William S. Burroughs.
http://tribes.tribe.net/burroughsinterzone

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miguel angel asturias

2006-06-19T18:27:11Z

neophyte on this type of thing and deciding to start here. anyone read MULATA the fly wizard and the corn devil. i twas a bit back for me...i gave it away and haven't found it since. i don't shop online so... also comments on the book.

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Toasting Political Christians

2006-06-12T05:37:46Z

Here's to The Moral Majority,
Apostles of Hatred and Fear:
As I watched Jerry Fallwell on TV last night,
I knew that the Anti-Christ was here.

The Golden Rule he has turned into Lead:
Now it only reads "Do Unto Others".
He wants to insure we have Crosses to bear
And supports laws to repress his Brothers.

His Dogma oozed out like Puss from Christ's Wounds
Reeking of Bigotry and Malice.
I'm certain his Holy Rituals produce
Vomit from Wine in his Chalice.

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3 SF events in June

2006-06-08T19:48:52Z

Fixed/Broken
Thea Hillman, Natalie Ilum, luna maia and Ruth Villasenor
June 19 at 7:30pm
LGBT Center. Ceremonial Room
Tickets: $7 - $15 sliding scale
We have bodies that make people pray. Because they are broken or obscene or awkward; because they are unspoken in their beauty; because they rise above, struggling with and against "normal." Because, at some point, someone asked or demanded that we "fix it," that we mend ourselves enough to fit in, to appear "better." These artists write about who they are, what they know, and who they are willing to become. They embody disability, intersex, silence, and in/visibility on their own terms.
Featuring Thea Hillman, Natalie E. Illum, Diane Pfile, and Luna Maia.

RADAR Reading Series
Funded by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library & RADAR Productions
June 13 at 6:00pm
San Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium
Free Event
This showcase of emerging underground artists presents a SUPERSTAR edition in cahoots with the annual National Queer Arts Festival. Featuring readings by Dorothy Allison, Kate Bornstein, Imani Henry and Nalo Hopkinson! Question and answer to follow reading; sweet homemade treats for those who participate.

Pages from the Past
Radar Productions, SF Public Library & Qcc
Funded by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library
June 14, 21 & 28 from 6:00pm – 7:00pm
SF Main Library, Koret Auditorium
Free Event
Join some of the Bay Area's finest queer writers as they share their favorite works by beloved queer writers no longer with us including Gloria Anzaldua, Frank O’Hara, Essex Hemphill, Paul Bowles and many others. A three-part series featuring Daisy Hernandez, Charlie Anders, Juba Kalamka, Marci Blackman, Kevin Killian, and many more local literary figures. Curated and hosted by Michelle Tea.

These are all part of the National Queer Arts Festival - more info at www.queerculturalcenter.org

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Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile

2006-06-07T23:53:41Z

Salut!

Haven't had a chance to get me hands on Ramor's book yet ,
Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile
but twith all the trangressive pirate types around the bay,
there's a buzz around his 2 bay area dates ,
1 TONIGHT june 7th in SF
and June 8th at AK press.
Short notice, but check it out if ya get the message in time,
arrrgh !

fwd>
Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile

Wednesday, June 7th, 8:00 pm
Station 40 -- 3030 B, 16th Street (@ Mission)

A shrewd political thinker and philospher, Ryan spirits the reader from the Zapatista Autonomous Zone to a Kurdish guerrilla camp, from Berlin
squats to Croatian rainbow gatherings. Clandestines is an epic debut...non-fiction tales that read like Che's Motorcycle Diaries...if they'd written by Hunter S. Thompson. At each stop along the way, we see a world in flux, struggling to be reborn.

"I'm convinced now that all we need is about a hundred more Ramors and the revolution would commence tomorrow."
-- David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

"... a geography lesson of the shadows, where borders are disregarded, revolution is in the air, and adventure is always just around the corner."
-- Jennifer Whitney, We Are Everywhere

Ramor Ryan is an Irish anarchist writer living between Chiapas, Mexico and New York City. He has written for a wide variety of radical newspapers, magazines, and books.

For more information on the book, go to:

http://www.akpress.org/2006/items/clandestines

If you are unable to attend the Wednesday event, Ramor will be giving an additional reading on Thursday, June 8th, 7:00 pm at AK Press, 674A 23rd Street, Oakland.

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New Dark Fiction Available Now

2006-05-22T21:11:55Z

I am very pleased to announce that my short story Collection, "Shaytan Rising" is now available from Lulu Press.

From the press release:

"Shaytan Rising is a collection of five short stories which examine the dark sides of the self. Kyle Sennett wrote Shaytan Rising , compiling five of his best short works. The title story SHAYTAN RISING tells the tale of a man who finds himself inexorably drawn to a dark force that he cannot identify until he becomes that dark force himself. SHE is the tale of the Old Gift and the terrifying creature who is its keeper. CONFESSIONS OF A DJINI takes a more humorous tone, exposing the secrets of the wish-granting spirits eternally tied to their lamps. In BACKLASH we meet Jessica, who has returned to her family home and her family's secrets. And finally in THE CIRCLE we meet a coterie of magicians who are plagued by an urge demon, Abraxas, and the machinations of their own superiors within their secret Order."

PLEASE SUPPORT A NEW AUTHOR AND BUY MY BOOK. IT'S ONLY $14.99

http://www.lulu.com/content/311163

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truly transgressive

2006-05-20T03:15:04Z

would be to write a novel about the psychosodomisation of the pseudounderground by the academic literary complex.

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Cherry Bleeds #136

2006-05-06T05:40:09Z

Cherry Bleeds - www.cherrybleeds.com

Here's the contents for this month's issue:

Robert Guskind - Stoop Sale
Tony DuShane - Humility Sodomy
Robert Lewis - I Didn't Know What I Was
Keith Wood - Down the Rabbit Hole
Devan Sagliani - Pray They Don't Know
Paul Corman-Roberts - Late Sunday Night Rooftop Elegy for the Bench & Bar
Karl Koweski - Low Grade Telepathy
Vanessa Silva D’Amelio - Bobbing and Weaving
Luis Rivas - SUBMISSION NO. 92855565665648468484

The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq is Literary Love

Cherry Bleeds now accepts poetry.

And listen to my radio show in August for an interview with Billy Childish.

Drinks with Tony - www.drinkswithtony.com

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Manifesto for a New Fiction

2006-05-05T16:10:00Z

Sol Luckman

The problem with contemporary American--some would say, world--fiction is twofold. If we understand commercial novels these days to fall somewhere on the spectrum between literary and visionary, it's hard to ignore the fact we're living a classic Catch-22. Literary novels are just not that visionary, which is another way of saying they're often boring and unimaginative, slaves to a dogged realism--whereas visionary novels are, typically, none too literary, which is another way of saying often poorly, if not execrably, written, cobbled together with their narrative machinery clanking and clunking.

Historically, the exceptions confirm the rule. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS are indeed consummately both literary and visionary. These classics have also been imitated so many times--unsuccessfully, even laughably--it beggars belief. Here and there a contemporary novel pops up on the radar in this magical Twilight Zone where craft and invention seem indissolubly wedded--Robert Coover's THE PUBLIC BURNING comes to mind--but those of us literary-visionary hybrids who scour today's fictional landscape in search of inspiration usually come up empty.

The fly in the ointment is that old bugger, realism. Nearly two centuries after Stendhal’s novel-as-mirror traveled the tedious highway of fiction, and despite the influences of modernism and postmodernism, the majority of today's novel readers, like Coca-Cola addicts, still want the Real Thing. I'm speaking metaphorically, of course. The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes real it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what's commonly referred to as reality. This is a pivotal point--that the real world probably isn't what you believe it is, or rather, that it's PRECISELY what you believe it is--which, if you still don't get it, I can only trust someday you will.

I don't mean any of this theoretically. Theory does everything in its power to remove the living soul of literature, tear its heart out, make of the study of Art a hard-edged Science. Never mind that Art is as far removed from measurement as Science is from love. As writers confronting theory, it's incumbent on us not to let our prose dry up in that desert, but to allow it to become a desert rose, our prose, flourishing in the heat and sands of knowledge.

We must, then, for them to be of any worth whatsoever, live our theories practically. For writers this means, inevitably, doing the deed--not just having the idea but putting it on paper, writing down not just the bones of our dreams but their flesh and blood as well. Literature, at its best, and despite the recent attempts of critics, can never be murdered and dissected, as it's an immortal yet organic thing, drawing on the richness and complexity of Experience yet somehow managing to transcend its mundane origins like an alchemist transmuting base metals. The current twin foci on theory and realism conspire to dry up the spirit and wither the soul, blind the eye and deafen the ear, broil the brain and microwave the heart--and perhaps most disturbingly for us radical wordsmiths who still haven't sold out to the Man, brown the nose and pucker the rectum.

If we're to avoid becoming fiction robots in a corporate world, we must stop adding to our educational excesses, eschew the assembly line of MFAs and bottom-line publishing houses, commit ourselves to a way of writing that engages in a valiant struggle to push the limits of plot and language so as to awaken, not anaesthetize, the reader. Anything rather than live in the dead world of those cold people, the Intellectuals. Anything rather than subject ourselves to the fusty chain of academic command, the savage petty politics where the arguments are so heated because the stakes, as someone once astutely quipped, are so SMALL.

We must lay our ears back and push on into the literary fourth dimension, realm of feminine chaos and infinite possibility, forego regionalism and play with farce--and, especially, always appreciate the bizarre. Love for the bizarre is, itself, transformational. When you welcome the bizarre into the fiction of your life, anything and anybody can be transformed from dogshit into gold.

Let's begin a new literary movement. I don't care what we call it. Let's start writing novels for people who don't like novels. Because these days who can blame them? You can please all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can't please all the people all the time. So let's at least please OURSELVES. Years from now when verisimilitude is finally understood as a terribly limiting proposition, let our daringly experimental books (often self-published, often ignored by the mainstream) be remembered as the Rubicon fiction crossed on its journey into multidimensionality. There can be no turning back, for readers or writers, after our historical strokes of madcap genius. Or so my story goes.

Once in every generation, if we're lucky, a character shows up who can teach us about reality because he's more real than ourselves. Melville called such a character a "Drummond light" after the type of light once used in theaters that was capable of providing illumination in many directions. May one of us create such a character. Better yet, let's buck tradition and create a string of Drummond lights, each a brilliant facet of the Hope Diamond that is our new fiction. Let's turn away, once and for all, from old Enlightenment tropes toward a new narrative of ENWRITENMENT. Together let's write light.

In so doing, maybe, over time, our inherited and mostly dysfunctional posterity urge based on ego will gradually give way to something more stable, healthier, that might be called simply the urge to BE. To have been versus to be. Product versus process. In the face of a literature of monoliths and petroglyphs, we have the choice to opt for incompletion. May our new writing shine with the protean power of now. May imagination become the new faith.

Copyright (c) 2006 by Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.

[Sol Luckman is author of the BEGINNER'S LUKE Series of novels. Luke's obsession with self, sex, satire and slapdash combine to highlight a surprisingly serious point: consciousness creates. The point is there is a point to living in the imagination--for only through it can we reinvent our ourselves and our world. Starting this June, the author is giving away the first 2012 copies of BEGINNER'S LUKE. To take advantage of this FREE offer, visit http://www.beginnersluke.com .]

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Ben Perez to fellow fans of transgressive writing

2006-04-07T21:41:04Z

I thought that I'd give everyone a heads up on an essay/pamphlet [framed with erotic photos] that's coming out this summer. It's called _A Brief History of Transgressive Literature_, and it's published by N.Y.C.s Spuyten Duyvil Press. It begins with ancient writers and ends on my book, _The Evil Queen: A Pornolexicology_. Although it won't come out until June [and maybe July], it's a limited edition, so if it sounds like something you'd loike to own, you might what to order it early. The link below will get you there.

www.spuytenduyvil.net/nonfiction/briefhistorytransgressive.htm

Everyone stay wicked--and don't stop reading transgressive lit.

Benjamin L. Perez [aka., Dr. Vostu].

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A Profound Awakening

2006-03-29T19:49:16Z

Hello, fellow wordsmiths. I just received this pre-pub review of my novel BEGINNER'S LUKE and thought I'd shamelessly share. Enjoy!

Sol

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A PROFOUND AWAKENING: BEGINNER'S LUKE

Alyce Mooreland, Los Angeles, California

I won’t call myself a failed novelist because though I’ve written a handful of stories, even published one, I never seriously tried to write a novel. Oh, I’ve never been short on ideas. Plots come like leaves on a tree to me. I just somehow along the road of life became a mother instead of an author. So I was a little surprised, at myself, to find my old dream of writing reawakened by an iconoclastic little novel entitled BEGINNER’S LUKE I received out of the blue–literally, from cyberspace as a PDF–from an old friend I hadn’t heard a peep from in years.

I met the author, Sol Luckman, during my sophomore year of college, when he was a senior getting ready to enter what we both rather scornfully referred to as the “real world.” I remember roadtripping together to DC, smoking on the terrace during intermission at the National Symphony, feeling the unexpected warmth of the early April night, watching boats drift by like phantoms on the Potomac as we discussed what we agreed was a general “watering down” tendency in American fiction.

Sol was a writer born out of time, a beat poet who’d arrived on the scene a generation too late, the kind of guy who worked on stories in DC bagel shops, writing with a green pen for spring in a coffee-stained journal. As a boy you just knew he’d slain the dragon, stood tall on his horse before the Ring Wraith at the gate of Minas Tirith, seen things just beyond the light, just below the water, fed the flames of Beltane’s fires and carefully gathered the mistletoe. I figured, frankly, he’d make an utterly unreadable novelist.

How very wrong I was. BEGINNER’S LUKE, the first book in a series of six, is that rarest of birds: an inspiring comic novel composed almost entirely of one-liners. Reading it was like having a string of accidents: page after page I kept running into myself. The self I planned to be anyway before the creative part of me became a bug in amber, suspended indefinitely, a life on hold, to be continued … The experience of reading BEGINNER’S LUKE was a profound awakening to the knowledge I still have my own story, or stories, to tell.

BEGINNER’S LUKE isn’t for everybody, let me warn you. If you’re so inside the box you’ve forgotten what sunlight looks like, if you’re one of those benighted empiricists who demand numbers, statistics and facts ad nauseam, who prefer microbiology to mythology, meatloaf to filet mignon, kraut to caviar, go read E. Annie Proulx or Richard Ford.

But if you’re willing to bust a gut laughing, mostly at yourself, distinguish between what you are and what you can be, and in the process fire up your belief in your ability to create the life you desire and deserve, do yourself a favor and give yourself the gift of Luke. Just remember: it’s only the beginning.

[Sol Luckman is author of the nonfiction CONSCIOUS HEALING: BOOK ONE ON THE REGENETICS METHOD and the BEGINNER’S LUKE Series of novels. Luke’s obsession with self, sex, satire and slapdash highlight a serious point: consciousness creates. The point is there is a point to living in the imagination–for only through it can we reinvent our ourselves and our world. Starting this June, the author is giving away the first 2012 copies of BEGINNER’S LUKE. To take advantage of this FREE offer, visit http://www.beginnersluke.com .]

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the story of the eye

2006-03-10T00:22:07Z

second best book for me so far.......

agree??

or have a favorite......

(lists for lovers of literature)

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Acknowledging Acknowledgments

2006-02-21T18:55:12Z

(from BEGINNER'S LUKE)

Sol Luckman

First, I would like to thank my dear mother for her intense labor of love in delivering yours truly safe and sound into the world. I apologize for the pain I caused you, mother, on my rather late arrival. As you know better than anyone, I'm a slow learner--always running behind.

I would also like to thank my father for sparing his precious seed to co-create me. Let me take this opportunity to remind you, father, you STILL owe me for the not inconsiderable pleasure I afforded you on the glorious occasion of my conception. I'm prepared to accept cash, credit card, personal check, travelers cheque, money order, gold bullion, real estate, or a sizable inheritance.

I would also like to thank the Academy. You guys don’t know me, but I think you're really great. Keep up the good work!

Next, I would like to extend a special expression of gratitude to all my family, friends, lovers, teachers, employers and coworkers who one way or another, overtly or covertly, through thick and thin, encouraged me to keep writing this imaginary life. There aren't many of you, which makes my appreciation all the greater.

I would also like to take this opportunity to recognize all my family, friends, lovers, teachers, employers and coworkers who one way or another, overtly or covertly, through thick and thin, attempted to derail my creative aspirations and mire me in the quotidian mediocrity to which you--YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE--have become hopelessly inured. There are a lot of you, more than I could count, which makes this, the Moment of penning my Acknowledgments, all the more satisfying.

Finally, I must say a word about the PLACES where substantial parts of this work (play?) were composed. I mean specifically the Cafés of the World where I've whiled away so much of my time (and yours!) in the vain but amusing pursuit of capturing an ineffable existence: mine.

If I learned anything writing BEGINNER'S LUKE, it was that contrary to myth, heaven is filled with cool little cafes with Leonard Cohen over hidden speakers, groovy abstract expressionist art on the walls and superior Java from obscure South American countries. I was born to sit out on the terrasses of such glorious establishments of leisure on such splendid afternoons, chain-sipping specialty caffeinated beverages while daydreaming impossible episodes in impossible places--

Excuse me, my cappuccino just arrived. I can't tell you how thankful I am. I'd like to ACKNOWLEDGE this cappuccino. I sweeten it liberally with three sparkling sugar cubes, stir the tan frothing brew with the tiny silver spoon, hoist the cup with trembling anticipation to my lips, and, smelling Italy, visions of panforte and biscotti dancing in my head, take a sip.

Ecstasy! The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer's life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well. I'm SO thankful for this ability that has taken me an entire imaginary lifetime to perfect.

I'm also thankful for the fine pair of legs strutting by just now on the sidewalk. You have to feel good knowing there are thighs like that in the world. A toast to the miniskirt’s inventor!

I raise my eyes and lock gazes with the proud owner of these exquisite limbs--and it's almost like making love in this instant. The passion, though invisible, is nearly palpable beneath her stoic façade and my whole body tingles with glimpses of erotic encounters that could theoretically, but will probably never, occur.

There--it just happened again, with another set of eyes: the riveting glance, oxymoronic perhaps but with a rush like spontaneous combustion, then the looking away and the tragic vanishing forever. How I adore you, whoever you are!

By way of closing these Acknowledgments, I shall paraphrase one of my personal heroes, the great flaneur Baudelaire:

O you I could have loved!
O you who knew it!
O we who blew it!

Copyright (c) 2006 by Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.

[Sol Luckman is author of the BEGINNER'S LUKE Series of novels. Luke's obsession with self, sex, satire and slapdash humor combine to highlight a surprisingly serious point: consciousness creates. The point is there is a point to living in the imagination--for only through it can we reinvent our ourselves and our world. Starting this June, the author is giving away the first 2012 electronic copies of BEGINNER'S LUKE. To take advantage of this FREE offer, visit http://www.beginnersluke.com. ]

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any1 can have a try:

2006-02-09T08:24:51Z

I made a group: "American English", I want to put an introduction article and an introduction poem there. Any 1 can have a try, please reply the invitation I posted in my group. I 'll let my group members to vote and decide which one is the most suitble. thank you very much indeed! you can refer to my introduction writing, of course that is not good.^_^

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Submit: VIAL Magazine / Poison and Venom issue

2006-01-23T04:49:18Z

Seeking submissions:

For the impending issue of VIAL, the themes are POISON and VENOM,
and are, as ever, open to interpretation, via word or image.

Dreams and nightmares continue to be accepted, with the usual parameters, as noted below.

You are not limited to these themes and veins, though the following specifics remain:

Deadline: Open until further notice.
Wordcount: 1,000 words maximum
Images: Grayscale, no less than 300 dpi
Send to: omen@disinfo.net, or the address below.

To Submit:
VIAL seeks work that is experimental, irregular, and evocative.

Scribes:
Nonfiction dreams and nightmares are accepted for each issue.
Dreams that are excessively redundant or confused will not be accepted.

Visual artists:
Images may be emailed or sent via disk or hardcopy to the address below.
Images must be grayscale and have a resolution of no less than 300 dpi.

Musicians:
This is not a forum for reviews.
A dream or other form of artwork/wordsmithery must accompany your cd.

Know that if you have difficulties grasping the rules of English grammar, I am going to revise your writing.
Please do not send originals or anything that needs to be returned.
Always include contact information with anything submitted.

http://www.vialmagazine.com

VIAL
Box 225124
San Francisco, CA.
94122.5124
u.s.a.

omen@disinfo.net

Send a message to the above to be added to the mailing list.

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Anything left to transgress?

2006-01-17T07:29:50Z

What types of elements would constitue literature as transgressive now? Now as in 2005. After so much has been said and done and subverted and exploded. Is there such a thing as transgressive literature? Considering where we are now culturally, after so much has been written and said, is there anything left. And if so, what is left to be transgressed?

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The Perpetual Motion Roadshow - "Romance, Passion, Sex and Poetry"

2006-01-09T00:25:42Z

The Perpetual Motion Roadshow - "Romance, Passion, Sex and Poetry"
Sunday afternoon, January 15th - 3:00pm
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street, San Francisco
http://www.moderntimesbookstore.com

The Perpetual Motion Roadshow is an indie press touring circuit, an unholy combination of a vaudevillian variety show and a punk rock tour. Each month, three new lively indie performers pile in a car and do seven cities in eight days, doing shows with the bold guarantee: NO BORING READINGS OR YOUR MONEY BACK! Transnational, it loops the northeast May-October and makes runs down the west coast during November-April. Founded by No Media Kings, we've been making our own fun since 2003 -- running on pure volunteer power and dirty dirty gasoline. More info at http://perpetualmotionroadshow.com

In January the San Francisco show will having touring writers:

Cort is a southern Alberta raised roots songwriter. From a jug hound in
the oilpatch to selling beads in Peru, Cort has roamed from Tuktoyuktuk to
Buenos Aires in search of what he found to be his passion at the ripe age
of 23; Songwriting! The balance between melody, poetry and up tempo pieces
has him compared to such artists as Arlo Guthrie and Tracy Chapman. This,
his nomadic tossed salad past, along with his charming stage presence adds
to a combination in which you will rarley find in folk songwriters.
www.cortmusic.com

Sabrina Lightstone is a Toronto poet, who was born in Montreal. Her work,
Beat-like, musical and romantic, synthesizes rhythm and feeling. She is an
emo poet, a title that refers to the sentimentality and intimacy of her
voice. Her goal is to evoke, overwhelm, inspire. With intellectual
excitement Sabrina studies literature and writing at York University.
Passionate for city life, she enjoys both crowded places and silent
spaces,
painting and music. Sabrina has performed at various Toronto word events.
She believes in time travel and in travelling the world. Her artistic
analysis of the universe is ultimately hopeful.

"Animal", "Enigma", "spiritually uplifting" are other peoples' words to
describe slam poet and conscious emcee Dane Jah Ras. Selected for 2005's
Second Place Toronto slam team competing in Canada's Festival of Spoken
Word, Dane is currently working on more literary works and his second rap
album. His performances include a capella raps, aggressive slam poetry and
picturesque prose. Of his first LP Red a journalist proclaimed, "I think
the thoughtful, rhythmic Dane Jah Ras has fullfiled his duty in expanding
the listener's mental horizons".Check out his website
(www.danejahras.com), come, and judge for yourself.

And local favorites:

LadyMonster- I write about my life and I write it as it happens, without
being afraid of letting others know the intimate details. Most of my
writing is about my sexuality and sexual experiences. I believe that bedroom doors should be open. Understanding occurs when we throw off the covers, turn on the lights and begin expressing and talking about our desires, experiences and fears. Face the truth, and talk about your fantasies. Don't be afraid to explore your imagination and new paths. The power and experience of your sexuality is limitless.

Nicole Henares - lives in San Francisco with a Finnish bluesman, and feels
awkward writing the shameless self-promotion required for a bio.

FOR MORE INFO:

http://www.lilycat.com
me@lilycat.com

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OuT oF TiMe

2006-01-06T19:36:14Z

I woke up today in chaos. Chaos is growing, chaos is definitely being drawn in me like a thousand promises promising promises to promises promising promises to be lost in oblivion trying to remember themselves, but it’s stupid, stupid as absurdity, genuinely kinky.

I tried to tell the world, I tried to make it comprehend that it was its own issue to remember. I did it as a natural instinct of vital survival technique. How can you be lost when only you are able to create your space?...That is just impossible! it’s the world!... So I tried, I went and I sang, I wrote, I painted, and danced.

Through all possible forms of expressions, I tried to bring it to its senses. And what did I get? Applauses, display, praises, compliments so perversely close to my corruptibly heart that I could not resist. I forgot it all; I forgot the fragrance of my dreams and the pain of the nightmares. Applauses can be tricky; they make you feel on stage. Nevertheless, they hide in them a betrayal, like a trigger to be pull, hunting for such fragile creatures. While on the backstage Hatred waits.

On stage, I am the universe, everything that happens around it?s just me. I am the colored waves of sounds and beats. Common sense tries to make me come back, but so easily, I had already thrown away rationality, for a moment of glory, for a moment of communion. It didn’t really matter to steal some time, not either the consequences of the crime. Just to feel that existential orgasm that I had made it to the stars. Not only a champion to be, but a God and a Goddess.

A God without a world, after the great and so appropriated honorable praises and reverences disappeared. A God without a heart when trying to find the purpose for such defiant stubborn threat in a scenery of confusion where all you can find is a labyrinth through which you condition yourself to live desperately desiring to be, again, God.

A God without dignity. Who cares about dignity when you can have it all? All, just like that, in a second. All those universal forms, all those sounds, sensations of phenomena, waves of colors, to be that, and all the rest. To be that sacred instant of eternity that travels through your veins and explodes in the depths of your brain. Pulse, that’s all you are, is the breathing of life. You are a scum thrown away in the trash, but you feel like the queen of the ten thousand oceans.

No meaning is needed, everything is true, and the truth is a lie.

After such avant voyage, you plan to land on the city of angels and catch up with time, the time that you stole, the time that you fucked, the time you corrupted and perverted. You come back to make it over and even. After the bells surrounded abruptly your mind, and the bed, whirling in the dark, would not give you a brake. After you cried tears of blood, for all sins were not enough to justify your loss.

So now, you come back, with nothing but scars as coins, with nothing but fear as strength, with nothing but doubts as motives, nothing but confusion as conviction. With a bitter weep and a wicked mind, and that broken emptiness that you were never aware of, but that you dared to believe as your sign

You forgot the purpose, you forgot the means and the meanings, but you are here. You have made it with no sense. Therefore, you deeply commit your self to invent what you’ll be, to unbury the questions, to suffer for all the answers you have already known with no conscience of what they were...

Shall you be aware that, every time the applauses and the honorable praises awake the memory of the immensurable pleasures in which you dared to plunged yourself immerse in the infiniteness of the void; you will get lost again, unable to create anything but a hunt of your own, a cynical game for your illusion, unable to know where, or who you are, unable to disappear or stay. Would you get on your knees and pray.

Because you are nowhere now, here you are. Tomorrowness has released you on bail. That makes you powerful and deeply weak. That makes you wanted and hated. That makes you horribly sweet, and beautifully terrifying. That makes you dangerously lovely, and tenderly appallingly. Like a caliginous highway, out of time, inexhaustible, stranger.

The only answer that you really need is going to cost all the questions that you stubbornly buried in the back of your mind, because the fact of the mystic experience and the basic of unity and no duality as experienced concepts do not guarantee the birth that you seize.

Love must be wan.

That means you shall work (for real) for that what you fear the most...

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"EMERGING WOMAN" & "Voodoo Fairy Tales"

2005-12-08T15:58:42Z

Below I have listed two great spoken word events for December.
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The Perpetual Motion Roadshow - "Voodoo Fairy Tales"
Tuesday night, December 13th - 7:30pm
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street, San Francisco
http://www.moderntimesbookstore.com

The Perpetual Motion Roadshow is an indie press touring circuit, an unholy combination of a vaudevillian variety show and a punk rock tour. Each month, three new lively indie performers pile in a car and do seven cities in eight days, doing shows with the bold guarantee: NO BORING READINGS OR YOUR MONEY BACK! Transnational, it loops the northeast May-October and makes runs down the west coast during November-April. Founded by No Media Kings, we've been making our own fun since 2003 -- running on pure volunteer power and dirty dirty gasoline. More info at http://perpetualmotionroadshow.com

In December the San Francisco show will having touring writers:

Jordan Fry lives in Niagara Falls ON, travels to Ottawa ON regularly, and
practices voodoo in St. Catharines ON. he has been known to publish his
own writings as well as the writings of other writers. he enjoys hot sex
on winter afternoons and smoking cigars by candlelight. you can contact
him through http://www.greyborders.com

Bret Fetzer's macabre fairy tales have been described as having "a vicious
but enchanting whimsy" and "the wayward inevitability of 'real' folk
tales...firmly rooted in the dark, rich mulch of myth" (Seattle Weekly).
His collections 'Petals & Thorns' and 'Tooth & Tongue' are available
through <http://www.pistilbooks.com>. Fetzer's storytelling matches his stories, "telling odd fairy tales with such intrigue that his hour on the stage seems to vanish in an instant" (The Stranger). His plays have been
produced by alternative theaters around the country.

Brendan McLeod is the winner of the 2004 National Individual Finals at the
Canadian SpokenWordlympics, awarded to the to SLAM poet in Canada. He is
Vancouver's 2005 Grand SLAM poetry champion, and finished second in the
world at Holland's World SLAM championships. His recent readings include
the Dylan Thomas Festival, Swansea, UK, the Canadian Festival of Spoken
Word, and the Rotterdam International Poetry Festival.

And local favorites:

Lori Selke is a writer and editor about town. Her work has appeared
recently in Homewrecker, Stirring Up A Storm, Glamour Girls, and
Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong.

Charlie Anders is the author of Choir Boy (Soft Skull Press 2005). She only, knows one breakdancing move, but she does it all the time.

Bay Area nonprofit worker and journalist Josh Wilson will read a short excerpt from his social-science fiction novel 'The Separation,' that tells of how the future is no refuge from the past.
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EMERGING WOMAN
A spoken word event with a look into what it takes to be a woman these days.
December 16th -Doors - 7PM and show - 7:30PM- 9:30PM
Make Out Room - 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco
$5- $15 - all proceeds to benefit the Women on Way Festival (http://venue9.com/wow.html)

Back in many of our grandparent's or parent's day, womanhood was achieved when you had your first visit from Aunt Flow, lost your virginity, or gave birth; and someone patted you on the back and said "You are a woman now."
But that isn't the case these days. Womanhood has become less about a predetermined certain moment, preconceived notion, or even a certain body part. It takes something totally different to be a woman these days, and we have the tales to prove it.

Come hear some great stories on the subject of womanhood form: Jeri Cain Rossi, Lori Selke, Sherilyn Connelly, Katrina James, Charlie Anders, Shauna Rogan, Julia Serano ,Gina de Vries, Angie Krass ......

Drink some happy hour cocktails! from 6pm to 10pm
$3 micro pints, $2 pabst pints, $3 well

And stay around for "SONIDO" -DJ Willie Cologne plus special guests play
60s and 70s Latin, Boogaloo, Cumbias, Soul, Bhangra,
Booty Bass and more
$5 after 10pm

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the BIOs I have:

1) Jeri Cain Rossi, a recent evacuee from New Orleans and new resident to San Francisco. she has been published by creation books, London, and manic-d press, San Francisco. she will be reading from a work-in-progress, her john doe poems: yeh, I fucked you, published in part by new mouth from the dirty south, New Orleans.

2) Lori Selke is a writer and editor about town. Her work has appeared
recently in Homewrecker, Stirring Up A Storm, Glamour Girls, and
Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong.

3) Sherilyn Connelly is a San Francisco-based writer. She's featured at shows throughout California such as K'vetch, The Unhappy Hour, Poetry Mission, Siren, Ladyfest Bay Area, the TGSF Cotillion, and The Vagina Monologues. Her writing can be found on paper in I Do / I Don't: Queers on Marriage by Suspect Thoughts Press, Jennifer Blowdryer's Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages anthology, Girlfriends, Morbid Curiosity, and her own self-published chapbooks. Her stage work includes acting in productions of Night of the Living Dead, The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Zippy the Pinhead (as Karen Carpenter), as well as adapting and directing a live-action Twilight Zone episode. She also hosts a radio show Monday nights from 8-10pm on Pirate Cat Radio, and co-produces the cult public access show kittypr0n, which you should watch.

4) Katrina James was first published in 1998, and has been creating a steadily growing body of erotic tales ever since. She also co-produced the cult public access show "kittypr0n" and has acted in and worked behind-the-scenes on several local stage productions, including "Batman," "Night of the Living Dead," Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy," "The Twilight Zone," "Zippy the Pinhead," and the upcoming "Emperor Norton: The Musical." She currently lives in San Francisco with her two cats.

5) Julia Serano is a writer, spoken word artist, musician and gender
activist. She has presented and performed her work at universities,
high schools, cafés, clubs, libraries, poetry slams, and at queer and
women‚s events across the United States. Currently, she is writing a
book about trans women, gender, and feminism, tenatively titled
"Feminine Wiles", to be published by Seal Press in 2007. For more info
about Julia‚s various creative endeavors, visit her website at
www.juliaserano.com

6) Charlie Anders is the author of Choir Boy (Soft Skull Press 2005). She only, knows one breakdancing move, but she does it all the time.

7) Shauna Rogan s a writer living in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Red Booth Review, Mississippi Review, and Spike Magazine under the cheesy pseudonym 'Lisa Stopless'. She currently works in a retirement home and in her spare time can be found lurking in arcades.

8) All whiskies arise for the Mississippi Madam of Mayhem! Angie Krass performs her high voltage, rambunctious comedy throughout the Bay Area. Sharing her experiences, and kaleidoscope-like observations, with a southern flair for storytelling. She is currently touring with her new show “Sex, Biscuits, Jesus and Me”.

9) Gina de Vries is the co-editor, with Diane Anderson-Minshall, of [Becoming]: young ideas on gender, sexuality, and identity (Xlibris Press, 2004); a contributor to That's Revolting!: Queer Resistances to Assimilation (Soft Skull Press, 2004); a contributing writer to Curve and On Our Backs magazines; and a contributor to the second issue of Full zine, "pants on fire." She has spent the past few years focusing her political energies around the fight for comprehensive, sex-positive sexuality education; the movement for sex-workers' rights; and the inclusion of bi and trans women in dyke spaces. She hopes she doesn't sound humorless in this bio.
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More info at:

http://ww.lilycat.com
me@lilycat.com

Thank you and have a most wonderful day!

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A question of Love, or a matter of blood.

2005-10-13T19:59:35Z

Resentment is the mask that we use, under which we cover up the same shame and the pain that it means for us all to accept our own failures, our mistakes and the damage we have done to ourselves and to others. When that resentment is justified it is almost impossible to brake free from our own lies, from the prison we have built for ourselves. It’s so sad people try to destroy other people thinking that through that action we will save ourselves from the actions that we have done, expecting to win over all, at any price, and any means. But in the end, we’re just digging the grave for the heart and the soul. Serving ourselves in gold jeweled tray to the worse enemy that we will ever have... the inner one, the one that lives within...

Our faith is a lie; our pride is a deadly friend. There is no courage in attacking an enemy outside, real courage lies in the act of being able to win over our own inner enemy and through that example teach a lesson to the enemies outside to stop fighting for something that does not really exist; the imaginary image of ourselves. There is no true intelligence in a war that does not teach us nothing but the fact that we are so afraid to be real to ourselves without conscience, in the end, when we die, we will see what we’ll take after all. Will it be our brave hearts or our cowardly fear? The pain of the truth for what gave us the energy to seem powerful before all was the fear to be true to ourselves. What a shame! What a lost! When the ones who are suppose to be an example of justice will just try to destroy the weak ones. Because their cowardice is so strong that is mainly the weak ones who represent for them the great threat.

And the most stupid thing of all is that we really think that we will get away with our lies, not aware that the consciousness that is observing our actions is our own; there is no need for a witness, or a judge. When the moment of truth comes to us, there is nothing in this world that will save us from the terrible effects of the cause of our own in ourselves.

This is just an illusion but I would never dare to sub estimate the true lessons for the soul. Violence is the means of the miserable, but who will be there to dare to not be miserable enough to comprehend and pray to give warmth to their souls? Whether we like it or not, we are all here to fight. Will it be for our lives? Will it be for our lies? That’s entirely up to each one of us. Why believe? We will know when we wake up. We will see.

It’s a question of Love, or a matter of blood. I saw brothers killing brothers, brothers hating brothers, suffering. How late it seems to them to say sorry. I could see in their eyes, it was all they really wanted, to say sorry; but they weren’t brave enough to be cowards, so they had to be cowards enough to be brave.

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Your Urinary Tract is Burning

2005-10-03T14:52:38Z

Giving the rusty canal some bitter love one decrepit stroke at a time. The Geriatric Serial Junkie Hunter, he imposes himself at the worst possible time. A short series of disgusting tidbits found in the crust scraped out of the morbidly obese underbelly of life.
The catheter has not broken, all is not lost.

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RUIN P{ictu}res N(o)w Onl*ne

2005-08-26T20:23:16Z

Eight pages. Black and White.
RUIN is available online at the Chicago store Quimby's (Quimbys.com) and by request from the creator.
A nasty article of terminal psychological deterioration and misanthropic regression. It features words, photographs, hallucinations, and paintings violently spliced together.

It's an awful thing that came from my head.

Photos are now online.

MALICE to follow

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Houellebecq in San Francisco

2005-06-16T19:29:29Z

Michel Houellebecq is at foreign cinema on wednesday @ 6:30. Is he doing a publicity tour or is this a one stop?

I'm trying to get him for drinks with tony since he's here....we'll see:
http://www.drinkswithtony.com

I just started the HP Lovecraft book.

Damn, Houellebecq gives my a literary boner.

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Bataille in other media

2005-05-22T00:14:38Z

I have had a hard time finding visual arts, comix, or film representations of story of the eye. please share/post if you are familiar with any.

just learned about http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379797/ [anyone seen it?]

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YouLiveInShit

2005-03-10T05:47:26Z

Coming August 2005, my creation. YouLiveInShit is a four issue independently published twenty page ad free black and white. A juxtaposition of cut-ups, comic pages, and words painting a tale of misanthropy masochism dementia and death.

So far you can count on it a various shops in the following cities. The locations of the stores will be announced later. Online orders will be available when the website is finished.

Nebraska, Omaha
Kansas, Lawrence
Kansas, Wichita
Wisconsin, Milwaukee
London, England
Mexico City, Mexico (In Spanish)
Houston, Texas
Seattle, Washington
Los Angeles, California

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Cherry Bleeds #122

2005-03-04T05:37:36Z

I just updated the March issue of Cherry Bleeds:

http://www.cherrybleeds.com

CONTENTS:

Robert Guskind: Nuptials

Tony DuShane: Stiffed

Karl Koweski: Gramma K and the
Cum Sluts of the Apocalypse

C. C. Parker: Dry

Dani Bauter: Unrequited Orgasm

J. Brundage: Cool Down

Dan Donche: Randy

Lit Love is The Cocaine Chronicles edited by Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon

enjoy!

check the website for short story submission guidelines

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Killing Me Softly, Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco

2005-03-04T05:02:04Z

Anyone else read this yet?

I just posted on it in <a href=http://ijustfinishedreading.tribe.net/>I Just Finsihed Reading...</a>.

It RAWKS.

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Hunter s. Thompson

2005-02-21T14:06:53Z

HUNTER S. THOMPSON: 1937-2005
Original gonzo journalist kills self at age 67
'Fear and Loathing' author, ex-columnist for S.F. Examiner dies of gunshot wound

Tanya Schevitz, Chronicle Staff Writer

Monday, February 21, 2005

Hunter S. Thompson, the counterculture writer credited with creating a new form of journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," was found dead Sunday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Aspen- area home, authorities said.

Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a friend of Thompson, and Thompson's son, Juan, who reportedly found his father's body, confirmed the death of the 67-year-old writer to the Aspen Daily News.

"Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement to the newspaper, according to the Associated Press.

Thompson's wife, Anita, was not home at the time of his death.

San Francisco writer Ben Fong-Torres, a former colleague of Thompson's at Rolling Stone magazine, said he was surprised and saddened to hear about Thompson's apparent suicide.

"He was one of the great pioneers of new journalism and his own invention: gonzo journalism, in which he immersed himself in the story," Fong-Torres said. "He presented it in a way that nobody else, as hard as they tried, could imitate. He was singular and will not be matched anytime soon."

Fong-Torres said Thompson leaves a legacy in the field of journalism.

"It doesn't matter that he was a guy who was capable of doing anything and known to live on-and-beyond the edge," he said in a phone interview Sunday night. "It's a tremendous loss, no matter where he was, at what stage he was, how ill he had gotten -- he was still capable of humorous insights."

Chronicle Executive Vice President and Editor Phil Bronstein spent a few nights last summer with Thompson and his wife in Colorado. He said that Thompson was recovering from spinal surgery and a broken leg from a fall but that there were no signs that the eccentric Thompson was depressed.

They watched the Republican Convention and hours of footage for a documentary that was being made about Thompson. He showed off a new neon shooting target he had, and he held court at the local Woody Creek Tavern, Bronstein said.

"He was exercised about what was going on in the world as he always was," Bronstein said. "He seemed, as always, bizarre and interesting and fascinating and was a remarkably charming and friendly host."

Thompson, who wrote for the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner in the mid-to-late 1980s, lived the legend he created with his writing.

David McCumber, a former editor at the Examiner and now managing editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, edited Thompson's columns at the Examiner in the mid-1980s.

"Everything was legitimate about the man's reputation," he said. "The surprise was as I got to know him ... everything was real ... and that could be scary sometimes."

He said that one day he was on a three-way call with Thompson and Gary Hart's campaign manager when the campaign manager learned that the Miami Herald had the story about Hart's relationship with Donna Rice.

Thompson was at his home in Woody Creek outside Aspen and remembered that his neighbor singer/songwriter Don Henley knew Rice. He went to Henley's house, rifled his drawers, and found a picture for the Examiner, making it the first news organization to have a picture of Rice.

"We always had a very active time. It was never dull," McCumber said. "One of the joys of editing Hunter was you never knew if you were going to get hallucinatory prose or trenchant analysis," he said.

Jeanette Etheredge, another close friend of Thompson and owner of the North Beach fixture, Tosca, said he knew where every ice machine was at every motel in San Francisco.

One night when they were out driving around, he stopped abruptly in front of the Seal Rock Inn and jumped out.

"When he came back, he had a bucket of ice for his bottle," she said.

Chronicle Executive News Editor Jay Johnson, who also edited Thompson's columns when he wrote for the Examiner, said Thompson could not dictate over the phone, so he filed his stories page by page over the fax, sending multiple revisions as the two spent many hours throughout the night and into the morning "wrestling the column to the ground."

"Nobody was as much his editor as his sounding board. He needed to talk it out and get reaction to it. It was not the average creative process," Johnson said.

One morning as deadline neared and they were still working it out, Thompson, who was known to have an affinity for controlled substances, told Johnson, "Our real drug of choice is adrenaline."

Johnson said Thompson was easiest to work with when he was covering a presidential campaign. But he was often just "riffing," Johnson said.

He fondly recalled one night when Thompson told him how he had tried to cheer up a friend who was scheduled to go in for back surgery. He took a bunch of explosives out to the backyard and stuffed them into his Jeep. As the hood flew into the air and the Jeep exploded into pieces, the two friends realized what they had projected into the sky would soon come back down.

"They are like dancing around with this shrapnel coming down," Johnson said.

Johnson told him to write it down and that became Thompson's next column.

Johnson said it seemed that part of the reason Thompson enjoyed writing his column for the Examiner was that he had a burning desire to be plugged in. In the days before the Internet, Thompson turned to Johnson to give him the latest news.

"By calling in, he could ask what was on the wires. He would ask me to read him stuff. That way he could be involved in the business," Johnson said.

When he was in San Francisco, Thompson was a regular at Tosca, even running the bar once when owner Etheredge was out getting a root canal.

He broke his ankle once doing a pirouette off the bar, she said, and then refused medical help, instead taping his broken ankle with electrical tape.

She said he was always a gentleman. One time after hanging out at his hotel all night and into the morning, she told him that she had to go home. It was about 5 a.m. and he insisted on escorting her in a taxi.

But when they were walking through the hotel lobby to get into a cab, she noticed he was wearing just underwear. And when they reached her house, she had to give him money to get back to the hotel.

Sunday night, she was shocked by the death of someone who was so vibrant.

"I spoke to him a few weeks ago and he sounded good," she said. "The one person I would never think would do something like that goes and does it."

Thompson was born in Louisville, Ky., on July 18, 1937, His father, Jack, was an insurance agent. Thompson got his start in newspaper writing while he was serving in the Air Force in the late 1950s.

An acute observer of the decadence and depravity in American life, Thompson wrote such books as "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" in 1973 and the collections "Generation of Swine" and "Songs of the Doomed." His first- ever novel, "The Rum Diary," written in 1959, was first published in 1998.

"The Rum Diary" came out of Thompson's experiences in Puerto Rico. Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy, who had been friends with Thompson since he rejected the then-young writer for a job at the San Juan Star in Puerto Rico, described Thompson as a trailblazer.

"Hunter found a way to be new in the world. His attitude, his language, his subject matter, his take on history, his plunge into booze and drugs -- all these were singular," Kennedy said. "Maybe other people behaved this way, but nobody ever wrote about it with such spectacular originality. He was all by himself."

Thompson's other books include "Hell's Angels" and "The Proud Highway." His most recent effort was "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and The Downward Spiral of Dumbness."

"Hunter was a gifted writer, political observer and sportsman with a huge appetite for life in every dimension," said William R. Hearst III, a director of the Hearst Corp. "Like Mark Twain before him he occasionally wrote for this newspaper and neither of them tolerated fools gleefully. We will miss his words and collect his letters."

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Sex Work Smorgasbord,

2005-02-15T15:13:17Z

Sex Work Smorgasbord,
- "a night of various exciting and educational tales of sex work"

Feb 19th, 2005 at 8PM
Center for Sex and Culture
http://www.centerforsexandculture.com/
398 11th Street, San Francisco
$5 -7

@ Learn how to treat a sex worker politely and properly from Greta Christina, the author of "Paying for It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients". http://www.gretachristina.com/

@ Get the scope on the 101 of Gay Porn from Mark Klein, an incredible gay porn producer. http://lavenderloungeblog.com

@ Be titillated by the amazing local erotica spoken work - Lady Monster's stories of novice BDSM. http://www.home.earthlink.net/~ladymonster

@ Writer, art space curator, musician, and model- talented Tina Butcher will give you the know how to be a bondage model. http://www.tinabutcher.com

@ Call listen to the fabulous "Unrepentant Whore" herself - Scarlet Harlot - http://www.unrepentantwhore.com/

@ Fascinating David Henry Sterry will educate you on the life of a male prostitute in 70's. http://www.davidhenrysterry.com

@ Plus a bunch of others things not to be missed - like free - free condoms.

If you are hungry for exotica and the how to of sex work biz, this is the event for you.

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Cherry Bleeds is back

2005-02-02T14:54:53Z

CHERRY BLEEDS - http://www.cherrybleeds.com

Hello Bleedsers,

I had a bit of a super-freak-out over the last couple of months because I got involved in too many projects and decided that Cherry Bleeds was low on the priority list.

Well, after my drunken stupor of stupidity, and a firm bitch slap from a dear friend, I realized the importance of keeping Cherry Bleeds going. Shit, I've been doing it for almost 5 years, it's a self moving machine now.

The February 2005 issue is really strong. I had a lot more submissions to work with since I've been flaking over the last few months. :)

Anyway, this is me saying, thanks for reading us, it means a lot....and expect more literary transgression in the next five years.

Submissions are being accepted for future issues. Read the guidelines on the website.

Here's the contents for issue #121:

Robert Guskind: Reflections on Bambi and the Sky Blue Impala
Tony DuShane: Sinking
Delphine Lecompte: Don't Forget to Swagger
C. C. Parker: Mud
Stacey Graham: Sex for Drugs
Victor Valdez: People Like You & Me
Rob Rosen: Tasteless Joe
Will Carpenter: It's Where Happiness Comes to Die

A COMPLICATED KINDNESS by Miriam Toews is Literary Love

CHERRY BLEEDS - http://www.cherrybleeds.com

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say, hoo zat poodledooo een zee

2005-01-09T16:01:56Z

vindow?

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