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What Is This Relic?

Sunday, March 6, 2011
A Horse Is A Horse, Of...Course?


Thursday, December 30, 2010
Keep Your Shirt On!





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I just don't get what the big deal is. If President Barry doesn't want his picture taken without his shirt on, as the leader of the free world (with the key word there being "free") I suggest that he keep his shirt on rather than telling folks what they can and can't take a picture of. I'm also going to say that I'll be deeply disappointing in all of the paparazzi out there if they can't manage to get a picture of him shirtless anyway. That's their job. After all, the word "paparazzi" is derived from an old Italian term meaning "A-holes who invade your privacy to get pictures that tabloids will pay for". Chop-chop!
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Photos: AWP Conference
Cave Canem director Alison Meyers and Duriel Harris at the Cave Canem booth, at AWP
At Leela's, a really cool little Denver café
Forrest Gander and Dan Beachy-Quick
Treasure Williams (at right), and another poet (I cannot recall her name)
The one and only Jericho Brown, in foreground
Hannah Tinti, my former grad school classmate, and editor of One Story
Timothy Liu and Nathanaël, who were on a panel I organized, on LGBTQ translation
The Nightboat Books crew, with writer Edwin Torres (at left), and editor Stephen Motika, at right
Saeed Jones, a friend, and Cyrus Cassells
Mitchell Douglas and Indigo Moor
Duriel Harris and Indigo Moor
Randall Horton, reading at the Cave Canem booth
Fiction writer Tiphanie Yanique
AWP Book Fair, with Amina Cain approaching the camera (in the sunny blouse)
Translating Contemporary Latin American literature panel, with Kristin Dykstra at the podium, and l-r (unknown poet, Daniel Borzutzky, Monica de la Torre, and Urayoán Noël)
Ann Waldman, reading at the Mandorla reading at the Denver Center for Contemporary Art
Mónica de la Torre, reading at the Mandorla reading at the Denver Center for Contemporary Art
Steve Thomasula, reading at the Mandorla reading at the Denver Center for Contemporary Art
Gabriela Jauregui, reading at the Mandorla reading at the Denver Center for Contemporary Art
Dawn Lundy Martin
Patricia Smith, and a fellow poet, posing for a photo
Denver night streetscape
Gar Patterson, speaking at the "Black Nature" panel
Cyrus Cassells, who chaired the "Black Nature" panel
Friday, April 16, 2010
Tea Party Photo Goodness


That wasn't the only sign wielding child out yesterday. Here's another one. Um, honey? I'm not so sure that you want to be part of a "tea bagger family". Tea party family, perhaps. But I think that being a "tea bagger family" is probably illegal. Definitely off-putting.

I appreciated the originality of the Tea Party Mobile or whatever you want to call it below. I like how there's just a little bit of everything thrown in there. Jesus. Truth. Insanity. Disaster. Lies. Taxes. Pork. Health care. Right. Wrong. Repent. Perverts. Wait. Perverts? Yep. Over there on the left. Next to Pork. Perverts. OK. I'm against perverts. Nice. Thanks.


It wouldn't be a protest in America without some nutjob questioning President Barry's citizenship. What is wrong with you people?

Where's the birth certificate? It's on the Internet, nutjob. And yes, it's real. For cryin' out loud.

And along those same lines, it just wouldn't be a protest without someone making the Obama-Osama comparison. Yes, we know. They sound a lot alike. Adolf and Rudolph sound a lot alike as well, but you don't hear folks comparing that little reindeer fellow to Hitler, now, do you?

Ahh. Go back to Kenya. Lovely. You're not doing a lot to add credibility to your cause, but you do make me laugh, so that's something. By the way, HE'S NOT FROM KENYA! Morons.

And here we have a little birther action combined with a little "In Living Color" action. Interesting combo to say the least.

Why bother with multiple signs when you can just cram it all onto one piece of poster board. The problem with it is that they're really only taking a stand against two of those things. They don't want the fascism or the socialism and they seem to think that the Obamacare sucks. Other than that, they're just sort of stating issues. Oh, how I only wish they had stated what "ALIAN CARE" was exactly and why it is illegal.

I've got feathers and a pitchfork. I also have torches and axe handles if you need some of those as well, sir.

And finally, we have these folks. The one, dressed like a priest (I think) is proclaiming that God hates taxes. I don't know why God would care about taxes. God doesn't pay taxes. But that's not really what I'm focused on here. I'm focused on what in the hell that is over to the right of that dude! It's like one of those guys from the cantina in Star Wars wearing some sort of mossy coat and trousers. It's odd and I have no idea what it has to do with tax protests. And I'm dying to know what brochure he's holding.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Random Photos: New York City
A fashion shoot at the New York Public Library. (You didn't think all people did was read books there, did you?)
People noshing at that old "recession special mainstay," Gray's Papaya, in the West Village
An afternoon nap, in Bryant Park at the library (this was not staged)
A life-sized chessboard at an outdoor chess tournament at 34th St., near Herald Square
One of the many empty storefronts in Manhattan, this one in Soho, along Spring
Street scene, Provincetown
Cowboybear (it was the beginning of Bear Week in Provincetown--wouldn't he make an excellent posterman?)
Grand Central Terminal, with the modernist Chrysler Building behind it
An expressionist street artist's rendering of the same
Crossing 42nd St. (I love all the contemporary NY summer indices in this photo)
Another street artist, 7th Ave., West Village
Another street scene, 7th Ave., West Village
Another Village character (note the wreath-as-hat!)
People observing a treeworm of some sort (it's the hanging thing at the photo's center), in Bryant Park