MP3: "THE LIFE & TIMES OF MAJOR FICTION"
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxFrom : Raymond Federman
Sent : Friday, October 7, 2005 1:21 PM
To : Mike Daily
Subject : Re: FC2 SONG
I tell you this is the beginning of something big
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"THE LIFE & TIMES OF MAJOR FICTION" [7:11]
NOTE ADDED BY BLOGMASTER ON 9/11/07: Go to the MySpace profile for O'GRADY to hear (and download for free) "Major Fiction" as it appears in the novel/double CD set, ALARM. Professionally mastered by Antreo Pukay at Tell Tale Recording.
Here's the raw version of the track as it was recorded 11/5/05:
http://www.gpayne.net/FC2_Final_2.mp3
Or stream the mp3 rather than requiring download first:
http://www.gpayne.net/FC2.m3u
(Will work well for lower bandwidth connections.)
Mike Daily: Words/Vocals
David Noel Moscovich: Keys/Live Digital Sampling
Luke Strahota: Drums/Drum Machine/Talking Shit at the Beginning
Mia: The Diva
Recorded October 5, 2005, at The Enginehouse in North Portland, Ore.
Engineer: Chutz Ponderosa
O'Grady's Note: My goal in writing this "narrative" was to incorporate every title of every book Fiction Collective/FC2/Black Ice Books has published since its inception in 1974. FC2 Managing Editor Brenda Mills wrote:
"Wow, I love it! Jonathan [Baumbach] should get [his son, Film Director] Noah to make a video for it. Love the end. We were dancing to it. I'm thinking we should play it at our reception at AWP in Austin in March.
You have books in your library that we no longer have even a single copy of!"
Brenda is sending an announcement to FC2's entire membership (to all the original authors whose titles are hereby referenced) on Monday, October 24th--United Nations Day. Very interesting. . . .
We are curious to hear your thoughts. Plz leave a comment at the end!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^LYRICS: "THE LIFE & TIMES OF MAJOR FICTION"
"it was Jonathan Baumbach, I believe, who said a novel is sometimes, perhaps at some level always, an act of aggression toward the world at large...high drama in fabulous Toledo the bird is gone: a manifesto mosaic man saw stolen stories mourning Crazy Horse in the middle of nowhere holy smoke! soul resin the death of the novel and other stories hearsay! the cares of the day straight razor nature studies the broad back of the angel spectator revelation countdown statements 1! statements 2! F/32 shootout with father an illuminated history of the future northwest passage between the flags holy smoke! to whom it may concern…girl imagined by chance…mermaids for Attila…music for a broken piano moving parts the talking room long talking bad conditions blues the Kafka chronicles why I don’t write like Franz Kafka Dahlia’s iris the end of free love coming close rope dances the Ethiopian exhibition Napoleon’s mare Borges’ Travel, Hemingway’s Garage: secret histories
babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble babble
American made comatose kids degenerative prose modern romances heroes and villains everyday psychokillers: a history for girls punk blood 1-2-3-4 I smell Esther Williams damned right! encores for a dilettante Eve’s longing: the infinite possibilities in all things in the box called pleasure…Mabel in her twenties…my father more or less…Valentino’s hair… Leonardo’s horse d-tours aviary slag disability meningitis emergency exit a spell for the fulfillment of desire the collected short fiction of Marianne Hauser chick-lit 1! chick-lit 2! angry nights in heaven everything is fine close your eyes and think of Dublin: portrait of a girl public works Aunt Rachel’s fur remembering to say ‘mouth’ or ‘face’ chez Charlotte and Emily 1998.6 double or nothing trouble the water from the district file…four roses in three acts…Latino heretics…transiT! city in love! the doggy bag dirtmouth straight outta Compton temporary sanity not a chance trigger dance the last man standing matinee the lost scrapbook crash-landing last fall! the Aztec love god last fall! art does (not!) exist! last fall! false positive sexual blood the fast red road – a plainsong the blue guide to Indiana Michael Martone? the second story man…reflex and bone structure…searching for survivors…
Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya
Griever: an American [monkey] king in China find him! little sisters of the apocalypse memory wax fat people blood of mugwump heretical song[s] the endless short story former virgin when things get back to Normal sex for the millennium S&M forgetfulness liberty’s excess life of death dictionary of modern anguish the wilderness common wilderness Ø null set museum elements distorture Agnes & Sally Althea the Winnebago mysteries & other stories
Fiction Collective (FC2) / founded in 1974 / alternative press...it was Robert Coover, I believe, who said in the babble of American publishing, FC2 is one of the few coherent voices QUOTE! make serious novels and story collections available UNQUOTE! QUOTE! keep them in print permanently UNQUOTE! it was Ronald Sukenick, I believe, who said that...seventies...eighties...nineties...two thousands! seventies...eighties...nineties...two thousands! Fiction Collective (FC2) / founded in 1974 / alternative press..."don't forget Black Ice Books"
the alphabet man animal acts the noctambulists new noir! what begins with bird reruns the book of Lazarus real to reel the complete tales of Ketzia Gold Hogg anarcho-Hindu broadway melody of 1999 the blond box gone Avant Pop: fiction for a daydream nation three blondes and death plane geometry and other affairs of the heart re>la>vir a history of the imagination things in place! twiddledum twaddledum…Mexico trilogy…wakenight emporium…take it or leave it faithful Rebecca the charnel-imp is it sexual harassment yet? the body parts shop Uncle Ovid’s exercise book the mind crime of August Saint the hermetic whore in the slipstream: an FC2 reader the beginning of the East fifth season amateur people the wavering knife seven wives five days of bleeding the great taste of straight people mole’s pity the garden in which I walk 98.6 girl beside him sewing shut my eyes my amputations! the secret table separate hours my amputations!
UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP
the life and times of Major Fiction" --Mike Daily
posted by O'Grady @ 12:14:00 AM
88 Comments:
Ah! I just commented on this post elsewhere on the Internet [RF's site; though with a differnt photo linked to it] -- good luck with the project, Mick. The anthem totally rocks in my ears -- and so does your collection of books, by the way.
like i said:
U
R
IN
SANE

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Keep the shiny side UP!. Ray in San Diego**KEYWOR
Six continents pray for B.J.
The little things brought tears to the eyes of B.J. Higgins' father, Brent Higgins, when speaking of his son.
Hello, you have an interesting blog here... I think I'll add you to my favorites. With your permission I'll be coming back to check out what else you do. Can I tell a friend?
great job making this blog (good design!), keep up the good work!
~ have a nice day.
check out my blog or my french kissing site if you want.
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It's official: I am now at the point where I can't tell if The Blog spam here is 'real' or sham spam from 'friends'.
Have a nice day.
O'Grady
Yes, it is rather ambiguous, is it not, O'Grady?
The same to you.
Lilly
Mick, did you know that the Edsel, the automobile named after Henry Ford's son was produced from 1957 to 1959?
Edsel? Great band.
Read the interview.
E.F.
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From : Raymond Federman
Sent : Wednesday, October 5, 2005 8:59 PM
To : mickogradylives@hotmail.com
Subject : Re: THE FICTION COLLECTIVE SONG
what a fantastic idea
the FC2 national anthem
send it immediately to Brenda at FC2
I wish I could hear you guys perform
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From : fc2
Sent : Thursday, October 6, 2005 6:37 AM
To : "Mike Daily"
Subject : Re: THE FICTION COLLECTIVE SONG
Oh, that's great! You're a genius! I want to hear it! Can I forward your email to our membership?
Brenda
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From : Greg Barbera
Sent : Thursday, October 6, 2005 6:28 AM
To : "Mike Daily"
Subject : Re: THE FICTION COLLECTIVE SONG...
holy shit
you are a maniac mike daily!
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From : Rose Miller
Sent : Friday, October 7, 2005 2:43 AM
To : Mike Daily
Subject : Re: THE FC2 SONG - Listen to the demo (MP3):
The life and times of major fiction.
The times of major life and fiction.
The major times of life and fiction.
Fockin cool Daily.
Congratulations to your drummer.
And to you of course.
And everyone else involved.
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From : David Moscovich
Sent : Friday, October 7, 2005 11:10 AM
To : Mike Daily
Subject : Re: ON THE FAST ROAD REDDENED
Mike
my schedule next week may be NUTSO, i'm not talking peanuts but pistaccios, man
so let's set up a time to mix down -- so i can say no to upcoming pistaccios (JOBS) as they come up, and they are coming
evenings would be best --
by the way you are killing the red wide world at blog
large piece by piece from your canary factory
DM
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From : Lew
Sent : Friday, October 7, 2005 11:17 AM
To : Mike Daily
Subject : Re: ON THE FAST RED ROAD
It's pretty Fing cool Mike. You are probably high on the precious substance of immediacy and creation that come after going in, doing it, and emerging with a fine finished product without a lot of fuss.
What is the next move?
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From : Mom
Sent : Friday, October 7, 2005 11:49 AM
To : mickogradylives@hotmail.com
Subject : Re: THE FC2 SONG - Listen to the demo (MP3):
That was awesome. Are you on the verge of becoming a star? I just want to know when I can wear a my name is "Mike's Mother" sign and then jump into a freaking limo.
All kidding aside that was awesome. I loved it. I can tell by the voices that you and the others are doing something they truly love.
Do you even know who Esther Williams was? I must have spent way too much time in Greenwich Village when I was a young gal. Now I am old and stupid and clap my hands to hear my 30 something son talk about Esther Williams.
Love you madly. Hello to Joye.
Mike's Mother
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From : Larry McCaffery
Sent : Friday, October 7, 2005 12:38 PM
To : Mike Daily
Subject : Re: THE FC2 SONG - Listen to the demo (MP3):
mike,
congrats on the fabulouis fc2 fightsong!
would you be interested in reviewing federman's latest, MORE LOOSE SHOES, for the abr? if so, i'll get things rolling in that direction.
it includes my own minimalist introduction
lemme know
and keep those songs coming!
larry
ps. also: GREAT work on the federman blog
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From : Luke Strahota
Sent : Friday, October 7, 2005 2:53 PM
To : Mike Daily, David Moscovich
Subject : Re: Federman...
Now that we have the blessing, we may be unstoppable.
My old ladies father also sends his best after listening to the piece. If your into art, go to his site
Looking forward to another go around. Plans for this weekend are to crack open the beat machine and breath some new life into it.
If recordings don't happen soon, it would be good just to hang out if anyone has any time.
Carry on my wayward sons,
- Luke.
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From : Brenda Mills
Sent : Monday, October 10, 2005 7:15 AM
To : "Mike Daily"
Subject : Re: FC2 SONG - MIX DOWN WED....
Okay, then I'm going to wait and send them the fancy version. How fun!
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From : Kevin Sampsell
Sent : Monday, October 10, 2005 3:29 PM
To : "Mike Daily"
Subject : Re: Samuel Delany
I just listened to it. Nice.
It doesn't just seem like a list, like I thought it might.
I like the part with the drums coming in. Again--LCDSS-esque.
My review of Vonnegut's new book was in the Oregonian yesterday. Look for it.
KS
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From : Brenda Mills
Sent : Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:32 AM
To : "Mike Daily"
Subject : Re: FC2 SONG: Following Omissions....
Technically, you could leave off these, because we no longer have the rights to them:
The Second Story Man
Althea
Reflex and Bone Structure (never even heard of it!)
Things in Place (nor this one)
Find Him!
Griever: An American King in China
Little Sisters of the Apocalypse
City in Love
Valentino's Hair
My Amputations
Searching for Survivors (nor this one)
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From : Brenda Mills
Sent : Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:47 AM
To : "Mike Daily"
Subject : Re: FC2 SONG: fictional standpoint in-and-of-itself
Oh hey, I was just trying to let you off the hook about those older, more obscure titles. This is totally your baby and you're under no obligation to us whatsoever. So, sure, be historically accurate and put all those suckers in there. There's no danger involved. You know, HOGG is still in print and we do have the rights to it (again).
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From : Brenda Mills
Sent : Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:07 AM
To : "Mike Daily"
Subject : Re: FC2 SONG: fictional standpoint in-and-of-itself [JOURNALISM?]
hardest book i ever read. one of the hardest things was that it was so well written.
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From : Steve Tomasula
Sent : Tuesday, October 18, 2005 1:01 PM
To : "Mike Daily"
Subject : Re: THE FC2 SONG - Listen to the demo (MP3):
Okay, I finally got onto a fast enough connection to listen to this rather than just read it like a poem--geesh!--the poem so doesn't do the song justice. You're a real renaissance man, Mike--so cool, but so slick as well; I mean really put together in a way I'd want to listen to just as music....
Steve
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From : Luke Strahota
Sent : Wednesday, October 19, 2005 5:17 PM
To : Mike Daily
Subject : alive?
dudem haven't heard fromy ou, starting MD withdrawls, what's up? i'm in sf right now, waiting for the club to open and drinking a beer. nice to be on the raod. nice to get back. BTW, julie and i got the place. dude, we're gonna be neighbors.
ok, rock.
lukl
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From : Lisbeth Pedersen
Sent : Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:19 AM
To : Mike Daily
Subject : WOW -> see if you can play this Lis - read along to it
^^^^^^^^^^ M - i - c - k ! ! ! ^^^^^^^^^^
Thank you for sending me the link -- it worked absolutely fine. I was able to play it, in other
words, and that I have just done. And right now, I am sitting here totally WOW'ed! I read along to it, as suggested, and you know when you sit and read, watch, or listen to something that just totally blows you away....and you keep thinking, WOW, this cannot possibly get any better? And you sit there and you can feel the WOW-ness of this amazing thing that you're trying to take in, and it does keep getting [even] better and better -- and you can feel your hair curling because it's so fucking good and you get goosebumps all over your body with enjoyment? Listen -- that's exactly how
THE FICTION COLLECTIVE SONG
made me feel!! I totally L*O*V*E everything that goes on in this energetic song!
THANK YOU AGAIN!! You rock, Mick O'Grady! :-)
Yours in admiration,
Pepsi Pal Lilly
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From : beki in Toronto
Sent : Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:14 PM
To : mickogradylives@hotmail.com
Subject : RE: "The Life and Times of Major Fiction" - MP3
It wasn't working at first, it is now however!!! i took a listen that was wicked just awesome.
i dig the beats.
The priory of sion was a secret society back 1099 Artists Like leonardo Da Vinci were in it, botticelli Victor hugo.
I noticed Leonardos name in the story...just made me think of it.
i'm listening again..
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From : B. Issues
Reply-To : brianh@burnside.powells.com
Sent : Thursday, October 20, 2005 7:26 PM
To : "Mike Daily"
Subject : Re: "The Life and Times of Major Fiction" - MP3
U
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IN
SANE
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From : Brian Howe
Sent : Friday, October 21, 2005 8:37 PM
To : Mike Daily
Subject : Re: Do Mick A Favor...?
Works like a charm Mike. Really cool piece too. Sorry I didn't get back to you after the first time you sent it - I've been swamped this week and was waiting until I had time to give it the proper attention. Love the Coover quote.
best,
brian
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From : Gregory Higgins
Sent : Friday, October 21, 2005 8:48 PM
To : mickogradylives@hotmail.com
Subject : RE: Do Mick A Favor...?
sounds good, good production quality as well. complete with 1985 casio keyboard. i like it. how are things? i quit my job. -g
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-----Message d'origine-----
From : Chenard Walcker
Sent : Saturday, October 22, 2005 11:55 AM
To : "Mike Daily"
Subject : RE: Do Mick A Favor...?
it works good, Mike.
Really liked it.
keep it up !
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From : Simon James
Reply-To : projections@dublab.com
Sent : Saturday, October 22, 2005 12:21 PM
To : mickogradylives@hotmail.com
Subject : RE: Do Mick A Favor...?
Mick O' Grady , dear boy ... how the hell are you ???
Exciting shit mate .. got some nice punk elements to it .. Congratulations bro ,, good to see you're working ....
keep it up my man ..
Simon
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From : Ritchey
Sent : Saturday, October 22, 2005 1:44 PM
To : "Mike Daily"
Subject : Re: Do Mick A Favor...?
On Oct 21, 2005, at 6:09 PM, Mike Daily wrote:
Can you plz check this link to make sure it works?
it works, but I don't have the time right now to wait for it all to download.
Thanks for bearing with all this redundancy--I very much appreciate your listenings up to now. [IF APPLICABLE!]
I actually haven't had the opportunity to listen. Been a bit preoccupied and not much online in the past couple weeks. I'll catch up...
I've constructed a major hypertextual lyrics sheet that when run on The Blog will allow listeners to click on every individual title and go to a designated page for it.
Great suffering Boddhisatva's!!! You are a man possessed. By what I'm not entirely sure...
Christ almighty. Do you ever sleep?
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From : Chuck Dye
Sent : Saturday, October 22, 2005 11:07 PM
To : Mike Daily
Subject : Re: Do Mick A Favor...?
Mike,
Checked this link both on a PC running Windows Media Player, and on a Mac running iTunes. Not a hitch.
There's a nice, hurtling, frantic energy working. Good stuff.
Charles
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From : Yuriy Tarnawsky
Sent : Sunday, October 23, 2005 8:38 AM
To : Mike Daily
Subject : Re: IT'S *UP*...Yuriy Tarnawsky Content Included...MP3
Hi Mike!
A little more time now. Nice to read your energy-charged missives. Keep it up and stay young forever.
Your collages of FC titles are wonderful, remind me of cadavres exquis of the surrealists. Would love to ged a CD and hear your music.
Enjoyed my trip to Ukraine. Vistied once more the Crimea with its incredible geography and enthic/historical diversity. Saw the palace of the Crimean Tartar khans in Bakhchisaray, the cave Karaim city of Chufut Kale on a 2000 ft high meseta, the 2500 year old Greek city of Khersones
near Sevastopol. Also catacombs in Kyiv and Chernihiv... many things, some of which I had seen before. A wonderful concert by the very popular pop group Elsa's Ocean, with 20,000 screaming kids and me smack in the middle of them.
Felt however a burning need to get back to my computer in the basement and to rivulets of English flowing along the screen. Few things are more enjoyable than work.
Write,
Yuriy
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over 100 hits so far...
Chutz
Thomas McGuane, author of Ninety-two in the Shade and The Cadence of Grass, is currently being pull-quoted on Starbucks cups. Tom is:
A) brilliant--"the cadence of grass"?
B) careful, the beverage he's about to enjoy is extremely hot.
C) listed in critical condition but expected to make a full recovery.
D) Other: __________________
Hey Mick. The internet called and said it saw you waiting for the bus with a transistor radio. And wearing an old newsboy hat. I said I couldn't believe that. But it said it was true blue.
I really like your blog. Come visit my site on fiberoptics. Like optics that are fiber.
Mick is laughing. Old newsboy hat...like optics that are fiber...
From : Luke Strahota
Sent : Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:16 AM
To : Mike Daily
Subject : Re: IT'S *UP*
Shivers and shakes, that's good stuff my man.
I want to see people sweating and dancing to this.
I like the idea of a video too.
I'm back from the road but I picked up the flu, so I'm out of commission for the next few days.
Looking forward to the next round, keep me posted, dig?
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES UPDATE:
It's official. We're linked on FC2's website--front page!
Check it:
http://www.fc2.org/
Getting amazing response. Mega hits on the recording.
daily
Also see (Lance Olsen's kickarse site):
Cafe Zeitgeist
one of these days i'm gonna have to read me a fc2 book...
mike, tonight's CHEST PAINS show podcasted at http://www.local506.com
witty banter.
i'll sure be working the witty banter
g
From : Steve in Massachussetts
Sent : Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:18 PM
To : mickogradylives@hotmail.com
Subject : Re: MASS BLOGOSPHERE
I forget exactly how I found your site. The bread crumbs on the internet trail don't stay long. But the Hitchhiker team looks for new and different sites on the long tail so yours fit the bill, hence the posting.
Looks like you have a bunch of fun things underway! Enjoy!
Steve
80 new hits on it today (Tuesday)!
Sweet job, dude. Hits=respect, yo.
It's like that REM "end of the world" song, but book titles! (Ok, not really.)
-J
mike, finally back at the computer to listen to the great Fiction Collective, FC2 rant. Not since Sinead O'Connor tore up the picture of the pope has anything so justifiably obtuse appeared. You should do a reggae version she does reggae now
ANTONELLO'S LION has just arrived in my mailbox from Green Integer. It looks great. It looks chunky. It ain't sweet, but it's tasty. Have a look. warn the bookstores.
yr hmbl,
skatz
Hi - I trained in judo and karate for many years. I was looking for blogs having to do with judo and came across yours. Nice blog. I have my own have my own mixed style school now that offers most of the traditional judo techniques. Come have a look at it if you want.
Judo? Judo?
This may be the first known (documented) instance of a blogger (Mick O'Grady) receiving email notification (as per usual) of a new "blog spam" message that for some reason never appeared on the blog, at which point the blogger (yrs truly) carefully reconstructed the message complete with HTML link and posted it in the comments section of his blog.
See above comment.
Why? Why did I do this?
Technicians for host site Blogger have apparently figured out how to successfully filter the bulk of blog spam messages posted by the ubiquitous "anonymous" programs randomly tagging our blogs in the comments sections.
Some bloggers use the new Word Verification feature to combat blog spam--a precaution I personally do not recommend because some computer users can't leave comments on others' blogs that have Word Verification in place. Some computer users' hard drives happen to freeze when they try to leave comments on blogs that have Word Verification. I may have DSL but I'm on a PC.
So, yeah, I posted the judo blog spam. Rather, I re-posted it. Wait a second. If the comment wasn't successfully posted in the first place, I suppose I posted it. Son of a sea biscuit.
Don't quote me on this, but I'm developing a taste for mindlessly generated blog spam.
The phenomenon brings to mind certain letters from magnificent Beat poet Lew Welch in the Grey Fox Press collection I REMAIN: The Letters of Lew Welch & The Correspondence of His Friends: Volume Two: 1960-1971:
Lew Welch to Kirby Doyle from Forks of Salmon on October 11, 1962
[...] Horrible infestation of rats. Rats scampering over face, clawing at old shakes, nervously scuttling like mad things. No sleep at all for 2 nights. I went mad one night, leaped out of my sleeping bag and pounded the walls. My only light, a kerosene barn lantern, showed many little faces staring down at mefrom the rafters: not frightened, bemused at my antics. By this time I had dozens of little sardine cans filled with poison-pellets. "Eat! Eat!" i screamed, vowing traps, guns unspeakable tortures. Then I went after one with a hammer and broke the handle.
Now all of them are dead, the last one trapped, all the rest poisoned. And I miss them!! They were mountain pack rats, gray with snow-white bellies and white feet. They collect everything. In the enormous nests I found after tearing out the canvas ceiling I found shaving brushes, toothbrushes, .22 cartridges, pencils, and a small calendar I am now using. [...]
This letter excerpt affects me as much--perhaps more--than the Lew's poems and novel have and that's saying a lot because I'm a fan of his work.
So does this:
Lew Welch to Kirby Doyle from Forks of Salmon on May 16, 1963
[...] I am typing on my porch. A snake crawled under the stoop. I hope he eats all my mice. Wasps everywhere. [...]
Everywhere.
Did that make sense? Anytime anyone (or anything) posts something on a blogger's blog, Blogger sends an email to the blogger--notification that a new comment has been added to one's blog.
Sometimes the email goes through fine but the comment does not show up for whatever reason.
It doesn't make it.
And sometimes that hurts.
Other times, one is glad it didn't go through because one would delete it anyway.
Have a nice day.
O'Grady
P.S. If today's video games didn't seem so complicated to a guy who grew up playing arcade games--where one traditionally stood up to play instead of sitting down, I'd play today's video games instead of The Blog.
Other times glad it doesn't show up because
This is getting ridiculous, Mick.
Thanks for noticing.
I got a little sloppy up there but you get the gist.
Mick: your mum sounds really cool.
Mick -- after posting that thing about you mum, I read all your posts [even the judo one - ain't I a faithful reader of your blog?!!] -- it does make sense. To me anyway.
So once I've submitted this comment, I'm just gonna go back and check that it's actually showing up.
Yup -- it's [t]here alright.
Word Verification can go fly a kite!
Yup -- it's [t]here alright.
Word Verification can go fly a kite!
click my handle mick
Interesting.
Sick, man. Sick.
i up your brown bunny one gus van zant
BURIED ON THE BLOG: mp3: "KEVIN SAMPSELLIANA" [18:54]
Recorded Wednesday, October 12, 2005, at The Enginehouse in North Portland, Ore.
Live. Hasn't been mixed down yet. I'll remove this post after we properly mix (edit) it at The Enginehouse. Consider it leaked. Words excerpted from my novel As Is, to be published by ALMIGHTY in 2006.
Mic 1: Mike Daily
Mic 2: Kevin Sampsell
Drums: Luke Strahota
Electric Guitar: A.L. Hungate
Bass (added later by The Engineer himself): Chutz Ponderosa
From : Chutz Ponderosa
Sent : Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:46 PM
To : "Mike Daily"
Subject : Pipestoving vigilante...
http://www.gpayne.net/Song_4_Mix01.mp3
It's pretty long....18:54...
Enjoy Mick, I'll talk to you soon...
.-=cp=-.
about halfway through the cut....my favorite moment so far:
"...poetry cost me four grand."
"spoKANE"?
it's pronounced "spo-can". [SPOKANE]
it doesn't rhyme with cocaine.
or desert rain.
or the almighty pain.
some people call it "Spo-Compton"
Ish -
I know! What the fock was I thinking? I've been living up here for how long? in the Pacific Northwest? That might be something we fix.
Spoke-Anne.
It shows that the narrator (living in Van Nuys, Calif., in the story) is firmly implanted in Solipsistic L.A. so maybe we'll keep it.
No.
How do you like A.L.'s chops?
O-Grady
I like 'em. Nice track.
THOSE ARE GORGEOUS COVERS!!!
THOSE ARE GORGEOUS COVERS!!!
THOSE ARE GORGEOUS COVERS!!!
I quite like it. It cranks.
Love,
LILY :) :)
(High Drama in Fabulous Toledo & The Great Taste of Straight People)
LILLY-LILY EXPRESS
Thanks, Lilly Pedersen!
Thanks Lily James!
i found a great website that sale rally jackets ##subaru jackets ## purchased a jacket and received it one week later air mail.
micko -
Matt Dillon as Hank. Hank B[ukowski] that is...
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/webpages/factotumx26x10x05
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check it out, for reals.
K
Starring Lily* Tomlin!
Nice. Distributed on my birthday.
--That Was Quick Mick
* Carrying on with the Lily/Lilly theme.
Air Mail!
That's a good theme -- do carry on with it!! :-D
[COOZIE]
I guess Lance Olsen recently moved his site.
Here's Lance's generous posting of "The Life and Times of Major Fiction" and Textual Harassment users' comments on the track.
They (thanks again Lily James) like the Lady Luck.
Mick
Ordering custom coozies is easy as 1, 2, 3.
Apparently.
Thanks a bunch, Mick O'Man. They look beautiful!
Regarding Language
First Thursday, 03 November
2GQ and the Enteractive Language Festival present
Regarding Language
An evening of words, performance, music, & word games
Heathman Hotel Tea Room SW Broadway & Salmon
WORDS:
Haiku Inferno with Kevin Sampsell
Scott Smith's Word of Mouth project
PERFORMANCE/MUSIC:
LKN's Lauren Newman
Julian Tulip
Angelle Hebert & Phillip Kraft
GAME:
Yvette Tourangeou presents Anhamanna, a language game featuring you (and
your drink of choice).
WITH YOUR HOSTS:
Tiffany Lee Brown & Nora McCrea
7pm-10:00pm
Free/suggested donation $5-15
A benefit for 2 Gyrlz Quarterly (2GQ)
Please dress exquisitely
Full Bar on site | All Ages Welcome
Mobility Device Accessible
Sponsored by
the Heathman Hotel & Plazm Media
Mick O'Grady - aka Earthling: where have you gone?
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je'n cais pas?
Can someone please translate that?
Into either English, Swedish, Norwegian, German, or Danish. Your choice.
Your guess is as good as mine.
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Apparently this MP3 is getting a helluva lot of hits from Japan, according to Chutz Ponderosa, who hosts the track.
Major Fiction.
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Hi there. We'd be grateful if you'd help pass the word about the Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize sponsored by Fiction Collective Two (FC2).
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Eligibility
The Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Contest is open to any writer of English who is a citizen of the United States and who has not previously published with Fiction Collective Two. Submissions may include a collection of short stories, one or more novellas, or a novel. Works that have previously appeared in magazines or in anthologies may be included. Translations and previously self-published collections are not eligible. To avoid conflict of interest, former or current students or close friends of the final judge for 2008, Michael Martone, are ineligible to win the contest. Employees and Board members of FC2 are not eligible to enter.
Judges
Finalists for the Prize will be chosen by the following members of the FC2 Board of Directors: Kate Bernheimer, R. M. Berry, Brian Evenson, Noy Holland, Brenda Mills, Lance Olsen (Chair), Susan Steinberg, and Lidia Yuknavitch.
The winning manuscript in 2008 will be chosen from the finalists by FC2 Board of Directors member Michael Martone.
Selection criteria will be consistent with FC2's stated mission to publish "fiction considered by America's largest publishers too challenging, innovative, or heterodox for the commercial milieu," including works of "high quality and exceptional ambition whose style, subject matter, or form pushes the limits of American publishing and reshapes our literary culture."
For contest updates and full information on FC2's mission, history, aesthetic commitments, authors, events, and books, please visit the website at: fc2.org.
Deadlines
Contest entries will be accepted beginning 15 August 2007. All entries must be postmarked no later than 1 November 2007. The winner will be announced May 2008.
Prize
The Prize includes $1000 and publication by FC2, an imprint of the University of Alabama Press. In the unlikely event that no suitable manuscript is found among entries in a given year, FC2 reserves the right not to award a prize.
Manuscript Format
Please submit either TWO hardcopies of the manuscript, or ONE hardcopy and one Word file of the manuscript on a labeled CD.
The manuscript must be:
--anonymous: the author's name or address must not appear anywhere on the manuscript (the title page should contain the title only); include a separate cover page with your name and contact information;
--typed on standard white paper, one side of the page only; paginated consecutively; bound with a spring clip or rubber bands; no paper clips or staples, please.
Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for notification that manuscript has been received, and a self-addressed, stamped, regular business-sized envelope for contest results.
We strongly advise that you send your manuscript first class.
Please retain a copy of your manuscript; FC2 cannot return manuscripts. Submission of more than one manuscript is permissible if each manuscript is accompanied by a $25 reading fee. Once submitted, manuscripts cannot be altered; the winner will be given the opportunity to make changes before publication. Simultaneous submissions to other publishers are permitted, but FC2 must be notified immediately if manuscript is accepted elsewhere. FC2 will consider all finalists for publication.
Submission Address
Full manuscripts, accompanied by a check made out to American Book Review for the mandatory reading fee of $25, should be sent to:
Ronald Sukenick American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize
American Book Review
University of Houston-Victoria
School of Arts and Sciences
3007 N. Ben Wilson
Victoria, TX 77901-5731
CLMP Contest Ethics Code
CLMP's community of independent literary publishers believes that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to:
1) conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors;
2) to provide clear and specific contest guidelines--defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and
3) to make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public.
--
Brenda L. Mills
Executive Editor
FC2
Department of English
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1580
850 644 2260
fax 850 644 6808
http://fc2.org
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