ben foster, ben mendelsohn, john hawkes, character actors of that nature...

yesterday Olive asked me about the childhoods of Storm Troopers.

Inside you are two samurai

I hope some enterprising reporter gets their hands on the correspondence negotiating just how weird Dan Deacon could get in his national anthem at the Os game.

in my head it goes like this: one of those popular man-on-street interview shows flags me down and asks what's my take on tuna salad. my take on tuna salad? my take is this: I'll take two. and it goes viral. everyone loves it. a real sensation. then they put me in the movies.

An Interview with Kate Zambreno - Believer Magazine In 2009, after winning a contest called “Undoing the Novel,” Kate Zambreno’s debut, O Fallen Angel, was published by Lidia Yuknavitch’s indie press, Chiasmus. Since then, Zambreno has gone on to publi...

“When the death cult of capitalism takes me early, which it might, at least my children will have my notebooks. And my books. They’ll know what I was thinking and feeling. At least I won’t be a mystery to my children.”

—Kate Zambreno

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...wherein he adapts poetry for pop songs (if that sounds too high falutin fear not - plays like the Kinks). he's now made an EP of Whitman poems and asked me to interview him about his process. it was fun! podcasting abt songs abt poetry. I love Nate. I love Whitman. Give it a listen, won't you?

longtime readers of my previous microblog will remember my buddy Nate, a gifted musician (and bit of a kook) who adapts books into concept albums - see previous Milkman musical "Across the Pond and Beyond the Pail" or "Helmet of Mambrino" inspired by the Quixote. well, nate's got a new project....

overheard at the used bookstore: "have we sectioned off Meditation from Eastern Religion?"

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No exceptions!

Wind of Change 2: The YMCA

how bout a "how I built this" type of show about ambitious reporting but really more like just "how this got paid for"

always leave the mics rolling, babyyyyy

logging tape this morning, which can often be a drag, but brightened by this moment, spoken by someone under interrogation after the officer has stepped out of the room:

"what a fucking dickhead, man. fuck that."

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at the library yesterday I showed Olive my book on the shelf. I turned to my author photo and she said, "why is your picture in that book?"

Well, because I wrote it, I said.

"Why'd you write a book?!?!?!"

Proud of you!

what are you doing to make this place more damaging to others' psyches? we all have a role to play here.

is this a hellsite yet? not ready to fully commit until it is so.