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A New Career In A New Town: April 2015
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A New Career In A New Town. Down in space it's always 1982. Thursday, April 16, 2015. It's A Drive-In Saturday. So I'm not going to pretend that the howling absence of responses to my last hundred posts hasn't, slightly, discouraged me. It has. It has discouraged me. But, on I go. Unbowed. Unbroken and dauntless. Or, at least only slightly. It may be that only posting about books is a recipe for crickets? So, ok. Fine. You peasants…. I'll post about sports. Will that make you happy? Or is flirting with b...
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A New Career In A New Town: The Jinx and Zeno
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A New Career In A New Town. Down in space it's always 1982. Monday, March 16, 2015. The Jinx and Zeno. To anyone who is not watching, or does not plan to watch The Jinx. On HBO- you are missing something great. Maybe the greatest documentary I've ever seen. And as if it wasn't great enough on its own- and the final episode was one of the most mesmerizing and amazing things I've seen on TV- Robert Durst, its subject was arrested on Saturday, the day before the finale. A funny conceit for how it ultimately...
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A New Career In A New Town: November 2014
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A New Career In A New Town. Down in space it's always 1982. Monday, November 3, 2014. Thirty Days of Blogging: Day 3320. Today on the radio, I heard- in a row- the following three songs: 1) Bowie and Queen doing "Under Pressure" 2) Aretha doing "Respect" 3) and "Don't Stop Believin'". It was the most excited I've been listening to the radio in, like, ten years. It was like.is this what tantric sex is like? But then I thought, no. This is BETTER. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Special Way Of Being Afraid.
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A New Career In A New Town: May 2014
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A New Career In A New Town. Down in space it's always 1982. Saturday, May 24, 2014. 1) The KQ Off Hand. Recall the situation is as follows: you open for 8$ with KQo UTG (or Early Position). Several players call and the button reraises to 22. My play is a fold. Gary, however, argues as follows:. This may just be an agree-to-disagree situation. However, in case it's not, I would argue, against Gary's post. 1) At 1-3, reraising on a bluff is rare. Opening light is common- but reraising? 2) The Pair of Fours.
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A New Career In A New Town: It's A Drive-In Saturday
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A New Career In A New Town. Down in space it's always 1982. Thursday, April 16, 2015. It's A Drive-In Saturday. So I'm not going to pretend that the howling absence of responses to my last hundred posts hasn't, slightly, discouraged me. It has. It has discouraged me. But, on I go. Unbowed. Unbroken and dauntless. Or, at least only slightly. It may be that only posting about books is a recipe for crickets? So, ok. Fine. You peasants…. I'll post about sports. Will that make you happy? I guess, if I had to ...
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A New Career In A New Town: Let's Flay the Dead Entrails?
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A New Career In A New Town. Down in space it's always 1982. Saturday, April 11, 2015. Let's Flay the Dead Entrails? So maybe I should adumbrate the failures of Birdman. Which are legion…. Is "tortured genius actor.". And it's fine and true enough to say: yes, those types do exist in the world. They're not unrepresentative. But the role of a good- or even decent- writer is to make those types more than types. To give the washed-up, popular Hollywood actor some. And, also, the whole conceit that this theat...
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A New Career In A New Town: June 2014
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A New Career In A New Town. Down in space it's always 1982. Saturday, June 28, 2014. I'm reading Paradise Lost. Not for the first time, either. I read it out of a sense of obligation the summer before I started grad school, in Sierra Madre, in 2000. I had some idea that since I was going to grad school in poetry it would be expected, when I got there, that I had some sense of Milton. But anyway, Milton. He was a poet. He wrote, oh, Henry IV, Prometheus Bound, Ode on a Nightingale. Here's a taste. It'...
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A New Career In A New Town: Striped With Love and Emblazed Tattoos
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A New Career In A New Town. Down in space it's always 1982. Saturday, March 28, 2015. Striped With Love and Emblazed Tattoos. So I saw Birdman. Man, that was bad. And I mean, not just, "OK but overrated." But out-and-out bad. Like, it had been written by a dim, bipolar college student who was high on bath salts. So part of me is like, let's go to town on this. Let's dissect it. And then another larger, tireder part is like, why? Why not expend your energy on praise? That is debatably good or bad? I mean,...
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A New Career In A New Town: December 2014
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A New Career In A New Town. Down in space it's always 1982. Thursday, December 4, 2014. For No Good Reason. I thought it might be interesting to list every celebrity I've seen at short-range since I've been in LA. Criterion for 'seen' is: being near enough to be able to walk up and touch them. In roughly chronological order:. Barbara Streisand, James Brolin. Same restaurant same night, both people, different tables). Restaurant, wearing blue seersucker and looking plump). At my park, going to walk).
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A New Career In A New Town: On Meta Narrative and Jelly
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A New Career In A New Town. Down in space it's always 1982. Thursday, January 1, 2015. On Meta Narrative and Jelly. I've just read Eleanor Catton's Booker-winning Luminaries. I'm also reading a lot of Russian history. And poetry. And writing poetry. But that's a topic for another wombat. Wasn't very good. I mean, it wasn't execrable, and I finished it. But, given the hype, I was disappointed. What it made me think of was Ulysses. Joyce imposes a mythic narrative, the central guiding narrative (or one of ...
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