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bits and bytes

By Antoine | Published: October 13, 2008
Yesterday I heard a window-washer say to his co-worker: “I don’t usually talk to my psychic about everyday stuff.” Facebook is starting to reach terminal velocity…when you’ve got more friends than you care to have, when just about everyone has jumped on board. Recall the shipwrecks of Friendster and MySpace. Get a life, or a [...]
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the houlihan treatment

By Antoine | Published: June 26, 2008
Over at Critical Mass, John Freeman was kind enough to post John Updike’s Rules for Book Reviewing, all of which fall well within the boundaries of common sense. As I mentioned in ur so hacky you don’t even know ur hacky, I’m relatively naive vis-a-vis the conventions of book reviewing. I sort of feel my [...]
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!!!

By Antoine | Published: October 16, 2007
Meanwhile, back in the real world, apparently GM Quinte, longtime squatter visiting poet at this domain, has become a victim of some kind of poetic identity theft.
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Alanis’ Humps

By Antoine | Published: April 3, 2007
I have to say, I saw this all over the intarweb the other day and gave it the big ol’ meh. And then I clicked, finally. I did not regret it. For those of you who subsist on so-called real poetry, GM Quinte is participating in NaPoWriMo, squeezing out one gem after another all month.
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“the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War.”

By Antoine | Published: January 31, 2007
[Rackett Lyricist/Guitarist/Percussionist Muldoon.] Paul Muldoon has a band. And, yes, they have a MySpace page.
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In response to Laurel’s post…

By Antoine | Published: August 20, 2006
Laurel, over at jewishyirishy, posted an ancient photograph of a Halloween trip to the Iowa City Hy-Vee, circa 1998. We were probably enroute to a party at the farmhouse. In response, another from the series. Yours truly plays the unsuspecting Space Villain. Brian’s breasts are amazing, Tanya’s hair is off the hook, Laurel’s boots can’t [...]
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Two new ones on the blogroll

By Antoine | Published: July 11, 2006
The Radical Formalist, a brand-new lit-blog that asks you to ask yourself: What do missile defense and prosody have in common? Anything? The Reading Experience, an excellent top-quality lit-blog about reading and writers.
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I’m doing a reading June 16th, 8pm

By Antoine | Published: June 7, 2006
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My Mind is Blown

By Antoine | Published: April 5, 2006
THIS IS FUN TO MAKE A BLOG ON THE COMPUTER WEBSITE blew my mind this morning. A sample of the wisdom dropped… THE DOGS ARE WORRIED! THEY CAN’T FIND THE BEANS!! THEY WERE LOOKING FOR THE BEANS IN THE DRAINS!!! Wow. [via BAF THX!]
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Subu

By Antoine | Published: April 3, 2006
Quick note to drop some mad kudos on a fellow Canadian & Iowa diasporan. Suzanne Buffam‘s book Past Imperfect has been nominated for the 2006 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, awarded by the League of Canadian Poets for the best first book of poetry by a Canadian poet. (Here’s a PDF of the shortlisted poets.) BIG [...]
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