IN THE INTEREST OF BEING MORE BLOGOSAURUS REX-ISH

1. Working on a third sonnet-sonnet and two full-length manuscripts -- but not so much tonight.
2. Instead, watched on television the debate from Cleveland between Senators Obama and Clinton. I had to keep getting up and walking into the other room. How very squirmy I get when they go at each other politician style.
3. Also tonight, compiled notes for my class tomorrow on the first half of David Markson's This Is Not a Novel.
4. Letters to write: Bretticus, Alexis, and Deano.
5. Secret collaboration with Conway Twitty (which is not his real name of course, and that's part of how it stays a secret)...
6. This afternoon, watched the Teletubbies with Agnes, who clapped and danced acrobatically. I like La-La best. She likes saying "La-La" best. After the original Twilight Zone and Lost, The Teletubbies is perhaps my favorite television show...ever. Big hug. Again again. Big hug. Again again.
7. Listened (doesn't matter when) to The Blood Brothers' Burn Piano Island Burn, then 2 mix Cds--one of Berlin-era David Bowie that Darren Callahan made me, and one by Mike Vallera with bands like Eastern Youth and The Good Life--incidentally Darren (who's in Travel with me) and Mike are my two cohorts in a new band called The Dictionary. See the album cover. See pictures of the recording.
8. Took some ibuprofen.
9. Made some pesto.
10. Sang and played 3 songs on the guitar: two of my own and "The Science of Myth" by Screeching Weasel.
11. Tweaked a few new poems.
12. Printed out Forklift submissions.
13. Tomorrow tomorrow...
14. How could I end on the number 13?
15. And while I'm at it: Do aesthetic judgments really always imply economic ones?
16. Emails.
17. Course Descriptions
18. YOU ARE HERE
19. Thank you for everything.
20. Matt

APOPHENIA, HARPY-DOM, and SIMPLY ROCKET!

In a strange and wonderful turn of events, Alexis Orgera, who has some great poems in the new issue of Forklift, and who I met for the first time at AWP in NY, has done me the great honor of writing a post/review on her blog about my Lame House chapbook SIMPLY ROCKET. You can read what she wrote here. She's even made a chart cataloguing the poem's dis/connections in the fog.

Thank you, Alexis!

SIMPLY ROCKET IN COLDFRONT MAG, ETC.

1) I swear I'm gonna get back to writing actual posts soon, but, in the meantime,

2) John Deming has written a thoughtful and exuberant review of my Lame House Press chapbook, SIMPLY ROCKET, at Coldfront Mag. Read his review here: http://reviews.coldfrontmag.com/emsimply-rocketem-by-matt.html

And you can still buy SIMPLY ROCKET here: http://lamehouse.blogspot.com/2007/09/now-available-matt-harts-simply-rocket.html

3) Check out BIG BELL editor Jason Morris' essay in Jacket Magazine on the so-called "New Sincerity". It's an interesting read (and not just cause he mentions one of my poems): http://jacketmagazine.com/35/morris-sincerity.shtml .

4) My old pop-punk band Squirtgun played a reunion/benefit show last night in Lafayette, IN for a sold out crowd (in a teeny, tiny place, but still...). Thanks to everybody who came out.

Matt