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Saturday, November 26, 2005

A moment of silence please.

There once was a man named Miyagi
who taught Daniel Russo karate.
His dojo was clean
and his crane kick was mean
but, I admit, the sequels were shoddy.

Friday, November 25, 2005

Looking again

I think I've shown you this image before. It's from a little more than a year ago. I was cleaning up my computer today and found it there, along with a few others from the same trip. Somehow I really like this picture, and the others. They're different from others I've taken. They're not great photos, they're just photos. Anyway. Here are the others:

Actually, I lied. The image from the roller rink is not from that trip. It's from just prior or just after, it's hard to remember. It was an evening out with the sociologists. We hit the rink and then we saw Sean of the Dead. Oh. So it must have been just before the trip. Never mind. I think I'm talking to myself.

Thursday, November 24, 2005

And, gosh,

I keep forgetting to mention it here, but the new issue of American Letters and Commentary just came out and it has a poem by me in it. Also a few other friends of mine, and a bunch of people I don't yet know. It's a nice issue, very sort of greenish yellow. It looks . . . distant.

The table of contents isn't yet up online for the new issue, when it is I suppose it will appear here.

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

So here I am, delinquent

Yes, I am a delinquent blogger. I apologize for that. I just don't have so much time these days while I'm teaching this history of American urbanization course. It's been fascinating, it's really changed the way I look at cities, but it's also kept me from having much time to think about this here blog.

But I stayed up late last night and put some streaming audio files online so that folks could start listening to previous episodes of My Vocabulary on their own time. Check it out. You can listen to last Sunday's show by going to the My Vocabulary blog and finding the show in the sidebar there, or you can just click here and it should start streaming directly to your RealPlayer (yes, you will need RealPlayer, it's the only format I've mastered so far). It's streaming HTTP, so it's not quite as fast as it could be. Please be patient. I promise it's worth a listen.

The show I've put up includes poems by Sara Sowers, Laura Carter, Gabriel Gudding, Marcus Slease, Jeffery Bahr, Nathan Pritts, Tatyana Moseeva, Gunther Quinte, Ivy Alvarez, Reb Livingston, Geof Huth and Zachary Schomburg. It also includes music by Mr. Bungle, Sufjan Stevens, David Byrne, Scott Walker, Fiery Furnaces, The Coral, Flaming Lips, David Axelrod/Lou Rawls, Friends of Dean Martinez, Gentle Waves, Leslie & the Ly's, Dodgy, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Geoff Muldaur, Yma Sumac, Luna, Serge Gainsbourg, Dusty Springfield and Stereolab.

And don't forget to tune in this Sunday from 4-6pm PST to hear the show live. I've got a recording I made of a rowdy Lucifer Poetics Group reading in Baltimore this summer. Just tune your browser to http://ksdt.ucsd.edu and choose your connection speed. You can listen and chat with me live as I do the show by adding MyVocabularyKSDT to your AIM buddy list.

Happy holidays!

: Name: Matthew Shindell; Location: San Diego, California, United States

Matthew Shindell used to live and write in Phoenix, Arizona. He now lives and writes in La Jolla, California.

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Read a PDF of my chapbook, Were something to happen it would be both funny and interesting. Copies of this limited edition chapbook are no longer available.

American Letters and Commentary (Coming Soon) - "Hoo Ta Ta, Hoo Ta"

American Poetry Review July/August 2004 - "It sounds like a saxophone tugging across a field"

Black Warrior Review v30n2 - "Sidekick"

FENCE v6n2 - "Drinking with the Ventriloquist's Dummy" & "Parable of the Boy inside the Deer"

Hayden's Ferry Review #25 - "The Willow"

Hayden's Ferry Review #35 - "The Monkey's Skull: Where Do Good Newsmen Come From?" & "Made Easy"

Jubilat 7 - "But Emerson Says, 'The body is a metre. The eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose."

The Melic Review - "In Short, a Pleasant Day :: The Man Arrives, Hooray!" "The Same Words :: Order of Harpoons," & "A Birdâs Head Rolls Into Two Baskets :: Walkie-Talkie"

No Tell Motel - "Order of Harpoons :: Digitalia :: Dobre Vecher" 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Read my discussion of the poem here.

Northwest Review - "Clink" & "Bear-Caught"

Octopus 4 - "About the Author," "Four Star General" &
"The Day :: Born :: The Red Door"

Pleiades 24:2 - "Speech of Artificio, a Character in My New Play" & "Inc."

Tarpaulin Sky v2n2&3 -
"Two Jokes About Bears"

Unpleasant Event Schedule - "He Called Her Forest (or was it Forest?)" & "The Brain Full of Bourbon (concerning the doctor and the simulation of Switzerland)"

Read my online poetic project, Jubilee's Daughters, the ongoing and evolving tale of Isabgol in Ronomok.

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Can we have our ball back?
Castagraf
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Ducky
Failbetter
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HOW2
H_NGM_N
Jacket
La Petite Zine
LVNG
Mark(s)
Moria
No Tell Motel
Octopus
Piplit
PomPom
Puppyflowers
Shampoo
Slope
Tarpaulin Sky
The Canary
Typo
Unpleasant Event Schedule
Word For/ Word

A moment of silence please.

Looking again

And, gosh,

So here I am, delinquent

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