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West Coast Ed talks to David Lynch—mostly about TM, but it's oddly riveting nevertheless...Possible title for book?: I Feel Great About My Neck.....A rather stinging rebuttal (in the NYTBR) to the New Yorker's piece on the Poetry Foundation.....speaking of which, I am going to be blogging at the PoFo site on occasion (the blog is called Harriet)....whenever I get poetic thoughts!......Lawrence Weschler wins the National Book Critics Circle Award for the consciousness-changing Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences.......Netflix woes: I've had Nashville in my DVD player for about two weeks now....it is the movie that will not end............John Leonard's NBCC Lifetime Award acceptance speech is readable online......Arlo Ogg is in Puerto Rico and recently heard Donald Hall read........that's not why she was there, though.....I Feel So-So About My Neck.....Friend Tim Joyce has a tennis blog.......A letter from John Clare, written in 1848 from Northampton Asylum, is up at Conchology......1848 is also the year in which Kurt Andersen's new novel takes place......What were you doing in 1848?.......Eh?........Oh right......Me too......Am writing this way because a new Fence magazine has two new things by Chelsey Minnis.........................I Have Come to Terms With My Neck....From the Clare letter (above): MY DEAR WIFE I have not written to you a long while, but here I am in the land of Sodom where all the people's brains are turned the wrong way.......Which reminds me—I wasn't going to write about this but: Have you been following the AsianWeek fiasco? The racist column?.........Most people are missing the point (or are simply laughing at the author's twisted logic and self-published fantasy fic)—it's not whether the column is racist or not, but why the author hasn't sought (or been led to) a mental health professional....Watching 10 seconds of him defending himself is—heartbreaking.....I think that's the word........How an editor could have failed to see that there was a real problem, maybe a life-and-death problem, an illness—something beyond the objectionable content of the writer's copy—is a mystery........suddenly this post has become very serious.....................UPDATE: I thought of two good jokes today, which I might share with you later.......I have to work on them a little...........A story of mine will appear in the next issue of LIT......many thanks to Danielle Winterton!............The 10th anniversary edition of the Keeler News is out, with a glorious full-color cover..........I Have No Neck........the Site Meter on this blog is busted..................Neck Deep, by Ander Monson...........Another lost Psychic Envelopes
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