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Hello fellow followers and loyal readers of the virtual world.

I can now be found at my new, glamorous, and less self-deprecating blog:

http://sara-drake.blogspot.com/

I look forward to an extention of your faithful readership. (and patience as I make the new blog less crazy looking)

BISOUS!

newness

This blog will soon be somewhere else on the great wide web. Have no fear:

Soothe those sounds

We Blows Up

Ear Eater happens tonight! Cassandra Troyan and I welcome you to the fourth installment of our reading series. Dress accordingly.

Ear Eater also goes global!

- Noted by Galley Cat.
- Cassandra Troyan was interviewed in HTML Giant about the ideas embedded in the reading series.
- And now reaching our new Italian audience! Thanks Finzioni.

"Punks Make Art"

It's true, punks do make art. But who was really doubting whether or not punks make art?

I was asked by Ramsey Buyer to contribute a few drawings to a show at the Juicer on January 20th. Although I am not familiar with anyone (bands or artists) on the list, nor do I have the ability to label myself as a punk, DIY Chicago informs that the band Tenement is "from WI, insanely good replacements-ish punk, members of Bored Straight". The show is a benefit to raise support for the DIY Chicago Collective and there will be delicious food. If this at all sounds intriguing, please feel inclined.

Keeping Time

I've documented a list of books I've read over the course of handling one sketchbook (which can range anywhere from one to three months) Scripted here for the sake of my ennui and a bad case of incessant self-biographing. This is by no means a complete list of every book I've encountered, only the things I've thought to list in the back of my sketchbook. Repeats are noted with an asterisk. The dates correspond to the initial publications, not their respective translations for an English speaking audience (with the exception of Sin Puertas Visibles, Kristeva, and Killing Kanoko (?))



60 Stories (1981) - Donald Barthelme ***
95 Poems (1958) U.S. - E.e. Cummings
Against Pain (2008) U.S. - Ron Rege
Big Questions #15 (2010) Chicago - Anders Nilsen
Boys Club 1-3 (2008 - present) L.A. - Matt Furie
Black Hole (1995 - 2005) Seattle - Charles Burns
Briggflats (1965) U.S. - Basil Bunting
Dictee (1982) Korea - Teresa Kyung Cha
Gender and Nation (1995 ?) India - Mrinalina Sinha
Imaginary Maps (1994) India - Mahasweta Devi
It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral (1983) Ivory Coast- Werewere Liking
Just As I Thought (1999) U.S. - Grace Paley
Killing Kanoko (2009) Japan - Hiromo Ito
Language in Thought and Action (1939) California - S.I. Hayakawa and Alan R. Hayakawa
Map of My Heart (2009) U.S. - John Porcellino
My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (2008) San Fransisco - David Heatley
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution (1988) California - Judith Butler
Radi Os (1977) San Fransisco - Ronald Johnson
Rethinking Sex and Gender (1972) France - Christine Delphy
Revolution in Poetic Language (trans. 1984) France - Julia Kristeva
Selections (2010) Canada - Nicole Brossard
Sin Puertas Visibles (2003) - trans./ edited Jen Hofer
Spell #7 (1979) U.S. - Ntozake Shange
Stories in the Worst Way (1996) U.S. - Gary Lutz
Swann's Way (1913) Paris - Marcel Proust
The Glass Essay (1992) Canada - Anne Carson
The Iron Tonic (1969) Cape Cod - Edward Gorey
The Laugh of the Medusa (1975) France - Helene Cixous
The Portable Kristeva (1997) France - edited by Kelly Wilken
The Remembered Visit (1965) Cape Cod - Edward Gorey
The Roan Stallion (Credo, Hurt Hawk) (1925) a tower in California - Robinson Jeffers
The Whale (2010) Portland - Aidan Koch
The World of Edward Gorey (2002) Cape Cod - Edward Gorey
Trilogy (1946) U.S. - H.D.

Using Rafi for company

Cat watching is similar to taking a writing sabbatical.