tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post8139306765900489150..comments2008-09-02T19:48:06.316-04:00BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-60785406653296162102008-09-02T19:48:00.000-04:002008-09-02T19:48:00.000-04:00Ironically, Michael Moorcock has enormous genitals.<BR/><BR/>Wait. No. Not ironically. What's the word that means "it is precisely as you expected"?<BR/><BR/>Expectantly? No, that's pregnant.<BR/><BR/>Coincidentally?<BR/><BR/>Really?<BR/><BR/>Happily?<BR/><BR/>Erotically?<BR/><BR/>Throbbingly?The Man Who Couldn't Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02910718558602413449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-29881115047092563692008-09-02T19:02:00.000-04:002008-09-02T19:02:00.000-04:00is no one going to mention the fact that h.p. lovecraft is a total babe? really?kristina bornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00687095732380830991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-51832481416763589872008-09-02T11:31:00.001-04:002008-09-02T11:31:00.001-04:00adam haha i am going to find that leguin, it sounds like my tummy rumblingBLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-59183526869346590102008-09-02T11:31:00.000-04:002008-09-02T11:31:00.000-04:00thank you peoples, continue to bring the noiseBLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-19373073704101650362008-09-02T10:50:00.000-04:002008-09-02T10:50:00.000-04:00no one is going to step up and say something humorous about the name "michael moorcock"<BR/><BR/>really?<BR/><BR/>there is so much material there...<BR/><BR/>internet people, i am very disappointed in your conductjeremehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13536779108190430035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-3103471498927234132008-09-02T08:55:00.000-04:002008-09-02T08:55:00.000-04:00In Milwaukee my roommate was reading UK LeGuin's THE LATHE OF HEAVEN, but I took it from him and read it instead. A man goes to a shrink because he must not sleep because when he sleeps, his dreams change reality. A picture of a horse in the doc's office keeps morphing. It's like a Blake Butler story told by a virgin.Adam R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13565797788253739970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-30898391571699295302008-09-01T21:54:00.000-04:002008-09-01T21:54:00.000-04:00I hate contests. At least there's no reading fee for this one. Magic for Beginners has its moments. Kelly Link, as a person, is fucking great. She let me teach her how to pour a black and tan. Black and tans--any day, or time of day--far out-rock the Sweetwater. As for Natty Hawthorne: why is YGB always anthologized? It's great and all, but Rappaccini's Daughter and The Birthmark always get ignored. We can pretty much thank Hawthorne for every camp 1950s horror movie ever made. More than Shelley, even, Hawthorne's responsible for Hollywood's version of Frankenstein. Just for that, for the gothic, my friends, Hawthorne is my death metal. Even Poe has to bow to the master of the one-trick side character. Maybe Dickens has him beat . . .Jamie Iredellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18446531001534837853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-46949972287798887402008-09-01T21:17:00.000-04:002008-09-01T21:17:00.000-04:00Poe created the American gothic without being in America. Flannery O'Connor would not be herself without Poe. Neither would Faulkner. He wrote horror stories without monsters--the horror came from people. He drank a lot of absinthe and died in a gutter somewhere in France. He made poem refrains terrifying. He wrote about Freud's uncanny before Freud started doing coke. Henry James <I>wishes</I> he was Edgar Allen Poe.<BR/><BR/>Plus, I just typed all that after breaking my ring finger in a tetherball match with my brother. That has to count for something.Michael Goroffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11042835868611337913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-23189077787309353952008-09-01T21:02:00.000-04:002008-09-01T21:02:00.000-04:00All I can say is Gary Lutz wrote a short story about a college professor who had the shits and spent too much time on the toilette. And Lutz has only gotten better since.Muzzyhttp://michaelmussman.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-42848250607627759312008-09-01T13:53:00.000-04:002008-09-01T13:53:00.000-04:00jeff goldblum cried on me once, he ruined my shirtBLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-20478166863546153492008-09-01T13:52:00.000-04:002008-09-01T13:52:00.000-04:00i like jurassic park by jeff goldblum. i saw this movie when i was a kid and i thought jeff goldblum was creepy, weird, and annoying. but when i watched this movie recently i thought that maybe jeff goldblum is a human on levels that cannot be achieved. jeff goldblum is jeff goldblum always and foremost and also he is watching you as you shit. he is there for all functions human. he is also probably a prick in real life.Daniel Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13361787862466570073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-72893026127943777832008-09-01T10:44:00.000-04:002008-09-01T10:44:00.000-04:00I did see with my own eyes the No Colony at the McSweeney table. I felt refreshed from the damn Atlanta heat just by how wonderful the book looked. I can't wait to get my copy in the mail.throwingroseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11138471521577474094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-20251039050393658032008-09-01T09:47:00.000-04:002008-09-01T09:47:00.000-04:00When I worked at Denver ER Edgar Allan Poe stole our insulin syringes on the way out the door. He left AMA. He ate three trays of smelly hospital food. He wandered into the woods and had to live for three days off a king-size Snickers bar. We all slept with him in closets. We saved him, and him us.BlogSlothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08286657614256259879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-40164318225912640242008-09-01T02:28:00.000-04:002008-09-01T02:28:00.000-04:00uhohBLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-48945752479277828712008-09-01T02:19:00.000-04:002008-09-01T02:19:00.000-04:00I want Diane Williams to be my aunt. I want her to appear at my house on the more sizeable religious and secular holidays. I want her to kick all our asses at, I don't know, Trivial Pursuit, or possibly a trick-based card game of some sort. I want her to write the extended family Christmas letter.The Man Who Couldn't Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02910718558602413449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-12052943262133265922008-09-01T01:45:00.000-04:002008-09-01T01:45:00.000-04:00thank you catherine dan and gabe, more more<BR/><BR/>laurel, it was nice to meet you, i will email you soon about readings!BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-85190813826974069672008-08-31T23:56:00.000-04:002008-08-31T23:56:00.000-04:00Deb Olin Unferth writes things I like. Her s/t story is great and so is the youtube video that goes with it. Maybe most of all, I liked a story called "The Bride." I don't have that around to quote, so here's something from "Sickos," another very good story:<BR/><BR/>"And now N has found her—through a search, admittedly an unheroic one, a search where she did not have to climb mountains or cross seas or go downtown and poke around in a box of unmatched mittens, did not even have to leave her chair, but merely had to think about her friend and press a few buttons, which makes her think it should be called a summoning, not a search. A subpoena, perhaps."<BR/><BR/>I'm excited for her novel.gabe durhamhttp://gatherroundchildren.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-15344325027726136382008-08-31T22:46:00.000-04:002008-08-31T22:46:00.000-04:00Oh, and I will say this. Sweetwater beer is delicious when free. Narsty when lukewarm. Free and warm, it depends on who you're talking to when you drink it.Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02281939220961347737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-53802220013492822492008-08-31T22:41:00.000-04:002008-08-31T22:41:00.000-04:00It was very fun. I thought *I* was the drunk one and am delighted to know that there is someone who doesn't remember my drunkeness because they were drunker.Laurelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02281939220961347737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-60750750843719273332008-08-31T15:57:00.000-04:002008-08-31T15:57:00.000-04:00Much as I love love love Terese Svodoba's Black Glasses Like Clark Kent (Go read it, all of you!), I'll have to go with Matthew Derby's Super Flat Times because "The Sound Gun" and "Behavior Pilot" just may have kicked my ass harder than any other 1-2 story combination I've read over the last five years (and there's been some really nice 1-2 combinations in that time).Dan Wicketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12598554540909832829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-71455713953719796712008-08-31T15:21:00.000-04:002008-08-31T15:21:00.000-04:00I like Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables because when I was thirteen I went to the house that the book is named after and it was so cool that I decided if I ever built a house, it would be designed after that house. There was a secret stairwell and a secret room where freed slaves in the underground railroad were harbored. The whole thing was really cleverly designed.Catherine Laceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01061518488541381691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-11401673194907303332008-08-31T15:13:00.000-04:002008-08-31T15:13:00.000-04:00dey goin out dis week mainBLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-58466460992039472692008-08-31T15:12:00.000-04:002008-08-31T15:12:00.000-04:00by the way, where the hell is my issue of no colony?Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04894963729123360757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-43284678903849605722008-08-31T14:09:00.001-04:002008-08-31T14:09:00.001-04:00i learned it by watching you, dadBLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-29851489609163977672008-08-31T14:09:00.000-04:002008-08-31T14:09:00.000-04:00ooh contests induce kiegal muscle explosions in a neutral, non-sexual wayjeremehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13536779108190430035noreply@blogger.com