Thursday, April 13, 2006
Bride of Notes
- I'm looking to trade a few poetry books away if anyone has a book or journal they want to trade me back. I have the Best American Poetry books from 1998 to 2001, Donald Hall's Old and New Poems, the Contemporary American Poetry (Second Edition) edited by Hall, and The Contemporary American Poets, edited by Mark Strand. Send me an e-mail and offer me a trade if you want one of them.
- After not running well at poker for a while, I won a sit-and-go tournament for $25 a couple days ago and picked up some more in a ring game today. A guy (let's just assume it was a guy and also underage--pretty safe guess) at the table was trying really hard to dump chips, raising with rags and betting into every pot no matter what he had. Having witnessed this behavior in previous hands, I was able to take about $7 off him in one hand with basically nothing because he kept betting at me with even less. I then said "Thanks," and he called me a faggot. Lovely.
- Some more best of poetry online stuff:
"Mannequins" by David Shumate (Mid-American Review)
"Homage to Tom Andrews" by Matthew Thorburn (Blackbird) - I was going to comment on the Publishers Weekly article that mentioned poetry blogs. Then I decided to kneecap myself with a baseball bat instead. I'll be sure to let you know how that goes.
- I believe I've used this space to state that I write poems to impress women. (In fact, I know I have--I'm just weird about my sharp memory.) Anyway, to say so is not to say that it has been a particularly wise or fruitful effort, or that I mean just one thing by the statement.
- Finished taxes last night. I definitely need to install Quicken or some such program.
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I recommend Turbotax. My wife & I have used it for the last two years. We've not had a problem with it. It's fast and easy.
Alright, Steve... big ups to guys who write poems to impress women!! It's amazing how far a good metaphor can get you... third base, maybe?
I seek to impress your valuables for the sake of the Motherland.
[SEMI-PUN ALERT]
I set off the alarm again? Sorry, sorry.
P.S.--Word-verification? "Xzidog." A little too faux-asian-speak meets faux-urban-speak for my tastes, Mr. Schroeder. Bad form, bad form.
[SEMI-PUN ALERT]
I set off the alarm again? Sorry, sorry.
P.S.--Word-verification? "Xzidog." A little too faux-asian-speak meets faux-urban-speak for my tastes, Mr. Schroeder. Bad form, bad form.
I have TurboTax, Jeff--I need a financial program for the rest of the year.
As far as I know, there hasn't been a direct causal relationship between any of my poems and any third base.
Totally don't get your semi-pun, A. J. Sorry... :-(
As far as I know, there hasn't been a direct causal relationship between any of my poems and any third base.
Totally don't get your semi-pun, A. J. Sorry... :-(
"Impress" as in "confiscate." My poems work for the forceful betterment of the state, Comrade Schroeder. Not really a pun, though. I just couldn't think of a better phrase than, "silly alternate meaning."
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