Monthly Archive for March, 2011

GREAT, OUTDOORS

Published on March 22, 2011 in how do I, it is a mystery and team discovery. 5 Comments

MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS around here.

  • A dove made her nest under my kitchen window and has begun to protect her eggs.
  • The large cat has found that she greatly enjoys carrying around tabs from milk cartons. (They taste like milk at first, and then they are fun to chew and chase, and then they must be deposited in a shoe.)
  • There are small buds on the trees and it is blustery. Screens rattle. Some asshole has purchased a windchime.
  • An animal has taken up residence under the neighbor’s car. (Raccoon?)

Has anyone been camping? I believe it is a myth.

STILL WANT PANCAKES

Published on March 20, 2011 in baking and wherein I go on about politics. 3 Comments

Just finished Guy Lawson’s rad Rolling Stones piece, “The Stoner Arms Dealers,” wherein massive government oversight is revealed along with the dark weapons-laundering reality of arms dealing.

I’m gonna maybe try again to make bread this week, though I am not very good at making bread. Bijou Land inspired me with a good description of Idiot Bread. “Idiot Bread’s chief virtue is its forgiving nature,” she says. I say, do not forget beer can chicken, beer brats and beer pancakes, which are apparently ”great for when you run out of milk but still want pancakes” which, for me, is like all the time.

My sister’s birthday was yesterday. She is a real cool lady living the life in Portland. She plays ultimate frisbee and bikes all over everywhere and makes a fine noodle and is saving her money to go on world adventures. I basically think she’s tops. Happy birthday, small child.

SXSW

Published on March 16, 2011 in Cool, David Foster Wallace and internet. Closed

new media in the house (in every house)

I’d already decided I wouldn’t be doing the SXSW music festival this year, an activity which requires standing on line for hours to be rewarded with free Lone Star and more standing while four kids from wherever go WAH WAH WAH into their microphones and someone is seriously playing the theremin. My taste in music is two years behind and my back hurts and I can’t be bothered. But then I got invited to do a panel for SXSW Interactive and ended up doing all the fun parts of SXSW — people-watching, hangouts, day party, night party — with more sitting in chairs overall.

 

sweet panel y’all

Highlights: cool guys Tim and Ryan, kimchi tacos, BBQ and sweet dogs at Clay Smith’s, Diplo saying BLACKBERRY IN THE HOUSE at the Blackberry party, touring the DFW archive with the curator of the collection, sitting in the front row for Dave Foley and Michael Ian Black, driving a drunk guy away from 6th to Riverside in the back of my truck after he threw a wad of cash at me, introducing a New Yorker and a Seattleite to Rio Rita’s couches and cocktails, and generally feeling happy and grateful to live in Austin during kind of a strange time in my day-to-day. (AND I think I saw a yellow-rumped warbler, which really elevated this week from COOL to COOL +BIRD.) Now SXSW Music is starting and I’m all SXSWed out and ready to get back to work, which is perfect because there’s always work.

have you seen this bird? he is pretty

Speaking of new media, congrats to the awesome Ann Friedman, who was just hired as the editor of GOOD Magazine but will hopefully come back and see us in Austin more often than not.

“WHAT IS YOUR PROCESS”

Published on March 13, 2011 in Behind The Blog. 1 Comment

Justin: do you see what it’s about at all?

this is why i say oughta maybe preface it

Amelia: what the whole thing is about? no

is it about the trail of tears

Justin: some people think that the keeping of dogs was the first step on the road to modern civilization

Amelia: is it about the industrial revolution

ohhhhhhhhh

heh

sorry man this is not about dogs at all

Justin: i totally know that

but it also is about dogs only

Amelia: nah

Justin: i know i know

what is it about tell me

i can’t know cos to me it is about dogs

Amelia: I told you it’s about the industrial revolution or the model-t or sex or time or the trail of tears

I think it’s mostly about the trail of tears though

Justin: that is awesome

Amelia: no man

NEW YORK (!)

Published on March 3, 2011 in Blake Butler, Grace Krilanovich and NEW YORK CITY get a rope. 3 Comments

Sean Lovelace breaks CUBE down at HTMLGIANT.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about New York, it’s that New York will always find a reason to bring you to her. I’ll be there March 29-April 1 to crash some magazine party, and then May 17-19 to read at the FSG series with Chris Adrian.

I really wanted to come out around March 20-25, but the SXSW music festival shuts shit down around here and plane tickets are suddenly a thousand bucks and it’s like we’re Paris in Texas (or maybe the opposite of Paris in Texas). Here’s the stuff I feel tragicated to miss:

  • Vol.1 is putting together a reading at the Brooklyn Winery on March 23rd, in conjunction with Big Other. Norman Lock and Marcy Dermansky are on the menu.
  • Sunday March 20th at 7pm, the Soda Series goes up with Michael Leong, Janice Shapiro and Mike Young.
  • All next week is an epic read-through of Blake Butler’s There Is No Year at different venues. Bring your Magic cards.
  • Joni Wallace is reading in a Four Way Books benefit reading way out around May 5, location unknown, let me know if you want me to find more info for you and I shall.

If you live in New York you should make it a point to go to those things and then post on my blog making gentle fun of me for living in America’s most Texas-shaped state.

Also, big congrats to Grace Krilanovich for making The Believer finalist list.

NEW YORK (?)

Published on March 1, 2011 in NEW YORK CITY get a rope. 8 Comments

Chris Higgs continues his exploration of experimental literature on HTMLGIANT with a Q&A with Bhanu Kapil. She writes, “The vibration I feel when I am with other experimental women writers is very strong, and I want to live by this vibration, this joy, even if it’s completely imperceptible to others” and now I want to find experimental women writers and be in a room with them and know this vibration. I am serious.

With that in mind, also coincidentally, I need to be in NYC between tomorrow morning and the end of April. So please, let me know when is a good time, if you happen to meet any of the following qualifications:

  • You know of a cool reading/show I should come see
  • You know of a cool reading I should come read in
  • You are an experimental woman writer and you want to sit in a room
  • You have an extra ticket to Die Walküre
  • You know a good place to get a savory pie

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