I said, I couldn't stop giggling, every time one of his colleagues tossed the presentation to him, I wanted him to say, Hello Americans, Stand by.... for NEWS! Was he as big an asshole as Paul Harvey, asked L. I've no idea, I said, all he said was This is the current status of best practice use of fair use's indefineability re: academic library's liability, though this is not legal advice, just in Paul Harvey's voice. Christ, Paul Harvey was an ass, said D. Who was Paul Harvey, asked K, and the old people made her pay the entire check.
- Start the first, wait four seconds, start the second. You're welcome.
- Terrifyingly real.
- POTUS 12 and the evolution of political protest.
- Class consciousness (includes a quiz!).
- The road to oppression is paved w/good intentions.
- On the uses of bridges.
- Compromise.
- Follow along if you want.
- Feature or bug?
- Mortgage fraud is an Obama priority?
- Motherfucking Obama.
- Liberals and war.
- Okay, he's a beast.
- Sick of this image already.
- UPDATE! On the above.
- HRC says she's done w/politics. I believe she believes this.
- More from his generation's greatest fraud - I say this admiringly.
- Epstein has died.
- Pynchon, Gaddis, mistaken identity.
- Woke up with this in my head:
the library of t-shirts
Joanne Burns
in order to upgrade the community’s appreciation of poetry during the international year of cultural enrichment stage 2, members of the state’s library progress committee decided to establish a small library of t-shirts on which would be printed quality verse in vivid, bold colours and lettering. the poems would be selected on the basis of one of three qualities: is the poem poignant, perspicacious, or pithy.
given the respectably researched fact that the wearing of words on t-shirts expresses a deep psychic desire for an intimate union of word and flesh, (and bear in mind the way “logo” nudges towards “logos”) it is not surprising that this library of t-shirts has been a great success. no one seems to mind borrowing pre-worn clothing. of course the library’s washing and ironing staff maintain the t-shirts in excellent condition. even after ten borrowings the shirts look brand new. and considering the phenomenal success of andrew lloyd webber’s “cats” it is no shock revelation that t.s. eliot’s “hollow men” has proved to be the library’s most popular t-shirt so far. in fact there are now eight copies of this shirt on loan, most in metallic or fluoro colours.
a couple of the more entrepreneurial of the library’s progress committee members are leading the push for diversification of the library’s poetry program, into neck to knee anti-uv swimwear, with maybe slessor, shelly and stevie smith prints for starters; and into underpants, with their multiple attractions.
while the committee feels both these garments could increase poetry’s appeal, they are worried about the practicability of adding these garments to the t-shirt poetry collection. would many members want to borrow preworn underpants, however compelling the poems’ cadences and metaphors; while the wear and tear on the swimming costume fabric via chlorine and salt water would perhaps be too great. however they are interested in marketing and selling these articles from a stall in the library’s foyer. the only committee member unenthusiastic regarding this proposal is an optometrist who has raised the issue of eye damage if the typeface of the lines of verse on the underpants were too small. a solution in the form of large print haikus is being considered.
