Keyhole nominated me for a Pushcart. It's for a story I wrote called "Father" which begins:
We’re “living in sin” in the Keweenaw Peninsula with a big-ass Mastiff we call Father. And this is it, miles from anyone, no one bothers us anymore. Father must weigh upwards of 200 pounds, and has a motley face, with a huge frown and tiny black eyes.
This is what the Keweenaw Peninsula looks like.
***
On Twitter, I've been Speaking Truth to Cereal:
Captain Crunch decimated the native culture on Crunchberry Island.
The links between Cheerios and higher levels of serotonin are tenuous at best.
Frosted Flakes are not fooling anyone with the blond tips. We know they have gone gray.
The Yummy Mummy belongs in Egypt where it was found, not in some museum in some Imperialist country.
Froot Loops proves that the teaching of phonics is responsible for our pathetic standing in the world re: education.
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A Local weekly newspaper called The Stranger is running a charity auction called Strangercrombie. There is a package called DIY MFA Semester Two, and if you win it you will receive a story consultation from Maria Semple and James Morrow, a graduation dinner with Ryan Boudinot, a custom laptop bag, free coffee once a week for three months from Short Stop Coffee, and also, I'll have a couple of beers with you to discuss writing craft. I think I originally volunteered to discuss white space for an hour with the winner. They have made it a little more open-ended.
Actually, it sort of looks like the winner and I will go out and get drunk together.
Seems like a proper DIY MFA experience to me!
It's for charity, and Ryan Boudinot is great. And James Morrow is great. And Maria Semple is great. You should bid and bid a lot.
***
Best guitar riff ever:
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Monday, June 08, 2009
Winners
And the winner is:
Tao Lin!
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No.
No, not really.
The winners are Eli, who sent this photo:
And Sabra Embury, who sent a multimedia blitz, including a video and these images:
UPDATE
Here's the video:
There are some fine, fine other entries, too, including John Synco's really remarkable, really faithful cover of Lonnie Irving's Pinball Machine, and Ryan Bradley's Shockabilly-esque cover of the same song.
Another good one is this drawing of Street Fighter's Blanka playing a Rocky and Bullwinkle pinball machine. It's by my friend Griffin:
And this video, sent by Laura Ellen Scott, of her spouse's high score dance:
All four will be receiving runner-up prizes.
Finally, here's an image from a coworker:
She's playing pinball at The College Inn Pub in Seattle's University District. I will be reading at said establishment on Tuesday, June 16. After the reading, I am hoping people will play some pinball with me and the other reading attendees. High score gets the last of the hardcover copies of the book.
Thank you to everyone who entered. I was really touched with the time and care put into the entries. All of them.
***
A story of mine is in the upcoming issue of Keyhole.
***
I reviewed Mathias Svalina's chapbook Play here. SPOILER ALERT: I liked it a lot.
***
Next week I will actually write something for this blog! No more tedious self-promotion!
Well.
Not as much tedious self-promotion!
Also, buy my book before it sells out!
What people on Goodreads are saying about it:
Blake Baby: "It's been since certain modes of David Foster Wallace that the sincere-turned-weird felt this fresh. Memory as a map meets roadtrip as a hallway, all in Simmons's singular and truly heartening, funny, moving ways of phrase. Loved."
Mary Miller: "I read this book about a week ago on a bus from Ann Arbor to Chicago. It made the trip a whole lot better. I keep remembering certain things, like how the narrator calls himself a "carcinogen to women." I love that. The book is really cute, too, and I like that Matthew signed mine. I wish it were longer, but that's only because I would have liked more."
Evelyn Hampton: "I finished the book at work and loaned it to a co-worker and said, Read this!"
Justin Dobbs: "I learned about Jackalopes."
Tao Lin!
***
No.
No, not really.
The winners are Eli, who sent this photo:
And Sabra Embury, who sent a multimedia blitz, including a video and these images:
UPDATE
Here's the video:
sportzabar from Sabra Embury on Vimeo.
There are some fine, fine other entries, too, including John Synco's really remarkable, really faithful cover of Lonnie Irving's Pinball Machine, and Ryan Bradley's Shockabilly-esque cover of the same song.
Another good one is this drawing of Street Fighter's Blanka playing a Rocky and Bullwinkle pinball machine. It's by my friend Griffin:
And this video, sent by Laura Ellen Scott, of her spouse's high score dance:
All four will be receiving runner-up prizes.
Finally, here's an image from a coworker:
She's playing pinball at The College Inn Pub in Seattle's University District. I will be reading at said establishment on Tuesday, June 16. After the reading, I am hoping people will play some pinball with me and the other reading attendees. High score gets the last of the hardcover copies of the book.
Thank you to everyone who entered. I was really touched with the time and care put into the entries. All of them.
***
A story of mine is in the upcoming issue of Keyhole.
***
I reviewed Mathias Svalina's chapbook Play here. SPOILER ALERT: I liked it a lot.
***
Next week I will actually write something for this blog! No more tedious self-promotion!
Well.
Not as much tedious self-promotion!
Also, buy my book before it sells out!
What people on Goodreads are saying about it:
Blake Baby: "It's been since certain modes of David Foster Wallace that the sincere-turned-weird felt this fresh. Memory as a map meets roadtrip as a hallway, all in Simmons's singular and truly heartening, funny, moving ways of phrase. Loved."
Mary Miller: "I read this book about a week ago on a bus from Ann Arbor to Chicago. It made the trip a whole lot better. I keep remembering certain things, like how the narrator calls himself a "carcinogen to women." I love that. The book is really cute, too, and I like that Matthew signed mine. I wish it were longer, but that's only because I would have liked more."
Evelyn Hampton: "I finished the book at work and loaned it to a co-worker and said, Read this!"
Justin Dobbs: "I learned about Jackalopes."
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