It’s My Two Cents
It’s My Two Cents: Cambridge, Huff, Daum, Dando, Coke, Beck, Aldo, Howle
Greetings from a bakery/cafe in Cambridge, MA called Carberry’s, where I paid 4.95USD for an hour’s worth of internet access. Don’t say I never did anything for you, readers…The mp3 CD I dug out of my glove compartment kept me … Continue reading
It’s My Two Cents: Mayer, Naropa, Huth, Pritts, Oral, Three Things That Piss Me Off About The Rumpus
If Jane Mayer could look more smug when she is not talking in her recent television appearances, she would explode in a flameball of contemptuousness. Super reporter, though…I don’t know what Google Buzz is, but evidently it’s a hit… … Continue reading
It’s My Two Cents: Reznor, Lennon, Ving, Mordor, Burt, Wakoski, DiNovis, Banks
Was it a former coach of the New Jersey Nets who said, “Don’t be the lion who stares at the legs of the chair? I think it was…I’m not sure if this guy is for real, but he sure knows … Continue reading
It’s My Two Cents: Yule, Iris, Long, Blogger, Cooper, Hitler, Vocoder
If you get the name of the person singing wrong in a song–Doug Yule, say, instead of Lou Reed–you do not get to write a poem about that song…An ex-friend just wrote a hate email to me, after I used … Continue reading
It’s My Two Cents: And We’re Back
And we’re back. Sorry folks, sometimes a columnist needs to have a nervous breakdown or three before three-dotting his way back to sanity. Onward. Some predictions sprinkled in…Am I the only person who love that the same image of … Continue reading
It’s My Two Cents: Dunham, Jillette, Litbloggers, King, Sabotage, Shortz
It’s Christmas, which means people might be reading this or might not. Or perhaps you’re Jewish, Asian, African, or my favorite, Depressed..I love this quote by Carroll Dunham: “In the contemporary context, there appears to be a divergence between “sincere” … Continue reading
It’s My Two Cents: Telfer, Hickey, The Laughers, Colins, Claire, Nash, Afros
Greetings from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, while I wait for my flight to Albany International Airport. The latter is international, we think, because of a flight to Toronto once a month. But Chicago? The wind is cold, the … Continue reading
It’s My Two Cents: Mathews, Cupcakes, Shukert, Nuno, Vito, Chet
I’m back after a week-long bender of book tour and absentee blogging…Thank you for your patience, oh readers and Panksters…Onward to two-centsing… Coat racks are bullshit…Did you know that the Thoreau family–the Henry-David-Thoreau Thoreaus, the go out into the woods … Continue reading
It’s My Two Cents: Turner Overdrive, The Regulars, Nader, Runaways, Arnold, Flatulists
Here’s modern poetry in a nutshell: paintings, animals, mythology…Every word can end either with the suffix “-esque” or the suffix “Turner Overdrive”–.But nothing shall ever be “Turner Overdrive-esque”… Written while tipsy…Heck, we all have pets; heck, if we went to … Continue reading
It’s My Two Cents: Friendster, Frisell, Jordan, Arcangel, et Cetera
Humping a statue can be a dignified form of political protest–I logged onto my Friendster page for the first time in, like, two years–Sometimes I miss living in Camden, NJ, but not going to school there–I can’t wait to see … Continue reading
It’s My Two Cents: Seth, Ben, Rocksteady, LL, Barbicide
Enough of this picking on memoirs already. Many of them are in fact journalism collections or nonfiction road trips. What’s the matter with that? Why the false fiction-nonfiction dichotomy?…Speaking of memoirs, I love me some Ben Yagoda, but his new … Continue reading
It’s My Two Cents: Prog, Abdul, HTMLG, Elaine’s, Fence
I gave up on objecting sentences with “however” after reading the Language Log. Not that I feel good about it…I guess someday I will have to sit down and actually listen to the Zombies box set, rather than saying I … Continue reading