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New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl said in a recent speech given there, that Chicago is a “receptor city.”
Let’s face it, he’s right.
We all know WHY and WHEN this transition occurred from a modest-but-improving “Transmitter” art-city to a “Receptor” one. And WHO was behind it.
Continue reading Peter Schjeldahl asserts: Chicago is Now a Mere Receptor Art-City.
Leave the woman where she is.
She has two arms of her own
And two legs for that matter
(Which, sir, are no longer any affair of yours).
See that you yourself come through.
Continue reading "The Impact of the Cities," after Bertolt Brecht.
I'm a fan of Archer Prewitt's work, and an even bigger fan of BoingBoing.net. Following is a blurb of their blurb.
Sof' Boy is a wonderful but extremely infrequently-published comic book by musician and artist Archer Prewitt. I love this comic about a homeless, naive dough boy who happily lives in a crime- and filth-ridden urban neighborhood, surviving attacks by man and beast because he is made out of some kind of indestructible, infinitely elastic rubber.
Giant Robot sells Sof' Boy comics: Combo Reprint (Issue #01 & Issue #02), Issue #03.
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Erin M. Bertram is a fellow/TA in the MFA Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis. She writes for The Vital Voice and edits shadowbox press, which publishes hand-made chapbooks by underrepresented writers. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bloom, Columbia Poetry Review, CutBank, MiPOesias, Natural Bridge, and The Marlboro Review. With Sarah Lilius, she co-authored the chapbook Here, Hunger (NeO Pepper Press, 2007). Body Of Water recently won the 2007 Frank O’Hara Award Chapbook Competition and will be published by Thorngate Road in late 2007. Her chapbook Alluvium was published by dancing girl press, 2007.
[Travelogue (Breviary)]
Darkling, listen.
Continue reading Poem of the Week: "[Travelogue (Breviary)]" by Erin M. Bertram.
Not only was Sharkstock 2 completely brilliant, but the Sharkpacks own Poet Laureate Dr. Simone Muench easily blew away all competition when it comes to being Chicagos most alluringly literate bartendress.
Continue reading Whew! Still Feeling The Aftershocks Of Sharkstock Aren't You?.
orry I've been out of touch, things have been a bit hectic lately - had a lost weekend in Bangalore, hanging out with DJ Anoop Absolute and his lovely wife Roxy, who works a heavy schedule for Tommy Filthfinger... I mean Hilfgiger - I finally succumbed to the electronic throb after a couple Johnny Walker Blacks and danced with the lemon-lime lollipop girls - In a land of a thousand talas - the complex beats of Indian music - But you gotta just about break down and weep when you see everybody shakin' what their mama gave 'em to that tired old 4/4 - Ate every chance I could at Koshy's - delish tandoori fish - Yep, finally fell off the veg wagon for a bit of tasty violenece - My apologies to my finned friends - Next time dinner's on me...
Continue reading Lost Weekend in Bangalore.
Sharkstock 3 by Ursula Sokolowska
Peter Schjeldahl asserts: Chicago is Now a Mere Receptor Art-City by Mark Staff Brandl
In Honor of Bad At Sports' Judy Ledgerwood Interview, We Thought We Would Put Up Some Images of Her Paintings!...OH NO! Whats Wrong Here? Why Are They All Signed, Larry Poons 1962? Introducing a New Term: Politically Manipulated Ripoff Facsimile Painting! by The Shark
A Brush With Death, Anatomy of a Shark Bite! by The Shark
"The Impact of the Cities," after Bertolt Brecht by Ray Pride
Archer Prewitt Gets Props on BoingBoing.net by david roth
Poem of the Week: "[Travelogue (Breviary)]" by Erin M. Bertram by Simone Muench
Whew! Still Feeling The Aftershocks Of Sharkstock Aren't You? by The Shark
Snakes, Monkeys, Politicians and More by John Kruth
Lost Weekend in Bangalore by John Kruth
you traveled far: after Thom Yorke by Ray Pride
Cobra Condominiums, Boar Blood and other delights - Part 2 by John Kruth
Wild times in the jungle - part one by John Kruth
Sugar by Lynne Warren
Death of Old Media: part 276 (The little trainwreck that could) by Ray Pride
