Thursday, November 29, 2007

go and read...

check out the family...

the ladies in my life...

oh, and tomorrow make sure to head over to Orange Alert (I'll put up a dirct link) and read the interview with Luis Berriozabal, one of the absolute masters of poetry in the small press (and this makes the eighth GPP Poet interviewed). google his name and read anything you find; his work is unparalleled and purely unique. nobody does it like my friend LCB, that's for sure. his spare, beautiful work is capable of evoking whole universes of emotion and can lay open the small tragic wounds of blue collar life in a way that makes bearing them seem possible. his honest lines echo in the deep chambers of the soul and will make you consider the frailty as well as the triumph of our ever-changing and ever-pressured humanity.

Monday, November 26, 2007

mmmmmm, turkey...

I am thankful for: being a vegetarian. and for the wonder of childhood toys.

at least in American locally-grown organic produce, you just get the flavor, nutrition and health benefits of real live food, with the added bonus of actually getting to know the person who grew everything you eat. not nearly as many lead pellets or date rape drugs. seriously, the best bread in the world comes from our local OG market, made by hand, from Magnolia Bread Company here in GA. you can't eat any other bread once you've had some. it's really that simple. we buy almost all of our food, for less overall money, at that market. cyn is actually learning the ancient art of canning so that next summer we'll have all that good stuff for the winter too. hell, there are farmers at the market who sell pork, beef, eggs, all local, all well-taken care of and all OUTSIDE the global food industry.

jesus, have you had a tomato in the summertime from a local farmer that made you weep? I have. beats the shit out of those red globes from mexico or china with their grey insides and mealy, nothing taste. the food industry in this country is riddled with lies and cronyism and poison and death. we keep our money here in Georgia, supporting the real folks who grew our food, and the community thrives to the exclusion of the pesticide, drug laden produce and products from countries with absolutely NO interest in OUR people other than as consumers/dollar bills. there is a reason this shit is produced over there (and in south america/mexico/etc.) and it is to avoid the controls that ostensibly protect us. the only way to be sure is to be able to ask a question of the farmer himself, the bread baker, the butcher, and so on, to be able to learn their name and they yours. for there to be real accountability in the form of a face and name and saturday morning greeting. how much more Chinese trash are we willing to eat here in America, just because it's cheap (which is a fucking illusion anyway, because the real cost isn't figured into what we pay)?

even Hank Hill gets it (watch the episode "Raise The Steaks;" funny and true, even down to his idiot friends and the uninformed "hippies". in the end, it is Hank and a die-hard hippie who team up. this is about truth, not labels, people. not red or blue, not left or right, this is about survival and community as well as keeping horrible places like China from controlling our health from afar to save a few illusory pennies. it's always interesting to me to see how folks are sold a bill of turds via the 'divide and conquer' gambit currently being employed by the facist corpocracy that runs our country and world. in the end, the ranchers and the environmentalists will be forced to team up, and are, because they both want the same thing: clean water, good land for their livestock, clean air to breathe, rich soil, and a country owned by its people, not global corporations with no interest in anything but the bottom line. let the situation be the boss folks, and use your fucking brains; don't buy sterotypes, don't buy uninformed supposition, don't trust opinion without research, don't blindly purchase the easy, cheap product, and don't listen to me: do the fucking research yourself and make informed decisions).

well, at least they aren't even bothering to recall those 70 million poisoned turkeys. you probably didn't eat one anyway.

probably.

Friday, November 23, 2007

go and read...

this interview with Bill Shute of Kendra Steiner Editions.

also, the review I wrote of ZCB's book is running here at Word Riot.

and here are a few new photos from cyn (the last she'll be taking with her crappy camera; her new one is on the way. we're very excited):




Thursday, November 15, 2007

check it out...

this has been around a while, but he just released it as a little illustrated book I picked up and read at the store the other day: check it out.

rules may not always apply. we let the situation be the boss around here.

also, Glenn Cooper has a new chapbook out, and you should go buy one now, if you know what's good for you. go here to purchase.

Thursday, November 08, 2007

please hold on to the bar...

as the roller coaster gets underway.

hey, at least now we can pay off credit card debt with cheap, fifty-cent dollars (as long as we do it real quick). that's no joke, now's the time to clear that shit up before the CC companies, the hedge fund brigades and the banks (who couldn't even take care of themselves recently) decide it's recession time and the tracks are blown up and the amusement park closed for good.

Sunday, November 04, 2007

some of these...

are pretty good, and some of them are idiotic, no matter how old you are.

this about d.a. levy is interesting, especially as it mentions levyfest, a project well-attended by GPP folk like S.A. Griffin, Bill Roberts and C. Allen Rearick among others...

and take this quiz: see how much Rock you really know (I got 29)...
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