Hey!

There's a moving sale going on over at Coffee House Press! Everything's half off until the end of June!!!!

Not a record

This is not the most pens I have ever come home after work to find stuffed in my hair, but I like how this photo makes it seem like Johnny Cash is participating in my updo.

Happy!

Meg Rains sent this:



I am a slightly better player than this cat. To be fair, though, my theremin is a Moog Etherwave, so I have a technical advantage... The video proves that the cat has one more fan than I do, too.

Imaginary Press Reading Series Tonight!!

And it is going to be an outstanding installment: Cynthia Arrieu-King, Kristi Maxwell, Michael Rerick, and Jon Skuldt!

Hope to see you there.

Art Crawl

It's time for the spring St. Paul Art Crawl. I'll be tramping around Friday, and I'll also be participating Sunday at 3:00 in the Carleton Lofts Dance Room (University Avenue a little way down from Raymond Avenue). Hope you'll come.

Here's the Carleton's complete Sunday line-up:

Sunday April 27th


12:00 PM to 1:00 PM--Joe Schauer (Bass Solo) in the Center Stair Gallery


1:00 PM to 2:00 PM--Inner Alchemy Harpistry (Harp Solo) in the Center Stair Gallery


12:00 PM to 2:00 PM--DJ Array: Playlists and Music from Twin Cities Musicians and Bands in the Community Room
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM--Piper Reva Jones-Kelley in the Community Room


3:00 PM to 4:00 PM--DJ Array: Playlists and Music from Twin Cities Musicians and Bands in the Community Room


3:00 PM to 5:00 PM--Poetry Readings: Jared Lewis, Paula Cisewski, Tammy L. Darrah Wenberg, Alison Morse, & Michael Sciortino in the Dance Studio

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM--Western Fifth (Band) in the Community Room.

Brunettes Not Fighter Jets

It's this week's show and tell!

Here is a photo of Frank and Paul, my fellow readers at last Sunday's Riot Act Reading Series:


Paul Dickinson on the right there is also one of the hosts. I'll prove it:



On an unrelated note, I wanted to share that I recently had reason to learn that this is my only set of guest sheets:


Similarly unrelated, I went hiking in the woods in Wisconsin this afternoon! My fellow travellers and I hoofed it in to see the Willow River waterfall, and it was spectacular. But I forgot my camera, so here's a photo of my muddy boots:



Second to lastly, because I don't have the cable t.v., I am frequently wont to discover gems at a different pace than many others. For example, I didn't know about Flight of the Conchords until my latest issue of Bust arrived. Now I love them so much. Here is a little taste that you have probably already seen:


6. This week's score from the branch library: A VHS called The World's Weirdest Homes. Yessss!

Is this thing on?

Oh, dear. I'm sure I have bored what two readers I ever had enough that you might never return to see if I update every month now or what.

There hasn't been much to report. It's been winter here forever. Or "Gee, I'm really swamped at work." Buzz, buzz...

BUT yesterday was warm and sunny enough to go for a stroll, and so I did one of my favorite warm weather activities: I hit up my teeny branch library for whatever gems might be hiding there. So:

Did you know that David Lynch wrote a book on meditation and consciousness???

AND

Did you know there exists a 1986 rock documentary called Heavy Metal Parking Lot???

Oh man, I can't wait. I sort of feel myself changing into a different person just in anticipation of these two pieces of media.