Ever seen a flying fire truck?
How about a porta-mansion?
These are things I see on my way to work. Pretty neat, huh.
How about a porta-mansion?
These are things I see on my way to work. Pretty neat, huh.
posted by Claudine Ko at 9:18 AM
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Your photography looks like the artist Will Rogan.
Trippy.
Dear Claudine – I've been trying to contact you but can 't find an email so...Came across your graph re Ellen Willis and I'm emailing on behalf of a tabloid called – FIRST OF THE MONTH. – You can check our site at firstofthemonth.org. Ellen was a FIRST fan. She put up half the bread for the first issue back in 98. We’re going to run some appreciations of her stuff – Donna Gaines, Ellen’s cuz, Stanley, Tom Smucker et al – wondered if you’d like us to use yours. We’d leave out the opening sentence…The Lou Reed line will have some extra resonance due to other things in this issue – Anyway, let me know. Have to poormouth you but.,..etc.
My eamil is bdemott@cmmb.org
Best, Benj DeMott PS Looks like I got to check your Jane piece about Boss from Hell!!!!!!11 – looking f-ward to doing that some one of these days…
Cut and pasting quote sheet re FIRST – excuse self-praise – cheap but human way of showing we have readers…
PRAISE FOR FIRST OF THE MONTH
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I’m sure Tim Mayer would be proud to be seen in your pages.” PHILIP LEVINE: “Readable as hell.” ADAM HOCHSCHILD: “The issues you sent kept me reading for an hour, when I had intended to toss them aside after five minutes…First is eclectic, unpredictable, thoughtful. You've made quite a remarkable home for an interesting collection of voices.” CHRISTINE STANSELL: “Great issues…Your Sept 11 issue was the only thoughtful response I saw from the Left. Greil Marcus's article was a classic. And this new issue is terrific too.” JONATHAN KOZOL: “I like First of the Month...It’s strong, sophisticated, gutsy.” SCOTT SPENCER: “First is alive, sharp, stimulating.” FRANK RICH: “I do like First of the Month. Congratulations and keep it coming!” GREIL MARCUS: “In First of the Month, co-editor Charles O’Brien wrote from the heart, condemning Noam Chomsky and others as “the Vichy left,” and saying, finally, more than anyone else was saying, right or left.” (2001) “The best piece I’ve read on “No Direction Home” is by Charles O’Brien in First of the Month..” (2006). ELLEN WILLIS: “Good issue. I enjoyed Smoler and O’Brien who is a real high-style ranter. (Best I’ve read since Camille Paglia. I’m not being sarcastic.)”(2001) Smoler and O’Brien [on the Danish Cartoons] were good.” (2006) ROBERT FARRIS THOMPSON: “Wonderful…You now have one of the liveliest and most relevant discourses going on in American print in your pages. “ JOHN LELAND: “Another excellent issue! Loved Reed on WJ Wilson.” (2001) “God Love Armond White.” (2006) PATRICIA WILLIAMS: “First of the Month is the brilliant last barrier between you and the devouring maw of media conglomeration. 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First of the Month is building it.”(1999) “Very impressive” (2005) JULIAN BOND: “[Amiri] Baraka and [Charles] Payne...are great.” (1999) “Lorenzo Thomas’ ‘Back in the Day’ was FINE!” (2005) SYLVIA WYNTER: “First of the Month is excellent and a delight to read...It assured me the dream of transforming the world is still alive and kicking.” JOE CONASON: “I enjoyed First of the Month.” CHARLES KEIL: “Geniusy juxtapositions…An amazing compilation.” NAT HENTOFF: Very good stuff…[First is] more and more impressive.” DANNY SCHECHTER: “The newspaper is great.” CHARLES SCRIBNER III: [O’Brien’s critique of George Steiner] “is erudite, witty and devastating...makes Jonathan Swift look like a lapdog.” NOAM CHOMSKY: “Good luck on First of the Month (particularly enjoyed piece on Steiner)...Looks like a very promising endeavor!” RICHARD GOLDSTEIN: “First of the Month contains serious essays on the culture...Unlike so much of what passes for alternative journalism, these cultural dispatches carry a distinctively, but not didactically, political edge.” TOM CARSON: “If reading First of the Month’s take on him doesn’t drive Dan Rather to look for a new job as a circus geek - then let’s face it, nothing will.” JOHNNY RAY HOUSTON: “Arts writing divorced from the publicity machinery and political writing that mixes incite with insight.” DOUG SIMMONS: “You’ve set a high standard!” BILL AYERS: “FOTM is an antidote to the flabby thinking and voyeuristic writing that characterizes the diversionary press.” JEREMY BRECHER: “To paraphrase the piano player in Shoot the Piano Player, “Imagination’s what we need, man.” DAVID RITZ: “Reading First with great interest and excitement. I especially liked the long riff on Greil Marcus...Loved Charlie Keil’s thoughts on Kosovo.” NED CHASE: “One of those small periodicals…Crucial in the evolution of ideas and cultural enrichment.” HAKIM BEY: “I do like First of the Month. It lasts longer than a cup of coffee.” WILLIAM GREIDER: “Your paper has an engaging mix of cultural-political currents. Your free-spirited approach seems exactly attuned to the times – when all the old idols are falling and some are already stuffed in museums.” HERBERT GANS: “Enjoyed First of the Month. Glad it is on the scene.” JESSE LEMISCH: “Fascinating reading.” PETER GURALNICK: “Really enjoyed the paper. Liked the [Sam] Cooke piece too. I disagreed with some parts…but it was well and vigorously argued.” GRACE LEE BOGGS: “Armond White’s review is awesome…Appreciated the analysis of rap.” DAN MORGENSTERN:“Great piece on Don Pullen!” ROBERT PINKSY “I admire the piece about Don Pullen. 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Maybe they found the Wicked Witch of the East under that house!
Damn wish I'd checked in here at the end of last month.
I was in Boston would have been a bit trippy to maybe have met a virtual stranger with a shared aqquaintance in New York!
That firetruck makes my heart beat faster. I really like your blog.
Yes, that is pretty damned exciting. A heck of a lot more exciting than what I see: Trees, concrete and snoring business men. Some of them do that Muppet-esque snoring, you know the type that sounds like: "Mee mee mee". And there is dribbling.
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