- Williamsburg, VA
- Arlington, VA
- Wilmington, NC
- Carrboro, NC
- Seattle, WA
- Vancouver, BC, CA
- Brookings, OR
- Newport, OR
- Portland, OR (My home)
- Yelapa, Jalisco, MX
- Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, MX
Jeremy from ZITS is pretty much like me, circa 1985.
Normally I blog on my own domain, but I thought I'd hang here for awhile.
I am a famous Bollywood director. Here's a trailer for my newest film: Tall and Ghey!
My wife received a note this week that her first book is being remaindered. It sold about 800 copies in its ten-year life, which is fairly good for poetry. There's still a copy at Powells if you want it.
What's your cell phone's ringtone? What made you pick it?
Ha ha. People with cell phones are tools. I've never owned one. I do have a GPS, a Palm Pilot, and a laptop, but I will not succumb to your evil plot to call me every single waking moment. Bugger off.
What was the worst advice you ever received? Did you follow it?
Someone who was a devout Christian when I was a semi-devout Christian told me to break up with someone because she was possessed. I did break up with her, which was stupid, but we would have broken up anyway because I'm possessed by Satan now.
On Friday I had a meeting at the Mt. Angel Abbey Library, which was designed by the great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. Because my wife is 100% Finnish American, we have several Aalto-designed glass pieces in our home, and we'd seen some of his buildings in Finland. The library, fairly close to Portland, is one of a handful of buildings/places designed by Aalto in America. Another, Harvard's Poetry Reading Room, has recently sparked controversy because some <editorializing> DIMWITS </editorializing> want to alter it. Of course, Harvard poetry is often entangled in poorly-planned schemes.
The library looks like it dropped out of a time machine from 2007, but it was designed in 1963 and completed in 1970. It's a perfect kind of place for monks, librarians, Finns, and more. My photos didn't turn out well, so I've borrowed one from the first site linked above.
