In the confusion that follows, the LRAD is going off, tear gas is being thrown and people are pouring into side streets. We call in to the comms station (from which our Twitter updates are happening) to let them know that 30 or 40 riot police just headed down a street following a group of [...]
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Day 2 Part II – The Aborted Version
Posted in Uncategorized on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Day 2 Part I
Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wake to 12 new text messages. Before leaving Portland I’d signed up to get Twitter updates sent to my phone about major happenings in the G20 resistance (despite my serious trepidation about any involvement with the whole Twitter THING). I learned that this was how much of the post-election protests in Iran were coordinated. Honestly, [...]
This is why I don’t write prose.
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I want to preface this account by saying it’s just that, an account: that time I went to Pittsburgh and protested the G20. This writing is my way of thinking through my experience and hoping to come to a better understanding of what happened there, and its implications for my life in the bigger scheme [...]
Booo
Posted in Uncategorized on September 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Anyone who knows me knows I’ve seen maybe 3 movies in my life, and now one of them is District 9, in which insect-like aliens – in the place of historically oppressed peoples – are evicted from their ghetto of scrap metal shacks by “security contractors” (uncannily akin to Blackwater, or Xe, or whatever they’re not calling themselves [...]
Look!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged elimae, sweet poems yo, taryn andrews, TYPO on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Taryn has a totally sweet poem in elimae!
Also, as of this morning I’m really obsessed with TYPO.
Dammit.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged .com, awkward poets, foot in mouth, it's like I'm still in 6th grade on September 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Talking to poets makes me get all shy and shit. Not actually shit. But you know.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, octavio paz, quotes on August 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“History has the cruel reality of a nightmare, and the grandeur of man consists in his making beautiful and lasting works out of the real substance of that nightmare. Or, to put it another way, it consists in transforming the nightmare into vision; in freeing ourselves from the shapeless horror of reality–if only for an [...]
Today’s dose of perspective
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged oh shit, writers on June 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I\’ll be 23 in October.
I don’t know what you’re doing tonight…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged performance, poetry, portland on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…but this is what I’m doing tonight:
2 + 2 = 3
Sound Poetry and Paraperformance
mARKO Whens, Tony Christy, Leo Daedalus, and David Abel
(followed by open mic)
Monday, May 4
7:00 pm
Three Friends Coffee House
201 SE 12th Ave.
503-236-6411
In September of 2008, Marko Whens and Tony Christy organized the first
Demagnetic Mutant Cabaret, “an evening of humor-based, conceptual,
nondramatic events informed by [...]
Grundle Quiverings
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bikes, mount tabor park, pimpin, portland on April 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A sign that I am becoming a true Portlandite: last weekend Wes and I took a ten-mile bike ride down to Mount Tabor Park in the southeast and back. His ease at riding in the middle of busy roads and making abrupt left turns was, admittedly, terrifying at first (“If you fuck something up with a [...]
