Blogopticon

So ends the slowest four days of the year in the blogopticon.

Blogmeh:

Providing you space to publish your independence is the simplest, smartest, most devious and easiest way Triskelions can keep loud-mouthed thralls enthralled.

Send me an email and I'll send you the above Fleabus, the wallpaper to end all wallpaper.

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• Elric writes once (with photos), twice, three times (with photos) from India.
• Obamyfuckingod!
• Dying of sadness in the shadow of empire.
• Not only the shittiest, shittiesterest. More.
• Pardoning Wal-Mart shoppers.
• Earthgirl and I were talking about this yesterday when we were hiking: where are all the acorns?
• Whoever this Ellis is, he's recommending books.
• List time! Of the listed fiction and poetry (and why do they group them as one category?) I've read only Beautiful Children (which didn't suck but was over-hyped), Diary of a Bad Year (which was like the longest, most boring class you ever sat through), His Illegal Self (proving to myself again I don't get Carey), The Lazarus Project (which I loved), Lush Life (yummy), Netherland (un-yummy), The Road Home (I thought OK, Earthgirl thought great, but she loves Tremain), and Sleeping it Off in River City (!!!!!!!!!!).
• Nigel Beale interviews Hemon.
• Challenge: I should listen to American Beauty, if only for flashbacks. Landru, can I borrow your CD?

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Sleeping it Off in River City?

ORIENTATION WEEKEND

August Kleinzahler

At the Hotel Oblivion, Airport Drive
 Mezzanine, Conference Center B
   PowerPoint presentation no. 1
Career Enhancement Strategy
 Mary-Ray's pink ice service trembles
   In the aftershock of some astral seizure
     So remote and faint
       Only the weevil's foreleg dares say
         Yes, yes, yes, it's true
           Next up
Team Building Exercises
 Woof, woof
   Burgundy carpet, big yellow dots
     That new smell, glycol ethers
       4-phenylcyclohexane in the latex backing
Break: Free Coffee, Light Snacks, Get Acquainted
 Uh, pardon me, Miss Carnoustie
   Is that your panty line
     Or a silken esker of longing
       Have an hallucination, have a bagel
         We had an issue under discussion here
           Regarding the lighting, I believe
             That tenebrous strip beyond the chandelier's orb
               Hey, help me out here
                 Not now, Peg, I'm teething
                   Are we ready for the evening
Thought Shower
 Hold on, the jacaranda's gone missing
   Waiter, some more Vitamin Water, and hurry
     Wow, here comes
       Thirty-six thousand blasts of ink per second
         In four, count 'em, four brilliant colors
           And with no telltale digital trace
             I see a hand up
               Mr. Gomez, are we still on the same page?