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Friday, 26 January 2007
Elephant Joke

First of all, Liz sent along this joke:

Why did the elephant go to the dentist?

Because he had a Tuscaloosa.


Also, you can call Marilyn and Sarah at 1-(877) 661-1249 and give them a list of names of people who need to be saved. Marilyn and Sarah have been to Cambodia where they have healed the natives (especially those with knee and shoulder problems). Marilyn and Sarah want you to know that Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims have been healed by the power of Christ.

Also, Marilyn has written a book called Victorious Spiritual Warfare and you can buy it for 30 clams.

Marilyn's tip for starting a conversation about Christ: get into a crowded elevator and say "Have you seen The Passion of the Christ?"


Coming Tomorrow: A Return to the Belly of the Beast: New York City.

Upcoming events in New York:

NYC Theosophical Society: January 28th 3 PM, Lecture: "Discovering Your Twin Soul".

NYC Atheists Brunch: February 11th, Noon, at the Garden Restaurant on 60th Street between Lex and Third. (Stay tuned for NYC Atheists Book Club and Movie Night Info also!)

And for the Rosicrucians out there, don't forget about your Harmonization Ritual, at 2:00 pm on the 2nd, 3rd 4th and 5th Sundays of the month.


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Updated: Saturday, 27 January 2007 11:11 PM EST
Thursday, 25 January 2007
State of the Union

Weather in Tuscaloosa: Sunny! Jesus Loves Alabama.


And now, Cat Chat Thursday:

Harry: Hello Bipeds. And Welcome to Cat Chat. Today's topic is the State of the Union.

Mina: We, the good cats of Lisablog, have been studying President Bush's State of the Union Address and here are our thoughts.

Bela: First of all, we are very pleased that the bipeds in power have made it their priority to protect us from evil.

Harry: We, the good cats of Lisablog, have been very concerned about evil in recent weeks.

Bela: There is the evil of the late dinner hour.

Mina: And the evil of being shut out of the bedroom at night.

Harry: There is even the evil of the possibility that Islamofascists are kidnapping mice from our apartment.

Bela: And decapitating them.

Mina: We are very concerned about the jihad against the mice of Queens.

Harry: As for health care, it really makes no difference to us what you bipeds do with your health care problems.

Mina: We're just waiting for you to die so that we can eat your eyeballs.

Bela: Now, as for immigration, you all know that there are holes in the border.

Harry: There was a hole big enough to let Mina into the country.

Bela: Mina should not receive amnesty.

Harry: They should send her furry fat ass back to Limey Town.

Bela: We hope that there will be a serious, civil, and conclusive debate on this issue.

Mina: As for President Bush's plan to diversify America's energy supply, we have a better idea.

Harry: We'd like to see America's energy supply cut off.

Bela: There is nothing more hair-raising than the sound of an early morning garbage truck out on the street.

Mina: And the street cleaning machine.

Harry: These must all be eliminated.

Bela: Also the stereo.

Harry: Japanese noise music and Morton Feldman must be stopped.

Mina: The electric coffee grinder will not only be banned, it will be destroyed.

Bela: We will allow for limited use of the electric can opener if it can be operated with wind or solar power.

Harry: And finally, we would like to discuss President Bush's commitment to guarding the Homeland.

Bela: Thank god someone is guarding the homeland. We know what those terrorists intend for us.

Mina: It's possible that they have designs on my sheep skin rug.

Harry: Word up Osama. If you come for the sheep skin rug we will scratch your ass.

Bela: We, the good cats of Lisablog, are creating a volunteer Civilian Feline Reserve Corps to combat the problem of the sheep-skin stealing Syrians, Iranians, and Osama.

Harry: While our owners do not seem to take this threat seriously, we, the decent and resilient cats of Lisablog, are always vigilant.

Mina: I spend a good deal of my time clasping the sheep skin rug to my breast to protect it from Islamofascists.

Harry: This has been our assessment of the State of the Union.

Bela: We've been through a lot together, and we're pleased that we've made it through another year of war, famine, psychotic christian fervor, racism, obsessive western privileged consumption, and deeply moving human hypocrisy.

Harry: We thank you for the entertainment.

Mina: May god bless you.

Bela: And may Allah provide you with juicy raisins.

Harry: Peace.


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Get Your Heart Right With God

Don't spend eternity in hell, read Coconut Number Seven.

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Wednesday, 24 January 2007
Live From Alabama: Jesus is Coming!

Okay people, if you are a Christian and you love god and coffee, you can hang out at Tuscaloosa's Christian coffee house. It's called Capture. Rock on god freaks.

Meanwhile, Kenneth Anger's Early Works has been released on DVD and you can order it at Satan Worshippers Click Here.


Other News: Conversation in the hotel lobby this morning:

I sure wish it would warm up.
Mmhmm. This weather is killing me.

Tuscaloosa Wednesday Weather: partly cloudy, 50 degrees.


Yesterday's workshop. Was Great. We spent some time with Clark Coolidge's poem "Setting". Here it is:

Setting

A pot has been brought round.
The disappears over a porch, bird.
They blade, couch.
When crystals vanish they spread perfume.


Coming Tomorrow: Harry, Mina, and Bela respond to the State of the Union Address, and a review of Tuscaloosa's Epiphany Cafe.

Peace Out Blog Rockets. Eat the Baptists, not the Bream, Bass, or Blue Fin Tuna.


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Updated: Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:08 AM EST
Tuesday, 23 January 2007
On the Loose in Tuscaloosa

Hello Blog Possums. We're coming to you live today from Tuscaloosa's one and only Hampton Inn. From our third floor window we have a most excellent view of the following things:

shrubs
parking lot
cars
subdivision
Coca Cola truck
gray sky
red dumpster
house of worship


Tonight we're going to be teaching a class down here at the University of Alabama. It's part of a three-day residency, and tonight's topic is Organic Form. Since we're all organic forms, this should not be too difficult. But in case you're stumped, here's a starting point:

Robert Duncan to Denise Levertov, May 1963, in response to Levertov's draft of a lecture for the July 1963 Vancouver Conference:

Kinds of poems:

convention as "form"= goes along with the natural is formless; man puts the world in order // or with God formed the world as a paradigm in the beginning and disorder entered thru man's sin. Only by conventicle, good behavior, does man return to the lost order...

organic as form=all experience is formal-- We feel things at all only in so far as we awake to the form. Here the form of the poem is the feeling (and where form fails, feeling fails). "Inner and "outer" are, if we could grasp the terms of cosmic form, in tune. We have only to discover the scale...

"linguistic" form-- the artist uses language to make forms, and in this he [is] in a creature/creator relation to a god who is also a creature/creator of the whole. Where "organic" poetry refers to personal emotions and impressions-- the concourse between organism and his world; the linguistic follows emotions and images that appear in the language itself as a third "world"; true to what is happening in the syntax as another man might be true to what he sees or feels.

Free Verse= the poem does not find or make but expresses, and the poem has its virtue in the ecstatic state or emotional state aroused by rhythms and rime even, where the poet can pour forth what he feels//and/or God speaks thru the poem once his voice is free. Here form= restriction I'm thinking of a Hassidic interpretation of the law against making a graven image meaning that speech should not be made in that sense but speak from the heart. Free verse just doesn't believe in the struggle of rendering in which not only the soul but the world must enter into the conception of the poem. Experience is an engagement and responsibility to outer as well as innter.

What does it all mean?

Here is one thought:

Convention as form= Robert Frost
Organic form= John Cage
Linguistic form= Gertrude Stein
Free verse= Anne Waldman

And how is it all related to Duncan's poems "The Dance" and "The Law I Love Is Major Mover"?Tune into Lisablog Wednesday for more thoughts on these hot and heavy questions.


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Onedit Number Seven

Onedit Number Seven is out and it is bright and shiny and free online. Mr. Atkins is an excellent editor as ever. And check out the Emblem series by Mr. Evans. Very bright and shiny indeed.


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Monday, 22 January 2007
The Robert Duncan Circus: Live From Alabama

Hello People. We are heading south. You can expect a Lisablog Tuscaloosa Report to be coming at you tomorrow.

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Sunday, 21 January 2007
And now, a public service announcement

Hi People, this is going out to the New Yorkers in the audience. Our new buddy Andy G of Wisconsin is coming through town to do some gigs with his band The Prince Myshkins.

They will be at the Bowery Poetry Club, Monday at 6 (a benefit for the War Resisters League) and at the Metropolitan Community Church of New York on Tuesday at 7:30.

These guys do excellent political satire, post-Fugs. It's heart-lifting stuff. Check out the MP3s on their site.


Also, if you are free tonight, check out a project that our friend Zbyszek did some video work for. Evan gives it two thumbs up:

OH WHAT WAR

at HERE's annual hybrid performance festival Culturemart

Jan 20 & 21 (sat & sun), 8:30 pm
HERE Arts Center
145 Sixth Ave, entrance on Dominick Street (between Spring and Broome)

Tickets: HERE donors $10; everyone else $15 www.here.org/212.352.3101

A fantasy of flagrant disobedience, OH WHAT WAR follows a band of deserters stuck in No Man's Land. A mash-up of mud, vintage war songs, b/w video footage and battle noise, this original Juggernaut production zeros in on the great war machine that holds us captive.

OH WHAT WAR , a collaboration
directed by Mallory Catlett
musical direction/composition by Lisa Dove
words by Jason Craig
video by Zbigniew Bzymek & Samuael Topiary
noise by G. Lucas Crane
production design by Peter Ksander
assistant director Rachel Lund
production assistant Ilan Bachrach

Featuring: Jason Craig, Jessica Jelliffe, Tom Lipinski, Kelli Rae Powell, Magin Schantz & Scott Sowers

OH WHAT WAR has received support from Abrons Arts Center, Chashama, The Harry Ransom Research Center, LMCC, NYSCA & Puffin Foundation.

CULTUREMART is a vital part of HERE's Artist Residency Program, which provides development, commissions and full production support.


And finally, check out our updates to the Catskill Organics Website. You need soap? We've got soap.

Peace People. Happy Cold Weather.


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Saturday, 20 January 2007

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Emily Dickinson Day

It's Saturday, and it's Emily Dickinson Day on Lisablog.

But first, the news: Weather in Sunnyside: sunny with a new coat of snow on the ground. It looks to be a crisp day all around, and also windy, yes.

Cat Update: Mina is asleep on the bed, Harry is prowling in the hallway, Bela is on the couch between the pink pillow and the red pillow.

We have heard it said that there are Emily Dickinson people and there are Walt Whitman people. Thomas of Lisablog is an Emily Dickinson person. Lisa of Lisablog is a Walt Whitman person. This makes for a perfect Ying and Yang in our marriage.

Here are our guesses regarding the Dickinson-Whitman orientations of various historical figures:

Charles Manson: Walt Whitman
Jeffrey Dahmer: Emily Dickinson
Bill Clinton: Walt Whitman
Jimmy Carter: Emily Dickinson
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Walt Whitman
Malcolm X: Emily Dickinson
Monet: Walt Whitman
Manet: Emily Dickinson
Harry the Cat: Walt Whitman
Mina the Cat: Emily Dickinson


And since it's Emily Dickinson Day, we'll include here one of our favorite Emily Dickinson poems. This is poem number 854 and perhaps it proves that Emily Dickinson was a space alien.

Banish Air from Air—
Divide Light if you dare—
They'll meet
While Cubes in a Drop
Or Pellets of Shape
Fit
Films cannot annul
Odors return whole
Force Flame
And with a Blonde push
Over your impotence
Flits Steam.


And finally, in honor of Emily Dickinson Day, Harry, Mina, and Bela have collaborated to write an Emily Dickinson poem of their own. This is called "Is It All Over My Face?" (They borrowed the title from Kevin Killian.)

If Spirit were a nettle root
And the disk of sun — a Bagel —
It spoke to me— a Sinecure—
When passing through its ambit

In Underwear it came aroused
And showed its hairy crown
Addressing all its Patrons
A legate versed and round—

If Celery were god’s own nub
And we bent to defy
A riot of the kernel spurt
A tuber comes awry.


Peace people, and have a good weekend.


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Updated: Saturday, 20 January 2007 10:35 AM EST

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