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Midsummer Night’s Dream by Marc Chagall
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of listening to Jason Helm read bits from Fetish at the Moonshot Magazine reading. He read about a broke twink who opted to pay rent through sexual favors to his landlord. It was hilarious. It was bittersweet. It was positively Helmian. You can order Fetish plus two other BoL titles, all for $10, right now. I think it’s a steal.
The titles include:
Fetish by Jason Helm
Meet the Lavenders by Carrie Murphy
Ponyboy, Sigh: A Word Problem by Leon Baham
‘Perhaps a Girl Elsewhere’ by Adam Strauss
C. Exigua by Jackie Wang
Relief Work by Rohin Guha
blood and jasmine when i dreamed her by Christine Vi-Van Nguyen
Fabulous Essential by Niina Pollari
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Paul K. Tunis gives us another dose of Omphaloskepsis at Moonshot today. Get it, get it, get it.
Slapdash is a new multimedia Brooklyn-based series that launched in late 2011. They are currently seeking performers for their February installment, themed Sex Ed.
Fringe benefits of performing at the Sex Ed edition of Slapdash: You will be performing alongside me and I’m not sure if you have you have read that book I wrote (“STOP HREF’ING THAT BOOK ROHIN WE GET IT YOU WROTE IT”-Everybody), but everything about that book is steeped in Sex Ed and I am not at all a terrible reciter of things if my Courtney Stodden poetry project is anything to go by.
But if not for February, do chuck your hat into the ring for future installments of Slapdash. Zane Van Dusen, who put this whole shebang together, is a stand-up guy—when he isn’t sitting down. He is also quite radical. He is ALSO in Mindtroll. But more than that, I’ve gone to a few of these and have always come away inspired. And laughing. That is the most important. The laughing part.
Last month, Nicole Steinberg was one of our four featured readers at the Moonshot Magazine Holiday Party. One of the series she read from was her Getting Lucky series, where she pulled copy from previous issues of Lucky Magazine to put together provocative and sometimes hilarious poems. You can read them here and listen to Steinberg read them aloud.
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CC: Governments, oligarchies, monarchies, all of humanity, the people in line waiting to pay for their coffee, and the aliens waiting for the right moment to swoop down on their pimped out mothership and call Earth their own.
Today, Moonshot debuts the first installment of Omphaloskepsis, a bi-weekly comic by Paul K. Tunis. We initially learn about a houseplant with a severe smoking problem. Oh, dear.
See whole thing here. It runs twice a month, on Wednesdays.
Matt Momchilov, Stevie Nicks Wild Heart Jacket
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Here is a photograph of me looking “coy” while holding my comical writer-themed coffee mug. There is a hilarious slogan on the other side of it. Regardless. Earlier this week, Miss Birds of Lace herself reached out to me because her dear friend and gifted artist Matt Momchilov was having a solo exhibition out in San Francisco of his work and asked me if I would like to contribute something new for a catalog she had been putting together. I said yes, even though I’ve been creatively obstructed for a while now—I hand-wrote pages for my novel a few weeks ago, but that’s it. But this flash fiction actually came to me fairly easy. It’s making me think I should consider work on another chapbook ahead of shopping my novel—something far more focused, polished, and grown-up than Relief Work.
Momchilov’s brilliant art show opened last night and the catalog features work by other brilliant individuals like Niina Pollari, Kate Durbin, Ben Fama, and several others whose names I can’t remember.
Yelle, “La Musique”
Yelle has returned. Have I mentioned how incredible pop in 2010 is lately? This video, created by art collective We Are From LA only confirms it.