Strugglesauce

On Strugglesauce and the state of the Antelopenvelope project.

Note: I am NOT actually “incredibly prolific”.

STITCHES The bird fell from the sky.Let me be clear: The bird.It fell from the sky.And I was the first to discoverit there. I happened to havea razor because I was toldI should shave. Instead, Isliced the torso and sniffed.I sliced the torso with a razorand pinched the heart to…

Icelandic Butterflies: STITCHES by Lucas Farrell

popserial: Feng Sun Chen, a Pop Serial contributor, has some great poetry up at SoandSo Magazine: http://soandso.org/#/feng-sun-chen/4540784295  Apparently, it is from a longer work called “Groceries.”   Feng had 3 poems in the first issue of Pop Serial ( http://www.mediafire.com/?hdykh1d1tmt ): “the astronaut talks to himself,” “4th of July,” and “TRANSITORY.” I find Feng’s poetry […]

THIS IS SO COOL… “I want to create a medical version of this,” he adds. “A Watson M.D., if you will.” He imagines a hospital feeding Watson every new medical paper in existence, then having it answer questions during split-second emergency-room crises. “The problem right now is the procedures, the new procedures, the new medicines, the new capability is being generated faster than physicians can absorb on the front lines and it can be deployed.” He also envisions using Watson to produce virtual call centers, where the computer would talk directly to the customer and generally be the first line of defense, because, “as you’ve seen, this thing can answer a question faster and more accurately than most human beings.”

robot watson

My reading list keeps getting longer. I feel like I’m on a super-fast escalator and I only have one leg and one eye. In the meantime, my bank account is a shriveling cactus, weeping without tears.

alternate 20 under 40 list from dzanc.

And then I remember why I am married to words.

Signs and Symbols

. The Last Samurai is one of those books I try to get through multiple times. Each interval is long enough so that I forget why I stopped reading it. I am reminded again. It is pretentious and arrogant. It is an orgy of intellectualism. Excessive intertextuality, allusions, worship of ancient texts and obscure texts, […]

Baltimore Sky

Skies have different personalities depending on your latitude/longtitude.

Another excerpt from the Antelopenvelope summer project:

I wrote you letters. I intercepted them. I put them in a shoebox. I put the shoebox in a bigger box. I put the bigger box at the foot of my bed. I put my bed in a forest. I put the forest in the stomach of forgetting. I put your imaginary friends in the well. I sewed the well shut from the closet side. Great winter coats touched my arms.

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The prettiness of a sister comes from the tinyness of shelves.

The prettiness of a sister comes from the tinyness of straps.

The prettiness of a sister comes from the tinyness of embroidery.

From the closet side buckets come in empty and leave full of viscous glitter.

Madame Frodo

Found Frodo at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. He is dressed as a human woman and holds infant Samwise in his supple arms.

it is so good to know you both have a good time at Batimore, your dad still working at old department, the new dept with old dept have a “arm fight’ for wicht day let your dad to go new position. your dad’s old boss siad he need to hire two people to replace his position because your dad had too much work load and contribution. everything is good here except almost two weeks raining days.
ho, dad already bought a gps for you, it has nice sound to mention when and where to turn or exit hwy.
takecare
mom

I like my mom’s emails.