many things

in a few short hours i will be leaving for los angeles by way of santa fe. i have decided to document the trip on my travel blog, the suitcase.

i haven't used this blog in some time but i have been wanting to, i just keep forgetting every time i go somewhere.

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i would like to talk now about a new online publication venue called yippee magazine began by my dear e-friend alicia pernell. the submission guidelines are as follows:

We like bicycles, trampolines, rope swings, paper snowflakes, and caterpillars and if you do too, we want to hear from you.

when i read this i became excited even though i did not express this outwardly. if someone had been observing me through a series of televisions in a dark room somewhere as i read about this, they would have been very wrong if they chose 'unexcited'. i feel like online literature needs this kind of 'direction'. everyone is always lonely, sad, and/or bored. i would like to see lots of people submit to this.

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speaking of online literature: after having read some of the links i sent him my roommate described the tone of the blogs i read as a 'clawing for intimacy'. i felt very excited about this description. when i first heard it i became excited but this time i think my face gesticulated more aggressively and more pointedly than i intended. i remembered thinking that if someone had been observing me through a series of televisions in a dark room somewhere as i heard this description, they might have deduced that i was 'ethereal' which was not the case and which would make them wrong.

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if you are in the los angeles area on October 4, please come say hello at the rio en medio record release party at spaceland in silver lake. it will cost $8.