"Why I Like Playing Pool"
plus other links
I wrote a new essay about “Why I Like Playing Pool,” plus a bunch of other stuff, and also how I am going to stop writing about my life like this for a while. The essays I work on next, which will make up the second part of the book I am serializing here, will be about artists I like.
Other things,
One of the editors at Ludd Gang kindly asked me to submit something, and all I had was an MF DOOM homage I wrote in college — the other stuff in this issue is better, and you can get an issue by donating to the Poets Hardship Fund (not me making a joke, but the real name) here:
Topical to the pool essay above, there was a cool write up of this Occitan band in Bandcamp. Album’s good too.
I made my dramatic exit on the text-based, reality TV show GROUP CHAT — I had a good time, thought it was funny to only self-promote after I said in the initial bio that I was “there for the right reasons”, and am grateful to Stephen Piccarella for having me. I guess it worked out better for me than my last time on reality TV (ctrl-f “Arenaceous” to get to the right section). Anyways, good luck to all the remaining contestants!
Last week, only one more question came in, numbers you can get up here, but it was
Do you work at a library ?!
Alas, I work at a bookstore! Though I suppose professionally speaking, I do now need to get better at book recommendations, so you can use the input link for that, too (just give me some stuff you’ve liked, or something specific you’re looking for, and I’ll rec based on it).
Hope everyone is well.
The pool essay as also magisterial.