by Splabman | Dec 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
This is a traditionally a week of looking back at the previous year and rather than present those posts from 2013 I wrote that I liked the best, I am letting my web stats program Jetpack have its say. I am not counting hits from pages like American Sentences and...
by Splabman | Dec 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
There’s an interesting op-ed in the New York Times posted yesterday (Dec 24, 2013) about how some of the folks who brought you Paypal and Google are now focusing their vision and efforts on extending life spans. The author, Roger Cohen, says that the era of...
by Splabman | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Rad Santa reading last night at Lottie’s Lounge was a huge success. Graham Isaac hosted and invited me along with three other writers, including Jocelyn McDonald, Chris Gusta and Ra’anan David and the idea was that we would read some Holiday-themed...
by Splabman | Dec 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
While I am not the guy who got the chance to interview José Kozer recently during his visit to Southern California, I was present as he responded to the questions of Cal State U at L.A. Ph.D. student Mike Sonksen. Kozer, as you may have heard, won the most prestigious...
by Splabman | Dec 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
For years there was a popular open mic at Lottie Motts, which was a cafe in Columbia City. Now the coffee has given way to Tequila and the Angie’s crowd has migrated across the street to be served beer by Seattle’s best bartending poet/literary empresario,...
by Splabman | Dec 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
One of my goals during my recent residency at The Lake, awarded by the Morris Graves Foundation, was to get to know Graves better and have a deeper appreciation for his work. Mission accomplished, in large part, because I was able to read Morris Graves: Selected...
