Carl: yeah, you know those Six Flags commercials with the old guy dancing around with the Corrado Soprano glasses...?

Jason: yeah...

Carl: yeah, that's me...

Jason: i don't...

Carl: like, that's me, i'm that guy...i'm a dancer and...

Jason: that's...

Carl: no i know...it's fucked up...

UNIVERSITY FALLS for STEPHANIE YOUNG

UPDATE AGAIN: THIS PHONE IS REALLY CRAPPY...CAN'T DEAL WITH IT...GOING BACK TO THE STORE TODAY TO GET A BETTER ONE. WISH THEY STILL SOLD RAZR'S.

UPDATE: I HAVE A NEW SHITTY LITTLE PHONE THAT COST 70 DOLLARS LESS THAN MY NOW OBSOLETE MODEL RAZR...SO TEXT ME YOUR NUMBER WITH YOUR NAME SO I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

MY PHONE IS DEAD...NEED TO GET ANOTHER ONE TODAY AFTER WORK...SPENDING HELLA MONEY I DON'T HAVE...HOORAY! IF YOU NEED TO GET A HOLD OF ME, EMAIL AT MERKONEUS@YAHOO.COM...YES I'M YELLING.

recently read...

1. The Complete Poems Of Cavafy- trans. Rae Dalven

2. The Space Of Half An Hour- Keith Waldrop

3. Lives Of The Poets [Congreve To Gray]- Samuel Johnson

4. The Sandman The Wake- Neil Gaiman

5. American Born Chinese- Gene Luen Yang

6. Collected Poems- George Oppen

7. This Eating And Walking At The Same Time Is Associated All Right- Leslie Scalapino

8. Utopic- Claudia Rankine

9. The Woman Who Could Read The Minds Of Dogs- Leslie Scalapino

10. 23 Chromosomes- Sara Larsen

11. Try- December

12. El Tsunami- Kevin Opstedal

13. The Climax Forest- Peter Culley

14. The Wasteland And Other Poems- T.S. Eliot

new roommate, welcome home STEVE!

voice mail: what does "to page this person, press 5 now..." even mean? has anybody ever tried it? what happened? i don't know, makes me nervous...

okay, speaking of FASHION (cause that's what poets are talking about this week...hi Brandon, Nada, Laura and Lindsey) have y'all checked out David HIGHSMITH'S flickr?
cause THAT'S FASHION...David tells me that he has a couple hundred more photos forthcoming...

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HELLO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE'RE THE TRANSLATORS AND WELCOME TO FUUUUNLAND!!! A-1-2-3-4!!!