Sophie Sills reviews Rude Girl in issue #2 of the killer  Peacock Online Review...

new poetry by Thom Donovan, Elizabeth Robinson, Del Ray Cross, Brandon Brown, Sara Veglahn and others...!

new albums...

spent a rare night out in the Inner Richmond last night. 540 Club and some other places i don't remember the names of. stopped into Green Apple, a place i used to frequent a lot, and which i haven't been to in years...spotted Rude Girl in the shop, made me feel pimp. Green Apple used to be a veritable treasure box of old mimeo magazines...mostly sold to the shop be aging poets from their personal collections/contributor's copies to make some extra cash. All my copies of Soup and ACTS and Lines etc. were scored at Green Apple (not to mention Temblor of which i just started reading #4). so i was a little disappointed last night when i noticed the used poetry magazine area looking sparse. was just getting ready to leave when i noticed the very fat, very yellow and well worn side-stapled spine of a mimeo mag. naturally i check it out. and what a find! turns out to be an issue of Yanagi from "May 1974"...i consider myself a magazine man, but i've never heard of Yanagi. i cracked (and i mean that literarily, the mag probably hadn't been thumbed through in years, it made noise) the book open and was immediately blown away by the table of contents:

Michael McClure, Sara Schrom, Louis Patler, Bill Berkson, Tom Clark, Lawrence Kearney, Ed Kissan, George Butterick, David Meltzer, Fred Wah, Duncan McNaughton, Lewis MacAdams, Ebbe Borregard, John Tehan, John Weiners, Ron Silva, Dick Gallup, Bill Barrett, Michael Palmer, Ron Padgett and Joanne Kyger w/ a cover by Bill Beckman...holy shit right?

the internet tells me that Yanagi was edited by Louis Patler out of Sausalito, CA...though it also indicates that the mag was associated with New College Of California. and that's as much information i can find about Yanagi. anybody with more details please feel free to school me in the comments.

anyway, just thought i'd post some pics of the mag, Green Apple comes through again. as they always seem to. can't wait to dig in.

and now for another segment from your favorite BOTH BOTH blog series "This Is How Long My Hair Is Today: Scenes From The SPD Bathroom"...

Happy Birthday Mom! i luuuurv you!

and here's a birthday rap just for you!

kick it!

christmas decorations no fakin' as she mobs
to Costco steady clownin' fake trees, St. Nick please
Evergreen ornamentation with my sister she missed
her getting coffee "con" peppermint creamer
and she's meaner meaning nicer an energizer
just straight bite her if you can call her sweeter
than the Easter Bunny, cause she still cuts my pancakes for me
gives me allowance money, makes me peanut butter n' honey
just cause she loves me

Mom Sakkis, you're the best.
Love,
Johnny

favorite cover this week: Chris Tysh's Night Scales: A Fable For Klara K, just out from United Artists Books.

Julia Jackson. Warehouse Assistant. Poet.

SPD Open House Prep. Goddamn we're ruthless.

more illustrations from SSTTITD. this is a children's book. hadn't realized until now that i can probably trace my love of horror to this book. and possibly even my love for books in general. it's certainly one of my earliest book memories. sitting around with my brother and sister reading these stories to each other over and over again. we could only really touch this book in the day time. we would get too nervous at night.

something i didn't know about the books from the Wiki page: "This series is listed as being the most challenged series of books from 1990–1999[2] and seventh most challenged from 2000-2009 [3] by the American Library Association for its religious viewpoint and violence as well as for being occultist, satanic, or inappropriate."

the book was published in 1981.

easily my favorite book cover ever. SSTTITD. a staple book of my childhood.

one of the better covers from 2010...HEOATW by Simone White, one of the last Heretical Texts books from Factory School.