Throw on Your Best Cardigan and Celebrate Fall 2011 with the Gays of ILX

that picture of you with chocolate all over yourself from a while back - shits all over all of it :)

yeah really stevie

Hah! I totally forgot that existed--did I actually post that?? Ooops. I mean I guess that sounded way more mopey and self-pitying than it was supposed to and it's not like I think I'm hideously ugly or something but idk, sometimes I think it wd be nice to be more "conventionally attractive" or whatever. Of course, this is mostly just insecurities talking and 99% of the time I'm p damn content w who I am and fuiud, etc.

Poetry only breaks through to me on rare occasions, E, so don't feel so bereft.

The more I plumb the depths of an alluring man who's not 'conventionally 'hot, he seems infinitely sexier than some unapproachable random lovely.

rawr, et al, fuiud

― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Friday, 4 November 2011 13:27 (27 minutes ago)

pretty cantankerous lately, huh? or has that always been your thing?

What, I'm the only one that can't lay down the fuiud card?

it was just kind of random but do what you need to do

It was not random and fuiud.

Larry Kramer mad.

Sun sets in west.

what should i order for lunch

Corned beef and hash, mimosa.

what abouuuuuut . . . . . a falafel wrap and tabouleh?

I guess there's a point to being mad as long as gays are stupid enough to love Obama and give $ to HRC.

man, talk about a morning where all i'm doing is catching up on my internet ranting and rebutting and raving....

Alex Dimitrov is a self-serving, assimilationist, trust funded, elitist piece of garbage. His poetry is fucking awful sentimental garbage with no insight into anything of much substance except feelings that housewives and dumb rich faggots can appreciate. Fuck his salon, fuck its attendees, fuck him.

Seriously, I encourage everyone to go here and read this shit: http://alexdimitrov.blogspot.com/ .

He is the one who once said to me, "I'm not interested in politics, I'm interested in poetry," which is perhaps one of the most ignorant statements I've been witness to in the past couple of years. And that's saying a lot, as I'm sure you all can surmise.

wow, this guy is a real dumbass

i never want to look at that website again.

i'm hardly an expert on what constitutes 'good' poetry but that one on the front page of his blog is pretty dull

the picture of him in paris pretty much says it all

he comes from the Mark Doty/Sarah Lawrence school of poetry that says and does nothing except appeal to the trite emotions of the ruling class. There are plenty of ways to write beautiful, inspiring poems that actually have some substance, politically and socially. But his do not.

aieeeeeeeeee:

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/poetry-spotlight/10/05/alex-dimitrov-james-franco/

What is also really quite interesting is that one of his largest supporters and mentors, Marie Howe, is the sister of Susan Howe, whose poetry and criticism is wildly experimental, critical, and gorgeous. Dimitrov also once said to me that he 'doesn't understand' Susan's work, which betrays not only a lack of imagination and insight but also a profound lack of curiosity in exploring more adventurous work.

ok, that one is just dreadful. like i would actually just laugh at him if i were at one of his readings

He's probably the only person I stay friends with on Facebook just so I can become totally enraged.

also, in terms of the cute boy art phenomenon— i believe i've stated my problems with the whole thing here before, but i tend to agree with dr3w and others. THOUGH setting up weird binaries b/w Trecartin (whose work i find fascinating but weirdly unwatchable, for some reason) and McGinley (whose work i find gorgeous if sentimental and foolish) is not really my perogative.

drew, just as a question: how do you feel about Bruce LaBruce, or Guy Maddin? what about some of the emergin cute buy artists, like Gio Black Peter? curious.

oh hey, susan howe was with WBAI! we've got some recordings of her

here is a marie howe poem:

Hurry
BY MARIE HOWE
We stop at the dry cleaners and the grocery store
and the gas station and the green market and
Hurry up honey, I say, hurry,
as she runs along two or three steps behind me
her blue jacket unzipped and her socks rolled down.

Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave?
To mine? Where one day she might stand all grown?
Today, when all the errands are finally done, I say to her,
Honey I'm sorry I keep saying Hurry—
you walk ahead of me. You be the mother.

And, Hurry up, she says, over her shoulder, looking
back at me, laughing. Hurry up now darling, she says,
hurry, hurry, taking the house keys from my hands.

and here is some of Susan's work:

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/howe/sample.htm

i like that poemmm

it is the closed quotidian versus the openness of past, present, future. that is simplifying, yes, but the latter is certainly more engaging and challenging than the former, which is comfortable.

okay, done with my crazy poetry talk.

that's a v good poem imo

Susan Howe, whose boyfriends are wildly experimental, critical, and gorgeous

I read the entirety of In Memoriam for the first time since the nineties, maybe the most homoerotic poem ever written by a straight poet.

lol my bf was invited to that salon on facebook - he's not even a writer!

I bet he could churn out something of "James Franco" caliber for it!

lol.

i mean also, not to be a snotty shitbag, but that marie howe poem is garbage, imho.

agree with table. I'm not fond of poetry that looks like an upset stomach.

omg i'm sick of talking about this guy

http://www.cardmaking-companion.com/images/i-made-this-card-for-my-daughter-for-valentines-day-21306970.jpg

that marie howe poem belongs inside the above

what happened to us we just went on a trashtalkin bender

on the other hand I would allow James Franco to scribble sonnets on my body.

DONE.

let's talk about real things, like how i woke up on november 1st and two of my housemates looked at me and said, "we had to put earplugs in last night."

You farting bastard.

Did you eat Taco Bell the night before?

what, you leave the ball gag in the drawer on Halloween?

lol, morbz spot on. one of my housemates even said, 'i'm going to give th3o recommendationg for ball-gags when he gets out of bed.'

i am going to shave tonight

my face