tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135383212024-03-07T13:27:37.765-08:00The Paris Bitter Hearts PitParis literature, arts, music and fluff.vim cortezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920873362438514770noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-12650105590553980392009-05-23T13:36:00.000-07:002009-05-23T13:37:58.202-07:00the shutdown.Hey there. Almost a year without a post and no wonder, PBHP is all but dead. There should be a final spurt from the bleeding monster but for now much to our regret we must ask you not to submit new material. <br /><br />We may see you around.<br /><br />Vim.GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-60014460819839862302008-05-30T15:29:00.000-07:002008-05-31T06:09:31.422-07:00A Poem by Sam Pink.PLEASE PUT YOUR MOUTH AROUND MY EAR<br /> SO IT SOUNDS LIKE I'M DROWNING IN THE OCEAN.<br /><br /><br />I WILL TAP YOUR RIBS WITH MY SKINNY FINGERS.<br />AND EAT AS MUCH OF THE GROUND FROM BENEATH YOU AS POSSIBLE.<br />THERE IS NO SCENE.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Sam Pink blogs at <a href="http://impersonalelectroniccommunication.com/">http://impersonalelectroniccommunication.com/</a></span>GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-86717289517400923132008-03-17T14:57:00.000-07:002008-03-18T09:55:02.233-07:00Flash Fiction by Caleb Puckett<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sugar Land, Texas </span><br /><br />There’s a broken gumball machine next to the exit and a new machete under the register at the grocery where I used to please my sweet tooth. Raul says that he must cut me if I mention “candy” aloud, though he slips me a note that indicates he knows where I can score some black market baking chocolate if I’m feeling really down. Yes, life has changed since that ruthless dental syndicate took over Sugar Land, Texas and started eliminating decay among its citizens in order to stimulate business for those higher paying cosmetic alterations that afford exotic vacations for the assistants, practitioners and insurance agents. I guess they figure less is more in the long run, but with all the violence and crime I wonder if it’s a worthy cause. Just last week, for instance, Linda Henneman ended up with a broken hand for planting some honeysuckle behind an old shed. She’s such a kind matron, a quiet, harmless retiree, that it makes me question the dental syndicate’s methodology. But times have changed, sure enough. Why I even hear that Grapevine will be taking similar punitive measures sometime in the near future, although I’m unsure if the focus will be the same, especially since that city has its own share of unhealthy problems, judging by their name.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Postmodern St. Louis </span><br /><br />So much for the myth of the sedate Midwest. You’d think after T.S. Eliot renounced his citizenship for a more cultured shoal in merry old England that the place would’ve become even safer, more milquetoast, but no. According to recent findings, St. Louis tops the national list for crimes of every variety, thus rendering its famed arch into the sharp eyebrow of the stock villain who ties you to the tracks in the final scene leading to your screams, split seams and oblivion. The only thing missing is Ezra Pound’s maniacal laughter infusing the background with an Italianate sense of tragedy. It’s hidden somewhere in the eerie old archives with all the defunct laugh tracks, but you may rest assured that it will be retrieved in time to haunt Ernest Hemingway’s thwarted efforts to untie you, my dear heroine, my perilously positioned Gertrude Stein dressed to the nines in Hilda Doolittle’s seductive finery and nude tights. And there will be no William Carlos Williams around to save your organs for science, and if there were he would inevitably fail as well, being but a doctor playing an actor in the silent film of your mind. That said, I think it’s best to avoid taking Interstate 55 while listening to political appeals between bouts of soft jazz.<br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span>Caleb Puckett has work forthcoming in <span style="font-style: italic;">Asterisk: A Journal of New Initiatives</span>, <a href="http://elsewherejournal.org/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Elsewhere: A Journal for the Literature of Place</span></a>, <a href="http://www.cameron.edu/okreview/"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Oklahoma Review</span></a> and <a href="http://www.saltflatsannual.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Salt Flats Annual</span></a>. He recently co-authored <span style="font-style: italic;">Next Exit 8</span>, now available through <a href="http://kendrasteinereditions.wordpress.com/">Kendra Steiner Editions</a>, and he has a poetry chapbook, <span style="font-style: italic;">Desertions</span>, available through <a href="http://www.planbpress.com/">Plan B Press</a>.GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-24619288766546376652008-01-27T03:16:00.001-08:002008-01-27T03:19:01.403-08:00Petty satisfaction<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/journal.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/journal.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://xkcd.com">http://xkcd.com</a><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://xkcd.com/"><br /></a>GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-88131632560576659942008-01-26T11:38:00.000-08:002008-01-26T14:18:31.742-08:004 poems by Christopher Mulrooney<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gropinggiants.com/fountain.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://gropinggiants.com/fountain.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />the boulevard<br /><br /></span> the spindle-leg reviewers sat on the fly of a sailor's suit<br />and squirmed to beat the band<br /><br />the tall ships entered the harbor<br />like hobby-horses in the stable of a speculator<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />my compatriot</span><br /><br />he savvies near as much as possible<br />the ornamental truth of any mirror<br />he tells them as he passes gaily<br />unreflective with a glint that's tiny<br />it might be a million years for him under the wan hot blazing sun<br />and then again he and his kind might rove to moon and maidens<br />fall back like a petal in an ass's ear and laughingly<br />pretend the chorus of Don Giovanni<br />played itself nightly around his slum with fountains<br />rising mightily in the air as far as possible<br />cascading like a pis-aller down there<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />the sewing circle<br /><br /></span> here you have the fine old art<br />competes for face time on the Peeb<br />you make it out of scraps and rags<br />in which the discerning movie eye<br />of a born director on the sill looking out at the day<br />sees oh such things a roundelay<br />upside down a thousand things sideways something else<br />this too the art of making art<br />is stolidly discussed on telly<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">the city<br /><br /></span> it's not a bad story really<br />not so's you'd notice anyways<br />it doesn't go<br />or do much<br />doesn't say what it wants<br />to have it says have nothing else<br />and then it walks to the corner store for something<br />it admires the hills you've read it before<br />shut up in the library<br />that's alive and kicking out with boots or waders<br />nothing else a Winslow Homer hat for rain<br />yellow or gray a slicker too<br />perhaps same color<br />a pulley<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Christopher Mulrooney has written poems in The Delinquent, </span><a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" href="http://www.vanitasmagazine.com/">Vanitas</a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">, </span><a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" href="http://www.guernicamag.com/">Guernica</a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> and </span><a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" href="http://www.beeswaxmagazine.com/">Beeswax</a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">His own website is </span><a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" href="http://mulrooney.portland.co.uk/">here</a>GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-26476121762652876272008-01-19T16:22:00.000-08:002008-12-10T08:01:49.650-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkUoZHohKl8OmPxC0gAVEl2d7xNfm93fo2YBq7EfbzEChMtAdxMoAA7jGNXdQBiF5r9LL6rvtQJo3VCk62x2kTWmYBiLuXhTa26nCN0jiOAleiMzptWQx7cNucibzE4D99nfe7qQ/s1600-h/band+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkUoZHohKl8OmPxC0gAVEl2d7xNfm93fo2YBq7EfbzEChMtAdxMoAA7jGNXdQBiF5r9LL6rvtQJo3VCk62x2kTWmYBiLuXhTa26nCN0jiOAleiMzptWQx7cNucibzE4D99nfe7qQ/s400/band+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157347853320917682" border="0" /></a>GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-61584916827560204412008-01-19T05:33:00.001-08:002008-01-19T05:34:04.741-08:00Comics fever<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://xkcd.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/bass.png" alt="" border="0" /></a>GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-36370763280098617282008-01-19T05:28:00.001-08:002008-01-19T05:29:32.284-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.soundofdrowning.com"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.soundofdrowning.com/images/call13.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.soundofdrowning.com">This guy is amazing.</a><br /></div>GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-88988703020536008212008-01-19T03:32:00.000-08:002008-01-19T03:34:10.433-08:00Yes, but when?Well, soon. We've been delayed, as you may have noticed but, honest, PBHP 5 is nearing its completion.<br /><br />But then again, you know it's worth waiting for.<br /><br />Please don't send submissions at this time since we're pretty full.GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-83655797391109320992007-12-12T14:27:00.000-08:002007-12-12T14:36:58.038-08:00Annus Horribilis, by Sam Jordison<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511Votr3V2L._SS500_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511Votr3V2L._SS500_.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-US">If Schadenfreude is what you usually get drunk on, prepare for a massive piss-up. Sam Jordison delivers, with <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Annus-Horribilis-Chronicle-Comic-Mishaps/dp/0719524709/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/202-4614643-0074246?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194274068&sr=8-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Annus Horribilis</span></a> (John Murray, £9.99) one of those indispensable coffee table books (you can also read it in other, more secluded places) that trigger some needed chuckles in these dreary autumn days. The principle is disarmingly simple. Jordison compiled stories of remarkably stupid deaths, resounding failures, entertainingly catastrophic mistakes and sundry embarrassing moments, the whole giving more credence to the saying that what appears as a tragedy on an individual scale becomes slapstick when seen from a distance. Jordison made the bold assumption that a man's misfortune is another man's guilty delight and I'm not one to prove him wrong.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-US">Finally, am I the only one to promise myself that I'll read books like this in small, savoury shots and end up hogging them in one big gulp? I suppose it's the chocolate box syndrom, only the box this time may once have belonged to Pandora (am I clever today or what?).</p>GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-42637761455294925282007-11-30T02:55:00.001-08:002007-11-30T02:56:09.123-08:00So long Fred<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4429/15ritamitsoukoa9rcorlouhn8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4429/15ritamitsoukoa9rcorlouhn8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>R.I.P.<br /></div>GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-15966004362779072012007-11-27T12:45:00.000-08:002007-11-27T13:32:15.932-08:00Gay for Johhny Depp<a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=3796479">Gay for Johnny Depp</a>'s second album is not for rock for your mother, unless she's really fucked up. GFJD's arrangements evoke <a href="http://www.fearlessrecords.com/atdi/">At the Drive in </a>to my relatively uneducated ears, but with a good thick extra layer of distorted, urgent screaming, a dangerous whiff of sexual confusion and pointed evocations of self-harm. While the production, the piercingly distorted guitars, the fast and precise drums parts would place GFJD on the hardcore/mathcore shelf, their imagery, their lyrics, their universe, their clothes and hairstyle associate GFJD with more sophisticated (and generally more literate), UK rock acts. This said, lyrically as well as visually the band takes the expression of violence and sex well beyond the tasteful innuendos of your average well-mannered art rockers <span style="font-style: italic;">à la</span> Velvet Underground (incidentally, they have the coolest song titles ever. )<br /> There's a fundamental disequilibrium there that makes it worrying and fascinating at the same time, like that good friend of yours who's just come back from 2 years at a psychiatric hospital and is <span style="font-style: italic;">officially </span>cured. <span style="font-style: italic;">Of course </span>you can take him to your girlfriend's birthday party...<br /><br />Here and there, the band hints at a more melodic, more 'sung' kind of punk rock but they quickly chastise themselves for such indulgences. I can't say I wouldn't like to hear more of that, but as it is I'm impressed.<br /><br />You can catch GFJD live in the UK, tour dates are given on their <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=3796479">Myspace</a>.GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-92182685622272764202007-11-20T13:36:00.001-08:002007-11-20T13:38:30.160-08:00miracles of chemistry<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/diet_coke_mentos.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/diet_coke_mentos.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/diet_coke_mentos.png"><br /></a>GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-48096792811688242952007-11-20T13:31:00.000-08:002007-11-20T13:32:55.941-08:00PBHP compilation: it's now or laterThe submission deadline for the <a href="http://parisbitterheartspit.blogspot.com/2007/10/pbhp-compilation.html">PBHP compilation </a>has been extended to 4th December.vim cortezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920873362438514770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-9224561214614423682007-11-12T01:55:00.000-08:002007-11-12T01:59:37.999-08:00PBHP 4: still a few copies leftFor those of you who've missed PBHP 4, we still have a few copies to sell.<br /><br />And for a limited time only, here's a <a href="http://gropinggiants.com//PBHP4webpreview/pbhp%204%20preview.html">preview of issue 4</a>. Go get it quick before we remove it.GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-8754711068347331302007-11-09T03:40:00.000-08:002007-11-09T03:50:36.846-08:00Gay For Johnny Depp<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.gayforjohnnydepp.com"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.gayforjohnnydepp.com/i/politics400.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP have released ‘<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Politics Of Cruelty</span>’, their debut full-length album on <a href="http://www.captainsof.com">Captains Of Industry</a>.<br /><br />Gay For Johnny Depp are: Marty Leopard (vocals), Sid Jagger (guitar) Fabrizio Coxboi (bass) and JJ Samanen (drums).<br /><br />The single ‘You Have A Theory, I Have A Gun’ was released October 8 2007. Gay For Johnny Depp will tour the UK in November 2007.<br /><br />This is angry music.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lk6US8-aNQg&rel=1&border=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lk6US8-aNQg&rel=1&border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-72167628687583411222007-11-06T13:09:00.001-08:002007-11-06T14:57:32.604-08:00Speaking of Chris Killen...<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Help Chris along his way to rap-mogulship by recording yourself saying </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" > 'i like Raymond Carver' and <a href="http://dayofmoustaches.blogspot.com/2007/11/please-sing-on-wig-of-blood-song.html">sending him the result</a>. You'll feature on the next <a href="http://www.myspace.com/wigofblood">Wig of Blood</a> recording.<br /><br />Sometimes making it in the business is as easy as dat.<br /><br />On a more literary note, Chris's next novel will be published by no less that <a href="http://www.myspace.com/canongate">Canongate</a>! Does he puff his chest? No he doesn't. Should he? You bet he should.<br /><br />You really need to use torture to get some self-promotion out of Chris. Did you know that he won the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/manchester/2007/10/manchester_blog_awards_2007_2.shtml">2007 Manchester Blog Award for Best Writing</a>?<br /><br /></span></span>vim cortezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920873362438514770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-38450818995092769222007-11-06T12:44:00.001-08:002007-11-06T14:09:35.142-08:00PBHP in ManchesterWe hear that PBHP 5 may still be found (free) in Manchester in the following places:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/">Piccadilly Records </a>(oldham st.)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.magmabooks.com/content/service/gallery.html">Magma (oldham st.)</a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.magmabooks.com/content/service/gallery/lovecoldclimate/image1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 221px; height: 165px;" src="http://www.magmabooks.com/content/service/gallery/lovecoldclimate/image1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.magmabooks.com/content/service/gallery.html"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.vinylexchange.co.uk/">Vinyl Exchange</a> (also oldham st.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.vinylexchange.co.uk/images/montage2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 421px; height: 73px;" src="http://www.vinylexchange.co.uk/images/montage2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Thanks go to <a href="http://dayofmoustaches.blogspot.com/">Chris Killen</a>.GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-84400088629749333252007-11-05T13:26:00.001-08:002007-11-05T13:34:19.366-08:00Mental fight choreography<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/post_office_showdown.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/post_office_showdown.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />courtesy of <a href="http://xkcd.com">Randall Munroe</a>.GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-70961366958768266642007-11-03T14:23:00.000-07:002008-12-10T08:01:50.042-08:00The Error Corporation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-dBXJNbu_hcovstkxoQ3K9xWZ6ffJva5IUb62Uqy-FJfE9U8h4FmRGRU5jVf5sY4nQi03riv1wgSdjY_0OpbXjRPNwctnR04tyjZv_yUeYI6U0C_FoBfD_tbz0g7apv7SW841_Q/s1600-h/errorcorp.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-dBXJNbu_hcovstkxoQ3K9xWZ6ffJva5IUb62Uqy-FJfE9U8h4FmRGRU5jVf5sY4nQi03riv1wgSdjY_0OpbXjRPNwctnR04tyjZv_yUeYI6U0C_FoBfD_tbz0g7apv7SW841_Q/s200/errorcorp.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128732131304630386" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />The <a href="http://errorcorporation.blogspot.com/">Error Corporation</a> is now in business.GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-25896683033427066802007-10-31T10:30:00.000-07:002007-10-31T11:00:03.241-07:00Blatt Novel of novels contest<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blatt.cz/blatt_logo_png.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.blatt.cz/blatt_logo_png.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The finalists for the <a href="http://www.blatt.cz/">BLATT </a>Novel of Novels contest are : <br /><br />Michael Graham – <span style="font-style: italic;">Auto Immune </span><br />Clarence Bard Cole – <span style="font-style: italic;">This is Where My Life Went Wrong </span><br />Jason Price Everett – <span style="font-style: italic;">UnFictions </span><br />Peter Wild – <span style="font-style: italic;">Espionage </span><br />Eugene Lim – <span style="font-style: italic;">Fog & Car</span><br />Eckhard Gerdes – <span style="font-style: italic;">White Bungalows </span><br /><br />The winner(s) will be announced by next week. Each of the finalists will be published in a forthcoming issue of BLATT.<br /><br />The next BLATT Book, a collection of poems by Aleš Mustar called <span style="font-style: italic;">C(o)urt Interpretations</span>, will soon be published.<br /><br />You can read selections from this book online, courtesy of the following virtual publications:<br /><br />http://www.blesok.com.mk/tekst.asp?lang=eng&tekst=974 http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/excerpt-court-interpretations/ http://www.brindin.com/pomuspri.htm http://gloomcupboard.blogspot.com/2007/10/3.html http://blatt-blatt.blogspot.com/2006/09/happy-birthday-to-me-by-ale-mustar.htmlGDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-84454731085133705092007-10-25T04:14:00.000-07:002007-10-25T04:17:03.437-07:00<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/10/the_boring_brilliance_of_jg_ba.html">Lee Rourke on J.G. Ballard</a> over at the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Guardian</span>.<br /><br />Is the Guardian Offbeat or what?GDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04133043932300761827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-19524022511493298922007-10-23T02:28:00.000-07:002007-11-20T13:31:19.401-08:00PBHP compilationWe're now accepting audio submissions for the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">downloadable compilation</span> that will accompany the publication of PBHP 5.<br /><br />This is for unsigned artists.<br /><br />There is no genre limitation, except that the tracks mustn't be longer than <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">5:10</span> (we're funny that way), that we're usually not interested in mainstream/soft rock/classic rock stuff and that we tend to prefer something with vocals, but that's not absolute.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Nine tracks</span> will be selected.<br /><br />Please submit via a <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">link to the track</span>, which must be hosted online somewhere. To make things easier, make sure to place your work under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">this Creative Commons license</a>. We can't afford a lawyer.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Extended deadline </span>is 5th December, 11:59 pm Paris Time.vim cortezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920873362438514770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-46829860982386429542007-10-23T02:24:00.001-07:002007-10-23T02:27:15.654-07:00PBHP 4 ReviewWe love <a href="http://dogmatika.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dogmatika </span></a>for many reasons, and Darran Anderson's <a href="http://dogmatika.com/dm/books_more.php?id=3039_0_3_0_M">review of PBHP 4</a> is just another one to add to the list.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z13/dogmatika/newdarran.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 175px;" src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z13/dogmatika/newdarran.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Darran Anderson<br /></div>vim cortezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920873362438514770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13538321.post-26589811512944463272007-10-23T01:54:00.000-07:002007-10-23T02:17:25.659-07:00Sein und Werden, Summer 2007We're a bit far into Autumn now, but the summer issue of <a href="http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/sein.html">S&E, 'Rejectamenta'</a>, is still available.<br /><br />Editors Rachel Kendall and Spyros Heniadis take us through a beguiling literary/artistic jungle full of bizarre sideshows that looked for a shortcut, exotic literary plants that drank the wrong liquid and poisonous species hiding in the branches.<br /><br />Sein und Werden is getting better, wilder, more ambitious each time. This issue is a rough, relentless, perplexing, worthwhile collection of literary slaps, from the stylistic exercise performed by Juliet Cook, who offers a poem and then its "office" version, to Matina L. Stalakis's and Spyros Henidadis's "automatic writing" poems, from Corinne Holmberg's all-encompassing "Things I Have Put in My Mouth" to the absurdist/existentialist/Dadaist "bedrock" by Michael Loughrey, from J.J. Steinfeld's postmodern/nouveau roman/surrealistic story of a man haunted by a firing squad... to all the rest.<br /><br />Get it while you can.<br /><br />And since it'll leave you wanting more, have a look at the online <a href="http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/2_2/index.html">Autumn issue</a>, too!vim cortezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920873362438514770noreply@blogger.com0