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[Jul. 8th, 2015|07:32 pm] |
PERSEPHASSA.COM
hello!
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we sent a box full of my diaries from providence, ri on 10/16/2008; box arrived in denver, co on 10/24/2008 missing most of 10 years of diaries + a diary from when i was six…. instead, box is filled beef flavoured nissin ramen noodles :(
hopefully whoever gets my diaries will contact me; my web address & email is inside the front cover of all the diaries.
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[Jul. 13th, 2009|02:28 pm] |
the pug's owners came to get her today, so no pug.
i was going to go to work at the botanic gardens today,
but it has been thundering and waffling about rain.
i should go to the post office, though. and last night
i read bhanu kapil's humanimal -
wolf girls entwined, carrying their heads low. one image
that stuck, a knife spinning in jar of blue water. i wish i could look
in the kitchen sink and see that. |
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[Jul. 10th, 2009|04:37 pm] |
our friend dani ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) becauseshewas passed away on tuesday.
i haven't seen her for a long time, but i remember walking around with her in the
fall & that she carried a little salt shaker to put salt on her apple. and
watching episodes of land of the lost with her & ryan in costa mesa.
and going to see joanna newsom & devendra banhardt with her
& some friends in hollywood before i moved to providence; we
were standing up front and dani let kate hudson stand in front of
her cause kate was too short to see the stage. and they shared a beer. she
used to send me explosive & fabulous emails, like this one from 2005:
Choirs marred by mauve sheets of ice, leading each into the sky in
a row, a column of continuum reaching out while passing; all their
hands seem white, their eyes teary, and gasping. Each voice is
luminous to the makeup of the day, peeling into the orange sun,
crowded around a barrel fire at the turn of a corner, fingerless
gloves and the ruin of thousands of careers, spilled with the fall
of the markets, the roads ripped up and voicedover by palindromes
and prize-winning outbound hopes; each of them are still waiting,
still filling each moment of time. "I remember everything." We're
still sitting, but moving foward, leaving what behind? |
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[Jul. 9th, 2009|08:14 pm] |
- i went to the denver art museum with marream today; on the way there some guy stopped me in the street and asked to take my picture. i guess it will show up on his site http://www.iheartstrangers.com ; he is doing a project where he takes a photo of a stranger every day and writes a narrative about it. i think he told me that he'd just bought some purple jeans, & at one point he asked me to wipe an eyelash off my face, but i just realized it was part of my bangs, cause i trimmed them before i left the house. it is hard to keep them triangular
- yesterday i bought 40 limes to makes lots of limeade
- and went to the dentist; i have to go back to get a cracked filling replaced. hopefully not a root canal. it is the same stupid tooth i had problems with 3 years ago
- teeth are the most disgusting things ever: they are BONES that stick out of yr flesh. ughggh i am glad that the cracked filling is all that is wrong tho. i get nervous that i will have 5,000 cavities but i didn't have any! yay.
- at the art museum there is a really cool piece (Fox Games, Sandy Skoglund) that you walk through that is like... grey foxes prancing & leaping & having a party in a restaurant where everything is red, with a sing red fox and an old, 1930s 3 headed lady's fox stole draped over the back of a chair. it was magic, especially with these star trek sounds coming from a nearby video exhibit, and the sounds of drums from the african exhibit in the balcony above. oh, & a piece that was 4 super long purple velvet robes handing against a slanted wall so that their shadow was even longer behind them.
- last night poly jumped out the window (she gets out on the roof and climbs down the tree) and we couldn't find her for awhile, but then she climbed back up the tree and came inside. her feet were all damp cause the sprinklers were on outside
cell phone photos:
my get-up for walking around in the sun
fox games
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| Starcherone Prize Finalists Announcement |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|05:24 pm] |
some of you all already saw this, but now it is official, so:
These are the titles of the five manuscripts that are finalists for the 6th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction:
> 200 Pieces
> The Balloon Comtaining the Water Containing the Narrative is Leaking
> Glamorous Freak: How I Taught My Dress to Act
> The Orange Eats Creeps
> Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
These manuscripts, with the authors' names remaining undisclosed, have been forwarded to Final Judge Ben Marcus, who will select one winner of the Starcherone Prize for 2009. The winner will receive a $1,000 prize and be published in our 2010-11 season.
The Final Judge has the option of selecting additional manuscripts from which to make a selection.
This year's contest began with 210 entries, and our decisions to date have been extremely difficult, owing to the high quality of the submissions. Many terrific books had to be eliminated from contention, simply due to the limitations of the contest and what we are able to accomplish as a small press. In order to help promote some of these worthy manuscripts, a number of other entries will be designated with Honorable Mentions. These will be announced when our final decisions are announced, in early August. Please check this blog for an announcement in late July or after. |
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[Jul. 6th, 2009|04:26 pm] |
i spent awhile listing all the books i own on goodreads.
http://www.goodreads.com/persephassa - let's be friends!
i only have 173 books! i got rid of a ton last summer
when we moved from providence to denver. and i still have a bunch at home in california.
maybe when i go to ca later this month i'll catalogue those, too,
so i can remember what i have. i might also add all the library
books i currently have checked out. yes, lazy summer days. |
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[Jul. 5th, 2009|04:09 pm] |
my mom read me this book, amazing maisie and the cold porridge brigade when i was little; i remember it fairly well, but i didn't realize it was so odd: "A young girl from the African town of Timbuktu buys a talking camel and together they enter the Christmas Camel Race and beat the Wicked Wallah Wellibhut at his own game."
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| dailywear |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|06:49 pm] |
i was checking my stats & found this tumblr post about me; that's cool. the whole
blog has lots of interesting links to things about technology and gender.
scarletgeryon, is it yr boyfriend's tumblr from a class?
there is a post about doublespeak, too. |
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[Jun. 27th, 2009|09:03 pm] |
we left part of the subaru (the bar with the screen that pulls out that goes over the trunk area) on the curb in front of our house. when we got back from steamboat springs today we were looking all over the house for it & couldn't find it, & then braxton found it on the curb when he went out to get some gum. hilarious, and miraculous that it was still just lying there a week later.
i have lots of pictures of wilderness to post.
& so surprised about MJ! i always wanted to got up to neverland in santa ynez
and make friends with him. i used to sit in the back of our areostar on family
car trip vacations and listen to bad & dangerous on my tape deck; i'd
split my headphones with my little brother & i liked to imagine MJ doing
the moonwalk out in the prairie with the cattle and horses looking on.
i thought this story that gala pointed out was sweet. |
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[Jun. 18th, 2009|12:27 pm] |
i can hear the postlady dropping mail in the box from
inside the house. there is a small creak and slap.
sometimes it wakes me up. i love those kinds of
sounds. like, with house phones, sometimes
you hear a kind of silence before the phone
actually rings. with my cell phone, if
it is near braxton's record player, the radio
buzzes before the phone rings. |
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[Jun. 16th, 2009|07:54 pm] |
we walked all over denver; like 5 or 6 miles with some
lostness. it was bloomsday, so i guess that suits.
i got a folding fan for marream & one for me at the
japanese market; maybe tonight i'll sew a little case
for it out of scraps. we had fried plantains and
mojitos and walked along the river and it rained a very slight
bit. now i am making terrariums in cleaned & scrubbed
mayonnaise and basil pesto jars. i found a some moss
on our block: it likes to grow between the sidewalk cracks and
on shady rock walls. if i save every jar from pasta sauce
and jam and honey, i will have a lot of terrariums by the end of summer. |
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[Jun. 15th, 2009|07:59 pm] |
- i've been watching the terminator movies
- museum of contemporary art t'morrow with marream
- on my way there i want to stop at pacific mercantile co (i need a folding fan! and green tea)
- animal crossing wifi! i've been playing with preteens in faraway countries that i met on the ac:ww forums, but if anyone here like'd to visit or let me come visit i'd ♥
- my parents will be here saturday!
- the stormy rainy weather continues, but no tornadoes or hail today
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