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found pug

2009-07-12T02:19:34Z

found pug, originally uploaded by persephassa.

we found this pug by our house;
she is lost
animal control came & took her away;
i hope her people come get her soon!
i want to keep her tho, she is so cute & friendly & seems like
she came from a house with cats, cause she
wasn't interested in poly & timby at all
if she was my dog i'd call her geek

dailywear

2009-07-11T20:50:43Z

dailywear, originally uploaded by persephassa.

i had an a-liner skirt class this morning at fancy tiger.
this is my skirt! it was fun. i need to buy some pinking sheers now,
and a sewing guage. and check to see if my machine has a
zipper foot, cause i bought this pattern & some fabric. also
some bedsheets to practice things with; everything was 1/2 off
at goodwill today. it would be nice to make a pie... blueberry pie!
but i'd have to go walk to whole foods. maybe i'll wait
& have marream over next week, i don't think we cld eat
a whole pie by ourselves anyways. and i need a pie dish.

kore @ 2009-07-10T16:37:00

2009-07-10T22:41:33Z

our friend dani 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?

kore @ 2009-07-09T20:14:00

2009-07-10T02:25:45Z

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

Starcherone Prize Finalists Announcement

2009-07-07T23:26:07Z

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.

kore @ 2009-07-06T16:26:00

2009-07-06T22:30:12Z

i spent awhile listing all the books i own on goodreads.

http://www.goodreads.com/persephassa - let's be friends!

reading list

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.

kore @ 2009-07-05T16:09:00

2009-07-05T22:11:10Z

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."

moss terrariums

2009-07-02T02:32:45Z

moss terrariums, originally uploaded by persephassa.

moss! first & second jar i got at the thrift store for 99 cents each with moss from around steamboat springs, third one is receycled lemonaise jar with moss from our backyard

i should put some little rocks in or something but i haven't got that far yet.

making banana cupcakes now... i made tabbouleh and pasta salad earlier; maybe i'll make vichyssoise for dinner tomorrow, too. i love cold food in hot weather.

dailywear

2009-07-01T00:49:38Z

day340, originally uploaded by persephassa.

http://persephassa.com/ | notebook

i went and did work at the botanic gardens this afternoon.
i just sat inside the hothouse cause i got all flustered
walking over; the weather is hot bright.

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.

ladies and gentlemen the fabulous stains

2009-06-30T05:02:00Z

ladies and gentlemen the fabulous stains, originally uploaded by cybermelli.

this was really good.
i want to dress like diane lane for halloween, maybe.

steamboat springs

2009-06-29T20:05:50Z

me @ mad river, originally uploaded by persephassa.

we hiked along the mad river on friday to these
barns and got caught in a thunderstorm on the way back.
we had to jog to the car & got soaking wet.

there was mule's ear on the hillsides all everywhere

and tons of other wildflowers - i need a book to figure out what they all are.

on thursday we went river rafting (family vacation!);
it was pretty fun, like those roller coasters where you get wet.
afterward we had lunch in a tiny town, hahn's peak. we sat
outside, looking out over steamboat lake.

this big horse came to say hello before we set out on the raft.

on wednesdya we went to the western side of the rocky mountain national park -

poudre lake at milner pass / the continental divide

we saw a lot of elk

and a pika (is this what pikachu is?)

and went up above treeline

while we were there, a thunderstorm came, and then a rainbow

we went to the holzwarth/never summer ranch

& the colorado river

at our place in steamboat there was hairless fox who kept raiding the trash bin - here i caught him with a mouse.

braxton & i went horseback riding

we saw more elk

we went hiking by rabbit ear pass

& saw a deer dash across the trail, then two fawns following after her. we waited for them to pass then continued on, and my dad stopped to look into the woods for the deer, and this one was crouched right in front of him.

more on flickr. we just went and got groceries - limes were 10 for $1, so i'm going to make limeade :)

kore @ 2009-06-27T21:03:00

2009-06-28T03:08:01Z

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.

kore @ 2009-06-18T12:27:00

2009-06-18T18:33:17Z

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.

kore @ 2009-06-16T19:54:00

2009-06-17T02:00:35Z

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.

kore @ 2009-06-15T19:59:00

2009-06-16T02:04:10Z

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

plant help?

2009-06-14T22:41:36Z

plant help?, originally uploaded by persephassa.

o you know what kind of plant this is? i feel like it is angry with me and i would like to read about it to figure out what to do. help!!

cellphone / tornado clouds over metro denver

2009-06-14T21:36:21Z

cellphone / tornado clouds over metro denver, originally uploaded by persephassa.

the sirens were wailing; i was walking home from getting bread and lemonade at the market

the downstairs neighbor said she saw the funnel cloud over a nearby park.

tintype & cabinet photos

2009-06-13T22:26:33Z

tintype, originally uploaded by persephassa.

i took some pictures of my little tintype.cabinet card collection. i should try the tintypes again later in the evening cause they got some glare. i got these in providence.

except this one; i got this in ventura, ca

dailywear

2009-06-13T22:08:07Z

dailywear, originally uploaded by persephassa.

hello.

this is what i see out my window:

i went and walked around; there ARE SO MANY DULL PAINTINGS
of mountains and stuff
i got my dad a father's day gift, at least
we have some huge paintings [the ballerina, one of russel's painting's, a painting braxton's friend skylar did] here but they are in a tube still
I NEED A STAPLE GUN
i should make getting stretchers for them and hanging them one of my summer projects
i would also like to have a vintage paint by numbers painting
there are some nice ones on etsy
like this

etsy

2009-06-12T22:15:09Z

etsy, originally uploaded by persephassa.

added some stuff to my etsy shop (persephassa.etsy.com). i have one more pile to do and then my drawer is empty!

frustratingly, i can't find the quick release attachment to stick my camera on my tripod, so i had to tie the camera on with a scarf. it doesn't work very well. wish i could find that thing...

Naropa Summer Reading Series Schedule

2009-06-12T19:38:25Z

SWP 2009 Schedule of Readings

All of the following readings and events are open to the public. All readings will be held in the Performing Arts Center at Naropa University's Arapahoe Campus, 2130 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder. Ticket prices for faculty readings are $6 for the general public, $4 for Naropa students/staff/alumni and free for SWP students registered for the week.

Tuesday, June 16 - 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Jack Collom
Laird Hunt
Renee Gladman
Brad Gooch
Rebecca Brown

Thursday, June 18 - 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Junior Burke
Anselm Hollo
Janine Pommy Vega
Samuel R. Delany
AB Spellman

Saturday, June 20 - 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Basil King
Bobbie Louise Hawkins
Eileen Myles
Joyce Johnson

Tuesday, June 23 - 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Amy Catanzano
Akilah Oliver
Kass Fleisher
Maxine Chernoff
Jerome Rothenberg

Thursday, June 25 - 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Eleni Sikelianos
Selah Saterstrom
Cecilia Vicuña
Anne Waldman

Friday, June 26 - 7 p.m. (second showing at 8:30pm)
Film Premiere at Atlas Auditorium, C.U. Boulder Campus (Atlas 100)
The SWP presents Ed Bowes' Entanglement.

Saturday, June 27 - 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Lisa Birman
Laura Elrick
Elizabeth Robinson
Reed Bye

Tuesday, June 30 - 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Christopher Stackhouse
Leonard Schwartz
Truong Tran
Sherwin Bitsui

Thursday, July 2 - 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Gloria Frym
Lewis Warsh
Zhang Er
Semezdin Mehmedinovic

Friday, July 3 - 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Mark McMorris
Mei Mei Berssenbrugge
Clayton Eshleman
Bei Dao

Tuesday, July 7 - 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Max Regan
Joanna Howard
Dan Machlin
Ed Roberson

Thursday, July 9 - 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Brian Evenson
Hoa Nguyen
Dale Smith
Alberto Ruy-Sanchez
Wang Ping

Saturday, July 11 - 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
CS Giscombe
Steven Taylor
Simone Forti
Michelle Ellsworth

sunglasses

2009-06-12T19:34:41Z

sunglasses, originally uploaded by persephassa.

kore @ 2009-06-12T11:23:00

2009-06-12T17:28:37Z

my house seems to be located in the dead center of the
art student's league summer art market. it starts tomorrow, but the whole street is lined with booths and trucks,
setting up. i hope the music won't be too awful... all i hear right now is machine grindery.
good morning.

kore @ 2009-06-12T05:00:00

2009-06-12T11:05:44Z

eeeeee!!!!

for some weird reason (why am i up?), i was thinking
about these golden books i had as a kid... oh now
i remember why, cause i started writing reviews
on yelp and i was looking up places i like, so i looked
up rocket to mars in providence, and then i recalled
how one summer we went there and i had no money
but they had a lenticular picture of goldilocks
and the 3 bears and i really, really wanted it - it was like
the images from the front of those golden books, but biggggger.
so i looked on etsy and i found one for $7!! not
goldilocks, cinderella, but scratchy hologram! yay! & it's 10 1/4"x13"!

which also reminds me, when i was little my mom had
this picture of jesus she kept in her bible (the living bible);
in the picture his eyes were closed, but if you exposed the
picture to light for a bit, then put it in darkness, his eyes
would burn with fire. that really gave me nightmares about jesus.

Denver Botanic Gardens / Tamales

2009-06-12T04:09:43Z

Denver Botanic Gardens, originally uploaded by persephassa.

i went to the botanic gardens with marream today. it was a nice walk there; maybe i'll get a membership for me & braxton; they have wifi and it seems like it might be nice to go and read there or work on school stuff. sadly they had no bonsai garden, but i guess one is coming soon; they have lots of construction going on. while i was there, before marream came, there was a thunderstorm and my shoes and socks got all wet. i sat in the greenhouse for awhile to dry out. after that we came back here to make tamales.

drowned pink petticoats

tamales:

how i make them
i don't measure anything

you take some masa (maseca or corn meal is good too, if you like something more hearty. i like regular corn meal better than maseca), large can of enchilada sauce (i like hatch but i have made it from scratch as well), water, shortening (whole foods & such carries an organic kind that is good) and mix these together until the dough has a nice, non-sticky cookie dough type consistency.

meanwhile, soak some corn husks in water.

take a corn husk and press a sorta thin layer of it onto the corn husk. it shld be about in the middle of the husk, i mean with extra room at the top and bottom. spoon on some filling: i like to use canned corn & cheese (quesa, or a white cheddar cheese) - don't put too much, just enough proportional to the husk so you can make a package of it. fold the tamale, first lengthwise then fold the top & bottom so it makes a rectangular pillow.

put all tamales in a steamer and steam for like 45 minutes. while they are cooking, make spanish rice (onion+garlic in olive oil, add some vegetable like chopped carrots, add rice (i use basmati) & brown, add spices (i like oregano, paprika, cayenne & cumin & salt) add mixture of water & tomato paste proportional to rice, cook until water is absorbed on low heat... i usually have to stir it a bunch and add extra water bit by bit.

serve tamales with rice & tomatillo salsa & guacamole (avocado + green onion + s&p + juice from lime)

botanic gardens from roxanne on Vimeo.