<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?><rss version='2.0'><channel><title>My Blog Feed</title><link>http://www.tblog.com/</link><description>A tBlog Blog!</description><lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:27:43 -0700</lastBuildDate><language>en-us</language><item><title><![CDATA[On originality]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/385720</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/385720</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Originality (as thought by most as a kind of deliberate difference) represents a departure from engagement with reality. In order to engage with reality, one must deny the impulse to be original: afte... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/385720'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[On dance]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/385058</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/385058</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Think of your basic unit of time (basically the unit of time that is most repeated in your schedule; this unit develops habit based on routine). My primary unit is currently the week, which is the bas... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/385058'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xmas is too close to Exams]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/363930</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/363930</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last night I submitted my Ph.D. exam questions and will now have to buckle down and prepare hard for the exam January 5. Once that's done, there's only the dissertation left, which means a) I'll be re... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/363930'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michel Foucault on dandyism]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/349722</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/349722</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The deliberate attitude of modernity is tied to an indispensable asceticism. To be modern is not to accept oneself as one is in the flux of the passing moments; it is to take oneself as object of a... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/349722'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obliquity]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/337488</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/337488</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I've been very interested in the idea of the "oracular" lately. I'll pick up some books on the Delphic oracle, maybe dig up any primary sources I can find to see what the Greeks themselves said. You c... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/337488'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are my prosthetic limb]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/333624</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/333624</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I've been increasingly systematizing my writing process. We might call it the "technologies of writing," 'technology' in the Greek sense of techne, the means by which something is done and, in this ca... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/333624'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Search of Organized Time]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/327972</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/327972</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I brought my most recent poem to the Avol's Bookstore morning workshop, which is based on the form of a heart, atria, ventricles and all. Doctors Jessie and Jeannie were on hand for the operation. I b... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/327972'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Online reviewing]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/308334</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/308334</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[My friend Sara sent me a link to a journal and suggested that I get my book reviewed there.This got me thinking. What kind of role does reviews play in the reception of a book? Since curious r... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/308334'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Postor]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/296221</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/296221</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I'm excited. Nes is working on the poster for the book. Speed Racer meets Mod Squad on some Mission Impossible with James Bond listening to Superdrag. While playing Grand Theft Auto.... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/296221'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisconsin Book Festival Reading]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/287323</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/287323</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Book Festival Reading, with Wisconsin Poet Laureate:Sunday Oct 10, 1-2: College Library Open Book Café Avol's Bookstore Reading:Thursday Oct ... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/287323'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nerd schmerd]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/282884</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/282884</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Maybe a conference will deadline my ass into writing a coherent project. Unfortunately, the U of Pennsylvania call-for-papers archive doesn't work very well (and by "very well" I mean "at all"), an... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/282884'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Morning]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/272422</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/272422</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Woke up around 5 thinking.Wrote up proposal outline for Canadian doctoral grant. Helped organize overall ideas about PhD project.Received manuscript for friend's new chapbook. Wants me... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/272422'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't go, Shane!]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/260207</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/260207</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bonnie and I watched Shane.... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/260207'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[T.S. Eliot on thievery]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/259085</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/259085</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/259085'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunny side up]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/253382</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/253382</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In Tucson, Arizona, you can get your hair cut at a place called The Coyote Wore Sideburns.In Tucson, Arizona, you can give up on wearing shorts because wearing them doesn't help with the... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/253382'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Word around town]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/238472</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/238472</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Worked on the book with Carleton today. October is shaping up to be nuts: Avol's, a cool little bookstore in new digs, will be launching the book on the 14th, the Wisconsin Book Fest will be having me... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/238472'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dodgeball & Pointy Shoes]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/222288</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/222288</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Besides yard sales and ice cream, Brantford has a mall movie theater where you can watch Dodgeball.White Goodman (Ben Stiller as hilarious villain) vs. Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughan as hero)... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/222288'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Pornographers & Wittgenstein]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/214865</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/214865</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Others have already pointed out that a line from The New Pornographers's "Chump Change" ("... the world is that which is the case") is drawn from Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/214865'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Week in Revue]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/214766</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/214766</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Art kids party.They eat foodand watch music.Music kids blow lidsoff all that lit shizz.Lecturesat punk venuesmean art kidsrock outnow. I eat foodand watch m... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/214766'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Table talk]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/206824</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/206824</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The last post generated a bit of discussion, so I thought it might be worth trying a new way to discuss a topic. I'll ask a question for which I'd like to hear your answers. If you answer them, you ca... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/206824'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cool and the Lame]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/203552</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/203552</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Since I never got to try on my new suit for the Griffin Literary Awards (I missed Adam at Union Station and saw The Saddest Music In the World with Lisa and Sou instead), I was itching to try it for a... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/203552'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montréal, where plates are stacked with smoked meat]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/196817</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/196817</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This weekend, the League of Canadian Poets met for its annual general meeting in Montréal. I went with my friend Adam, whose book won the League's award for best first book.My publisher sugge... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/196817'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Worst-Case Scenario]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/185357</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/185357</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The tornado warning that came over the P.A. system said that we had to go into the basement of the library and stay away from windows. Instead, everyone sat at their computers and looked at each other... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/185357'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiddy cent]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/182083</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/182083</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I'm listening to Patsy Cline and reading a story in which a museum security guard wakes up one morning and decides to stage a heist at work.I'm a sucker for duffel bags full of money and guita... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/182083'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the record]]></title><link>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/175402</link><guid>http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/175402</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's taken me two years, but two nights ago I finally interviewed my dad about his life and recorded it to mp3 and even burned it to CD. I've been writing about his life since the interview.... <a href='http://evilturtlenecks.tblog.com/post/175402'>more from evilturtlenecks...</a>]]></description></item></channel></rss>