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More Mark Strand, of course. This is from Dark Harbor, and is notable not only for a non-silly use of “alas” in a modern poem, but also the inspired choice of “compassionate” to describe the wind.

“Is it you or the long, compassionate wind
that whispers in my ear, ‘Alas, alas’?”

(The whole section is worth posting. Maybe tomorrow.)

Three words: Rocky Mountain Raceways. They are host to events such as the “Discount Tire Midnight Drag,” the “Jet Car Spring Nationals,” “Funny Car Fever,” and somthing called “Fuel and Fire,” which I can only imagine. Buy tickets here. Go, have a drink, watch jet cars, see the light on the mountains, and be happy where you are.

Two more Potential Band Names Found in Everyday Conversation:
1. Crawl On Down The Wall
(From talking about “those gummy spiders you throw at the wall and they stick until they start to crawl on down.”)
2. Co-dependent Consumptive
(From when I’d had a sneezing attack and then put on powder prior to going out. I asked my roommate–since the powder was a little pale and my eyes were red and puffy–“Do I look consumptive?” And hilarity ensued, and we ended up deciding I should write a personal ad that starts out “co-dependent consumptive seeks same…” and see how many dates I got then.)

Other Band Stuff:
Neko Case is playing Suede in Park City on June 17th.

Even More Band Stuff:
If you’re looking for the archetypal bar experience, you can go to The Republican on Sunday nights and listen to the house band. And drink lots of beer.

Another from Chris:
“It wasn’t just Chinatown, it was more like Chinacity, and it was full of Chinese people.”

Our Chris is an invited blogger for the AdTech conference in San Francisco, which means he gets to attend all the parties and write blog entries. (A shame they don’t have these conferences for literature, really.)
He’ll start posting tomorrow. Click on the blue BLOG navigation at the bottom left of this page:
www.ad-tech.com

In the ever-evolving search for good names for things, we’re moving from Potential Band Names Found In Everyday Conversation to Potential Titles of Award-Winning First Novels Found in Everyday Conversation (PTOAWFNFIEC, for short). We were telling Shea about Rio Grande (he’d never eaten there) and he asked, “They have a lady in a taco there, right?” Yes, they do.

(I’m getting these here. Visit. Be happy.)

Profundity is actully pretty common in songs, I firmly believe. (Think of Bob Dylan. Enough said.) I’m discovering how much I love Neko Case, who can maybe be described as Patsy Cline channeling Tori Amos, with a killer steel guitar player. Not only can she belt, she writes her own songs. Check them out. This is from “I Wish I Was the Moon,” on Blacklisted.

“How will you know if you’ve found me at last?
‘Cause I’ll be the one with my heart in my lap”

And today, here’s a list of Potential Band Names Found in Everyday Conversation:

Orcas in Antarctica
Hotdog Water
Heroin Dog
Former Penal Colony
Endless Meat Parade
Gone City
Horse Hooves and Goat Beans

(Oh yeah, you can check out The Website That Nearly Killed Us here: www.mytimeforce.com)

Until then, there’s Salinger.
And a little problem with a “fatal error” message with Dreamweaver, which means creativity has to wait while a site is recovered from screen shots and old files. The wacky agency life, indeed.

From the good old “Hapworth 16, 1924”:

He has a mother, however, a young divorcee with an exquisite, swanky face slightly ravaged by vanity and self-love and a few silly disappointments in life, though not silly to her, we may be sure.