3x things

I have a poem that was posted here yesterday

I am in this zine that came out recently

I now have a tumblr

stuff seems to matter less, maybe, lately

i recently read michel houellebecq's book "whatever"

i had read two longer books by him before, "elementary particles" and "possibility of an island"

i like him a lot, even though im reading translations

did i need to say "even though"

"whatever" was different than the other books

they are epic, pretty long and span long periods of time

this one was shorter and it kind of reminded of the short novels that are existentialist classics, like notes and nausea and stranger, lots of fucked up but flat personal delving in the protagonist, a quirky and pretty disgusting perosn who you have to admire at least in the respect that their morals/values are well-defined or something maybe, i dont know, violent and sexual tension, h/o this is a lot of books, i dont know

i read a short story collection by frederick barthelme called "moon deluxe"

it was pretty cool

he does some of the second-person type stuff you find in lorrie moore's "self-help" kind of, im not sure who came first i dont think it matters

that stuff is all over thought catalog, mostly ryan oconnel and bradon gorrell, sometimes megan boyle and tao lin though, maybe other people, i dont know

i think i might like frederick barthelme more than donald barthelme

i like them both

i was going to try to write a compartive essay on the two but who cares


i am reading dennis cooper "frisk" right now

i am going to read a short meliville thing after

then i plan to try to tackle "infinite jest" finally

i am doing some writing, i have a few stories i am working on and a flash-fiction flash-novel prose-poem thing i want to have be an ebook, vague plans for my great novel or something also

wish me luck fuckos