Showing posts with label abe's penny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abe's penny. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 23

If you would like to buy some things I wrote recently

Dear friends/people who are curious about me and/or just ended up here randomly, I am selling a few things. Specifically some things I wrote and had published recently. Why? Because I am poor and you are far away.

Here are the things:

1) Abe's Penny postcard series with photographs by Massimo Vitali. $12.

From postcard 3 of 4:
She is talking to him now, from a distance of about five feet away. He is listening to what she says, but occasionally, because of the wind, or the waves, he cannot hear what it is. Sometimes when this happens he asks her to repeat what she just said. Sometimes he does not. Sometimes he just nods slightly, smiles.
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2) "9/16/10." Limited edition (out of 130) chapbook published by Swill Children, 2010. $12.

From the description:
Is realizing something the same thing as acting on that realization? "9/16/10" is a darkly funny and semi-autobiographical story about a day, a month, and those certain times in our lives, when we must decide whether to change or whether to remain riding in "the middle seat of a three-seat moving truck."

"Spit out in tense, hypnotic prose, James Yeh's Taiwanese-American kaddish can be read in the time it takes you to brush your teeth, but I'm going to bet you don't forget its sadness or its post-Brooklyn dread for a long, long time." -Ed Park, author of Personal Days/founding editor of The Believer

"Yeh’s quiet meditation on death will sneak in and throw up a window in your soul with its intensity." -Deb Olin Unferth, author of Vacation and Minor Robberies
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3) Untitled very short story published by Mudluscious Press as part of the Mudluscious Stamp Project. Free with any purchase.

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Buy them both for $20, receive Stamp Project story free.

***Free shipping to USA.***
International orders inquire at jamesyeh82[at]gmail[dot]com.

Interested people should Paypal jamesyeh82[at]gmail[dot]com.

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Thank you.

Wednesday, October 20

Halloween DJ Party + Two New Publications + NY Art Book Fair Appearance/Hangout



THE KINGS COUNTY SOCIETY FOR FITNESS, SCIENCE + MUSICAL MERRIMENT PRESENTS: THE KINGS COUNTY SECRET SOCIETY FOR NECROMANCY, INCANTATION + MUSICAL ANIMISM

On October 29th, MC Hyde (formerly Cormac McBootay, formerly Lincoln Michel) and I (DJ Jeykll) will be assuming our monthly DJ duties at the Manhattan Inn in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Dancing, disguise, and a fiendish, cemetery-shaking playlist. (Facebook event link here.)

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Brooklyn indie publisher/record label/arts collective Swill Children is putting out a limited edition book of a story I recently wrote, called "9.16.10." The publication is part of a collaboration with my friend (and Swill Children founder) Jesse Hlebo.

On Saturday, November 6th, I will be at MOMA P.S. 1, in Long Island City, Queens, helping out at the Swill Children table, from 3-7pm.

A description of the day's events, from the Swill Children website (especially psyched to be a part of something that will feature Robert A. A. Lowe [a.k.a. Lichens], who, in addition to being an amazing musician is one of the former tenants of my apartment/loft):

CERTAIN DISTINCTIONS @ THE NY ART BOOK FAIR

Swill Children is proud to be participating in the NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, November 5-7th, both as a tabler and an event organizer.
On November 6th, 2010 at 5:00pm, Swill Children will present Certain Distinctions, a multi-sensory performance based on gradiential structure. The fourty-nine minute aural and physical piece integrates improvised and composed movement and sound, all on the museums top steps. Certain Distinctions features five dancer’s assigned to five musician’s, who will progress as a group through the piece in a gradational manner.
Featuring dance organization by Angela Vitacolonna, garment design by Mara Sloan, sounds by Lucky Dragons, Robert A.A. Lowe (Lichens, 90 Day Men), Driphouse (Raccoo-oo-oon) Greg Fox (Liturgy, Teeth Mountain, Man Forever, Dan Deacon Ensemble) and Islands Eyelids. Organized and conducted by Jesse Hlebo.
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I have a story out in the November issue of Abe's Penny, called "Brief Descriptions of People on Beach by Person Sitting Far Away." The story was written based on a series of beach photographs by the rad Italian photographer Massimo Vitali. Here is an example of his work:


And another:


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In bike-related news, I'm approaching 2000 miles.

193 days (in SF 6 days, main bike broke for 43 days, in berkshires 3 days, in kansas 6 days)
~1934.6 miles 
134 bridges (wburg 111x, manhattan 6x, queensborough 6x, pulaski 7x, brooklyn 2x)
91 subway rides

6 crashes

Monday, April 12

Stuff I Like; Bike Experiment Year 2, Week 1



The nice people at Abe's Penny have asked me to contribute something to an upcoming issue of their magazine. I'm very excited about this. AP is a weekly magazine of postcards pairings of writers and photographers. For each pairing of writer and photographer, four postcards are made, featuring the photographer's photo on the front (or back, if that's the way you'd like to call it), and the writer's very short piece of fiction on the back. Abe's Penny was recently written up in BOMB by Paul Morris. They have forthcoming work by Sherman Alexie and have previously published such rad writers as Mike Sacks and Jason Crombie.

Speaking of Crombie, here is a slightly old, but still wonderfully cracked* interview with David Byrne while he rides his bike.

*This line, "slightly old, but still wonderfully cracked," was originally intended to describe the interview (it's from December 2007), but I now realize it could describe the subject of the interview as well.
Is it true Lou Reed advised you not to wear short sleeves on stage?

Yes.

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thu 4/8/10
~2 miles
1 borough (brooklyn)
0 bridges
0 subway rides

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fri 4/9/10
1.1 miles
1 borough (brooklyn)
0 bridges
3 subway rides

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sat 4/10/10

~17.0 miles*
2 boroughs (brooklyn, manhattan)
1 bridge*
0 subway rides
brisk, very windy, got blown a lot, became teary-eyed
leather jacket, hoodie, flannel, t-shirt, jeans

*excluding when i walked over the williamsburg bridge (from 169 bar to my house, ~2.3 miles)

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sun 4/11/10

~18.0 miles
3 boroughs (brooklyn, manhattan, queens)
3 bridges (williamsburg, queensborough, pulaski)
0 subway rides
cool, light wind, 60s
t-shirt, jeans

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mon 4/12/10

~3 miles
1 borough
0 bridges
0 subway rides
warm, 70s
flannel shirt, jeans

total so far:

7 days
~82.6 miles
3 different boroughs
4 different bridges (williamsburg, manhattan, queensborough, pulaski)
11 times crossing bridges (williamsburg 5x, manhattan 2x, queensborough 2x, pulaski 2x)
3 subway rides