Showing posts with label michelle legro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label michelle legro. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 11

Bloggings about me and friends (an abbreviated post)



Gigantic has been getting some love: NewPages Blog and Totalitarianism Today.
"...more than enough to pique a reader's curiosity!"

"...better though not necessarily bigger."
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My friend Michelle has perhaps found her calling: J. Cruel. "Constant sartorial wonderment," says the site. A sample:


"But, Miss Ironbottom, I’m already wearing my P.E. clothes.

She’s not sure she likes your tone.

She’s not sure you get her, and she doubts you ever will.

She’s not sure she wants to make out with you in the closet anymore, down on the cement floor with the badminton set and the flag football belts and the mesh sack of dodgeballs.

She is afraid of being struck by a car while riding a bicycle and so always wears something that reflects the light.

Her mother was struck by a car while riding a bicycle. She was wearing tweed.

She’s not sure who her father is. All she has left of him is a mustache comb and a leather helmet with a label stitched inside that says “The Great Winkleton.”

She’s not sure what she wants to be, but human cannonball is high on the list.

She’s not sure you really love her.

You never said you did.

Suspender swimsuit in bicycle-safe, gunpowder-resistant silver lamé."

Recently they were blogged about here.

Friday, January 23

Gator vs hat, reading vs james, Gigantic


(Gator on hat)

Gchat with Michelle Legro (1/16/09):

11:49 AMme: i do like the idea of man's archetypal conflict though
man vs nature
man vs moth
man vs the unknown
Michelle: ponies vs. self
me: my brain just exploded!
11:50 AM Michelle: llama vs. the unknown
me: gator vs hat
Michelle: know I just imagine a pissed off gator wearing a hat
me: i think that could be a good tv show as well
Michelle: thinking "I'll get you one day hat"
11:52 AMme: yeah, he can't take it off because his arms too short
if only he was smart enough to just go into the water
11:53 AMbut he's not
and there's the drama

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I am doing a reading next Wednesday (1/28/09) at Guerrilla Lit in the East Village. Reading along with me are Greg Sanders (author of Motel Girl) and Jessie Male. The reading starts at 7:30pm. More info here and here. Thank you.

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Updates now up on the Gigantic blog. Some of our favorite fragments in digestible (and YouTube-able) list format. Two personal contributions: Annie Hall's singing in Annie Hall and Lou Reed's noises during "Sweet Jane". A second installment of the fragments soon to follow.

Look for Gigantic #1 to be arriving April 2009.
Gigantic #1

Featuring new words from Justin Taylor, Pedro Ponce, Yuka Igarashi, Dan Bevacqua, Lauren Spoher, and many other new and exciting voices; strange and beautiful art and photography; Joe Wenderoth and Deb Olin Unferth on "bad" art; Tao Lin on "genius"; and Gary Shteyngart on "meat".