March at ROY

Agnes Burris | Andy Plank | Kaveri Raina

Other News:

* V.V. BUTTONS has a Facebook page.
* I have work in Jackie Little's Rooms to Let exhibition 231 21st Street.
* History of Ohio comics lecture by Caitlin McGurk, and in the Alive.
* Columbus Alive Mark Beyer exhibition preview, Beyer in the Dispatch. I'm speaking about Beyer's work on February 23rd at the OSU Urban Arts Space.

New Poems

Thurston, Not Thurston

When I was young I named a mouse Thurston.
Thurston was killed by my cat.
So I wanted to name my child Thurston.
I felt like if it would be a boy, it would be suitable.
But if it would be a girl, it would be really perfect.
Though kids would call the kid “Thirst’n.”
And the name would seem out of place, probably.
Everyone I knew was named “Brandon.”

When I was ten I first heard Sonic Youth.
At fifteen I learned the name, “Thurston Moore.”
At twenty I knew so many people who knew that name.
I realized I could never have “Thurston” for myself.
It was imbued with too much meaning.
I didn’t even like half their catalogue.
Thurston Moore ruins everything.

But still, when I wear a brown cardigan
or use my book embosser,
I think “Thurston.”
Like
it’s someone
I had,
loved,
and lost.

Fucking Life

In June of 2008 I curated a show entitled Fucking Life for the Sporeprint Infoshop. Artists included Andy Hinton, David Leighty, John Malta, Andy Plank, Carlos Ruiz, Ben Scarbro, Stacie Sells, Nichole Senter and, in a fell swoop of narcissism, myself. Lisa Dorazewski, Sara Drake and Randy Hunter were supposed to participate and did not. Cars Can Be Blue, from Athens, Georgia, played music.

Wes Flexner blurbed about the show, which was also a release party for Punk Zine, on Donewaiting.

I remember constructing a fake wall with Ben for the show and it being laborious but "worthwhile" - a good learning experience. I was surprised by how nice everything looked together, which these photos hint at. I didn't document the event properly and apparently the only person that did was Kari Jorgensen. She just sent me these photos. The rest of them are after "The Jump" as is the flyer.