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"Presents 2012" Art Bong Exhibition Documentation

Find pictures of "Presents 2012" after the jump.

Booze and Books: The Remains of the Day

I was a special guest star on Tatyana Kagamas's Booze and Books, the show that aims to improve your brain as you destroy your liver. This episode takes on the ethically complicated butlers 'n Nazis book The Remains of the Day, written by Kazuo Ishiguro. Remains won the Booker Prize in 1989, at which point it seems clear that - smug as he is - Ishiguro must have boozed in celebration. So you see, there is a connection. 

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Other News:

* Beautiful/Decay's John Malta profiled my artwork on their blog.

* The Nervous Breakdown's Jordan Castro interviewed me about my poetry chapbook Austerity Pleasures.

* Elijah Funk posted the cover  of his new zine Sometimes When I am Feeling Sad.

* Tin Armor has a music video for their song "Strange and Estranging."

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Do It Together Fest 2010

Each year since 2007 my Monster House roommates Richard Wehrenberg and Matt Scheuermann have organized a DIY punk festival called "Do It Together Fest" in Kent, Ohio. This year's iteration takes place over September 10th & 11th at The Vineyard and at Professor's Pub.

Wehrenberg, a renowned poet as well as an accomplished DIY promoter, said, "It's going to be pretty cool, I guess."

Scheuermann, of Punknews.org's band/record of the year, The Sidekicks, said, "It's your typical fest."

But would your typical fest have Tao Lin, author of Shoplifting From American Apparel and the forthcoming Richard Yates, fly in to read, slapping himself or his publisher with "mad" fees, and staying with Jordan Castro + Jordan Castro's parent(s) for four days in Solon, Ohio? Would your typical fest do that?

No. It's the most internet-literature-DIY-punk fest in the world. Or, at least, more so than Berea Fest.

Also out of the norm: rumored "awesome" after show will feature the debut of underground hip-hop sensation, Monstrosity. The first in the wave of 3rd floor hip-hop acts that call The Pocket home. Soon we will have something to rival St. Catherine's incipient "Spy Girl" scene.

Full DIT Fest schedule after "The Jump."