SIRE, I AM FROM THE OTHER COUNTRY We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That’s lost. We know how to read every promise in faces — the [...]
Category Archives: Scenarios
Leaving Chicago: a g-chat by Hallie Elizabeth Newton
May 21, 2009 – 9:16 am
He came in and everyone was like “Mike Mike Hi Mike” And he never said anything And then in the middle of some total loser’s story about nothing he was like, “Hey Seth I have a gift for you” and pulled out a rubber coffee top And “Seth” (in a red Patagonia and goggles, no [...]
Crustaceans
May 8, 2009 – 9:21 am
One day, Gérard de Nerval went for a stroll in the gardens of the Palais-Royal with a living lobster on a leash. The idlers crowded around him, flabbergasted and roaring with laughter at the strange retinue. One of his friends having asked him why he was making such a fool of himself, Nerval replied: ‘But [...]
