Emu Boy?

So I met an Emo boy in the surgery this morning,
Skinny jeans like black tights
with skeletal hands on the hips
Anarchic Angel teeshirt, new, too clean,
Bottle-black sneakers with tongues hanging out thirstily,
and a crimped fringe down to his throat.

Who knows what was wrong with the Emo boy this morning.
Apart from the obvious, I mean.

Deciphering Reynolds

I recently picked up an envelope of mixed ephemera and personal notes at the Bamff rare book fayre, which included a page in the hand of the legendary mid-20th Century poet Georges Reynolds. This is clearly his revision notes on a longer poem, obscured by his notoriously abbreviated style and some fire and water damage down the right hand margin. Can anybody help identify which poem is being revised here?

I shook my head

I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook my head, confused and depressed, and so I shook my head, confused and depressed, I shook

An interesting take on graffiti

Some of us have always argued that graffiti is art not crime, but this exhibition in London, What is Crime? has an interesting take on graffiti in the context of political violence, among many other images suggesting that neglect and infringement of civil freedoms are the real obscenity in our world, not acts committed by petty criminals. (Anyone over that side of the water able to go see it and write us a review?)

As the above link to the exhibition includes the filepath "currentexhibition.htm" it probably won't remain true beyond the August end of this show, at which point you'll find it in the archive. A brief discourse on the graffiti image can be found at the King's news site (as students at the Center for Crime and Justice at that college co-organized the exhibition).

So what is the crime?

Wiscon panel titles

Some lovely sounding panel titles according to the Twitter stream:

• "bisexuality in sci fi"
• Disability + BSG
• subversive kids' books
• "Resolving Time Travel Paradoxes"
• Warrior women
• What's In The Air
• kick-ass moms
• Verb Noir launch party
• "Gadgets: Then, Now and When"
• unspunky teen protags
• NOT ANOTHER F*CKING RACE PANEL
• portrayal of working class in SF
• Dr Horrible Party
• robots revolutionized by love

(I may have misinterpreted some of these... but it's more fun to crowd-source this stuff than look at the actual programme...)

Found on the inside wall of a locked cemetery this morning

Animated Graffiti

This has been doing the rounds for a while, but I just saw it again today and it has just the right combination of inventiveness, irreverence, grotesqueness, repugnance, and sheer Lovecraftian alienness to tickle my boxes. Enjoy!



Go give the artist some love: this shit is more poetic than a thousand jolly rhymers will ever achieve.

Alice says...

"Old erroneous Teachings as to Heaven and Hell, both equally Unpleasant in Prospect to certain Types!"