Leroy Smith: Get Your Basketball On

For more information about Leroy Smith's basketball techniques and strategies:

http://www.getyourbasketballon.com/home/

Paperwall #15

The latest issue of Paperwall, edited by Sam and Katie Cole, can be found at:

http://paperwall.org/

Containing poetry and prose by:

Ryan Dilbert
Ankur Agarwal
Adam Moorad
Misha Delibash

I Am Not Sidney Poitier

http://www.graywolfpress.org/

Acadiana Symphony Orchestra

http://www.acadianasymphony.org/



"The mission of the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and Conservatory of Music is to present the highest quality symphonic performances of diverse repertoire to a broad audience while providing musicians with a forum for artistic expression and learning."

O. Pamuk's Nobel Prize In Literature Lecture, 2006

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words. This man – or this woman – may use a typewriter, profit from the ease of a computer, or write with a pen on paper, as I have done for 30 years. As he writes, he can drink tea or coffee, or smoke cigarettes. From time to time he may rise from his table to look out through the window at the children playing in the street, and, if he is lucky, at trees and a view, or he can gaze out at a black wall. He can write poems, plays, or novels, as I do. All these differences come after the crucial task of sitting down at the table and patiently turning inwards. To write is to turn this inward gaze into words, to study the world into which that person passes when he retires into himself, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy. As I sit at my table, for days, months, years, slowly adding new words to the empty page, I feel as if I am creating a new world, as if I am bringing into being that other person inside me, in the same way someone might build a bridge or a dome, stone by stone. The stones we writers use are words. As we hold them in our hands, sensing the ways in which each of them is connected to the others, looking at them sometimes from afar, sometimes almost caressing them with our fingers and the tips of our pens, weighing them, moving them around, year in and year out, patiently and hopefully, we create new worlds.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2006/pamuk-lecture_en.html

Tyehimba Jess' [leadbelly]

http://www.amazon.com/leadbelly-National-Poetry-Tyehimba-Jess/dp/0974635332

[Fresh Air: Writers Speak]

http://shop.npr.org/products/Fresh_Air_Writers_Speak-631-0.html

Includes:

Stephen King
Maurice Sendak
Richard Price
Philip Roth
James Baldwin
Norman Mailer
Allen Ginsberg
Joyce Johnson
John Updike
David Rakoff
Fran Lebowitz
David Sedaris
Billy Collins

Louisiana School Of Cooking

http://www.louisianaschoolofcooking.com/indexf.html

http://www.lafayettetravel.com/culture/food/recipes/

{For some of that Southern delight}

Soups, Gumbos

Appetizers

Salads

Seafood

Desserts

Lagniappe

Dzanc Books Creative Writing Sessions

The list of awesome instructors include:

Mary Akers
Randall Brown
Blake Butler
Matt Bell
Michael Czyzniejewski
Molly Gaudry
Diane Goettel
Kyle Minor
J.A. Tyler
Laura van den Berg
Kevin Wilson
Claudia Zuluaga

And for the full list of writers and for more information:

http://www.dzancbooks.org/creative.html

Big thanks to Roxane Gay of PANK Magazine for the opportunity to enroll in a session. Too cool of her:

http://www.roxanegay.com/?page_id=2
http://www.pankmagazine.com/

AAA Tattoo

AAA Tattoo:

http://www.myspace.com/aaatattoo
Open 7 days a week
12 PM-9PM
1548 Johnston Street
Lafayette, LA 70503
(337) 234-7121



Tattoo by Terry Grow:
http://www.myspace.com/86752809

Sunflower Seeds

--tales of a fourth grade nothing--

First crushes, or whatever it was that resembled crushes were Kim and Aimee.
First time making the Honor Roll list for the whole school year.
Coz, Doug, Beth, Erin, and Blair were the fastest runners.
Ms. Hall was the teacher--real cool.
Sat across Mimmy, who had the most contagious laugh.
Rien, Daisy, and I always had to wait in Ms. Rita's office to be picked up after the school day ended.
Ms. Rita pulled out splinters.
Brett and Graham were the tallest in class.
Tim was the best bowler.
Classroom was on the second floor.
Coach Jordan/Coach Gibson: "Perfect practice makes perfect."
Bubbletape.
Shel (5th grade) fell and hit his head on the wooden deck--skin split open just above his eyebrow, and he needed stitches.
Pretended I was Wolverine when playing chase.
Football/Stuck in the mud/soccer/kickball in the parking lot (sometimes the ball would go over the fence, onto Johnston St.)
Rainy days in the Commons Room (bear-walking and wheelbarrow races, tripod handstands, handstands, headstands, cartwheels, rolling, speed-walking)
Read Indian In The Cupboard--"vittles" was a vocabulary word. It means food--only vocabulary term I remember remembering throughout my school career.
Wore knock off Agassi's from Payless.
Italy was my favorite soccer team.
Michael Jordan.




Etc:

Still listening to--
G N'R
Cinderella
Def Leopard
Bon Jovi
Ozzy Osbourne
Poison
Motley Crue

Movies--
Dick Tracy
Kindergarten Cop
Ninja Turtles

TV--
Looney Tunes

SoMa Literary Review--Patrick O'Neil's "Talking With Maria"

Cool piece:

"Talking With Maria"
by
Patrick O'Neil

SoMa Literary Review--
http://www.somalit.com/Talking_Maria.html

And his blog can be found at:
http://patrickseanoneil.blogspot.com/
[Full Blue Moon Dementia]

Cité Des Arts

"Our mission is to provide an experience that welcomes and encourages interactions between various cultures, generations and artistic disciplines in order to increase the participation, enjoyment and knowledge each may have with and of the others."

http://citedesarts.org/about_us.html

From Michael Chabon's Maps & Legends

"I could adduce Kafka's formula: [A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul]" (2).

"...--we proceed, seeking out the blank pages in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--some of the pleasure that we ourselves have taken the stuff we love: to get in on the game. All novels are sequels; influence is bliss" (45).

"Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children" (79).

"It has often been observed that the writing of fiction is akin to the work of a stage magician, a feat of sustained deception in which by imagery and language the trickster leads the audience to believein the existence or possibility of a series of nonexistent or impossible things. In fiction and in stage magic, one result of this deception, if it works, is the experience of pleasure in the audience at the verisimilitude of the effect. In both cases the pleasure is possible--indeed, it depends entirely--on the audience's knowing perfectly well that it is being fooled, on its avid willingness to be fooled, to participate in creating the illusion of reality" (206).

[Daniel Gillen] {Neat}

Skulltoons:

http://skulltoons.blogspot.com/

Cool artwork--Enjoy.

DaNGart

Sein Und Werden: "In The Mornings"

The Summer 2009 Sein Und Werden issue can be found here:

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/4_1/index.html

The short prose piece, "In The Mornings," can be found here:

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/4_1/page20.html

And for the full list of contributors:

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/4_1/contents.



Really cool journal based out of Manchester, England.

The Basmati

[Tastes Best When Eaten]

---Afghan Women's Writing Project---

For more information:

http://awwproject.wordpress.com/about/

and

http://fromutopia.com/?p=3527

Prompts

Kristin Stoner, whose poetry can be found at

http://www.cyberroad.com/tiptonpoetryjournal/tpj11/stoner.htm,
http://home.comcast.net/~wapshot1/fall08/Poems.Stoner.html,
http://www.slowtrains.com/vol7issue3/stonervol7issue3.html,
and
http://www.prairiepoetry.org/poetry05/poems/stonerk1.html,

was kind enough to send this link of writing prompts a while back:

http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/ .

Neat things.

Rock

                                                            "I'm a rock"


                                                            "I am a rock"


                                                            "I'm a Rock"


                                                            "We rock"


                                                            "We Rock"


                                                            "I rock"


                                                            "I rock"


















                                                            "Welcome to The Rock"

The Dead Mule: "Eight Hours Later"

The short story, "Eight Hours Later," along with the Southern Legitimacy Statement can be found in the June issue of The Dead Mule School Of Southern Literature:

http://www.deadmule.com/2009/06/ .

Excerpt From Molly Gaudry's We Take Me Apart

Yes yes ya'll and ya don't stop. Check out a preview of Molly Gaudry's We Take Me Apart at:

http://www.aboutjatyler.com/index_files/Page740.html

Mud Luscious Press will be publishing it soon enough. Had the pleasure of reading a draft of it not too long ago, and it's awesome. And by awesome, I mean it's really awesome. Looking forward to reading the finalized version.

For more about Molly, check out her wonderful site at:

http://greencitynews.blogspot.com/ .

{And 1} Basketball Mixtape

Cuuuu-eeeee--k'yah k'yah--cuuuuu /The Figs

Them Southern Sirens:

The Figs
http://www.thefigsband.com/bios.html

[Cuuuu-eeeee--k'yah k'yah--cuuuuu ]

Charles Lennox's A Field Of Colors [Mud Luscious Press]

J.A. Tyler---
Mud Luscious Press---
Free copies of Charles Lennox's chapbook, A Field Of Colors---

Definitely worth checking out--Mud Luscious Press will send you a free copy if you just let its editor, J.A. Tyler, know that you would like one. Awesome.

For more information about Mud Luscious Press and J.A. Tyler and Charles Lennox's A Field Of Colors:

http://www.aboutjatyler.com/index_files/Page420.html

and

http://www.mudlusciouspress.blogspot.com/

and

http://www.aboutjatyler.blogspot.com/.

The specifics about receiving a copy of A Field Of Colors can be found under the June 1, 2009 post.

Please check out Charles Lennox's pretty cool site at:

http://otherbeasts.blogspot.com/ .

1Q84

http://www.amazon.co.jp/In-English/b?ie=UTF8&node=1094656

Spooky Voltage

[Sparky The Ghost]


"That's Electrifying"

The Elliott Bay Book Company

http://www.elliottbaybook.com/about/history.jsp

The Portraits Of The Stick Figure, #204, #371, #318 [Morning, Evening, Night Time]

The Portrait Of The Stick Figure, Circa Morning #204



The Portrait Of The Stick Figure, Evening By The Sea #371



The Portrait Of The Stick Figure, This Was Taken Around Night Time #318

Prices are semi-negotiable (but will not go lower than the costs listed below):

The Portrait Of The Stick Figure, Circa Morning #204....$7,000.53* (This is the price because there wasn't any time to get any breakfast--kept pressing the Sleep button on the alarm clock {for 2 hours} The hungrier I became, the greater the price)

The Portrait Of The Stick Figure, Evening By The Sea #371....$8,011.25** (Being repeatedly pecked by a pelican while photographing raises the cost of this piece {Should have taken some bread crumbs})

The Portrait Of The Stick Figure, This Was Taken Around Night Time #318....$7,000.58*** (Slightly more than The Portrait Of The Stick Figure, Circa Morning #204 because I tripped over an oak tree root in the dark and scraped the lower portion of my right knee {Need to purchase Neosporin})

* I probably wouldn't buy it for that price.

** I probably wouldn't buy it for that price.

*** I probably wouldn't buy it for that price.^

^If there ends up being a bruise on my knee, the cost is subject to change.'""

"""Meaning that it will go up a bit more [possibly up to $7,004.99].

[LBL: Box Scores]

BOX SCORES (Local Basketball League)

                Quarter 1   Quarter 2   Quarter 3   Quarter 4   Final Score
Team A   2                   2                   2                   4                   10

Team B   2                   2                   2                   2                   8



BOX SCORES-RECAP:

It was a tight game throughout--each team scoring 2 points in the first 3 quarters. Team A scored, then Team B scored, then Team A held the ball until the next quarter. In the second quarter, Team B scored, then Team A scored, then Team B held the ball until halftime. In the third quarter, Team A scored, then Team B scored and then Team A held the ball until the fourth quarter. The final 12 minutes of playing time embodied the essence of excitement in sports, perhaps going down as one of the most climactic quarters in the history of LBL. Team B scored first, then Team A scored, then with 4 seconds left on the clock, Box stole the ball from Team B and drove to the lane, shooting a lay-up to win the game. "Box scores, box scores," was repeatedly yelled by the announcer reminding the crowd about the time Havlicek stole the ball.

Acadiana Shell & Limestone

"Acadiana Shell & Limestone offers many different types of material, our biggest seller is Limestone, as told in our company name, but we also handle Greystone, Gravel, Sand, and Dirt."

http://www.acadianashell.com/material.htm

KRVS 88.7 [Frequency Modulation]

"Broadcasting from the heart of French Louisiana, KRVS is committed to artists and performances unique to the language, culture and music of south Louisiana. We also air programs synonymous with public radio such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, Car Talk, World Café, Thistle & Shamrock, American Routes and This American Life."

http://www.krvs.org/about.htm

Frank And Ernest Step Up Their Vocab

http://www.frankandernest.com/comics/index.html

Southern Artistry

http://www.southernartistry.org/browse_state.cfm?what=Louisiana

Quote From Get Shorty

Harry Zimm:

I once asked this literary agent what kind of writing paid the best and he said, "Ransom notes."

Rick Stoeckel's "Email From Your Facilities Department"

Read it a million times since it had been posted a couple of days ago--laugh every time:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/5/19stoeckel.html

-, --

En and Em:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash

Jefferson Street Market

Jefferson Street Market:

http://jeffersonstmarket.com/cms/

John Troutman: Indian Blues

John W. Troutman
Indian Blues: American Indians And The Politics Of Music, 1879-1934
University Of Oklahoma Press

http://www.oupress.com/bookdetail.asp?isbn=978-0-8061-4019-3





I remember doing some kind of play in grade school having to do with American Indians and Colonialists--I was one of the American Indians, wearing some kind of brown felt material around my body, and a headband. The parents were crying, of course, seeing their children on stage--I had no clue what it was all really about; I was just happy that there were cupcakes after the performance. That was my first introduction to American Indians, and that was all I knew for a while. 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue and happily ever after.

It wasn't until some 10 years later, when I opened up Howard Zinn's A People's History Of United States, did I gain a better understanding of the history of American Indians. It wasn't until some 10 years later when I realized that what I knew about American Indian History was based on a 15 minute performance done in grade school. Zinn's book opened up a new world to me--a world where American Indians lost their land or were killed or enslaved, or forced to convert their beliefs. It was a history I had never known--it was a hidden history which schools tend to not teach. What drew to me to Zinn's book was his uncovering of all these kinds of histories that we never learn about, including the history of American Indians. In John Troutman's Indian Blues, the author plunges into the struggles of American Indians from the 1870s to the 1930s, and like Zinn, he uncovers a hidden history hidden within a hidden history--it's like finding an underground cave within an underground world.

Like Zinn, Troutman made me think about a history in a way I had never thought about before. I had known about the struggles of the American Indians; however, it was only a general view. Troutman goes into the specifics--he goes deeper into this realm, and one can immediately notice the passion behind these pages. This passion is blended with reason and research and this helps to fortify the truths behind this subject. Singing and dancing--it seems so simple; however, it becomes quite complicated when two cultures collide or when fear meets creativity.

Music, for me and my friends, for people I don't know, for people I do know, play a huge role in our lives. It makes us dance or sing or ponder; it makes us laugh or cry; we'll have it playing in the background, or we'll have it playing in the foreground trying to forget everything in the background. Music can play both an active or passive role, and Troutman specifically discusses its active role, as it helped American Indians to maintain its identity despite facing policies that were trying to regulate American Indian music and dance. This text reminds us about the importance of music through history and it reminds us about the importance of history through music--it reignites the hidden past and continues to push for the future--providing hope.

Indian Blues is for both admirers of history and music enthusiasts. It's scholarly in nature, but it should also be read by anyone who is willing to read--it's for anyone who is in search of knowledge. The prose isn't complicated--it's understandable and precise and clear, but it also asks you to take time with each sentence, because of the inherent significance that travels with each phrase.

The book tells a sad and true story of American Indians as they have struggled and fought to maintain their heritage, specifically, their culture of music. Indian Blues is quite a fitting title as the book connects American Indian music and its role in American domestic policy between the 1870s and 1930s. Blues--that style of music, representing the blues of a culture trying to keep its identity. Troutman's book embodies both the soul of music and American Indian History, showing the importance of both fields as Indian Blues pursues liberation and truth and inspiration.

About John W. Troutman:
http://www.history.louisiana.edu/Troutman%20page.htm

Soundtrack:
http://www.warparty.ca/

Eat Lafayette: Menus And Restaurants

http://www.eatlafayette.com/restaurants.html

BeauSoleil

BeauSoleil Louisiana Home:

http://www.beausoleilhome.org/content/mission/index.html




[A New Kind Of Photosynthesis]

Pl-8-O And SoccerTs Are Introduced To The World Of Text Messaging [The Dialogues]

SoccerTs: Good student, Pl-8-O. This is a text message from SoccerTs.
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O: Good mentor, SoccerTs, how goes it? (?)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: Would you say that this form of communication is platonic? Our words are all in the air, strange. Feel nostalgic. Miss my pigeon messenger.
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-0: SoccerTs, good mentor, I am laughing out loud (lol for future text messaging purposes). Perhaps this is platonic. I must assess this situation. (.)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: Lol, I have come across. Have you heard of rotfl?
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O: Teach me, good mentor. (.)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: It stands for rolling on the floor laughing. It is quite visual.
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O: I am rotfl. Where are you? (?)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: Lower athens. U? U means you.
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O: Eye am in east athens, pondering the world outside of east Athens. Pondering the world we cannot see. Eye ponder by the pond and wander without my wand. Eye means i. (.)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: You are 2uu diligent. 2uu lucky to have you as a student. A student who is also my own mentor. 2uu means too.
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O: U are 2uu polite. (.)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: Eye am thinking of joining a fraternity. Phi beta kappa.
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O: Frat? (?)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: Have you heard that asher roth song? Eye love the part when he goes quote keg stand, keg stand, keg stand, keg stand unquote.
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O: Eye am rolling on the floor laughing and laughing out loud. (.)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: Quote chug, chug, chug, chug unquote. Lol/rofl.
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O: Decent mentor, eye plan to write a book. Can eye include u in it? U will be talking to my good brother [bro], explaining the allegory of the cave. (.)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: Hades yeah. Eye look forward to reading it. Must go now, to a party. The drinks will be on me. Come if you can. It should last all night until the dew of dawn at least.
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O: I will try. Want to get some eyedeas down 1st. Eyedeas mean ideas. Good luck with the fraternity and don't drink anything eye wouldn't drink. (.)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: Farewell pl-8-o.
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O: Bye bye. Take care. (.)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: One more thing, pl-8-o. Why did the chicken cross the road?
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O Whose chicken? (?)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: My chicken.
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O: Did not know you have chickens. Why did it cross the road? (?)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: 2u see butter fly. 2u means to.
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O: Ha (ha)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: Ha?
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O: Ha is equivalent 2u lol and rotfl. (.)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: Ha
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pl-8-O: Until then, good mentor. (.)
circa 399 B.C.E.

SoccerTs: I will see you on the flip side.
circa 399 B.C.E.

Pump Up The Jam

Emily Rapp's Poster Child

Emily Rapp's memoir: Poster Child

http://www.emilyrapp.com/index.html

P. Lal's Writers Workshop

Indian Creative Writing in English:

http://www.writersworkshopindia.com/modules/info/index.php?id=7

Hilliard University Art Museum

Hilliard University Art Museum:

http://museum.louisiana.edu/

Où Lafayette Arrive: Films Dans Le Parc

Downtown Lafayette:

http://www.lafayettedowntown.org/Events/EventsDisplay.asp?p1=3630&p2=Y&p9=E&E=N

Un Cinéma En Plein Air

15s