December 2009
A Pre-holiday/ Post-holiday Story
Your printer dies just before the holidays so you cannot print cheerful cards and verses celebrating the triumphs and tragedies of the decade, let alone the year. The triumphs and tragedies have substance unfortunately – which the printer lacks — so you are not grieving the loss of the printer you are merely annoyed. In due course, the minute the after-Christmas sales begin you order a new...
tape on top of tape not succeeding in keeping the inside box quite inside (By the way, this is not intended to be a poem. I am merely inserting line breaks where I feel like it.)
You can see that this outside box is bowed because of many holes and failed tapings because the outside box is both too big (too long) and too small (too narrow) The inside box is intact The printer is intact packed in a box with four shock absorbers
The printer is wireless The printer required six hours of installation efforts (the last two by the Canon techie guy who reassured me that something in my setup – read: Verizon network – is unkind and so my first four hours were fruitless— — this I already knew) because the Canon guy had to brutalize a port to connect the printer. See that blue light? It says “wifi”
This printer works. The other? Ready for the trash bin or recycling That’s the garage floor the empty birdseed bag, debris.
Which means Sporks are Exhibited in an Art...
One or our favorite collaborators, Regina Celia Pinto, has just discovered that her Museum of the Essential and Beyond That, a cyber museum she has been building for the last eight years—
is listed on a university website linked to the Brazilian Ministry of Education along with such mortar and concrete museums as the National Museum of Belle Artes. (After you get to the link, search for...
Spork Major's Christmas Greeting, 2001
Untouched Font
Six Poinsettas
“CPR is performed only on the dead.”
– David H. Newman, MD’s Hippocrates’ Shadow (New York: Scribner, 2008). P. 20
Another leave-taking
The chair that gave Spork freedom made it possible for her to work turned out to be a “hot” chair due to insurance error and so, it is returning
“There are only a few people one ever meets in life for whom the description...”
– R.D. Pohl, The Buffalo News ArtsBeat
Travelling with H1N1
When something is devastating your life say like H1N1 (Swine Flu) or Behcet’s Disease and if you are a writer or a documentarian you want everyone to know about it preferably before it kills you but if that is not possible you want everyone to know about it and even if it is difficult to be funny while intubated, you will fight and fight and fight and you will be sitting up on your bed the...
“There are signs that the worst may be over in the second wave of the swine flu...”
– Swine flu cases appear to be on decline/In Western New York, emergency room visits for flulike illness have dropped
By Henry L. Davis News Medical Reporter
December 02, 2009, 12:19 AM /