May 2009
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Post Script. I'm told I should add BEER
It’s just beer would be too easy of an answer. Plus many Americans can’t drink beer yet
cuz they too young. Okay, beer might have a place as a prominent SYMBOL for summer, but a code, hmmm, I don’t know about that. Thing is, beer goes great with grass [chortling] 1. Baseball and beer go together like mustard and ketchup. Not if you’re playing of course, unless it’s...
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wet hot [grassy] american summer
What is the code for American Summer? I’m reading this book called “the Culture Code” by my homeboy Clotaire Rapaille, a French/Americana psychotherapist type. And he likes to find our unconscious codes for every little thing in our culture.
My guess is GRASS. why grass em d stine? No not marijuana…potheads. Like actual grass. The kind that people spend loads and loads of...
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“Plato’s Poem twittered January 18th @ 5 PM
the words, they drip like...”
– The first poema I ever wrote de twitter… sigh. will always have extra special place in my notebook signing off [typing off] emily d stine [poet + cig] you dig?
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"This is a Cliche Poem" by emily d stine
I love you,
My phone died. You complete me
Call me tomorrow. It’s not working.
It’s not you. It’s me. Sorry. Rock & roll, Deal with it.
Clear your desk. It wasn’t me.
We have proof. Call your lawyer. Drop the soap. You’re so fucked. Plead the 5th,
Make it convincing,
Cry a little.
Scotch straight up, Keep the...
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a little emmy theory for you to choke down w/ your...
today let’s talk SIMULACRUM. a concept posited by Baudrillard. Man, did he think Americans were nutty. He couldn’t understand our fascination with fake real things. HUH??
Yea, me too. For instance, why do Americans love Vegas? Why do Americans get a SATORI [kick] out of Disneyland? We know that the Pirates of the Caribbean ride is a CROCK, that it’s not real, yet we ride it...
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package me
height- 5 foot 6 inches hair- dirty blonde eyes- sinister blue weight- 130ish intellect- above average
label me. judge me. throw me in a box. roll me down the assembly line cut off my long locks. prim me. p r u n e me. turn me into you. the treatment that i’m getting, certainly is due. medicate. torture device. do whatever you can. we wouldn’t want a ...
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a poem for "the creatives" by @emilydstine
emilydstine:
the world disdains upon the creative they say “get a job … . lowlife, you bum, you degenerate.”
They crunch their numbers twiddle their thumbs and at the end of the day, they slurp whiskey until their brain goes numb.
But the writers, the painters poets, artistes, they sip a little wine because the world’s already too sweet.
Their souls soft, but their skin hard as a turtle...
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“As Americans, we are masters at putting undue pressure upon ourselves.
We must...”
– The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille
this section talks about how Americans eat and become obese because they can’t deal with the pressures of “the American Dream.”
Rapaille also says “Being a woman in America is difficult. I often joke (though I am only half joking) that...
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"howl" a poemo by HO to the JO @beautifulmoment
he looks west. he looks west and sees nothing. he/i look/s west and all we see a setting (dying) sun burning my eyes doing some kind of injury words like “cornea” and “damage” so at least we have this badge some sort of proof of seeing nothing. there is a video projecting there is a phone ringing there is a song playing there is a television crying and a computer muttering a machine...
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“alas w/ me guy always leaves me
or i leave him cuz
he’s not treatin me...”
– a poem by emily d stine
the “how to leave your wife” poem or “how to leave someone you love” when you still love them you just blindly know that there could be something better out there. If you ever have to have that discussion, this is something you could say.
[signing...
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The fate of humanity [hold on let me check my...
When commencing any discussion of American sociality, you should probably talk about Putnam. Who’s Putnam? Well….
This homeboy Robert Putnam is a philosopher/theorist of sorts, and he published this book Bowling Alone which has been hugely influential with people like me studying new media. Why? well basically he says Americans aren’t as civically involved as we used to be
no...
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why i killed [my] poetry
because it’s Wednesday and i don’t want to be a blogger right now. where life as a poetic anthropologist has entered into a linguistic crisis of representation. because i study the virtualvoyeurs of America who walk past each others lives on the street but scroll through it on the book.
there is little poetry in emoticons.
and i am congratulated for conformity of text, a streamlined colorless void...
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“A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his STORIES & the...”
– jean-paul sartre
we frame our life around stories this is why ethnography is beautiful I love to write ethnography because it pairs the novel with social science and in my specific case, pop culture fixation. the result? something you can’t take your eyes off of.
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WatchThis is a post of me last year giving the commencement address at the Honors Convocation. I was named the Oustanding Grad for the College of Arts & Sciences.
I make some points I should have listened to myself, but such is life.
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what does greenvana mean to you?
This is what greenvana means to Amy Weeks & I: an ideal state of peace, harmony, happiness & environmental sensibility
wow that does sound lovely now doesn’t it? It sure does. Now how would you feel if I told you that you could wear GREENVANA? Oh yes, such a thing is true. Greenvana is a bamboo t-shirt company who states as their mission
“to provide high-quality comfortable...
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“One of the handicaps of the twentieth century is that we still have the vaguest...”
– Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
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anorexic penguins & the way my brain thinks
everyone asks me when referring to models, why oh why em.d.stine do you think of the PENGUIN? Out of all the animals in de animal kingdom why the penguin?
Giraffes would be an obvious choice as well as the ever em. d. stine revered bo.know.bo but alas you choose the penguin.
why? i dunno penguins really get my goat. and oh man, i don’t even have a goat but if i did, it sure would be...
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Status Updates [creative writing bits] from my...
“The shutters click, the flash goes off, and they’ve stopped time—just for a blink of an eye. And if these pictures have anything to say to future generations, it’s this: I was here. I existed. I was young. I was happy, and someone cared enough about me in this world to take my picture.” –One Hour Photo
Status Update #1: Emily is TGIF.
It is Friday night and I have RSVPed to a “Food...
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poetry by em. d. stine
kalos kai agathos
[greek for the singular balance of the good and the beautiful] by emily d stine
the boy next to me he takes pictures with his eyes eyelash-click eyelash-click and when the bright eyes turn to me, I sigh, “such pretty words, but life’s not a storybook.” blink and I feel nothing. not even remorse from the fingernail bites ...
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a poemo by hojo [harry john shephard]
a service for the sun sweetness sleep (the sweatless kind) is at a premium these days. faces lining up hoping not to drip another $0.13 per [insert onomatopoeia for “work”] leather shoes trampling leathered feet as people with mouths where their eyes should be clamor and suffocate each other with their stories, bleeding stones for job stamps. these days. sometimes i stuff some...
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here's a little lit theory for you to chew on w/...
First let’s talk about a cool guy named Abelard who was very influenced by Aristotle. together with Bocaccio, he thought that philosophers RAPE lady philosophy and that the true philosophers are POETS. He posited that it is the POET’S DUTY TO OBSCURE TRUTH.
i don’t obscure truth do i?
well anyways, it’s thought that there is a TROPE OF GENIUS and that the poet presents a...
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What is Love? Baby don't add me, don't rt me, no...
Here is a post by my friend, Mr. Bes Zain . .dot dot dot. . enjoy.
Add me. RT me. Friend me. Poke me. Nudge me. Everywhere I go, someone wants something done to them online, something that will result in more attention.
Everyone has turned into a marketer now. Rarely does anyone write to express. People write to get. They get a link back. They get a follower back. They get a donation back. They...
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My Guest Blog on the Examiner, a blog by my friend... →
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“Just Like Any Other High School
When Emma Lee transferred to Dullen High...”
– a satire i wrote as a senior at mullen high school
welcome to a new writer mr. ladd or...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a literary nerd in possession of a computer must be in want of social media. I know that’s true of me, and it’s natural that anyone fascinated by words would take to Web 2.0 like a duck to water.
If you’re reading this, you’re certainly already well-entrenched in the social media universe.Tumblr isn’t mainstream, so...
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a collection of POEMS called MEMENTOS
Agent Orange Vietnam
But they shouldn’t call it that. It’s not orange. Soft white American snow. The breath of a western god That’s what they should call it You try to get the monkey out of the tree by killing the tree.
COWARD!
Airplanes drop the snow mist flake by flake they hit the leaves one by one the leaves dropdead to the ground soon the trees die too but...
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Marijuana & Adolescence written for Drugs &...
Marijuana is a pharmacological substance that can be ingested or smoked. It relaxes and then elevates one’s mood. The leaves and flowers at the top of a female marijuana plant contain resin which is where tetra.hydro.cannibol is found. Mexico is the chief provider of marijuana to the United States, but much pot is grown on Federal Reserve lands or in private residences. Marijuana was made...
me llamo emily
It would be easy for me to say that I am a single white female heterosexual. In America, identity is so often measured by marking a series of boxes:
gay or straight white, black, yellow, brown, or red male or female married or single you get the point.
But according to philosopher Charles Taylor, this fracturing of self in an attempt to put it nicely back together again as a single white female...
An ITea by @emilydstine [IT idea]
This idea is really quite simple as most GOOD ideas are. Here is a problem. Your company has 200 employees and you need a PowerPoint expert, an orator, a software programmer & a developer for Proposed Project to be completed.
Only problem is…you laid off your software programmer and your Technical Writer can’t use PowerPoint to save her life, so you hire a consultant at $100 an...
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What heaven is, or what heaven could be like
i can only imagine what it would be like if “ceilings don’t exist and there are no floors beneath us. If I were the queen of this night, would u become my king?” Saves the Day
a punk band i’m rather partial to, but to me this idea of no ceilings, no floors living life on a nebulous bed of air and moisture softened by the blissful rays of the sun, of the DAWN, is what...
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eupherbia: my love [a post by anna fine]
my goal in life is to be a subsistense farmer. unfortunately, i do not know how to farm or what plants even grow in my climate; i have long thought that a cactus may do the trick to train me as a farmer.
my instincts were confirmed by Emmy Appleseed’s summercamp for dis.enfranchised creative adults. a cactus is fun to look at, easy to feed, somewhat dangerous, and difficult to kill. owning...
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