Daily Archives: November 13, 2004

subversion

Doing my part to subvert the right wing Christian paradigm:

I’m assuming that in many parts of the country, there are houses that have these wooden signs out front on sturdy posts that display a rotating menu of Bible quotes. All the ones I’ve seen around here are stained dark, with the sign itself painted in dark green and gold. Know the ones I mean?

They always have some cheery quote on them like “The wages of sin is death” or “Tremble before Him, o ye wicked!” with chapter and verse citation right below. Really dresses up a neighborhood.

I’m thinking of getting one for my house, except the signs would say things like “And Bingo was his name-o,” “Oops, I did it again,” or perhaps even just a simple, pious “w00t!”

This could be huge.

Maybe, more seriously, we could do quotes from great spiritual traditions that AREN’T Christianity (they do exist). Or from great secular thinkers. It’ll look like a UU revival meeting out there.

Then again, I could be even more American and patriotic than that.

I could just sell the ad space.


Column, iWPS, etc…

The new Zero Point Zero is up.

It’s an expansion of the discussion here earlier this week about allowing “space” in a poem. I’ll be interested to see how that goes over with the Gotpoetry crowd…

In a mean (but honest) experiment I’ve repeated several times over the two years, I mentioned in the lead paragraph that I was (and it was true) listening to Public Enemy while I worked on the column.

Mentioning hiphop in a title or a lead paragraph seems to increase readership. Can’t imagine why…

Only five more to go, I believe…

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Please, PLEASE let me know as you learn if you or any other people you know are coming to iWPS…I really need to start getting a sense of this for the CD project.

Right now, I’ve got a handful of y’all, and I heard that Corbet Dean is the competitor from Mesa.

Anybody post the original post on the slamlist? As I said, feel free…

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Busy day ahead. Many chores, errands, and stuff — dinner with old friends tonight; more of the same tomorrow PM, followed by (YAY!) aurorabell at the Asylum tomorrow night.

Have a good one…