Thursday, September 22, 2011

how I spent my summer vacation

Jonas Salk and James K. Polk stalk elk to make caulk and milk worms to make silk. Salk charms folk with slick talk to bilk the folk who buy silk and caulk, but Polk will balk when faced with bilking folk. He’d prefer to use oil and yolk to make mayonnaise in bulk for hulking folk like Peter Falk.

All day, Falk and his ilk skulk about, sipping mayo like milk just to add to their bulk, and looking for talc with which to make chalk. All Falk needs to make chalk is talc, and Falk gets the bulk of his talc on the boardwalk. And Mr. Polk sulks with caulk, silk, and Salk because Falk has no use for worm silk or elk caulk and even less use for a sulky balky Polk and a slick-talking Salk. All Falk needs is talc for his chalk and oil with yolk for his mayo in bulk.

And he has those things.

Thursday, September 08, 2011

I wrote this

I wrote this piece about William Gibson for the Chicago Humanities Festival blog. I mentioned it on Facebook, mine and the bookstore's, and I sent it to my mom, and so on. But William Gibson tweeted it and now hundreds of people have read it. Ok.

Umberto Eco, ostensibly the subject of another more self-absorbed blog I wrote for CHF, must not be on Twitter.
If he were, I would be pure famous.

In other news, I was at this book party last month. You would have loved it, maybe. You totally should have gone.