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Dr. Bakunetsu

Dr. Bakunetsu   
His name is Japanese for 'explosive heat' -  it's also, he says, unfastening his suitcase's  brass clasps, the name he gives the ailment, taps  the carat of my ribs - "In here, chief?   
Right-o, that's a nasty one. No, don't speak!  These things can go off any time, sunshine,  I’ve seen ones that could atomise Parliament,  your heart’s the barrel and this thing, chief,   
this’s the burning taper. S’only got to leap  like a flea, or a jumping bean, sunbeam,  skip like a record and your whole torso’ll  go up like a sack of fire

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in Drawings on 4/23/08
Warning NoticeGoing to Covent Garden? Attack from the south or the east.  The north-west approach is a gauntlet of living statues –  The danger comes not from the crowds (though they aren’t much use  either) – it’s from the malaise,  chilly as face-paint, that grows,  in your heart at the sight of these symbols of all that’s ceased   
to live, of trails gone cold, and of flames become black matches.  And it’s not that their act’s as old-hat as spinning plates  that puts you in mind of the grave (though that too grates)  It’s that when these mimes pretend  to be p Warning Notice
in Fixed on 3/17/08
Caligula on the CouchHe said to her: I’ve ruled not one, but two whole empires – count  ‘em –  yet the feeling that it’s not enough hangs round here like some phantom.  I rationalise, I hold aloft the naked truth like a lantern  but the ghost’s got pangs like Phineas and its played by Harry Dean Stanton.   
The crux is: though life (sigh)’s a pig, a flagship stuck in drydock,  the world’s a stage of tears, blah blah, I’m not too keen to die, doc!  Since what’s the use of fighting off contenders for the prize  if the victor has to give it all up when he dies?   Caligula on the Couch
in Fixed on 3/7/08
Caligula: Film CriticActual title:  Caligula on 'Caligula: Prince of Perversion'   
This 1970 animated film  sprang off the back of succexploitation classics like  Punkmilton the Fox, Sweet God! Godiva  and the screen adaptation of Ted Hughes’ Crow.   
Simply titled Haietsu (an audience with the Emperor)  in Japan, it was retitled and branded with an X  for European audiences. The critics were not kind:   
“A children’s film peppered with bare female nipples,”   
“A broken marriage of avante-garde art and sweaty skinflick,”   
“A torpid, spunk-spatte Caligula: Film Critic
in Open on 2/6/08
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NaPoWriMo Days 25-30

Journal Entry: Fri May 2, 2008, 4:07 AM
Last installment of my NaPoWriMo adventure!

Day 25 - My Life as an 80s Cartoon - [link]
Day 26 - from his notebook: Girma - [link]
Days 27-30 - The Cities of Gold Interviews - [link]

What's Next?

I'm compiling an article for the roundtable review on people's NaPo experiences. What do you get out of it? Do you think it prompts you to produce pieces you'd otherwise never get round to? Does it make you feel good about being productive, or negative about the quality of the work that comes out, or a combination of both?

I'm also going to be judging Aditi's Mini Chapbook contest and making the two winners into e-chapbooks, to be published in rtr half way through the month.

What? You think I'm slacking? OK. I'm also trying to compile a much more comprehensive and useful links page for Fuselit's site, building up the content for Bandijcat's site (especially with regards to the lucky dip) and organising the Fuselit: Fox London launch event that's set for June.

Plus, as usual: finishing my first collection, sending off the odd submission, earning money, that sort of thing.

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  • Mood: Tired
  • Reading: W. N. Herbert - The Big Bumper Book of Troy
  • Watching: Mysterious Cities of Gold
  • Eating: Raisin wheats and burritos
  • Drinking: Rooibos and beer

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  • Current Age: 25 on 7th January 2008!
  • Current Residence: whitechapel
  • Interests: poetry, comics, publishing, ornithology, shipwrecks, pirates, pangolins
  • Favourite band or musician: l
  • Wallpaper of choice: Red panda
  • Favourite game: grim fandango, snowboard kids
  • Personal Quote: A poet is a person who thinks he's a poet

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~J-Baxter:iconJ-Baxter: Apr 28, 2008, 9:39:28 AM
thanks for the :+devwatch:

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just got to keep you in mind as something larger than life
~Silverene:iconSilverene: Apr 24, 2008, 2:18:12 AM Mood: Zest
Belated thanks for both :+devwatch: and stopping by! :D

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BRAINZ! gimme!
~jack-cade:iconjack-cade: Mar 27, 2008, 4:58:00 AM
K can come along too!

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~critmass:iconcritmass: Mar 26, 2008, 2:11:02 PM
but but what will K say???

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there is a wisdom in the wave
~critmass:iconcritmass: Mar 26, 2008, 2:10:12 PM
holy puckerbutts!! i had the same dream

but it wasnt jack and it wasnt madrid and i wasnt going toeet anyone...

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there is a wisdom in the wave
~critmass:iconcritmass: Mar 26, 2008, 2:06:14 PM
holy puckerbutts I thought i made up girlgoyle myself

damn

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there is a wisdom in the wave
~critmass:iconcritmass: Mar 26, 2008, 1:20:13 PM
JACKIE-O-MY BOY!!

where ya been hiding that tired old carkus of yern!

tanks fer the visit bucko

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there is a wisdom in the wave
=smoking-mirrors:iconsmoking-mirrors: Mar 17, 2008, 9:35:32 PM
:salute:

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Indiana Jones hates snakes.
~jack-cade:iconjack-cade: Mar 17, 2008, 5:44:47 PM
Well, the word of the moment is 'Aquarium'. So cook up some writing, art or music based on that and send it to fuselitmag@yahoo.co.uk

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Fuselit - pocket poetry and art, made with love and diligence!

Roundtable Review - reviews, articles and new writing in poetry, fiction, film, art and stage.
=smoking-mirrors:iconsmoking-mirrors: Mar 17, 2008, 11:08:37 AM
I hope so, Emily got me excited about submitting.

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Indiana Jones hates snakes.
~jack-cade:iconjack-cade: Mar 17, 2008, 9:44:53 AM
I don't think I'll be moving anywhere any time soon, so the meeting's on!

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Fuselit - pocket poetry and art, made with love and diligence!

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~jack-cade:iconjack-cade: Mar 17, 2008, 9:41:56 AM
The serve got hacked into again! We seem to be very accident-prone in that respect. Hopefully it'll be up and running again soon!

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Fuselit - pocket poetry and art, made with love and diligence!

Roundtable Review - reviews, articles and new writing in poetry, fiction, film, art and stage.
*diamondie:icondiamondie: Mar 13, 2008, 3:28:26 AM
Last night I had a dream where I read on DA that you had moved to Madrid. I was a bit sad about it, because I'm planning to go to the UK soon (in real life, too, but I don't know how well the plans will work out IRL) and would like to meet you there.

Just something completely random. :->
=smoking-mirrors:iconsmoking-mirrors: Mar 12, 2008, 11:50:44 PM
I tried to access fuselit and it wasn't working! :crying:

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Indiana Jones hates snakes.
`PoeticWar:iconPoeticWar: Mar 9, 2008, 4:33:41 PM
Fact of the matter is that journals usually won't publish the most interesting poems. They'll publish the slighter, more closed-off and accessible ones, in my experience. So it isn't such a bad sign, really. ISYT, being a ';project' book, is always going to be a hard one to place poems from, I'd reckon.

The Rialto and Ambit are really slow. And I just don't like Ambit a great deal, despite having great design values. The Rialto takes anywhere from 8 months to a year...or more, or a bit less. Poetry Review is generally very swift, so worth a try, probably. Poetry London have mid-range sort of speed afaik, but I can't really get my head around what they fancy publishing. Probably little witty poems, mostly, and anyone published by Cape...

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Buy Mimesis issue one here.
Buy Mimesis issue two here.
~jack-cade:iconjack-cade: Mar 9, 2008, 4:51:09 AM
There you go! You've got a movement on your hands.

I'm wondering if it's worth continuing to try to find homes for poems that are due to be in ISYT eventually. At last count, 14 of them have been published somewhere or other, but I haven't had any success with the very best known magazines and the pieces I've had in The Wolf, McSweeney's and Nth Position aren't ISYT ones. It'd be nice to get a Rialto/Ambit/Poetry Review credit, but I've never had any success with them in the past.

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Fuselit - pocket poetry and art, made with love and diligence!

Roundtable Review - reviews, articles and new writing in poetry, fiction, film, art and stage.
`PoeticWar:iconPoeticWar: Mar 8, 2008, 7:28:42 AM
Her writing is just that kind that attracts mystical academic weirdos. As if the critics of Geoffrey Hill suddenly became new age and took up yoga. That said, I do like much of her poetry.

I've had a Stone/Irving-filled morning, what with the new Sphinx arriving and the new Pomegranate coming out. Nice job on both fronts -- good to see Hydromancy/er find a home. I was chuffed to see nearly half of the Pomegranate poets in this issue are Mimesis-published.

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mimesis, the poetry journal

Buy Mimesis issue one here.
Buy Mimesis issue two here.
~jack-cade:iconjack-cade: Mar 7, 2008, 5:56:56 AM
On further examination, it's hard to find anything sober written about Gluck!

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Fuselit - pocket poetry and art, made with love and diligence!

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~jack-cade:iconjack-cade: Mar 6, 2008, 1:27:10 PM
!!!

I ain't going near that without a physiotherapost handy.

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Fuselit - pocket poetry and art, made with love and diligence!

Roundtable Review - reviews, articles and new writing in poetry, fiction, film, art and stage.
`PoeticWar:iconPoeticWar: Mar 3, 2008, 11:18:37 AM
Louise Gluck has long practised poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortals. To read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal, down-to-earth. "The Seven Ages" is Gluck's ninth book, one of her strangest and certainly her most bold. In it - like William Blake's mystical Thel - she gazes down at her own death and in so doing forces endless superimpositions of the possible on the impossible. Her act at once defies and embraces the inevitable and is finally mimetic. Over and over, at each wild leap and transformation, flames shoot up the reader's spine.

So sayeth the back of Gluck's "The Seven Ages". Thought you might get a laugh out of it.

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mimesis, the poetry journal

Buy Mimesis issue one here.
Buy Mimesis issue two here.
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!amyperticone:iconamyperticone: Mar 1, 2008, 2:02:55 AMFlagged as spam
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Wow! You really are a brilliant poet, aren't you?

Why don't you join the poetry contest from [link] ?


It's free and every nitwit such as myself who enters gets a small gift

but someone like you might win one of their $10 000 or $100 000 prizes.
~TheCuddlyDevil:iconTheCuddlyDevil: Feb 24, 2008, 9:47:38 AM
[link]

My second try at a fixed form. I'd really appreciate your comments, if you don't mind. Thanks.

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But I -being poor- have only my dreams --Yeats
~Citizen-Cybertron:iconCitizen-Cybertron: Feb 14, 2008, 6:35:18 AM
Greetings and salutations! :wave:

This generic notice has been submitted to your personal community message board on account of your having exhibited an enviable flare for artistic delivery through use of your gallery space, in conjunction with a presumed affinity (to a certain degree) with the enduring Transformers franchise. :nod: As one might credibly discern from my elected pseudonym, I am something of an unabashed Transfan, myself! :love:

So why the impromptu dissertation, you might well ask? :aww: Simply put, I am seeking to make new acquaintances, through the basis of common interest. ;) With the protracted Hollywood Writer's Strike™ now reportedly brought to an acceptable resolution, production on the Dreamworks picture, "Transformers 2", seems good to go. :boogie: Whether this is a good thing or not, however, remains to be seen... :confused: Which would bring me to my primary contention: upon its much-anticipated theatrical release, I (foolhardily?) instigated a quasi-official discussion thread with regard to public impressions of Michael Bay's take on this beloved premise. :D The forum in question can be conveniently found here: [link]

Please rest assured that one needn't feel compelled to digest the entirety of my long-winded review (I do admittedly comport a tendency to WAFFLE...!). :blahblah: Rather, I'd just like to hear what you may have thought of "Transformers" (the movie, the mythos, the merchandising), what you might conceivably be expecting of "Transformers 2" (hopes, fears, rumours), hell, even just what you might happen to think of "Transformers: Animated", for that matter! :lol: The topic is open of interpretation (within reason), so feel free to swing by and have your say. :ahoy:

Hope to hear from you soon! :excited:
~jack-cade:iconjack-cade: Feb 13, 2008, 11:14:27 AM
Well, all of the TF IDW comics, excepting the movie tie-ins. You've got to get the main series and the spotlights to keep up with the multi-threaded and quietly compelling plot.

You don't have to read lots of Milton, Frost and Yeats. Blech. Lots of modern, accessible poets still write in meter. I'd thoroughly recommend picking up a selected poems of Tony Harrison and reading his sonnet sequences, because they don't read at all like stereotypical sonnets. They're packed with chunks of colloquial speech, witty expressions, raw, unpoeticised feeling, clearly expressed points of view, nuggets of knowledge - all the stuff that poetry is supposed to avoid if it wants to remain aloof. Carol Anne Duffy's ';Prayer' is also a poem that's probably turned about one bajillion poets on to writing sonnets, because they realise, upon reading it, that a sonnet can be accessible, natural-feeling, relevant, friendly and wise in the way we think, say, Kurt Vonnegut was wise, or Bill Hicks or Dr. Cox out of Scrubs - as opposed to the colder, intellectualised wisdom with which we normally associate poets. I'm sure you can find ';Prayer' online if you tap it into Google. I don't particularly like Duffy as a whole but it's the obvious example.

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Fuselit - pocket poetry and art, made with love and diligence!

Roundtable Review - reviews, articles and new writing in poetry, fiction, film, art and stage.
~TheCuddlyDevil:iconTheCuddlyDevil: Feb 12, 2008, 7:58:05 PM
Hmm, does that mean I'll have to be reading alot of Milton, Frost, and Yeats?

Anyway, here's a trial of mine with meter. I hope you get the time to coment on it. [link]

All of the IDW comics? Wow. I'm not big on comics. As a kid I read my dad's old Superman collection (memorable comics include the Death and Return of Superman and the ol' switcheroo with Batman). I have, however, under strong suggestions gotten Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Which was AMAZING!

Anyway, I plan on getting the War Within series if I get a chance. Is it any good?

Though I would agree with you that the character developement was poor, mainly due to lack of dialogue (and the Decepticons had practically none!), the film isn't that bad. I found the action quite nice, or maybe it was because of the fantastic CG.

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But I -being poor- have only my dreams --Yeats
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