Literature Not On Web

The world — and the world of thought — is Googleable.  If you’re reading this website then you’re already unconsciously aware of the [not always so] obvious: the Internet is an Extension of your Mind.

It’s footnotes, annotations, and endnotes to all you read and consume.  And yet when it comes to literature it’s really, well, kinda stupid.  If I want to look up arguments and comparisons of every type of Beatles bootleg known to man?  Easily findable.  But if I want a considered comparison between the Moncrieff Proust and the Pendergrast Penguin Proust?  The Internet has no idea what I’m talking about.  Other recent searches that proved in vain: I wanted a list of all translated articles and short stories — in magazines — by Bolano.  Nope, not on the Net.  How about a complete checklist of all magazine work by the prolific William T. Vollmann?  No sir, not here, try the library.  Finally I wanted a definitive answer, which is better and more informative (and accurate): the trusty Arden Shakespeare (once approved by Harold Bloom) or the new Yale Annotated Shakespeare (with afterwords by Harold Bloom)?  Query not found.

Want a list of every Earth in the Multiverse?  Or every member of the Legion of Superheroes?  Or every extant appearance of Streaky the Supercat going back to the 1960’s?  The Internet has it.  But the “fan pages” of pretty much any author you think matters absolutely SUCK and look like they were designed in 1999 because, well, they were.

Anyhow, since you, the reader, are on the Internet, you are therefore the Internet, so if you have any answers to the above questions, please let me know in the comments section located below this post.  

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Goonies Reunion

Spring One

It’s that time of year again.  Everyone, a round of applause for our long lost friend Persephone.

Great things in store for Miltonians in Spring One, 2009.  We’ve got the second of our Fort Saint Davids Series on the way, this one at WORKSOUND on April 9th and this time with a twist.  The title:

Twenty Stories About Twenty Towns in New Jersey

It’s really something special.  The idea: FSD Scribes Matthew Korfhage and Erik Bader pulled out a map of New Jersey and each selected — mostly at random — ten towns or townships from the state.  They took their respective lists home and for the past few weeks have been composing micro-stories set in each town.  This FSD Event will present their results.  It will also include:

-Wine

-Quality Conversation

-The Music of Bruce Springsteen

So there’s really nothing to lose here, people.  This is the Spring One Kickoff Event you HAVE been waiting for.

We promised more food.  Here’s a breakfast, made with love:

A breakfast like the above is vegan, from scratch not a package, and will fuel a body for exactly one day with a feeling of Vim, Vigor, and Vitality.  Fort Saint Davids highly suggests the above breakfast for all aspiring Miltonians brave enough to accept the challenge of making Spring One 2009 the best Spring One of All Time.

For dinner, a homemade vegan pizza.  Make the dough yourself, it’s the only way to achieve maximum CRISPINESS:

Here at Fort Saint Davids, we like ours with broccoli, but really any vegetable will do, as long as its FRESH.  Remember!  Health is an important part of making art.  Not making art?  You could always just make love or make the scene or make it new.  The important part is healthy = makin’ it.  Got that?  Good.  Here’s some Miltonians, enjoying a nutritious pizza dinner after a long day of exploration, reading, exercise, and wonderment.  The world is where it’s at:

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Nom nom nom nom.

Today’s Vibe, Kiwi Edition

The Verlaines.  Essential for the drear/bummer Portland pre-spring that’s fucking up your everyday these days.  Light one up and click the vid, they feel you.

The Clean.  This is for next week, week after, whenever this crap clears up.  We’ll be out there, graveyards, streets, wherever.  Anything can happen and it could be right now.

The Sunday Funnies + Meals Pt. 1

Rainy as all get out here in town right now, nothing for anyone to do but hunker down with the Sunday Funnies and a Mr. Goodbar and just wait.  Speaking of waiting, we’ve been saying forever that we were going to share some of our SW Lodge Meal Tickets with you — that is to say, the homecooked unbelievableness that we’ve been feasting on pretty much every night now since forever — so we’re making good on our promise and delivering the goods.  Here goes the first batch:

Nacho Supreme.  Put on some Mississippi Records, and just CHILL with a plate of this stuff.  Good times.

Handcut fries, homemade sauce, lemon.  HOOKED up.

Just your basic essential lunch, veggie burgers and some quality reading material.  An afternoons delight.

Here at the SW Goose Hollow Lodge, everyone gets a meal, including our Four-Fold Crested/Fluffed Neighborhood Sentinel Cats (Sentinel as they keep watch over our block, keeping spirits and bad vibes hell far away.  Dig?  Anyhow, best to keep ‘em FED.

Straight up goodness.

Friday Night Party Time.  The bread is our Signature Homemade® Series.  We’re getting better and better at it, getting that bread just right.  Bread = the Staff of Life.  And TOTS with our own special spicy sauce, well, it just can’t be beat.  For desert, fruit.

More pictures to come.  Got veggie recipies to share?  Drop us a line, we’re always down to try whatever.  Till then: Keep on Miltonian!

March Update

Sun Araw, Predator Vision, Atlantic City, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Charade, Watchmen.  Kurt Vile/Eternal Tapestry/Whines/Eat Skull live in Historic Kenton.  The Historic Kenton vibe in general.  The Jesse Ramone vibe, in general.  March blooms.  The New American Novel.  Mountains powdered with snow like donuts.  Donuts.  Vanilla Coke.  Brie/baguette lunch snacks in Laurelhurst Park.  Lunch cart delights in downtown parks.  Mini-drives at sunset.  Seagulls.  Crunch Wrap Supreme.  2666.  Leonard Michaels.  Philip Roth.  Pocahaunted.  Louis Wain cats.  Sentinel Neighborhood Cats, always keeping watch.  Yoko Ono, in general.  Beatles mono bootlegs, oh yeah.  The Goose Hollow Inn.  Magazines: TLS/NY Review of Books/Believer/Wire/Dazed&Confused/London Review of Books/New Yorker/Harper’s.  Porco Rosso.  Homemade vegan pizza.  April 9th is our 2nd Portland Fort Saint Davids Event: 20 Short Stories About 20 Towns in New Jersey.  Being in love, in general.  Secret SW Hills stone apartment complexes populated by who knows.  Secret stairways into the hills.  Hidden mansions.  Painted palm trees.  Good friends.  Sea lion freedom.  KCRW’s Bookworm.  Mississippi Records and Tapes.  Popcorn and a soda and a movie.  Happiness and longer days and winter’s final farewell.  Spring is coming soon.