- At August 03, 2006
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Is it me or has the news become so completely depressing it feels like a car landing on top of you in one of those video games every time you watch it? I barely scan the headlines, terrible, terrible. Injustice, destruction, rape, death, war. How to fight against this? In the comics, in a fight for earth, Wonder Woman versus Mars the God of War, Wonder Woman countered Mars’ Nazis with the Sermon on the Mount, with doves. In real life, what to do?
Also, on a not-related note, do not eat light ice cream that is made with eel blood. For more info, google “unilever ice cream eel” and see what you come up with. Organic only, baby! (Not responsible for nausea brought on by reading this story. Member FDIC. Not available in Alabama or Tennessee. Sorry Tennessee!)
The Blue Angels will be shutting down the 90 Bridge from the East side to Seattle on Saturday from 12-2:45, which screws up traffic. In case, for instance, you’re trying to get from Bellevue, Washington to a Saturday at 3 PM at The Richard Hugo House poetry reading/art show, I would recommend leaving early and taking a different route.
Oh yes, that’s right:
The Wild and Wicked Tour:
Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House, The Wild and Wicked Tour presents readings of two new books of poetry from Steel Toe Books, “Becoming the Villainess” by Jeannine Hall Gailey and “Blue Positive” by Martha Silano, and a one-day-only display of artwork by the book’s cover artists, Michaela Eaves and Tom Collicott. 3-5 p.m. FREE. Hugo House’s Cabaret.
Totally worth it just to check out the artists’ killer work. Not that Martha and I are chopped potatoes, or anything. We’ll bring it. Oh yes.
In other news:
Check out our own Rebecca Loudon’s interview about her first book here:
http://www.kickingwind.com/80206.html
I love this series.
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
Steven D. Schroeder
Well hell, I already eat Jello, and eel blood isn’t a whole lot less appetizing than ground-up hoof.
Suzanne
J, I can’t read the headlines without getting depressed. I’m currently avoiding them at all costs. My husband is a news junkie and I count on him to filter things for me. Sad, but true.
Rusty
I’m just waiting for a third trumpet call. It should be any time now.
Seriously though, it’s pretty bad these days. Of course, that’s what our parents thought, and their parents, and their parents before them… the world has always been screwed up, we just hear about it sooner and from further afield these days.
I hope the Hugo House thing went well. Michaela passed along your dire warning that I had to visit you “or else.” She didn’t specifiy the “or else,” but rest assured I’ll figure out a way to get up there before the end of the month.
Penultimatina
I hear you re: the news. You know it’s bad when undergrads in the union are talking about current events, not cell phones.