Writing has not happened recently

Reminiscing, I was re-reading the old Live Journal blog tonight, and have pulled all its pieces into here. Say hello to 2005. And maybe I'll start puttering again, now that I sort of have my life back.

it's Monday

another poem to animate?

The Catch
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Something has come between us—
It will not sleep.
Every night it rises like a fish
Out of the deep.

It cries with a human voice,
It aches to be fed.
Every night we heave it weeping
Into our bed,

With its heavy head lolled back,
Its limbs hanging down,
Like a mer-creature fetched up
From the weeds of the drowned.

Damp in the tidal dark, it whimpers,
Tossing the cover,
Separating husband from wife,
Lover from lover.

It settles in the interstice,
It spreads out its arms,
While its cool underwater face
Sharpens and warms:

This is the third thing that makes
Father and mother,
The fierce love of our fashioning
That will have no brother.

—A.E. Stallings

One of the possible poems to animate

New Folk
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I said Polk was dressed in Blues but hairier and hemped.
After "We acoustic banjo disciples!" Jebediah said, "When
and whereforth shall the bucolic blacks with good tempers
come to see us pluck as Elizabeth Cotton intended?"
We stole my Uncle Windchime's minivan, penned a simple
ballad about the drag of lovelessness and drove the end
of the chitlin' circuit to a joint skinny as a walk-in temple
where our new folk was not that new, but strengthened
by our twelve bar conviction. A month later, in pulled
a parade of well meaning alabaster post adolescents.
We noticed the sand-tanned and braless ones piled
in the ladder-backed front row with their boyfriends
first because beneath our twangor slept what I'll call
a hunger for the outlawable. One night J asked me when
sisters like Chapman would arrive. I shook my chin wool
then, and placed my hand over the guitar string's window
til it stilled. "When &e moon's black." I said. "Be faithful."

-- Terrance Hayes

CFP: Feminisms and Rhetorics

Feminisms and Rhetorics ought to be particularly splendid when hosted by the fine folks at Michigan State University in October 2009: cfp here.

starting to add interactivity to Flash

A basic script for moving the playback head in the timeline:

bird01.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, myClickReaction01);

function myClickReaction01(e:MouseEvent):void {
bird01.gotoAndPlay(8);
}

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Mouse events you can track: CLICK, DOUBLE_CLICK, MOUSE_DOWN, MOUSE_LEAVE, MOUSE_MOVE, MOUSE_OUT, MOUSE_OVER, MOUSE_UP, MOUSE_WHEEL

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