No. 54: Dos and Don'ts

This made me laugh, probably too much.

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Do: Come see The Devil's Backbone tomorrow night @ 8 at Shriver 3. It's going to be amazing. Guillermo del Toro is the guy who made Pan's Labyrinth, and this is apparently just as wonderful but you know, actually scary. Halloween appropriate.

Don't: Pay attention to me when I tell you in detail what I'm going to be doing over the next few hours. I'm just listing it off out loud so I get it straight in my brain. I think I freaked Diamond out earlier by giving him my day plan.

Do: Come to TAXLO after Devil's Backbone tomorrow night. I will be the one dressed as a hippie. I heard there's a party at Dan Deacon's loft, but I have no idea when that is. Also, on Saturday, I think people are going to Fell's Point for general insanity.

Don't: Talk to me about slender Brazilian girls. As Tegan and Sara once said, "I know. I know. I know. " In other news: GC with Nicci tonight. Ah experiences.

Do: Take Psych from Drigotas. He is entertaining, and is actually drawing me into a class that I was so far from excited about it's silly.

Don't: Take Intro to Fiction from Robert Roper. Especially if your classroom is situated beneath that of the dynamically loud and boisterous graduate student fiction set. One is both utterly bored and heartily jealous.

Do: buy me: these.

Don't: put Henry James on your effing syllabuses (syllabi? spell check says that's not right, but now I'm not sure)! Just leave him off. If people wanna go and dig through The American or Washington Square (which M.Smith recently told me, to my great surprise, he actually liked a great deal-- weird), let them! Put W. Somerset Maughm on there and give us something worth while to read!


Do: Listen to the following:

• In Rainbows, Radiohead
• I Created Disco, Calvin Harris
• Crisis Helpline, The Beauty Shop
• Situation, Buck 65
• YoYoYoYoYoYoYo, Spank Rock
• Hymns for a Dark Horse, Bowerbirds
• Niño Rojo, Devendra Banhart

Don't: Come to my reading on Tuesday. It's going to be horrendous b/c I haven't written anything new in ages so I have to either read something old or something I write by Tuesday which will be piss poor. So... if you do come, leave before I read. Except come back b/c Diamond is going to do open mic and it will be glorious.

H.