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Thursday, January 13, 2005

MP's Mailart Chronology Part 2

In issue number ten of the uber-underground publication, Alstroemeria, a short rant was written by myself in an attempt to put together a somewhat linear chronology of a mailart package sent to me from my good friend, Matt Pamatmat (www.absinthepress.blogspot.com). If you'd like to see this story in its pure form, lemme know and I will send you one, $2 , post-paid. Otherwise, you can read the fascinating part 2 of MP's Mailart Package Chronology below. The way this is put together actually reminds me of how dreams flow sometimes (and yr typical mailart); it is fragmented, and disjointed, yet tries hard to tell a tale. Through piecing together parts of the mailart, I am able to determine, with great accuracy, what MP has been up to within the past few months. Read on. This is worthless only if you want it to be.

1/8/05: MP sent a letter to the home of Biryckebosch during a slow week analyzing the film Mullholland Drive while drinking Maker's Mark and cooking some pasta for dinner. Not doing both at the same time, but one after the other, of course. The next night, and with some added pizazz, MP made the ol' fam a bit of the ol' Tasty Bite "wake up in a palace sweepstakes", convenient, easy to cook, MRE-esque Indian food in foil pouch. A coupon was torn for future reference, for future hope, for peace in the middle east. At a certain point in time, maybe after the Maker's Mark but certainly not before the Tasty Bite, MP took a short trip on the long bus to the small market and went to the little section and bought a tiny Monterey frozen burrito. MP Shat in the Safeway, made her day (the shit-eating grin of a safeway clerk). MP admired the action of two primates, in which one brutish gorilla said to a petite monkey, "Want a banana? Fat chance, fucker." Later, MP perused the shelves of the lesbian-friendly North Light Books and Cafe' tucked away in the ancient and dated Oliver's Market shopping center/'70s strip-mall. The local authorities have shut down the proceedings on several nights at North Light when the live music of starving artists becomes too loud. Evidently, the nearby patrons of the SSU-friendly Friar Tuck's Pub have complained about the incessant noise of the art-rock bands, and have sought to end the un-assuming cafe's penchant for disturbing the pub's "fraternity ambiance". MP also made a visit to Raley's market, which also operates in an ancient and out-dated Rohnert Park stripmall. Raley's boasts a cheese called Myzithra, and in a rare, early '80s feature, this cheese, which takes on an evil form, battles the mighty Godzilla. Whoever wins, we all lose. Small children with Billy Ray C. haircuts make me nervous, and the homogeneous city of Rohnert Park sure does produce a lot of these little bastards. MP received a business card, from lord knows who, for a Chinese restaurant called Tang Tang, located on 3rd ave in NY. The talented New York writer, Jonathan Ames, once stated that this place was his favorite Chinese food restaurant. He went in there one time and had a very nice meal, but noticed that the woman sitting at the table across from him was giving him 'heat'. This was heat, indeed, and it got hotter as he ended up taking the woman home with him after his meal. He was alone in the dark with this woman when he discovered that this was no Woman, but rather a Whoa-man! At any rate, he went with the flow and did what he had to do with this trans-gender person. J. Ames subsequently wrote a short story about the event and had it published in the soft-porn laden pages of Maxim magazine.
The World According to Geek is a novel in the works, and it is being written by MP. I was left anticipating more as the final sentence on a one page excerpt trailed off with, "Holding it upside down as it flapped its..."
Yes, time will tell, and I want to read more of MP's novel. But time will tell, as time sometimes speaks.

1 Comments:

  • At 12:02 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    Nicely written, Joe. & not just because I had/have a stake in it, but it's an interesting piece of writing. It does blur the ol' line betwixt dream & reality, which makes me wonder, once again, which be which.
    You have some impressive detective skills, no doubt gleaned investigating the case of the slaughtered dogs of the deserts outside Los Angeles. Matt Pamatmat

     

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