tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29851038736741311622024-03-04T22:31:22.442-06:00Big Northern girl went down5' 9" of writing back over the Mason-Dixon; ludes not included.Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.comBlogger201125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-42532399741613969242018-03-02T19:22:00.002-06:002018-03-02T19:23:56.440-06:00I'm back, bitches!busy working on the sequel to Homegirl! thought about calling it <i>Run Homegirl Run </i>but this title stuck: <i>Get Home Girl. </i>It's nothing like <i>Gone Girl </i>and nothing like <i>Run Rabbit Run </i>and everything like a Converse shoe box from your teenaged past you find decades full up with the teenage heart you ripped out of your own chest after you realized nothing made sense after you realized the absurdity of existence after you realized you will always be you and stuck with you and who could ever love you after you smashed your bean burrito with bare hands at dinner instead of raging wild smashing suburban windows and heads after you went moshing but were woman breathing in the exuded sweat of pure misogyny all around you after you played the high school version of boys chase girls and no one chased after you...<br />
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also, here's an interview with me: <a href="https://litfunhouse.com/2017/12/11/an-interview-with-author-ryder-collins/" target="_blank">https://litfunhouse.com/2017/12/11/an-interview-with-author-ryder-collins/</a><br />
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love you more than all the dandelion fluff in the world,<br />
ryder<br />
<br />Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-64567047263355616662016-05-22T12:25:00.002-05:002016-05-22T12:25:36.408-05:00there's a little sporty goth in all of usSo, dear bloggy, mama was just on FB & someone was talking about a book blog tour & I started feeling all nostalgias and missing you...<br />
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How've you been?<br />
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I'm listening to Siouxsie Sioux because nostalgias, & drinking cava in my trusty jam jar. This <a href="http://www.coriummagazine.com/?page_id=4980" target="_blank">story </a>reminds me of you. (& thanks to Corium where they publish good <a href="http://www.coriummagazine.com/" target="_blank">stuffs</a>.)<br />
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My new anthem is "Work b*tch" and mama's gonna work that <a href="http://www.pithjournal.com/ryder-collins/" target="_blank">empire</a> to death. that or the teenage girls'll <a href="http://cahoodaloodaling.com/issue-20-trigger-warning/" target="_blank">burn him down</a>.<br />
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There's a sporty goth in my mirror and a shady goth in my corner.Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-15298846978490943012015-10-04T11:44:00.000-05:002015-10-04T11:44:04.580-05:00crones & manic pixie dream girl heartsOkay, mama's little chickadees... it's been a long time & mama skipped checking in all summer cos the porch's just too sweet & the whiskey mash too strong & some summer days mama sits in the bathtub gins all day long<br />
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mama's been busy. of course. just like you all. just like the scurrying ants of capitalism's busy system. & now summer's gone. the northern winds blew in & started rattling the trees, blew mama's sweater coat from under the eaves, blew mama's bunny heart back into her ribs that cage it there where it beats & thumps & wants out & wants to fuck all the other bunnies all around who are still hopping free unencumbered<br />
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but it's fall & time for bunnyhearts to slow down, to take stock, to count their bunnyblessings or some shit, to den and warren, to fluff and buffer against the cold<br />
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& winter, my dears, will be a time for writing.<br />
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this morning mama woke up in mama's mama's bed & had an idea<br />
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this morning mama woke up with a new story.<br />
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mama's new story is going to interrogate love and control. what happens when you get old & you still want to fuck but you're a woman and this new story's gonna use fairy tale tropes and motifs and camp those motherfuckers up because it is in/through these old stories that the way's paved/potholed/bulldozed for new stories<br />
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mama talks a little about fairy tales in <a href="https://soundcloud.com/kjhk/3-3-ryder-collins" target="_blank">this interview</a> i did this summer with the good bunnyhearted people from<a href="http://www.beechersmag.com/purchase/" target="_blank"> Beecher's Magazine</a><br />
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mama was still soaking in the bathtub gin-sins even thenRyder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-40055810894957787072015-04-12T18:24:00.002-05:002015-04-12T18:24:30.091-05:00poetelgramsTHE POETS ARE COMING TO MILWAUKEE APRIL 25TH.<br />
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<br />Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-46201507664675071682015-04-12T18:16:00.001-05:002015-04-12T18:16:39.665-05:00Telegram!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-79835260734275439122015-03-24T11:32:00.003-05:002015-03-24T11:32:54.240-05:00i have been writing about empirei have not been having capitalist nightmares where i<br />
work and work and work and work and work and work<br />
and work and work and work and work and work and work<br />
and work and work and work and work and work and write<br />
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and my writing is not work<br />
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it is my work but it is not work<br />
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it is not $$, but it is dirty like $$<br />
& you can run your hands all over it<br />
& snort blow through it, if you really want<br />
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why is mama talking about $$?<br />
<a href="https://tupelopress.wordpress.com/3030-project/" target="_blank"><br /></a>
<a href="https://tupelopress.wordpress.com/3030-project/" target="_blank">cos mama needs YOU to donate to Tupelo Press in her name</a><br />
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not for love of empire, not for love of $$, not for love of glory, but for love of art & books<br />
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the 30/30 Project<br />
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mama has been writing a poem a day!!!!!<br />
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<br />Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-79548899183173318082015-03-17T18:53:00.001-05:002015-03-17T19:00:14.674-05:00Dudeyourbookissosexygoodithurtsinthebestway<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">here
are some phenomenal words about mama's chapbook,<a href="http://kleftjaw.com/product/i-am-hopscotch-wo-hop-2nd-edition/"> <i>i
am hopscotch wout hop</i></a>, from a phenomenal writer/artist/ and all around
awesomest human being, Elly Finzer:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
read a lot of poetry and I've never seen/heard a voice like yours. You're magic
dipped in inky tar blown through bubble wands and the words, they coat you in a
reasonable facsimile of jarring contentment."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Here is a pic of the awesome Elly (soon PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD) with many beautiful Kleft Jaw books in her hands (because literature, because ART CAN CHANGE THE WORLD; that's not some bullshit treacle saying some Victorian embroidered on a pillow once that is the REAL SHIT that shows up distilled in mash and siphoned into moonshine jugs and it is not koolaid and MAMA IS DRINKING IT UP & SO SHOULD YOU):</span><br />
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Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-894740193803311342015-03-03T15:02:00.002-06:002015-03-03T15:02:10.781-06:00there are parts of me all overmama wants to thank Kleft Jaw for publishing the 2nd edition of <i><a href="http://kleftjaw.com/product/i-am-hopscotch-wo-hop-2nd-edition/" target="_blank">i am hopscotch w/out hop </a>. </i>the cover is beautiful. the inside is full of the words mama would use to woo you.<br />
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i also want to thank <i>The Heavy Contortionists </i>for publishing<a href="http://www.theheavycontortionists.com/blog/2015/1/26/three-stories" target="_blank"> three (3!!) excerpts </a>from mama's graphic novel in progress (the gnip-gnop). there is mac n' cheese, badminton, death metal, and iceland all around us<br />
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& thank you to <i>littletell </i>- a spanking new magazine! - for publishing <a href="http://www.littletell.org/ryder-collins/" target="_blank">a poem</a> from my rapunzel collection<br />
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thank you to <i>Marathon Literary Review </i>for publishing one of mama's many poems to <a href="http://marathonlitreview.com/?p=725" target="_blank">banksy</a><br />
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please support the literary worlds.<br />
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the worlds of literature revolving through cosmos as mama sits on the porch & rocks & sweats & moonshines<br />
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mama thinks of you in the literatures. in the pages.<br />
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mama thinks of how she'd like to read your skin again...<br />
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mama thinks, we'll always have rampions<br />
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mama thinks, mwahRyder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-52460473802568903282015-01-30T22:56:00.001-06:002015-01-30T22:56:47.478-06:00One more day...TOMORROW<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One
more day to sponsor mama for the Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon! If you
pledge $35 or more, I will send you a copy of my latest chapbook, <a href="http://kleftjaw.com/product/hopscotch/" target="_blank">i amhopscotch without hop</a>. not only that, but i'll write you your very poem on the
inside of the back cover... because mama loves you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here
is the<a href="http://www.woodlandpattern.org/marathon_2015.shtml" target="_blank"> link.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">if
you do sponsor mama, even for 5 bones, even for a dollar, even for a shilling,
even for one pence, mama will say of you: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You’re
over the rim of the world; you are the rim of the world; you are Chatterly,
& you are the gardener & you are the molecules between their kiss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-1277826350096495742015-01-03T16:08:00.000-06:002015-01-03T16:08:01.336-06:00HAPPY 2015So, yeah<br />
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We meet again all neo-noirish in the back of an alley while a chiaroscuro of shadows plays craps on your neckbones<br />
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We meet again all alabamian on my front porch with the sunshines & the moonshine jugs<br />
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it's been so long that all the moonshine is gone<br />
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mama'll hafta offer you cava in jamjars<br />
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here are the mama things of 2014:<br />
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1.<a href="http://kleftjaw.com/product/hopscotch/" target="_blank"> I AM HOPSCOTCH WITHOUT HOP </a><br />
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this is mama's book of love poetry masquerading as break-up poems. please check it out. support mama. support the small presses! mama'll send you all the sugary love clouds to your next picnics<br />
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2. mama is currently at work on a graphic novel. mama has found an artist to collab with! mama is trying not to pee herself with excitement cos these are the fancy sex-making drawers she's got on<br />
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3. major upheavals in mama's private life. there is no more boo. mama needs to get her mojo back cos sex on the reg is like white bread and baloney sandwiches for lunch. squishy, predictable, faintly nauseating, and feety-smelling.<br />
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4. mama's working on expanding her post-apocalyptic chapbook, <a href="http://heavyfeatherreview.com/tag/the-way-the-sky-was-now/" target="_blank">The way the sky was now</a> into a book-length collection<br />
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FOR 2015:<br />
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ALL THE LOVE-SYRUP SOAKED CLOUDS WILL FOLLOW ALL YOU GOOD PEEPS & THE RAIN WILL SMELL LIKE COTTON CANDY & HONEYBEES WILL NUZZLE POEMS IN YOUR HAIR<br />
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plus, mama promises either to be a better blogger or to get a webpage (& keep it current)<br />
<br />Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-13283514281623436672014-09-18T02:18:00.000-05:002014-09-18T02:22:56.960-05:00all the shit mama has learned being published & being an editor<br />
1) this is not definitive; so not really all the shit<br />
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2) mama will not be all postmodern & not number or mis-number shit<br />
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3)the 1st 2 are life lessons which should be learned by all, writers & non-writers alike<br />
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4) you will publish your book. it will be like giving birth or getting really high or the unbelievable sensation of getting really high & giving birth AT THE SAME TIME.<br />
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5) there will be peeps that care about your book & there will be peeps that don't. you will be friends with both.<br />
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6) your book will probably not make any kind of list. at first, at least.<br />
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7) there is always hope.<br />
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8) if you are a woman, you will be called a female author. it reminds you of MTV. it reminds you of jock culture, rape culture, football.<br />
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9) there is a relationship between #6 and #8, sometimes. hell, a lot of the time.<br />
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10) you still love your press & any press that puts out unknown peeps.<br />
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11) sometimes presses will publish books by peeps with clout. some kind of clout. or cloud. maybe they pulled that cloud out of the sky that i wanted to give you.<br />
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12) mama understands that (#11). when mama was a poetry editor at a university lit mag, mama was proud of getting to publish the "big" (recognizable) names... mama was even more proud to publish the peoples whose poetry did the new things, tho.<br />
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13) sometimes the new things are the old things to some people & then sometimes the new things are incomprehensibly new<br />
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14) mama thinks when the new things come from women the world has no way to categorize these new things. they are not like BECKETT; they are not like GENET; they are not like JOYCE; they are not.<br />
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14+) mama was not gonna try to get all political-y, but notice the race+gender of these experimental masters<br />
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14++) someone will say well, there are others...<br />
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14+++) & there are, like Kathy Acker, like Gerald Vizenor, like Octavia Butler, like ? (who is being taught now as experimental); this is not meant to be an indictment of race+gender in terms of experimental writing. this is just to show that mama, by some lucky whim, encountered some not totally white+male experimentalism<br />
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14++++) there is MAGICAL REALISM but it is magical & <a href="http://youtu.be/F6X9KcrXHwg" target="_blank">it is magic; don't touch it</a><br />
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14 something) yeah, magical realism has found a nice niche in academia so touch it all you want, mom & dad. & OULIPO, grope the fuck out of OULIPO, mom & dad. do it. they want you to. as long as you obey their rules.<br />
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15) what mama was trying to say is experimental writing by women is often overlooked or devalued or ignored<br />
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16) what else she was trying to say was that she loves all the presses who have taken a chance on her... she also loves all the women out there writing the things that are new & edgy & exciting & uncategorizable & please keep doing it. all you brave women writing.Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-40321046717804706462013-10-29T22:33:00.000-05:002013-10-29T22:53:27.151-05:00the gin bathtub singsthere be new news so mama heaves herself forth yo even tho there's mermaids in her gin claw-footed tub & they sing each to each & mama's pants'd be rolled if mama wore pants & mama dares to eat a peach:<br />
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1. mama done won <a href="http://heavyfeatherreview.com/2013/09/15/amber-sparks-selects-the-winning-manuscript-to-feature-in-hfr-3-1/" target="_blank">this</a> & mama wants to thank <i>Heavy Feather Review </i>& Amber Sparks & ohmygod mama now has to get a tattoo of a balaclavaed baby in a baobab-fingered palm on her neck...<br />
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2. mama's gonna see the great southwest writers she met last year - Frankie Met, Lindsey Thomas, Elly Finzer, & so many many more.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/348961288572283/" target="_blank"> this weekend!</a> & mama & her boo'll do the not-breaking bad tour & won't think about meth amphetamines as they sleep in the hostel & will miss the bathtub gins & mama's finger waved curls...<br />
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3. it'll be halloween soon...<br />
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4. mama could make a joke about weenies but mama likes weenies just like a FB friend posted today about how she loved men. mama loves the mens too. just ask them...<br />
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5. & mama's been thinking about gender & things & gendery things but mama won't ruin this newmoon/Saturn/Halloween/paganfisttocandyface/paganfisting/christ'snotfishing celebration to wax lugubriously on the inequalities or how the ages be creeping up like a creepy creeper on the womens while the ages settle in like a catnip catting thing on the mens<br />
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6. there will be babies & smashings!<br />
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7. that is a balaclava baby. like it says. that is mama's best photoshoppings done from mama's bathtub of singing gins.<br />
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yours in sinning gins,<br />
mamaRyder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-33299864331147517162013-08-12T20:50:00.001-05:002013-08-12T20:50:34.674-05:00this is for my booi will give you all the juice boxes in the world<br />
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i will make sure all the straws have pointy ends &<br />
you can plunge right in. i'll brown bag you cookies & roll you<br />
in napkins. we are talking lunches forever. i will CSA<br />
you. i will leave you greens on your doorstep.<br />
there'll be salads on your steps all the way to the sidewalk<br />
to the street to your job and back again. you'll parade<br />
in leaves<br />
& there's a fox<br />
in my hen house. there's eggs to be taken.<br />
there's crayon drawings on my ovaries & you flashlight<br />
but not gaslight. i'll give you all the farm creatures. i'll<br />
give you all the old macdonalds. all the old remixes, the techno<br />
beats and glow sticks. vick's vapo-rub & poppers. the left-overs<br />
of rave culture. & that'll be our second course & that'll be dessert<br />
the music<br />
stream that carries you through that takes you beyond<br />
the crummy<br />
juice boxes with non-sucky straws the stale<br />
cookies the greasy bags & napkins the eggs that've<br />
been stolen the eggs that've gone barren the dribbled<br />
juices the smashed gardens the cars speeding through<br />
all the greens & fruit i want to give youRyder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-48950299961869905142013-07-31T07:38:00.002-05:002013-07-31T07:38:57.229-05:00up & over the mason-dixonsyes childrens. mama's finally done it. mama made her getaway in the middle of the night. mama threw all her possessions on the side of the road for all the weirdos. mama drove & drove & when they asked for papers on the border, mama winked from under her fedora & mama fondled her fake sam elliot moustachio<br />
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(remember always the power of sam elliot's moustachio:<br />
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& then her boobs & then the kentuckyucky sheriff was all confused...<br />
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& childrens, it should be all good but it is like that aphorism of how all food turns to shit & so what's the point of noisediving into the nearest salad bowl unless you like licking the rim<br />
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peoples in the north be blunt. in the south, peoples would scrutinize mama's grocery cart; they'd cluck at the legumes & purse their lips at the endive & raise their eyebrows at the mr. bubbles & cava & english cucumber but<br />
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they'd never say anything<br />
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up here, someone just asked mama what's wrong with her<br />
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mama feels obliged to answer (maybe it's the debonair air of elliot's moustachio infecting mama)<br />
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this is what's wrong with mama:<br />
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1. mama could drink a whole caseload of ludes of you & then she'd be all shivery-opium reclining on a velvet divan & the day would hum & glow bright cathode ray television around her<br />
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2. if mama were a gif she'd shim sham shimmy in your pancakes<br />
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3. mama waits for a goodnight text & there's a moon & there's a chair & a bowl full of mash with a spoon & the mash's not even bourbons<br />
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4. it is 3 am & there are stop and go lights all around & a chorus of existentialists who fosse against the strictures of society<br />
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5. mama just dropped a reference to the "strictures of society" & mama cannot bear to stop being self-referential in her lists<br />
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6. mama wants to hang with the new york school of poets 2 & start a band & make paper dolls out of billy collins sonnets<br />
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7. all mama needs is 14 lines, a scissors, & some good pounding<br />
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8. Meta! META! MEET ME! MEAT ME I AM<br />
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9. this list is not postmodern enough & mama will baldwin chaos into art<br />
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10. that would be james bladwin, not alec or any of his brothers cos alec & his brothers would just eat all the salad greens & then fight cos that is what siblings do cos love & hate is no dichotomy<br />
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11. dichotomize this, please<br />
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12. mama loses peoples cos of the skull-fucks<br />
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yours,<br />
mama<br />
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<br />Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-55007065810451829052013-03-13T21:41:00.002-05:002013-03-25T17:07:47.349-05:00GUEST POST: FRANKIE METROPOLIS!<span style="background-color: #444444; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: large;">hey all,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: large;">the following is a guest post from the awesomes Frankie Metropolis for THE NEXT BIG THING, yo</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1) </span></span></span><b style="color: #bbbbbb; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">What is the working title of the book?</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: large;">The Numerous Hauntings of Archey P. Caane</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">2) </span></span><b style="color: #bbbbbb; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">Where did the idea come from for the book?</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">My co-editor Dustin Holland used to write under a penname. Archey P. Caane. I liked the name and have been really inspired by this kid as of late. So it just fits together yeah?</span><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">3) </span></span><b style="color: #bbbbbb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">What genre does your book fall under?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Science Fiction Realism/ Poetry /Transcendental Realism</span><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">4) </span></span><b style="color: #bbbbbb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Jack Nicholson/ Robert De Niro/ Vincent Gallo/ Patricia Arquette/ every punk ass m'fer that ever called themselves "friends" or "family" with a knife in their hand and ill intention in their hearts-directed by Harmony Korine or Ingmar Bergman</span><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">5) </span></span><b style="color: #bbbbbb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">3 weeks</span><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><span style="background-color: #444444; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">6) </span></span><b style="color: #bbbbbb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Archey P. Caane, and his legacy, goes through several reincarnations until someone finally gets it right.</span><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">7) </span></span><b style="color: #bbbbbb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">Who or what inspired you to write this book?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">See #2 & #4</span><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">8) </span></span><b style="color: #bbbbbb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">What else about your book might pique readers' interest?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">It's gonna have pictures in it, maybe. Honestly, if someone wants to buy it cool, if not, I'm no worse for the wear. </span><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">9) </span></span><b style="color: #bbbbbb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">This will be published by Kleft Jaw Press </span><a href="http://www.kleftjaw.weebly.com/" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; outline: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363228442_0">www.kleftjaw.weebly.com</span></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">10) </span></span><b style="color: #bbbbbb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;">My tagged writers for next Wednesday (March 20) are:</span><span style="background-color: #5ccd52;"> </span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Lindsey Thomas</span></span>Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-31749786092682789772013-03-04T18:10:00.001-06:002013-03-04T18:10:26.877-06:00the next big thing: the 200th post!<br />
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is the working title of the book?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">papa’s bones/march of the
daughters. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">i can’t
pick between the two. does mama have to?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">there is a creepy old man who looks like harry dean stanton,
jr who hides under my bed sometimes. he whispers fairy tales to me when i can’t
fall asleep & tells me everything’s going to be okay… i am lulled to sleep
by his whispering & dream of his craggy face.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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What genre does your book fall under?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">horror? dystopia? post-apocalyptica?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie
rendition?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">harry dean def = papa. the protagonist = some ingénue
(but mama’d hafta go all misogynist kubrik/hitchcock on her). the love interest
= some ingénue (but mama’d hafta go all misandrist kubrik/hitchcok on him, too).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">still writing that 1<sup>st</sup> draft. mama’s 1<sup>st</sup>
book, <i>Homegirl!</i>, took four months.
harry dean’s been lounging under my bed for longer than that now. he’s covered
in dog hair & kleenexes & condom cums, & he wants out…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">bad things happen to good peeps & it is what it
is so don’t fuck it up & make it work?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">there’s a bad old man who takes young girls &
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Who or what inspired you to write this book?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">mama’s been inspired by anyone who writes anything cos
they love to write & not cos they wants a name or the $$. that, & the
thought of all the $$s mama’s gonna make.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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What else about your book might pique readers' interest?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">mama has to quote the poet, <a href="http://www.staciamfleegal.com/" target="_blank">stacia fleegal</a> here: “Neither.
Support indie publishing" cos a) the sentiments are fucking spot on & b) stacia's the gracious one who tagged the mamas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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My tagged writers for next Wednesday (March 13) are: <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://denarashguzman.com/" target="_blank">Dena Rash Guzman</a>, <a href="http://budsmithwrites.com/author/budsmith/" target="_blank">Bud Smith</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/frankie.metropolis" target="_blank">Frankie Metropolis</a>,
<a href="http://annanimh.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Tina Hyland</a>, <a href="http://www.thedannowak.com/" target="_blank">Dan Nowak</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-2847128042895238492013-02-24T12:44:00.001-06:002013-02-24T12:44:49.591-06:00things mama likes: franco's poetry & ...PSYCHE!<br />
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but mama does like this poems (which is a response to franco's abysmal obama inauguration poem) by the fabulousness that is Barge Press editors:<br />
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Zin Maddey</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">I'm very proud of this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">book. A lot of this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">book was written sober. Some, at least. God,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">if only you knew how much I drink, and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">how frequently. One time, like three years</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">ago, I didn't drink, and it was horrible. I had this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">crazy sober nightmare about a sobbing couch. It</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">was so long ago, I don't</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">even remember the stark<br />details. Furniture that cries is what not<br />drinking makes me think<br />about.<br /><br />***<br /><br />Another time, I met Jake<br />Gyllenhall and Anne<br />Hathaway. I asked them what they would like<br />to drink and they both ordered<br />waters. I asked them what they would like<br />to eat. Jake ordered<br />Falaffel. Anne ordered<br />fattoush. I asked them is everything<br />okay. At which point, Anne broke out<br />into tears, crying her face off in utter<br />sadness. She was experiencing a human<br />emotion.<br />I asked her what up. She<br />just turned to me<br />and said, This... is what acting is all<br />about.<br />I said an ashy lime is<br />an indication that I need<br />another beer.<br /><br />***<br /><br />Abraham Lincoln was born<br />not far from here. In a town<br />called Indiana. He is known for<br />slaves,<br />wars,<br />beards,<br />crazy wife, and<br />potentially being gay<br />or suffering from Marfan's Syndrome. These<br />are all false accusations. Abraham Lincoln. He<br />is no Obama. He is pretty cool<br />phantom. One day, I met<br />him, because I am famous because my<br />book is so good.<br /><br />By: W. Zin Maddey (nah, sike, by James Franco, a compendium of Spider-Man emotions)</span><br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/Xqw4wo8vdY8" target="_blank">mama also likes this (especially these lines: "Get a little closer let it fold/Cut open my sternum and pull/</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/Xqw4wo8vdY8" target="_blank">My little ribs around you")</a><br />
<br />Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-70402437831529394062013-01-07T11:18:00.000-06:002013-01-07T11:18:46.656-06:00the tickles is on20 aught fucking 13, yo!<br />
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mama didn't tell you this yet, but last year mama went to albuquerque & met some great peeps<br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/5HepnmfBkgI" target="_blank">mama's not cheating on you, don't worry</a><br />
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these peeps are doing the great things in denver this weekend.<a href="http://theliteraryunderground.org/events/" target="_blank"> check this link out!</a> you can hear mama read two of her poems there, too. for free! for realsies!<br />
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(mama's a little nervous/boozy in the first poem but by the second she's miming fucking walls & boxes, yo<br />
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mama loves your walls & your boxes; she loves your floors & chapels & valleys & fjords & ...)<br />
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this will be the year mama stops berrymanning her colleague's porches. promise.<br />
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this will be the year mama makes her own highball. once.<br />
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this will be the year the chilluns don't run from mama. ninja.<br />
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this will be the year mama'll hang with those awesome peeps. again.<br />
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KANSAS CITY IN FEBRUARY!<br />
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this will be the year mama writes the 2nd novel. it is a new novel. it's tentatively growing. it kicks when mama whispers the name, <i>papa's bones/march of the daughters</i>. it's a long name for such a wee thing right now.<br />
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this'll be the year a book is a baby.<br />
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henry miller sd so: "Perhaps it is because the book has begun to grow inside me. I am carrying it around with me everywhere. I walk through the streets big with child and the cops escort me across the street. Women get up to offer me their seats. Nobody pushes me rudely anymore. I am pregnant. I waddle awkwardly, my big stomach pressed against the weight of the world."<br />
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this year may you all have a book or something inside you that pushes against the world.<br />
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or at least i hope you get some tickles, yo<br />
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luv,<br />
mama<br />
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<br />Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-22219771183689712342012-10-27T21:12:00.001-05:002012-10-27T21:12:19.926-05:00cruising yo<object><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param>
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maybe mama's just a misanthrope. maybe mama just wants to sit under the alabamaz sun with the sweats making their slow way down her halter dress, rivulets slowly meandering down breasts, down thighs, behind knees, as she sips some jug whiskeys. maybe.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: adelle-1, adelle-2, courier, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 28.5px; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 3px;"><br /></span>Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-40710806278181813732012-08-27T21:50:00.003-05:002012-08-27T21:52:17.591-05:00poemz up & mama in luv<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.redfez.net/poetry/1661" target="_blank">RED FEZ</a></span><br />
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oh yes.<br />
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mama hearts them truly, yo. & mama's in love with the world or at least a lamppost or some alfalfa or gins or something...Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-51686947844717339662012-08-24T21:45:00.001-05:002012-08-24T22:15:22.127-05:00mama's manifestomama always giggles & hiccups & ends up with cava up her nose.<br />
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cava's like champagne but cheaper, kiddies, for those of you who don't know....<br />
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here is mama's new manifesto (p.s. subject to change alwaysalways):<br />
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this is mama's shortcomings potpie <br />
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this is your misgivings cigar, & mama's arms <br />
all meaty again & the dough ain't flakey <br />
no more, yo. there's a rifle somewhere behind <br />
the apron. mama's teeth've gone all bucky <br />
& she spits out retainers like bullets. she spits <br />
out children like Hi-C; she spits & don't swallow; she <br />
spits & she's eighty & rocking a heroin haze, says,<br />
come here, grandchilluns. that's the future you see <br />
when you flick your zippo, after you cut the tip <br />
off. mama's all about tips & heads & phalli; <br />
she knows what they're for & it's no fairy <br />
tale oven push. she takes it all in. she reads <br />
the newspapers sometimes. she still bakes & <br />
there's ash all over & a wolf & a big cheesy grin.<br />
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yours,<br />
mamaRyder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-64640192151463150802012-07-23T22:40:00.000-05:002012-07-23T22:40:00.509-05:00no more virginal audio mamaAnomalous Press was kind enough to print some of mama's poems & Anomalous Press does the audio poem thing so you can listen to mama read some of her poems after drinking the moonshines after sitting on the porch with her shotgun; her calloused feet soaking in a moonshine bath. you can't hear mama call for her eldest Dewey Dell to bring mama more moonshines & you can't hear the dogs snarling at the postman.<br />
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here is <a href="http://www.anomalouspress.org/6/27.collins.ugly.php" target="_blank">i hope you get ugly and die</a><br />
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here is <a href="http://www.anomalouspress.org/6/28.collins.hopscotch.php" target="_blank">i am hopscotch with hop</a><br />
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here is <a href="http://www.anomalouspress.org/6/29.collins.folding.php" target="_blank">it is after all only a folding</a><br />
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& one of these titles is true true true...<br />
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yours all warm & tingly,<br />
mama<br />
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<br />Ryder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-27861036948371867472012-07-22T11:43:00.001-05:002012-07-22T11:43:46.252-05:00mama's book trailer sucksmama needs yr help!<br />
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this is mama's book trailer:<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fd1MfDV7E8M" width="420"></iframe><br />
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it is too quirky. it is not dark enough. it doesn't capture the essence of <i>Homegirl! </i>the only good things are cousin allen's cameo (yes!) & his cinematography...<br />
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here is a good book trailer (for an awesome book you all should read soonsoon):<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7B7H38d-Fks" width="420"></iframe><br />
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here is another good book trailer:<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zlrSpwDHtPo" width="560"></iframe><br />
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mama doesn't know if she's allowed to do this... mama doesn't know if this is a cop-out, but mama was thinking that maybe she could crowdsource her book trailer (& look at mama using the fancy techno-geek lingo, yo, all from her porch under the alabama sun; mama wipes that sun glare off her laptop with moonshines, yo)...<br />
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READERS OF HOMEGIRL!<br />
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if you feel like it, send mama your interpretations<br />
send scenes, send a whole fucking trailer if you want...<br />
mama'll watch them all/mama might them mash up<br />
you will have mama's undying luvs<br />
you will win 1 milli-second of fame as mama'll list your name in the credits<br />
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send your Homegirl! video clips to collinsry4@yahoo.com<br />
be sure to include your postal address (real one cos a certain combat-boot wearing poet's sent mama a fake address 2 xs now) so mama can send you good stuffs<br />
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if mama uses your clip, mama'll send you a signed copy of her book & a personalized gift (maybe one of mama's boot flasks, maybe the stencil for her tattoo, maybe her heart in a box, who knows what mama'll do...)<br />
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big loves,<br />
mamaRyder Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168925466285851118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985103873674131162.post-90364002604807709352012-07-12T15:28:00.000-05:002012-07-12T15:28:01.133-05:00mama's dating tips #1<br />
mama's thinking about going on the okcupids... would it be weird if mama's handle was bigbertha? & if you don't know that's a reference from Rhys' <i>Wide Sargasso Sea </i>get off your computer & go read some real books, son!<br />
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(mama is all about the self-deprecations but not the self-defecations, yo.)<br />
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mama has been thinking about this dating thing recently. i've been re-examinings the interactions between the peeps who wants to get it on, especially vis a vis mama & the peeps she's done. i've been wondering why it's so hard to find someone you want to fuck three xs a day for a longlong time?<br />
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if you have the same question, perhaps mama's tips can help you... perhaps you should read mama's tips & then do the exact opposite of all of them<br />
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EXCEPT FOR THIS ONE:<br />
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1. if you are thinking about doing the kissykiss liplocked tonguey wormcave biteybite thing with someone be sure to ask him or her or them if they have ever touched, fondled, petted, kissed, tongued, or eaten an ARMADILLO. this is not a euphemism to find out if they are a virgin (who the fuck cares about that besides whiteboys who don't like vaginas cos they are actually repressing homoerotic desires). the armadillo is never an euphemism, yo. 20% of armadillos in the US carry leprosy. you, as a human being who thinks you are so fucking great cos you can walk upright & know the ironic difference between Pabst & Hamm's, can contract motherfucking leprosy from touching or eating an armadillo. you can then spread your leprosy through your saliva.<br />
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that's right kiddies, through the salivas. that wet shit that gets exchanged through the face to face thing unless you are sweet unicornrepressedhipster butterfly kissing.<br />
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#1 question to ask now after lastcall, for reals...<br />
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yours in luv,<br />
mama<br />
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hold yer hands in hallelujah/ mama's gonna give it to ya...<br />
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