Jade Wallace, editor of the BUCWC.
Oh my god, I found an old video of me at a poetry reading. There may be a poem about hipsters contained herein. I can’t actually watch it, but I have to post it for old time’s sake nonetheless.
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my cat is the best cat/he is watching you/this is how we troll the internet
My Interview
I was interviewed by Open Book Ontario because I’m, I guess, a minor poet or author or something like that. The interview has now been published here:
http://www.openbookontario.com/news/proust_questionnaire_jade_alyssa
My band’s first proper video (in which I stare at the table a lot)! I am so so pleased.
So last night I went to a poetry slam and read one of my queer girl/ lesbian poems. As you may or may not be able to tell from the picture, I was wearing a shirt with a picture of a koala on it.
Later, I remembered this article:
“Female koalas indulge in lesbian “sex sessions”, rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time, according to researchers.
The furry, eucalyptus-eating creatures appear to develop this tendency for same-sex liaisons when they are in captivity. In the wild, they remain heterosexual.
Scientists monitoring the marsupials with digital cameras counted three homosexual interactions for every heterosexual one.
“Some females rejected the advances of males that were in their enclosures, only to become willing participants in homosexual encounters immediately after,” say the researchers.”
-from “Australia rocked by ‘lesbian’ koala revelation”
And so everything comes full circle.
Jade does slam poetry.
(photographer: Amanda Chesher)
Jade and Ari do Halloween.
I learned two words today which are very relevant to this past weekend:
plaudit, n. A round of applause; an act of hand-clapping; an audible expression of praise or approval. Hence, more generally: any emphatic expression of approval. Now usually in pl [plaudits].
(I entered and won a poetry slam on Friday. The whole night was amazing. There were serious poems about race, disability, economic inequality, Patsy Cline, agenderism, alcoholism, and many less serious but very entertaining pieces.)
concupiscence, n. Eager or vehement desire; in Theol. use (transl. ἐπιθυμία of N.T.) the coveting of ‘carnal things’, desire for the ‘things of the world’.
(I am unintentionally parodying a romantic comedy movie and taking it very seriously? Something like that.)
My mom turned me into a comic book character.
