1970: Starts writing
poetry. Early influences include John
Ashbery, Robert Bly, Jim Carroll, Kenward Elmslie, Allen Ginsberg, Robert
Lowell, Thomas Merton, and Frank O’Hara.
—from the Chronology section of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim
Dlugos
(edited by David Trinidad)
Now here I am having lunch, reading Beverly Dahlen’s
Reading. Today at work (day 2) much better than
yesterday.
Right? Even though I am terribly
fidgety
without IM. Eyeballs
nevertheless glazed over from
staring at the computer all day. Work.
Work. (See
note about first time I ever had a flat screen and don’t
like it.)
This morning we watch Ellen step out as a curvy
mermaid dressed as Sofia Vergara and of course
we anticipate the punch line of Sofia Vergara
showing up onstage to both stare down Ellen
for her audacity (and the purported hideousness
of her Halloween costume) and bask in the glory
that is mimicry (the greatest form of flattery, etc.)
while graciously trying to “teach” Ellen how to
speak Spanish with a Columbian accent (or with
Sofia Vergara’s “accent”).
And we watch Cher
and Kathy Griffin teaming up to tell us who to
vote for (if we are a woman or a friend of a
woman). Cher calls
Griffin “Kathleen” and
Griffin repetitively does Cher impersonations
paid for by the Jewish Council for Education
and Research (the same folks who brought us
Samuel L. Jackson in the bedtime story Wake
the Fuck Up and
Sarah Silverman’s gun-toting
grandma). Tuesday is
in two days and my
ballot is somewhere.
It’s on my list.
My head is hurting and this new job is....best
word is lonely. Let’s
see if I can take a train
of thought through to somewhere. I start
reading the new Tim Dlugos compendium.
Carolyn says Suzy is in detox. Somewhere
here in lovely California.
