FLUXLIST: b e r n reporter

[- - i - d - ? - \(ynx\( Mthfft AYBells]

i did miss the announcement, i was away, and just (foolishly!) deleted all
my fluxlist mail when i got back
thanks to everyone for letting me know..

i can't help but feel at a loss, having grown up here in maine
yet never once did i make the couple hour trek up to his home in belfast
my friends who did venture up always came back with quite the tales!

anyone planning any sort of tributes?
i'm trying to think of something aurally i could do on my radio program.

-id m
http://kraag.org

FLUXLIST: bern porter(ing)

[- - i - d - ? - \(ynx\( Mthfft AYBells]

incidentally,

does anyone know bern's status?
i've heard nothing since he entered the nursing home some months ago

is he still accepting mail?
(and if so, what's his address?)

-id m


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Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:15 PM
Subject: FLUXLIST: Fwd: A Moment Of Bern Porter You Might Have Missed If You
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 Begin forwarded message:

  From: Craig Allen Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Date: Wed Jun 16, 2004  9:04:40 PM America/Chicago
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: A Moment Of Bern Porter You Might Have Missed If You Didn't
  Realize
  Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  looking over an old journal from the late 90's, when i was
  roommates with Sheila Holtz, who eventually moved to
  Maine to edit Bern Porter International, i came across
  the following entry, something i had forgotten about:
 
  -
  bomb-making
  avant garde poet/artist Bern Porter
  appeared as an extra in the 1996
  film adaptation to Stephen King's
  novel THINNER (starring no one that
  i can ever recall seeing before, although
  Stephen King himself plays a nervous
  --and sexy, since he can't help himself--
  nerdy pharmacist)
 
  about 48 and one half minutes into
  the film when we enter the dream
  sequence of the Gypsy Carnival,
  Bern Porter and Sheila Holtz are
  visible for about 1 and one half
  seconds while standing in the
  audience before the 106-year-old
  Gypsy King named Lemke.  for the
  first half of the 1 and one half seconds
  we see them from behind, as a gypsy
  is picking Sheila's pocket.  Sheila is
  then smiling and laughing when the
  rest of the 1 and one half seconds
  shows them from the front.  they really
  should have given Bern a speaking role.
  -
  from dream sequence to dream,
  CAConrad
  http://phillysound.blogspot.com