Re: Performance text, 123 Pleasant Street, BIOS conference, after equipment hassles

2006-09-15 Thread Jim Piat
between or among us but with all of experience or being Jim Piat - Original Message - From: Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 11:43 PM Subject: Performance text, 123 Pleasant Street, BIOS conference, after equipment hassles

Re: awesome visit

2006-09-26 Thread Jim Piat
big smile! He smokes cigars you know -- el productos, just like my dad. Asked about the family. All that. hey, Allen Bramhall, it's me, Frank O'Hara, I'm the sun now. that makes me a god!!! I'm as surprised about it as you must be. I rise in the morning, in fact I make morning. I see

Re: - material substrate - uneven speculation - bad physics -

2006-10-01 Thread Jim Piat
This frustrates me. I always have Sokal's work as a reminder of what, for me, could easily be nonsensi- cal speculation. I remember once talking with Heinz Pagels, at that time a well-known particle theorist, about my work, and he said he didn't mind it at all, just don't call it physics!

Re: passage

2006-10-04 Thread Jim Piat
I imagine there is a big pile of words on the floor which were discarded when you made this poem. ~mIEKAL Aha! Now that you mention it -- me too! And you've helped me to appreciate this gem. Jim Piat On Oct 4, 2006, at 2:02 AM, Sheila Murphy wrote: all the little offices alight

Re: Existential

2006-10-05 Thread Jim Piat
Well, I'm no Hegal and I don't know just what you have in mind Alan but by the time I finished reading it I found myself smiling. For some reason my machine can not read your machine so I miss many of your mpmpm%^*\ files. But what you say below is comforting. More generally it's also fun

Re: 267/365, Lucia

2006-10-05 Thread Jim Piat
Ha -- you caught me LOL. I love these portraits. So full of keen observations, warmth, humiltiy and plain fun. Lucia looks like an artist, dresses like an artist, speaks like an artist, dances her hands like an artist, expresses outrage like and artist, nods her head emphatically like an

Re: Existential

2006-10-06 Thread Jim Piat
such a value would be fundamental structurally -- temporally or spatially). Jim Piat - Original Message - From: P!^VP 0!Z!^VP To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 1:07 PM Subject: Re: Existential I wonder about this, Alan The golden

Re: Existential

2006-10-06 Thread Jim Piat
to me. And I enjoy this list. I feel as though my appreciation for poetry and its joys is being expanded by this list. As poetry goes so goes life. Jim Piat

Re: Existential

2006-10-06 Thread Jim Piat
of which I leave for you and Alan to weigh. Thank! Jim Piat Check out Feigenbaum constants. You have to trudge through some heavy mathematics, but the connection is there between chaos and the golden mean. m

Re: Dusty sea leap digressions scribble pestering gales serif

2006-10-11 Thread Jim Piat
Dusty sea leap digressions scribble pestering gales serif scribble pestering gales serif Dusty sea leap digression What fun!

Re: Dusty sea leap digressions scribble pestering gales serif

2006-10-11 Thread Jim Piat
Dusty sea leap digressions scribble pestering gales serif I meant the above -- what fun! I can't stop saying it. burrble snorp pestering gales Damn, you two have created a powerful image for me! Somewhere between obsessive madess and peels of laughter --waves crashing on the shores

Re: Uncanny Valley

2006-10-12 Thread Jim Piat
Some things are just too close for comfort. Something there is that likes a wall -- that wants it up. It's creepy to be aroused by the sexy looking robot. Or to acknowledge we ourselves might be robots. To admit these things to oneself is not something most folks take lightly. It's an

Re: An Image Poem - Credible Report

2006-10-13 Thread Jim Piat
Thanks Peter, a credible report! - Original Message - From: Peter Ciccariello To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 12:50 PM Subject: An Image Poem - Credible Report Credible Report-- Peter

Re: 288/365, Don

2006-10-26 Thread Jim Piat
Third, eh? You're a man of uncompromising integrity! Big smile. - Original Message - From: Dan Waber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:00 AM Subject: 288/365, Don Don got picked nearly last when the popular-boy captains were

Re: stump gap

2006-10-26 Thread Jim Piat
Subject: stump gap / ; ^ ---loved it!

Re: umpteenth degrade

2006-10-28 Thread Jim Piat
In the company of Poets So many of these make me smile -- And I get to say so. Makes me feel like a poet too and it's fun And nobody says OK enuff now run on nobody dreams outward, they rely on this picture: a rigid tree forced to stall. this is sensibly structured for stopping, in a breath,

Re: Botch

2006-11-02 Thread Jim Piat
Yikes -- there's something in this I think I almost understand. bytes ~ oink rutal ruffrag oieee boy (tweerped) Tweed,k truffle pink onion offal ink biochee, boinked kiss rubber ball opoliker salmon lic rice moon cakes. much love jim 9:19 11/02/06 330 bytes botch ~ rutal

Re: 301/365, Jim

2006-11-08 Thread Jim Piat
Jim arrived on the scene all tall, dark, and handsome so it took a while for people to figure out that he was smiling that big, straight white toothed smile because he really had no clue what was going on. Aw shucks, I'm not so hansome -- well, maybe a little. Jim

Re: note

2006-11-29 Thread Jim Piat
hope Yes yes y l r something o e n thagt's what we hope e will lead (againsthing0 Y

Re: I See a Spider in the Hallway

2006-12-12 Thread Jim Piat
- Original Message - From: Thomas savage To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:22 AM Subject: Re: I See a Spider in the Hallway This is yet another wonderful poem, Sheila. I enjoyed reading it very much. I occasionally see a small spider in

Re: how to make pizza

2006-12-15 Thread Jim Piat
Subject: how to make pizza first go to the kitchen open the door to the kitchen if it's not already open go through the livingroom door which is usually closed and then turn left stretch out our arm when you approach the livingroom door move the arm from the side of your body towards the door

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2007-01-21 Thread Jim Piat
I had a friend and in a taxi on the way to Hartford he led us all in a rousing chorus of You are my sunshine stranger and driver alike

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2007-01-21 Thread Jim Piat
between finger and thought. Dancing with the just out of reach. I imagine you chuckling --wryting pantomime. Reading yourself. And so quick, so quick. Jim Piat how to evaluate appreciate art why can't i write a text as a performance for instance or software art as pseudocodeusp because

Re: contrition pinks its way due north

2007-01-22 Thread Jim Piat
Dear Bjorn, Phanero and Sheila as flavor mimes a wish sheila e. murphy

Re: [eu-gene] The Writing Machine Collective 2nd ed. - an exhibition with generative arts in Hong Kong

2007-02-05 Thread Jim Piat
Looks interesting y'all. I agree --LOOK at this folks! The Writing Machine Collective (WMC) is a small group of artists in Hong Please visit our temporary web page and give us comments. http://www.writingmachine-collective.net

Re: OIIO

2007-02-13 Thread Jim Piat
The intra-face. Great image that! - Original Message - From: phanero [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 11:21 AM Subject: OIIO Outer conquers (concurs) Inner Inner concurs (conquers) Outer

Re: werse

2007-02-15 Thread Jim Piat
in the cities of the nation -- and knows he's said the same about them all Best wishes, Jim Piat - Original Message - From: Bjørn Magnhildøen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:16 PM Subject: werse internet is bad there are 500 millions

Re: concourse || recourse || third course

2007-02-16 Thread Jim Piat
Holy shit Sheila -- I think I'm in the presense of greatness -- your poems. Not that greatness is so great, but you know -- for lack of a better word. This is quite a little list you folks have put together -- the theory and writing movement. I love it's bold and contradictory defiance

Re: scum whine ballpoint sneezing, bag to hum, eye sass ass nasal lit potpies...

2007-02-20 Thread Jim Piat
I love that sneezing ballpoint - yow! John Me too! kersplat, hiccup and glide (knots burps and kinks)

Re: get attention, how are you getting on

2007-03-03 Thread Jim Piat
Dear Alan, What I like about the poem below is that speaks to what I'm doing right now which is generating words-- So much of my life is generating words or tumbling in the words of others -- and out of (or within) all these words is another layer of meaning that seems to exist apart from

Re: five years ago today the loss

2007-03-06 Thread Jim Piat
-- that certain beam of generous reserve remains - Original Message - From: Sheila Murphy To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 5:00 PM Subject: five years ago today the loss for as many days as I had known, there were magnetic eyes that noticed

Re: New Book

2007-03-29 Thread Jim Piat
Dear John, When I saw NOS I immediately thought of Not Otherwise Specified which is a qualifying tag added to a broad psychiatric diagnoses when further specification has not been made. -- eg Depression NOS . Not otherwise specified seems to fit the poetic project -- to address the NOS

Re: [NetBehaviour] public curating common adjectives

2007-04-10 Thread Jim Piat
. His work has been repeated many times with similar results. Maybe something akin to the universal semantic dimensions of human experience you may have had in mind. Maybe not -- Jim Piat

Re: Champion Damsels

2007-04-13 Thread Jim Piat
there is hope and even the gods are only human. Seems a lot more profound to me than some of the myths that bent my twig. Yes, and a great poem too, Jeff! Best wishes, Jim Piat Harrison Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The wind shelves the stars, Ah!, the stars!, envious Of the wind

Re: 30 by Cecil Touchon

2007-04-13 Thread Jim Piat
Dear Folks-- I \{oV]+ Cecil's work and the way Dan re-captures some of it in words When are you coming Who is your friend Why don't you write Can't you just call Needless to say Oh christ it's been raining most of the day - Original Message - From: Dan Waber [EMAIL

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2007-04-19 Thread Jim Piat
Ha -- yes. But as luck would have it, a listener (god bless our listeners they're the greatest people in the world) -- anyway, a man from (of all places) my home town has recognized it. And now the weather. what the hell is this sorry i don't know somehow interesting some of these

Re: My stupid talking.

2007-04-19 Thread Jim Piat
is peripheral; if my writing is central, my speaking is peripheral. One must read my writing, read my writing with the utmost care. One must never listen when I am speaking. Best wishes to all, Jim Piat

Re: From 'Espoo'

2007-04-20 Thread Jim Piat
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Jim Piat wrote: I know Jim Piat. He's a friend of mine. Don't listen to a thing he ays -- First of all he meant the other side of meaning -- not what he said which was the other side of the meaning. Altogether different meaning. Of course the boy means well

Re: nowheresville -- everybody's got one

2007-04-21 Thread Jim Piat
As a kid I used to wonder when they were going to finish building the highways and buildings -- wasn't for many many years that I realized it was a more or less never ending ongoing project! How to study the city -- what a challening question. In a way the challenge is to clarify the

Re: ici-clettes

2007-04-24 Thread Jim Piat
I'm blown away! here are daisies in a math class sheila e. murphy

Re: Very short stories. Six words!

2007-05-01 Thread Jim Piat
The real story comes after this.

Re: ars poetica update

2007-05-14 Thread Jim Piat
Angela, Angela -- great stuff