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These Days
Z-Ro
Z-Ro - These Days
??? (2011)
“These days seem like wherever i go
the fake taking over like real ain’t cool no more
and these days don’t nobody dont show love
instead of lending a helping hand they wanna see blood”
Belated Houston To Do
IF YOU SEE THIS AND YOU ARE NEAR DOWNTOWN, GET THEE HENCE TO TUNNELFUKKING;
You should go in thru 2 Shell Plaza. At the Seattle’s Best Coffee, a coordinator is there until 3:00pm to show you the way…
Go perform, or watch performance! Integrated into the labyrinthian tunnel systems under Houston~ GO GO GO!
Countercrawl VI Planning Meeting
Tuesday, 8pm
Lubbock & White St.
BBQ Potluck style - food, drink, and charcoal much appreciated!
Multiple poeple, officers, shot near Texas A&M University →
chicagotribune.com
Is this the third or fourth in about a 5-week span? I’m losing track of all the carnage. This is horrible.
Today's Houston to-do
Weird and Queer Texts for Women with Wild Texas Minds: Readings by Anna Joy Springer and Janice Lee
Kaboom Books, 7:30pm-9:00pm
3116 Houston Ave.
”Two startlingly strange, defiantly brilliant women from Los Angeles. Two extravagantly excessive and disarmingly distracting prose innovators. One refreshingly queer, the other comfortingly weird. One a survivor of nineties riot grrrrl, the other a survivor of the CalArts experimental writing MFA.
They are:
Anna Joy Springer and Janice Lee.
And they are on a tour of the Southwest and Northwest part of the US:http://janicel.com/news/daughter-vrrl-book-tour-august-1-19
So come and hear them.
This will be the third event in the As-Yet-Unnamed-But-Really-Quite-Lovely-Reading-Series on the back patio of Kaboom Books.
(For those who are keeping track, previous events included the one in May for Let the Ponies Have Plenty of Room and the event in June for Jen Hofer and Javier Huerta.)
So please come and drink wine and beer and eat the delicious bites prepared by the ever-fabulous Dee Dillman, proprietor of Kaboom Books with her more misanthropic half, John Dillman.
Here are bios with more info on our glorious line-up:
Anna Joy Springer is a prose writer and visual artist who makes grotesques - creating hybrid texts that combine sacred and profane elements to evoke intensely embodied conceptualemotional experiences in readers. Formerly a singer in the Bay Area bands, Blatz, The Gr’ups, and Cypher in the Snow, Anna Joy has toured the United States and Europe being a wild feminist punk performer, and also toured with the all-women spoken word extravaganza, Sister Spit. She is author of the illustrated novella, The Birdwisher (Birds of Lace). She received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, and is now Associate Professor of Literature at University of California at San Diego, where she truly loves teaching courses in Experimental Writing, Graphic Texts, and Postmodern Feminist Literatures.
Janice Lee is a writer, artist, editor, designer, curator. She has been published in numerous journals, including antennae, Everyday Genius, Action Yes, elimae, & Black Warrior Review, and is the author of two highly acclaimed novels: KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Publishing, 2010): a multidisciplinary exploration of cyborgs, brains, and the stakes of consciousness; and DAUGHTER (Jaded Ibis Press, 2011). She is currently Co-Editor of the online journal [out of nothing], Co-Founder of the interdisciplinary arts organization Strophe, & Reviews Editor at HTMLGIANT. Most recently, she was selected by John D’Agata as the Black Warrior Review Nonfiction Grand Prize winner.”
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dunno, the fact that we’re three followers away from 100 i guess
Houstonian Marlen Esparza wins bronze in women's boxing!
As the first American woman to qualify for women’s boxing in the Olympics in its first year as an Olympic sport, it’s only fitting that she wins the US’ first medal in women’s boxing. [source]
AND SHE’S FROM HOUSTON, TOO
women artists: Interview with Houston Artist and Activist Maria-Elisa Heg →
fyeahwomenartists.com
Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States, and the largest city in Texas, is home to many creative types. If you are part of the art scene here, then you probably already know this. However, to anyone unfamiliar with the Bayou City’s artistic community, this might come as a surprise…
Houston artist and Countercrawl shoutout represent!!
Victory for Houston Janitors →
texasobserver.org
A tentative agreement has been reached to give Houston’s janitors a $1 over four years.
Today's Houston to-do~
Hastas/Kool-Aid Reality/Get Your Dick Out of
My Mom, Dad w/Epul Roch/Josiah Gabriel/Adam Butera/Smoking Nurse/Thou Shalt Not Kill… Except
Tonight at Super Happy Fun Land, 3801 Polk St.
Unsure of cover, possibly $5-7
Doors around 9
TODAY's HOUSTON TO DO!!
Counter cats and kittens, I’m sorry for my brief absence. Sickness has waylaid me and although I am still unwell, the glare of the computer monitor is not as much anathema to me as once it was.
Anyway, if you’re feeling frisky and have $15 to spare,
HOUSTON SUNBURN is going on today - starting at 2pm, 3 venues: at Last Concert Cafe, The Engine Room, and Jet Lounge.
Featured Countercollaborators Get Your Dick Out of My Mom, Dad will be there in a new and previously unseen iteration at Jet Lounge from 3-4pm, led by the indominable Epul Roch!
SunBurn will also feature bands and counterfriends from times past: P.L.X.T.X., Papaya, Josiah Gabriel & NIKKHOO, FLCON FCKER, Cyclea, and many cool acts to catch~
Have fun.
Today's Houston to-do: Aikido!
R U A FIGHTER W THE HEART OF A LOVER?
WELL THEN AIKIDO MIGHT BE FOR YOU
SO GO TO EAST SIDE SOCIAL CENTER TONIGHT AND LEARN YOU SOME
TONIGHT AT 7PM
4202 Canal St.
