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September 28, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I am sick of my routines. One of the routines I’m sick of is that I get routinely sick of my routines. …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Goings-on, Philosophy | Tags: 100 days 2012
hipsters having sex
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September 22, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Speh: «An egg-headed, shoulderless man, a creature from a Beckett novel perhaps, who had a heavy gold coin in his …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Metafiction, Stories, The Picture Goers, Writerly Advice | Tags: 100 days 2012, Hipster, puritanism, sex
What does it mean to be published now?
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September 16, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I can’t believe that I’m publishing yet another post on publishing. But when David Ackley asked the question last week …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Commentary, Writerly Advice | Tags: Alt Lit, Alt Lit Gossip, digital, facebook, fictionaut, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, publishing, Virginia Woolf
Recycling Facebook
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September 14, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Originally, I only wanted to share a few posts from Facebook over at my blog (a little like what I …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Facebook, Goings-on | Tags: 100 days 2012, Action, Aotearoa, beach sloth, cathedral, Christmas, Christopher Allen, Christopher Forsley, Darwin, Elephant, Ernst Jandl, Existentialism, facebook, Figure, frank hinton, Friederike Mayröcker, Friendship, Gizella, Ken Clarke, Lego, Lettau, Mexican Dude, New Zealand, PANK, Robots, Roxane Gay, S. Teri O'Type, Serenity, Susan Tepper, Tiny Hardcore Press, TYFYS, Vatican, Veszprem, wolves
Frank Hinton: «Can you explain the importance of the discovery of the Higgs boson?»
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September 9, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

«The search for the Higgs is physicists’ idea of 21st-century sex. While other sciences limit themselves, the contemporary erotic physics …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Metafiction | Tags: 100 days 2012, CERN, frank hinton, higgs, higgs boson, LHC, physics
How to be lazy in 10 steps
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September 5, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I am now looking forward to 3 weeks of freedom from academic freedom. I feel like a broken record drifting …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Goings-on, Writerly Advice | Tags: 100 days 2012, attitude, editing, habits, laziness, writing
elephant men
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September 1, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

There was a time when we were all elephant men. Sure, it wasn’t always easy to negotiate two such different …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Stories, The Picture Goers | Tags: 100 days 2012, drawint, elephant man, Picture
Kreusnach
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August 29, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I picked a slim book up today. It caught my attention because on the pink dust jacket that loudly said …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Review | Tags: 100 days 2012, Dreyfus, Kreuznach, Proust, sebald, Zola
humanity
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August 26, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

After many years of war, Men and Giants finally reached an agreement: the Giants would stay in the cities, and …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Stories, The Picture Goers | Tags: berlin, Borofsky, humanity, Spree
summer feet
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August 25, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

A great advantage of having lived a for few summers already is that you can imagine August heat even if …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Goings-on | Tags: 100 days 2012, feet, july, summer

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«At a party, I stood next to a bald guy with a beard who didn’t say anything. I noticed a nearby couple put their heads together and whisper while pointing at me. They were smiling so I went over and inquired if I could help them in any way. “No, not at all,” said the woman, “but listen, isn’t that Sir Salman Rushdie who stood next to you just now? We’re such fans.” The man nodded.»

Excerpt from: My Friend Salman Rushdie, in: Pachydermini Pack 4 (Turtleneck Press); donation dependent download.

«Tara, I look at us in that photo, taken so many years ago, I look at you sandwiched between Tom and me, with our left arms in casts, so ridiculous, it makes me think of music that is ridiculous also, music by Charles Ives with two bands playing against one another, or two melodies backpacking a third, or an instrument entering a dialog of two other instruments like a dangerous stranger. It makes me think of your musical voice and your rich hair, Tara, I’m thinking of you as my ship begins the landing process.»

Excerpt from: Friends, in: In Those Days We, available online at Issuu. Paperback version to appear.