Hey Teebs

EL OH EL

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:10:13 -0400

EL OH EL

Who Conquers Who, or Surprisingly Good Airplane Food

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:26:00 -0400

for RH

We keep in touch phone stuff but what
do I look like in the cumuli
of your mind through the cold half-
sandwich of your lunch break—

I’m learning I don’t always have to clean
my plate, but there’s a saying about way
about waste or is it waist anyway it’s morning.
I’ve already been so many people today.

Does the me you gather in my absence
match the me in my head, the mirror
the text snapchat face chat, the fat
kid wrapped in gummy memory?

Once, we didn’t have the power to turn off—
deathless compass darting landward,
baskets woven to the gods. Now you,
you turn me on.

wilkes1: yr girl is a Center for Fiction fellow (link) My...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:51:00 -0400

wilkes1:

yr girl is a Center for Fiction fellow (link)

My BFF is super smart and super pretty and super paaaaaid

by J Morrison and Jamie Stewart

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:54:00 -0400

by J Morrison and Jamie Stewart

Photo

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:48:22 -0400

Extra Skin

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:20:27 -0400

Have you ever wondered why thrift
stores always smell the same? As if
repurpose, itself, has a smell.

Drrrt fag in slimming black, which abs-
orbs light and reflects nothing—
Everyone, you said, knows their number

unless it changes. When things change
hands, its designation is based on
intent, like leather. You want to fuck me.

Sober daytime sex is the naked-
est. It was hotter then, our bodies
aromatic as cracked something.

What’s the shelf-life of second hand?
You didn’t take off your shirt and I could-
n’t tell who was more naked.

No Hard Feelings

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:45:00 -0400

Rihanna always has a song
on the charts. Lava hair, baggy

denim, Keith Haring—it’s often easy
to think she’ll always be there, like

Michael Jackson and frequent texts I recite
to friends, who avalanche aww he’s a keeper.

Feelings are neither created nor destroyed
but conserve over time, like fame it’s to-

tally a physical law, I remind myself
when the text says “seeing someone else.”

Thinkin thinkin bout u

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:32:04 -0400

Thinkin thinkin bout u

i very much like your stuff!

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:42:26 -0400

:-D blush :-D blush :-D

One Stop Shop

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:59:37 -0400

I’m starting to have an eye
on the makings of dry skin.
Impulse aisle induced psych-

osis— Bikini magazine ice cream
schism. Seriously, fuck magic
bullet thinking. Too much credit

is given the panic of “self-control.”
Hard work is hard, but decisions,
like metaphors, are built within

a moat of desire. Love in a hopeless
kingdom. It’s like, sugar and booze feel
good then bad, sometimes real bad,

but art feels bad before it feels
even worse, and then even the best
and I just want to wear a pretty dress.

chrisnewnet: I’m proud to announce that Ticking will be...

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:15:00 -0400

chrisnewnet:

I’m proud to announce that Ticking will be screened as part of the Northside Festival this coming June.

The film has been hand picked by Tommy Pico of birdsong and will screen as part of his curated “Night of Adaptations”.

You can find out more about the evening here.

TOMMY PICO THATS ME!!

I'm All Over the Motherfucking Planet Looking Good While I'm At It

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:35:06 -0400

With every visit home, they say
I sound more and more like a New

Yorker. It’s easier to breathe through
certain vowels than others. So what

if phrases come to mind in the voice
of Nikki Minaj, or my bff who affects

that parental insistence, or a phone sex
operator I called once who asked “what

do you like?” which I couldn’t answer but
invoke when going down. That’s the damn

question. It changes like an accent, elusive
as a mantra said with different inflections.

mauvelipstick: hey friends n strangers, i finished my zine with...

Thu, 02 May 2013 16:48:04 -0400

mauvelipstick:

hey friends n strangers,

i finished my zine with text by me and drawings by THE Dutchesse Crystal

so if you’d like a copy just email me your address and i’ll gladly send you one. if we met like once/never and you feel weird asking me for it over email, don’t feel weird. i often tell people i barely know that they were in my dreams. you’re in good company.

kmorse@gm.slc.edu

xok

Kayla Morse is one of my favorite living poets and her zine is really really really really really good. SO get one while you can, peeps.

THIS

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:23:54 -0400

THIS

A fun little interview of yrs truly just went up on the...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:21:00 -0400

A fun little interview of yrs truly just went up on the Publishing Genius blog, courtesy of ms. Sarah Jean Alexander, about zines, chicken wings, all sorts of things. :-)

birdsongmag: Friends & Family @ Hotel Chantelle -...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:07:21 -0400

birdsongmag:

Friends & Family @ Hotel Chantelle - Birdsong Collective, Kenny Mellman DJ Set & More!

This Monday at 8:00 pm - a few of us (Tommy Pico, Kayla Morse, Lauren Wilkinson, Diego Medina and Khalid El Khatib) will be reading on behalf of the Birdsong Collective for Earl Dax’s new party “Friends & Family.” It’s the eve before our kickstarter campaign to make a “best of birdsong” magazine ends, so come and drink and hear us read and consider pledging!!

There will also be a set by DJ KENNY MELLMAN (Our Hit Parade, Kiki and Herb) and performances by JULIAN FLEISHER and ADRIENNE TRUSCOTT (Wau Wau Sisters). No cover, happy hour prices all night!

@Hotel Chantelle,

92-94 Ludlow Street

NYC, 8pm!

Come see me and my golden throat on Monday :-)

Our Kickstarter is reaching it’s final days! Help me fund...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:51:42 -0400

Our Kickstarter is reaching it’s final days! Help me fund a “best of” magazine for Birdsong: a Brooklyn-based zine/collective/small press I founded five years ago!! Visit the page and share it and pledge!

Plz Oh Plz

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:45:44 -0400

Plz oh plz don’t break
the moment with yr shirk-

ing derp yolo internetese,
or future tenses, or catastrophic

personal narratives that context
what, exactly? Once, a generation

was a generation. Now, I have
trouble sliding into sleep.

Post video post selfie, plz oh
plz let’s choose to stay

buoyed by pillows by things I double
back onto you, send yr nerves shooting

like a mind
understanding new terms.

jkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjk: Here is a photo of Tommy Pico and also a...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:28:00 -0400

jkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjk:

Here is a photo of Tommy Pico and also a dumb jerk, taken by Steve McFarland.

I have never done an event like Brooklyn Zine Fest before or really represented myself and my work in a public space at all, so I kept alternating between nervous and excited. The day started slowly… for like a half hour. After that it was literally non-stop, I took a five minute break halfway but that was it, I talked to a few hundred people and it was really really fun. I just joked all day, I sort of don’t remember too much of what I actually said to anyone but I think it was OK probably. Tommy was really great too, he is a seasoned professional at this whole “being offline” thing. He sold about a million Birdsongs so you know, he’s the real deal.

I have to say a really huge thank you to people “from tumblr” who came for the event. There were a few people (you know who you are) who were just like the sweetest fucking people I have ever met and you were so excited about everything and that was the most flattering experience and you are the best, thank you! Also finally got to meet a few people who I only talk to on the computer so that was really cool too. Cool cool cool nice nice nice awesome cool nice.

I sold out of my new HOME-BREW #3 packages, as well as “SORRY & THANKS,” a zine made by members of SOMEDAY MY PRINTS WILL COME. But I’ll have more HOME-BREW online soon, and club members, you will get copies of SORRY & THANKS in a future mailing!

Oh god teebs stop making yr “camera face” (jk never stop anything)

Tomorrow I’ll be tabling at the Brooklyn Zine Fest for...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:19:03 -0400

Tomorrow I’ll be tabling at the Brooklyn Zine Fest for Birdsong, hawking some mighty fine self-published writing and art, and promoting our Kickstarter campaign to make a “best of” magazine. I’ll be sitting alongside the dashing Adam J. Kurtz, to whom I owe one million cookies (I forgot to reserve a table this year and he offered me space at his).

Come say hi and rifle through my zines and tell me I look pretty! That sounds like a joke and it kind of is.

—Love, Teebs