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A Flaw in the Motor: Union Steward (part four)
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A Flaw in the Motor. Satirical noir, poetry, book notes. Friday, April 29, 2011. Union Steward (part four). We moved beyond the confessional phase and into something sloppier. He agreed to try things my way, to let the union pull him out of the fire. They’d done it for me. I trusted them. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Union Steward (part five). Union Steward (part four). Union Steward (part three). Union Steward (part two). Union Steward (part one). View my complete profile.
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A Flaw in the Motor: June 2010
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A Flaw in the Motor. Satirical noir, poetry, book notes. Friday, June 18, 2010. At last, gush after gush of clotted red gore, as if it had been the purple lees of red wine, shot into the frighted air; and falling back again, ran dripping down his motionless flanks into the sea. His heart had burst! The pursuit of whales is always under great and extraordinary difficulties. Friday, June 11, 2010. The wine dark (and edgy) sea. Am trying to understand why this is true—and why it’s esp. true ...It’s ov...
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A Flaw in the Motor: May 2011
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A Flaw in the Motor. Satirical noir, poetry, book notes. Monday, May 2, 2011. 8221; I decided in a second that I’d had it with the airlines. I must have been mad at Ernie but that’s not what I remember most—I remember feeling relief, and a funny kind of pride. I’d been blacklisted. A real revolutionary! I decided to drop out of school and travel until the money ran out. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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A Flaw in the Motor: Union Steward (part five)
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A Flaw in the Motor. Satirical noir, poetry, book notes. Saturday, April 30, 2011. Union Steward (part five). The airlines seemed intent on firing my co-worker. We met with Ernie and the lawyer at a Marriot in Century City. Went over strategy—that the clocking in rule was a form of intimidation and that employees tried in good faith to show up on time. I was to argue the case but Ernie and the lawyer would be there to watch my back. Were they grooming me, or throwing me to the wolves? Union Steward (part...
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A Flaw in the Motor: October 2010
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A Flaw in the Motor. Satirical noir, poetry, book notes. Monday, October 11, 2010. Hardboiled for Hard Times. PM Press is sponsering a slew of readings around. The Bouchercon convention at the Embarcadero Hyatt. I get to read with all these great crime writers. I'll. Read a little from Incredible Double but will also. Mix in something from a new novel. Also- don't spread this around, but there's a private. Party Sunday 10/17- a chance to drink with the cream. Wednesday, October 13th, 2010:.
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A Flaw in the Motor: April 2011
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A Flaw in the Motor. Satirical noir, poetry, book notes. Saturday, April 30, 2011. Union Steward (part five). The airlines seemed intent on firing my co-worker. We met with Ernie and the lawyer at a Marriot in Century City. Went over strategy—that the clocking in rule was a form of intimidation and that employees tried in good faith to show up on time. I was to argue the case but Ernie and the lawyer would be there to watch my back. Were they grooming me, or throwing me to the wolves? We moved beyond the...
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A Flaw in the Motor: January 2011
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A Flaw in the Motor. Satirical noir, poetry, book notes. Monday, January 24, 2011. I began my education in the Either/Or bookstore on Pier Avenue. I was attending classes at El Camino College and sneaking into others at Long Beach State (poets taught there), but I fed my head at Either/Or. Marx, Paul Goodman and I.F. Stone for my agitator side. McClure’s. Edited by Paul Vangelisti and John McBride, a long poem,. The Burning of Los Angeles. One hell of a job—a life’s work. Appreciate from a distance?
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A Flaw in the Motor: March 2010
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A Flaw in the Motor. Satirical noir, poetry, book notes. Wednesday, March 24, 2010. San Francisco Zen Center Presents:. The Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadside Project Exhibition. Friday, April 2. 7:30 - 9:30 pm. The Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition has been organizing readings and other events since April 2007. Over 130 letterpress printers have contributed broadsides to this project that speak to the enduring power of poetry and art. Friday, March 5, 2010. And this just in. Not sure what to think about this- wi...
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A Flaw in the Motor: on Clyfford Still
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A Flaw in the Motor. Satirical noir, poetry, book notes. Friday, June 10, 2011. This first appeared in. Magazine. Thank you, David and Sara. Do you get them, Simmons? I thought about arguing, but at that point I was playing Boswell to Simmons’ Dr. Johnson. I let it go. He’d hooked me into a free place and all I had to do was feed a couple of cats. I was grateful. There were a couple of bedrooms. No Studio. I don’t know where he painted. I admit that I hate that the paintings aren’t really titled...
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A Flaw in the Motor: August 2011
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A Flaw in the Motor. Satirical noir, poetry, book notes. Monday, August 29, 2011. The Poetic Labor Project Presents :. WORKING * * WRITING * * FIGHTING * *. A Gathering on Labor, Art and Politics. This Sunday, September 4, 1pm to 6pm. At the Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library. 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA. This labor day weekend, please join us for a convocation on the intersecting themes of writing, work and activism. Write to David Brazil at dzbrazil@yahoo.com. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).