i am alt lit

73.4 :: ‘horseghost’ by various

‘horseghost’ edited by matthew donahoo // horseghost, 2012

73.4

i am naturally ‘biased’ against ‘journals’

many of them are hard for me to ‘get’

many of them seem ‘haphazard’

this one however is ‘better’

pretty sure matthew donahoo ‘put this together’

he did a good job he got big names in alt-lit

tao lin

sam pink

ofelia hunt

other people

ofelia had 4 pieces of fiction. wasn’t sure about reading them

i was mixed on ‘today & tomorrow’

but there’s a different tone ‘now’ with these pieces and that tone i enjoyed

thumbs up for horseghost version of ofelia hunt

tao lin contributed hamster koala pictures

(partial hamster koala picture)

wonder if tao’s art will take the same ‘road’ as his writing ie he will give drawings out for free for awhile until someone ‘contracts’ with him for an art book, then he will only contribute short videos until  someone ‘contracts’ with him for a web series and then

on

and

on

something seems ‘funny’ about the hamster koala pictures

does marshall mallicoat write poetry?

really like paul christian ‘for real’ 

very sophisticated & interesting

someone might call paul christian a ‘fresh new voice’ not sure if i’m that ‘someone’ or not

brittany wallace’s poems were ‘refreshingly’ classical

‘octopus dough balls’ by elaine sun & spencer madsen is a video transcript and some may it call it ‘a riot’ this ‘may be’ my favorite piece of the journal, not really sure though, but read it anyway

these were good

will read ‘horseghost’ some more.