Month: November 2008

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This goes out to all you big chillers out there.

Despite its seeming randomness and reputation as deliberately stupid, Flarf represents a poetic deeply invested in affect. At its best, the work associated with Flarf produces complex matrices of voices (human or not) enveloped not in socially and syntactically accepted structures of meaning (though often flirting with social logics of different types) but in shifting and exaggerated versions of those structures…

I like to post the search terms people use to get to this blog:

Nada Gordon 23 3%
Schoolgirls in Tights 23 3%
ululations 11 2%
soheir zaki 7 1%
pinky giving head 7 1%
nada gordon blog 6 1%
schoolgirls tights 6 1%
ululate 4 1%
panty flashers 4 1%
ululations blog 4 1%
navels 3 0%
sonnegrams 3 0%
verbage 2 0%
yubraj aryal 2 0%
Cancan music 2 0%
furry spooge 2 0%
tv y novelas 2 0%
Rob Fitterman 2 0%
سهير-زكي 2 0%
lactating nuns 2 0%
magenta tights 2 0%
leotard fetish 2 0%
yahoo horoscope 2 0%
Other 267 38%

people are big on the tights.

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My students wrote this and the other two posters I’m exhibiting here to practice the subjunctive. Aren’t they clever?