Month: October 2012

Random 10 10-5-12

Every week, I try to imagine this as single ten-line poem. Here’s last week’s. And this week:

  1. “Good Morning Good Morning” by the Beatles, guessed by Clayton
    Everything is closed, it’s like a ruin
  2. “Flesh” by Aerosmith
    The witch has brewed her baddest batch
  3. “Dig Gravedigger Dig” by Corb Lund
    Nothin’ a little whiskey won’t tame
  4. “I’m Going to Bring a Watermelon to My Girl Tonight” by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
    She stuck them here and there
  5. “I Like the Beatles (And My Baby Loves the Rolling Stones)” by Segarini
    She likes music that takes her away
  6. “Your Love” by the Outfield, guessed by Clayton
    You know I like my girls a little bit older
  7. “Top” by Live, guessed by Kim
    Pyramids, healing wires, a musician’s fame
  8. “Sun Hands” by Local Natives
    Baby, won’t you show me warmth again?
  9. “The Walls Are Coming Down” by Fanfarlo
    For atoms have gone as far as atoms will go
  10. “Johnny 99” by Bruce Springstein
    Ralph went out lookin’ for a job but he couldn’t find none

Good luck!

Autumn is the new summer

If you’d told me that, near the end of the first week of October, I’d still be complaining about it’s being summer…well, I’m not sure I’d have believed you. But the weather has been ridiculous this whole week, disgustingly humid and with temperatures in the high seventies or higher.

I have the air conditioner on high as I type this.

Again, it’s October 5th. I was kind of hoping we’d have some kind of fall.

Meanwhile, the Long Island Railroad isn’t making the commute through that nasty humidity any easier. This morning, they told us all to move up the stairs and across to the opposite platform, when my train was running late, only to have that train stop on the original platform instead. This evening, I got to Penn Station only to discover crowds of people emptying out of my evening train. “I don’t know,” somebody said. “They told us to get off.” The train opposite us was going to the yards, not taking any passengers, so it’s possible there was a mix-up. Or it’s possible the LIRR was just being its usual self.

But it’s not all bad. I was finally able to launch Kaleidotrope’s autumn issue, with lots of science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories, poems, art, and horoscopes for your reading delight. Check it out, won’t you?