"Four legs good, two legs bad." This line is engrained in a sheep's voice in my head from a high school production of Animal Farm in which I was...bump bada buuuuuummmm: a sheep.

Tin House, surpriiiiiiiiiiise, dun’t want my story.  This is the story that I love a lot and no one wants.

Don’t get me wrong, I love all my babies equally, but this baby I love a little more equally.

Tonight I’m reading alone at The Parlor.  I hope I will not be alone.  I hope you will come.  Here’s the deets:

Jac Jemc will be at The Parlor Tuesday November 3rd at 7pm!
 
Following her 30 minute reading, Jac will take questions from the audience.
 
As always, the event will be recorded and published on-line for your repeated listening pleasure on iTunes and at www.theparlorreads.com
 
All readings take place at 1511 N. Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor
 
For more information, please visit www.theparlorreads.com or contact theparlorreads@gmail.com

Tomorrow I’m reading with a slew of other awesome people at the Rec Room’s Sad Trombone/ Erin Teegarden’s 32nd Birthday Reading: 

Allison Gruber
Barbara Perry
Dan Godston
Eric Elshtain
Katie Hartsock
Ellen Wadey
Sunny Byers
Jac Jemc
Jacob Knabb
Mary Hamilton
Krista Franklin
Mary Scherer
Louie Holwerk

What is the sound of someone turning 32? Is it a sad trombone, like this (www.sadtrombone.com)? We think so. Therefore, in honor of the actual 32nd birthday of rec room founder and organizer Erin Teegarden, on November 4, 2009, we bring you a night of readings and performance that celebrate the various wah wah wah waaaahhhhhh moments of our lives.

Sad Trombone
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
8:00pm – 11:00pm
black rock bar
3614 N. Damen Ave.
Chicago, IL

Come one, come all!  Yes!

Heyoooooo!

Sunday, October 25th. 7:30 PM.  The Burlington.  3425 W Fullerton.

Ima gonna read a true sexy story. It’s really not that sexy – but the main act is sex, or an attempt at the like.

As I understand, the other readers will be: Jacob S. Knabb, Natalie Edwards, Ryan Sarros, and Molly Each.

Get it while it’s hot.

Aufgabe, you shouldn't have.

Nothing to take the wind out of the sails of Rejection 200, like getting Rejection 201 at the same time.  I think it’s darn well apropos.

The first rejection was a form rejection from The Kenyon Review.

The second was an email form rejection from Aufgabe, for a paper submission.  I am wondering where my SASE is. Granted I’d withdrawn four of the five poems via email, but still.

Maybe they plan on sending me a secret surprise in my SASE.  Maybe they saw that the rejection was going to be a birthday of sorts, and decided to send me a card instead.  I bet that is it.

I’m very excited about the new site The Big Other launching today. 

It’s an online forum discussing art, literature, music, and whatever.

The people contributing are numerous and wonderful: Leni Zumas, John Dermot Woods, Sean Lovelace, Michael Leong, Jac Jemc, Christopher Higgs, Greg Gerke, Molly Gaudry, Luca Dipierro, Kim Chinquee, and Ryan W. Bradley.

My first post is about text that shows up in non-paper based art.

Check it out! Often!

This is the Pequod's Pizza logo. I guess no one actually knows why the whale has a thong on it's face.

I think maybe getting to rejection 199 is more exciting than getting to rejection 200.  It’s like the boat ride in Willy Wonka…”not a speck of light is showing so the danger must be growing and the rowers KEEP ON ROWING”…  I love that scene.

Anyway.

Bat City Review rejected a story today.  This story is getting rejected a lot and I think it’s really one of my favorite stories I’ve ever written, so, ya know, there’s no accounting for taste.

200 should be here any day now.  I think I want pizza.  Good pizza.  Pequod’s.

These were some of my favorites recently.

Another pretty quick paper rejection: Gulf Coast in about 6 weeks.

Sometimes, to convince myself to go to the trouble of making some paper submissions, and also to make spending $8 on a sheet of stamps seem more fun, I go to the post office and ask the lady to show me the “special stamps.”  The lady always seems delighted to do this.

I ran out of special stamps today.  I probably won’t make more paper submissions for  a while.

The October issue of Pank is live with rad work from:

Amye Archer, Jimmy Chen, Katie Cortese, Karen Dietrich, Neil de la Flor, Travis Fortney, Karen Gentry, Steve Gibbon, Joseph Goosey, Derek Henderson, Sarah Hilary, Jac Jemc (with audio!), Jennifer Juneau, P.H. Madore,  Pauline Mason, Eric McKinley, Jen Michalski, Gary Moshimer, David Peak, Richey Piiparinen, Dan Portincaso, and J.R. Salling.

Check it out.  They hit this one out of the ballpark.

I have to leave for the Scorch Atlas Release Part in 5 minutes, which you already know about, I’m sure, and hopefully I will see you at No Coast at 7PM,

BUT

really I’m writing to remind you that Quickies is tomorrow at 7:30 at the Innertown and the the readers are get-out-of-here awesome.

First of all there will be something of a Dollar Store Summer Tour reunion with Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Jac
Jemc, Caroline Picard, and hosts Mary Hamilton and Lindsay Hunter,

BUT ALSO THE SPECTACULAR:

Elizabeth Wylder, Ben Tanzer, Kate Duva, Aaron Plasek,
Casey Bye, Tim Racine, and Richard Thomas.

I know.  Get there.
1935 W. Thomas, Chicago
http://quickieschicago.blogspot.com/