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I did some writing on Amy Farina’s drumming for the Warmers on The Collapsar.

I interviewed Sam about his new book ‘Exploded View’ here.

Here’s a review of Ben Snakepit’s new “Manor Threat” anthology for Vol. 1 Brooklyn. 

Here’s my third podcast for Razorcake, featuring new music by Dr. Identity, G.L.O.S.S., Bad Leg, Thick Tang, the Ergs! and more.

 I review Jason Buchholz’s debut novel “A Paper Son” for Cabildo Quarterly.

http://cabildoquarterly.tumblr.com/post/149088963945/book-review-a-paper-son-by-jason-buchholz

A sordid tale of corporate seats and flat knuckleballs is now available in the new issue of Zisk.

A video posted by Terry G Lorber (@tgl2) on Jul 29, 2016 at 5:21pm PDT

cabildoquarterly:

New Glasses

Putting them on the first time,
I see purple ground ivy
flowers, the scallops of leaves
sharply delineating
their shadows, concrete steps, wall.

We walk through the neighborhood
that runs parallel to the
interstate and everything
seems to rise up to meet me
along the sidewalk, shifting
angles of the red leaved shrubs
tilting parallelograms,
like levered stagecraft waves.

I feel short and everything,
beer bottles and piled apples,
are sweetly miniature
with sticker labels and crisp
outlines. A veil lifts looking
through filter spectacles
and there is no standing straight.

Katelyn Kenderish is a poet currently residing in Washington. Look for more of her poetry in a forthcoming print issue of Cabildo Quarterly.
 

Mention @1ApolloBot in your tweet of an Artist Album Song.  Watch for RT when a match is made.  Listen at http://dj-apollo.herokuapp.com/.

cabildoquarterly:

Underground

To break ground means to spit,
make them believe it comes natural.

Your Durango strut, smooth jaw, Brillo rough
and cut this frozen earth with pick swings, 7am.

You’re 20 and fresh out of art school, your masterpiece,
Mystical Autumn got an A minus,

but now, you are the thing you do.
Sweat jeweling off your boy body,

a skinny, jeaned thing, dizzy headed,
but thirsty to push a shovel down

into thick clefts of strata, the harpoon
in your shoulder, burning.

What they don’t tell you in school,
is that you’ll have to touch the snake,

50 feet of coiled steel, rust caked from its eely bath,
it’s shit journey down some stranger’s dark hole.

And when the plumber tells you to pick it up, you do,
because first years are dirt, fresh meat

primed to be broken, tentacles shaking in your dirty hands
nearly snapping your wrist like a twig.

You never thought you’d be here, riding shotgun
in a plumbing van, it’s dashboard, a landscape

of fast food wrappers, sitting next to Stu or Bull or Jumbo.
Everyone with tough sounding nicknames,

catcher’s mitt faces with cuds of chew.
And that man, called your boss with the crooked face,

his fat chest laughing it’s king of Hell laugh,
saying, This is how you learn. And good job
And keep moving.

Robert Walicki is the curator of VERSIFY, a monthly reading series in Pittsburgh, PA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals including, HEArt,VerseWrights, I-70 Review, The Kentucky Review,Red River Review, and on the radio show Prosody. He won 1st runner up in the 2013 Finishing Line Open Chapbook Competition and was awarded finalist in the 2013 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Competition. He currently has two chapbooks published: A Room Full of Trees (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014) and The Almost Sound of Snow Falling (Night Ballet Press, 2015). He lives with his wife Lynne in Verona, PA. Look for more of his work in a forthcoming print edition of Cabildo Quarterly.

Click here for the newest installment of the Razorcake podcast, featuring tons of new music. 

Click here for a piece on the Cure’s 1989 album I wrote for RS 500.

I’m still enjoying this.

Here’s a piece I wrote on X’s second album for the RS 500.

Get psyched!

Here’s my first #razorcake podcast. Dig it!

cabildoquarterly:

The ninth issue of Cabildo Quarterly,  featuring new poetry, fiction and essays by Laura Lee Washburn, Karen Lillis, Jacob Fricke, Matthias Holt, Josh Davis, Jennifer Bannan, Ellen Goldsmith and Rebecca Griffin, is available online now through issuu.com  and pdfsr.com.

Email us for print issues.

Contributor Ellen Goldsmith’s poem ‘Daybreakage’ can be heard here: https://soundcloud.com/cabildo-quarterly/daybreakagetake3-ellen-sander-1

A video posted by Middle East + ZuZu (@mideastclub) on Mar 22, 2016 at 8:09pm PDT

I’m psyched to be on this panel with Sara Marcus, Byron Coley, Tanya Pearson and a bunch of other talented folks. April 8th!

Red-bellied Woodpecker. Seen on suet-feeder.

Here are two new reviews of my novel “Swing State”:

The Compulsive Reader

Entropy

This is the game, right here.

dustedmagazine:

Let’s face it: the industry expectation is that rock music is for, by, and about young’uns. Protomartyr bucks these expectations. Singer Joe Casey is dealing with the unsexy reality of losing parents, the long look down the decline slope of what comes after age 40. Sonic precedents abound: it’s easy to hear traces of the Fall, Joy Division, Girls Against Boys, but The Agent Intellect is not retro. Rather, the record exists in and ruminates on the now, be it under the well-heeled dystopian umbrella of technology, or, alternately, the crushing mundanity of loss. The weight of this jumbled present is overwhelming, occasionally contradictory and senseless.  Rather than back down from the precipice of decline and confusion, Protomartyr has reported the situation as they see it in The Agent Intellect, an uncomfortable, honest and ultimately excellent record. 

Keep reading

On the new Protomartyr record.

cabildoquarterly:

Cabildo Quarterly #8, summer 2015. Featuring new poetry and fiction by Ben Stein, Jes Skolnik, Erica Vega, Richard Katrovas and Ellen Sander. 

Available online via issuu and/or pdfsr. 

Hard copies available in/around greater Belchertown MA/Pittsburgh PA. 

Additional copies are a buck per – hit us via the gmail, cabildoquarterly.

All right!

Adapted from http://www.breadcetera.com/?p=71

300g poolish

200g KA Rye

550g KAAP

450g Water

15g Salt

2 tsp instant yeast

Autolayse

Add salt and yeast, knead by flap-and-fold

Let rise

Split into two

Let rise

Make boulets

Let rise

Bake @ 425*F 40min (15min steam)

Test post the thirth.

Adapted from MAC

1 qt water

2 oz grated or finely chopped ginger

4 oz white sugar

4 oz turbinado sugar

¾ tsp cream of tartar

4 taps cayenne pepper (more or less to taste)

Bring all to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes, covered

Cool 

1 ½ qt water

Juice of 1 lemon

Pitch ¼ tsp of Red Star Champagne yeast

Bottle and cap

Ferment at room temperature for 36 hours

Refrigerate to end fermentation

F.G. 1.008 (7.09% ABV)

Primed with 5oz corn sugar

27 22oz bottles

3 12oz bottles

Fermenting @ 68*F

Transfer to secondary

1oz Simply Select 6.6%

0.5oz Columbus 15.5%

0.5oz Amarillo 8.2%

0.5oz Apollo 17.7%

Fermenting @ 68*F

1oz Simply Select 6.6%

0.5oz Columbus 15.5%

0.5oz Amarillo 8.2%

0.5oz Apollo 17.7%

American Double IPA

5gal water @ 165*F strike

13.5lb Fawcett & Sons Pearl 

0.75lb Fawcett & Sons CaraMalt 

0.75lb Rahr White Wheat

60min. sacchrine rest @ 152*F

5gal water @ 170*F, mashout

Boil

60min 10mL HopShot 

0min 1lb brun leger

Flame Out

2oz Simply Select pellets 6.6% 

1oz Columbus pellets 15.5% 

0.5oz Apollo pellets 17.7%

15min (180*F)

1oz Simply Select pellets 6.6% 

1oz Columbus pellets 15.5% 

1oz Amarillo pellets 8.2% 

0.5oz Apollo pellets 17.7%

Pitched 1pkg Safale US-05

O.G. 1.059 @ 93*F

tlorber:

Lowell Connector was in my graduating class.

Lowell Connector? Don’t even know ‘er.

I had a pretty nice top-shelf goal at pickup hockey last night.  I guess that was worth missing this, right?

tlorber:

I used the Chelsea Finagle to get to work today.  Sayin’

I went to high school with her.

I should buy a 50’s-themed diner.

I should buy a vocorder.

Given that we’re at 1982, when are tlorber and michaeltfournier gonna come over and watch “Human Highway” with me?