February 2012
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December 2010
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Top 10 Worst Retirement Planning Strategies
10. “Do something fascinating, then live off the proceeds from sperm donation.” 9. “Win Jeopardy.” 8. “Work at Wal-Mart.” 7. “Perform some feat of unnatural ridiculousness for which you will become famous in the ‘Guinness Book of World Records.’” 6. “Endear yourself to a wealthy patron.” 5. “Cross the street slowly so...
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New Poetic Developments for Phill Provance
Dear Readers, Well, so my reading at the studio of friend and painter Shelton Walsmith last month seems to have gone well, and Mark and I are trucking right along with sales. I’ll be sure to post a picture of the chap’s cover when Mark gets back from Spain and gets the details for The Day the Sun Rolled Out of the Sky up on the Cy Gist Press blog. While we wait for that, (but only if...
November 2010
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Learn a Cool Thing Today from Julie Doxsee
To plaster over my bemoaning I thought I would post a positive note here on something very cool you can do with a line of poetry. Today, Zachary Schomburg posted this line from a Julie Doxsee poem:
I pretend your hands are the cleaved sunup this morning’s window hums toward the width of my animal syllable.
I can’t remember if this line came from “Undersleep” or one of...
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A Very Awesome Issue of Jacket
If you like poems as much as I do you should read this: http://jacketmagazine.com/37/piccinnini-ashbery.shtml and this: http://jacketmagazine.com/37/iv-baus-ivb-king.shtml They make so much sense together in that weird tenuous way that makes you want to sit for a whole day and fill in the planks. Of the bridge. See, I am doing it. Kudos to Jacket’s editors for putting together an issue with...
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Something You Should Attend →
The first reading for “The Day the Sun Rolled Out of the Sky” will be in Brooklyn Nov. 13, 2010. You should go. I know I will.:-P
October 2010
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September 2010
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My First Pushcart Nomination →
“Well I’m on my way/I don’t know where I’m going/I’m on my way/I’m takin’ my time but I don’t know where.” Wow! I’m just ecstatic. My very first Pushcart Prize nomination came in from everyone’s favorite spot to find up-and-coming Asian poets. Also a nomination from them for the Best of the Web award. The nominated poem, “St....
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Cha: An Asian Literary Magazine, issue 12 →
Hi, guys. Here’s issue 12 of Cha put together by the lovely Tammy and her intended, Jeff (who is cool enough, by the by, to have the initials “J.Z.”). I am in it. But please don’t just read me. Cha, you see is Hong Kong’s first English-language online magazine, and as a result, it attracts the attention of many awesome poets and fiction writers (as well as press from...
August 2010
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Reminiscent of Poems by Billy Collins and Pablo... →
Check out this post from Cha editor Tammy Ho Lai-Ming about what she thinks of my poetry. I’m just floored by the comparison she makes and am extremely grateful. I also want you guys to get to know Tammy as I’ve been following her stuff since I found her “Sending You Away” in decomP. She is exactly what a poet should be, in my opinion: Succinct, clear, thoughtful,...
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More Upcoming Publications
Well, so yeah, apparently I’m getting a little popular in the poetry line. Danse Macabre and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal are both taking “St. Petersburg Has Many Churches,” and Cha is also taking “What I Said to Her Was Not a Lie.” So kudos to me once again and much thanks to both Tammy and Adam. Seems there will only be four poems in my first chap that won’t...
July 2010
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Disgusting News →
Man! This is awful. Who the heck are these people saying they’d vote against the Dems and the Prez. This is very disturbing to me. I am very pleased with the fact that my elected officials have consistently acted in ways since 2008 that I feel are in my best interest. I lived through the previous eight years of warmongering and greed and I feel the country has turned a corner.
I know we...
I write like David Foster Wallace →
Really?
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"This Above All"
Two weeks ago I got drunk with my mom, brother Mike and cousin Ashley. It was Ashley’s birthday, so Mom was took us all to a local diner after the bar closed, and I was looking forward to having some eggs and chicken-fried steak on Mum’s dime. It wasn’t 15 minutes after getting to the diner, though, that Mike and I got into the biggest fight I’ve been in since last January....
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June 2010
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Acceptance from Arsenic Lobster →
Yes, folks, another acceptance, and this time it’s sticking. Arsenic Lobster likes “Hard to Say”; in fact, I’m glad I submitted since it seems according to Duotrope Digest that the acceptance rate is only 1.82% currently. Ha! Imagine that.
Also, I am officially labeling my work “Bizarro” or “New Absurdist” - though I don’t think I know enough...
May 2010
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More Webcomic review attention from Apollo →
No kidding! The guy really likes Ace Hoyle. And we really like him.:-) No doubt, someday when I am dead, dear Apollo will be critical analyst No. 1 of my work—the edgy old dude with the cigarette dangling from his tracheotomy: “When I first met Phill it was wild times, man…. Crazy sonovabitch was doin’ this Ace Hoyle thing and e-mailed me out of the blue—haha!”
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And yet another positive webcomic review from... →
Geeze, man. We told them we didn’t have to be nice to Ace Hoyle at all. We even paid a guy who trashed us. And look at this: Yet another positive review! And one that sort of appreciates what I’m doing artistically?!! Geeze, man! This guys good!
The only thing he missed was how the melodrama is used to satirize comics as a genre. (I’m trying to go over-the-top, after all,...
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A positive Webcomic Review From Apollo Fireweaver →
Not bad, eh? So on the balance Ace Hoyle’s doing pretty well: Only one bad review, one so-so review and two very laudatory reviews. I thinks that’s a fairly good batting avg., no?
Also, you guys should check out this blogger in general because he’s pretty insightful on a lot of topics and not only writes webcomic reviews, but also has several on-line game reviews I think...
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Oil Spill Cocktail (or "The One That Killed The... →
In honor of the BP oil disaster, I’ve come up with a new cocktail that tastes a helluvalot better than the classic “Oil Slick.” In fact, it tastes more like regular Dr. Pepper than Diet Dr. Pepper and hasn’t a drop of either in it.
This one’s a highball and, in honor of the soon-to-be-desolated Caribbean, Magnum energy wine (A favorite of mine I discovered in...
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New Publication Credit Part II
I deleted the post about Blaze VOX because the editor reneged on their acceptance after I asked for a couple links to Ace in my bio. Translation: Blaze VOX is a bunch of *bleep* heads, and as my friends you should neither submit to them nor purchase their books, nor pay them any attention in any way.
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Review of Ace Hoyle on Tales from the Long Box →
OUCH, this one hurt! But, then again, I guess you can’t win ‘em all. Considering the other generally positive reviews, I’ll grin and bear it. Besides, it doesn’t matter what they say as long as they’re talking about us, and a link is a link, so nbd.
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Optical Sloth Review of Ace Hoyle →
Another review, and this time a vote of confidence. Perhaps we are doing a great job after all!:-)
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Webcomic Asylum Review of Ace Hoyle →
OK, so maybe it’s not the most sparkling review, but you’ll notice my writing got one of the higher ratings, and my only short-coming was that there’s poker in the series (something I was forced to do). So, all-in-all, not bad, eh?
April 2010
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Noir Web Comic Interview →
Here’s an interview NoirCon did with me on “The Adventures of Ace Hoyle.”:-) So if you’ve ever wondered what goes on in my head when I write these things—or what made me ever want to write such a thing—check it out!
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Sunday Roast on Tuesday →
I’m missing my short stay in England today, so I’ve decided to cook a Sunday roast—on Tuesday—complete with Yorkshire pudding (Recipe above). Hopefully it’ll prove for some of my fellow Americans that British food (at least when cooked by a Yankee) ain’t so bad.:-)
Israeli Writers Do the News →
Hmmm, this is very interesting. Not sure where I stand on it, though. Which conventions are better? Which would you want to read?
Copy Cats →
And in other news, Editor & Publisher calls The Philadelphia Inquirer’s move to use online gambling ad revenue to keep itself afloat “brilliant.” I suppose I should have expected I wouldn’t be the one to get credit for the idea.
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Some Thoughts on Michael Moore's "Capitalism"
1.) It seems the Catholic Church is behind a workers’ revolt; could this be the reason for making a hubbub about sexual abuse every 10 years, though we all know the church has condemned these evil priests (who make up such a small percentage of the priesthood) and is actively trying to address the issue?
2.) I love Michael Moore and agree with the message, but seriously, you know nothing...
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Dog Mayor →
Oooof! Everyone’s cooler than me. Even this three-legged dog gets to be mayor of a town.:-(
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Poets & Writers Literary Magazine Database →
Not sure how much I agree with Poets & Writers per se, but this database of theirs is so awesome I wanted to share it with all my fellow poets and writers (heh, dig the keyword use there).
Anyhow, yeah, major time saver. You can basically go through and find all the mags that accept electronic simultaneous submission and send to all of them, then sit back and wait for a response. Pretty cool,...
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"Yirmumah" by D.J. Coffman (Web Comic) →
This is my cousin DJ’s Web comic. So, yes, the sickness runs in the family.
Actually, though, Yirmumah is really quite funny and the reason I first wanted to get into comics (to be like my big cousin). So, no, this isn’t just another plug. Also, just like Ace, it’s absolutely free to you and, get this, daily!!!!
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G-Man on TV →
And this is a shout-out to my pal G-Man, whose cocktail concoctions was on Channel 6 in TT recently. Go G-Man!:-)
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New AceHoyle.com Web Comic Strip →
A new strip on AceHoyle.com. You guys should read it - yupyupyup.
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Hey, this is pretty cool. →
Avril Lavigne’s song writer, Evan Taubenfeld, reposted our press release for the Ace Hoyle theme song on his site. I’m assuming he’s friends with one of the guys in The Honors or liked the “Boston indie rock” keyword or both. Anyhow, it’s still Pretty friggin’ cool. What would be even cooler (*hint, hint*) is if he wrote a song for the soundtrack - though...
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Soliciting Links →
Hey, guys. As you may or may not know, I have a job writing a Web comic called “The Adventures of Ace Hoyle.” Now, this is a very difficult line to get into, and likely I’m the highest-paid person in Web comics today. (If you make Web comics too I assume you’ll get the joke). But so, how do I do it?
Simple: My company sells ad space to online gambling sites.
Now, I...
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A Short Hollywood Melodrama →
Chopin. Raindrop Prelude. The early 20th century: A woman I love very dearly, who will die in the very near future, is riding a bicycle in a park and laughing inaudibly…. I am in tweed and flat cap laughing inaudibly as she circles me…. Intermittent flashes of a hospital scene, the camera inching past a delicate, pale foot pushing through the bed’s white sheets… The motion...
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March 2010
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Hem's "Half Acre" →
I can’t get this one out of my head. It’s just so sad and sweet. Yes, I know it’s from that State Farm commercial, but you can’t argue with good music no matter where you hear it. It makes me think of looking at the hills of my home town. Maybe it will remind you guys of your homes. Try it and see.:-)
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