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2010
December 31stTHE YEAR IN REVIEW, 2010
All in all, 2010 was a good year. I got no beef with it.
December 27thNEW YEAR’S HOROSCOPE
the end-of-the-world will be no concern for the people who live
December 20thHOROSCOPES
“they can’t all be the one / you are much more than your age / battle over a parking zone in his memory motel / continue to wonder / wait and see / waiting for something to come would work against you / fuck the committee / a double life is allegiance to the not true / our message is dispatched to us eventually / bail on those things don’t count / now you plant seeds / go back in time”
December 13thHOROSCOPES
spend time running through the forests / flee the office / take a nice, quiet beer after work, and survey the crowd / the merits of drunkenness it is hard to find anyone without it / never back down / with a slight shrug hold back / get yourself a suit / work it / people listen 2 a story / be true / on occasion crying in front of the house is ok / for the dark days we practice
December 11thHIPSTERS / EXPERIMENTING
Playing around this Saturday afternoon…
December 11thSHARK! (A TEA DRAWING)
Found this tea drawing on my Flickr, but I don’t think I ever posted it here…
December 6thHOROSCOPES
“forgive em / you always with you were somewhere else but you are here / you really have trouble when you know that you understand god / make a speech / remember your audience / that itch needs itching / after a while go home / get out of your league / look, listen / be over the ex / it doesn’t get better it just changes / on tough days when things aren’t going right be still”
December 1stMY READING YEAR, 2010
Ten good books I read this year: I Rememberby Joe Brainard “I remember Saturday night baths and Sunday morning comics.” The Anthologistby Nicholson Baker “I ask a simple question. I ask myself: What was the very best moment of your day…this one question could lift out from my life exactly what I will want to [...]
November 30thNOTEBOOK JUNE – NOVEMBER 2010
A collection of pages from my notebook.
November 29thHOROSCOPES
“learn music / be like a tree trunk, sturdy / grow into the challenge simply not to ruin it / sing to an attacker / abadon all poise / bring all your good stuff, and don’t worry / be a good date to everybody / don’t say anything specific / laugh at every single thing / give credit and get out of the way”
November 26thTEDMED NOTEBOOK ILLUSTRATIONS
Illustrations from a project I tag-teamed with my friend, Mike Rohde.
November 26th3 SQUARES LOGO
I was happy to draw the logo for 3 Squares. Here’s a few process doodles from my sketchbook.
November 23rdNEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POEMS SET TO MUSIC IN CHICAGO
So cool: ACM Chicago has commissioned composers and musicians to set my poems to music.
November 22ndTHANKSGIVING HOROSCOPE
“B thankful / treasure the time”
November 15thHOROSCOPES
“clues proliferate in the gut / the fun is going to get funner / do not murder mysteries / hand-writing is fake research / do less / no talent through television / threaten yer formal education / people discover a padded resume / permission is a sugared drink not food / miss speedy slow down / partner and tag-team the problem / be a wiser witness”
November 13thIT’S A WEIRD TIME SO BE NICE (SOME COLLAGES)
Whenever I have a free night and no ideas, I make collages.
November 11thLET US GO ON
“let us go on and do what our parents accuse us of doin”
November 9thLYLE LOVETT AUSTIN CITY LIMITS TAPING
Drawings of the last ACL taped in the historic 6A studio on UT’s campus.
November 8thHOROSCOPES
“our expectations won’t do everything / we may have to invent a new method / crash in a quiet room / parents cannot be put in place / test the helmets / know money / adults accept they have to b involved in daily operations / all grown men duck and run / lose the tough guy acked / go along be a smart kid don’t whine / play the problem is more the mood lurking behind shoulder blades / talk a good game with a sense of humility”
November 7thFUN FUN FUN FEST 2010
Doodles from Fun Fun Fun Fest 2010. Thanks to Paige and Austinist! See my drawings from 2009 →
November 5thLOCAL MUSIC IS SEXY 6
Sketches from The Austinist’s Pre-Fun Fun Fun Fest party.
November 3rdALL NOVEMBER
“finally we are naked / and on a mission / i wish I could have you all November”
November 1stHOROSCOPES
ride the bus hear the yelling / be boisterous / make sure how much sleep you get shine it up and wear it / adore the world / switch sides / stand closer / be brave i don’t think it’s a hugely common thing / u cannot be tied down to DNA / move in there are no rules about how far is too far / the money is never the search / sometimes forsaking the circle is slippery / everything changes this is one of the hardest things to know
October 28thGOLDILOCKS
“trying to get goldilocks / to go home”
October 25thHOROSCOPES
seek a new location / go outside / you would like to think that Bohemia is a kind of work / invest more energy in intense quiet playing / prove that none of this should be taken for granted / fall back on memories / begin a long courtship / take a woman in passion / act tough / picket the strike / the desperate follow not u / the wizard to seek is not on TV
October 20th5 YEARS OF BLACKING OUT
To celebrate the anniversary of my first blackout poem five years ago, I thought I’d post my 10 favorite poems from the archives.
October 18thTELEPORTAL READINGS 2.1
Drawings of Maira Kalman, Doug Dorst, Jennifer Egan, and Silent Diane.
October 14thHERE COMES THE BRIDE
“in her $667.16 satin wedding gear / she said, I do! / and high-heeled it to the champagne”
October 12thTHE NATIONAL: AUSTIN CITY LIMITS TAPING
Drawings of The National taping Austin City Limits, October 11, 2010.
October 9thSOMETIMES I WANT GOD TO BE SERIOUS
…but not often.
October 7thNO WORK IS WITHOUT ACCIDENT / FIRE ME
iPhone + iRetouch + Camerabag (+ Tiltshift Generator) = de-Sign
September 30thSUNDAY MORNING
“oh the megachurch music / i don’t want to go”
September 28thPUNT
“everything is telling you punt…”
September 28thOUR NEW SUNDAY AFTERNOON ROUTINE
On Sundays now, Meghan and I meet in our library and pack orders…
September 20thNEW STORE OPEN!
Signed, limited-edition screenprints, t-shirts, and books are on sale over at store.austinkleon.com
September 16thWARNING: LIFE IS WITHOUT SUPERVISION
A de-sign = iPhone camera + iRetouch + Camerabag + FlickIt
September 16thTALKS WITH THE GIANT
“talks with the Giant did not go far, / he made clear to us / he is very happy to be alone / and out of work / get one last look / before he begins his defensive”
September 14thNEWSPAPER BLACKOUT ON PBS NEWSHOUR!
PBS Newshour is profiling me as part of their Poetry Series.
September 10thSUMMER IS COOKING MY HEART
“summer is cooking my heart”
September 9thFIVE YEARS
I didn’t start a blog because I had something to say. I started a blog because I wanted to find something to say.
September 8thCINDERELLA’S TROUBLE
“Cinderella’s Trouble was that she sat waiting for some Fairy Godmother”
September 7thA WHOLE NEW MIND BY DANIEL PINK
A visual map of the book.
August 31stWHAT IS MARRIAGE?
“marriage is two people in love / standing in the same bathroom”
August 30thI STILL ROOT FOR THE TOWN
“I still root for the town / it got into my blood”
August 27thA VICTORY OF SORTS
“it is a victory of sorts / to take a drive in the country!”
August 26thPIRATE’S BOOTY
“he saved the day / and then they were married / now the pirates / are after his organz”
August 25thGOOGLE ME
“Go on Google me / ask Google how much u miss me”
August 23rdNEW PORTFOLIO PAGE
After going years without one, I finally have an online portfolio of my work.
August 19thTHE SOPHIA LOREN OF OHIO
“she was the sophia loren of ohio / and she belonged to me”
August 17thQUIET
“a woman is living with me / she wanders around / quite as a whisper”
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