Most exciting thing that has happened...probably at least this week: So I'm reading my favourite blogger, Molly Young, this morning. I was reading past entries to see if she mentioned any exciting places in NYC that I've never been to. Well, what I came across was this entry on 23 September:
Poetry Reading
David Noriega and I read Michael Gizzi’s New Depths of Deadpan, for thePoetry Foundation.
Hehe.
Read: "Michael Gizzi." Why is this poet exciting to me? Well, only because he was my very first college professor and academic advisor and was the first to really teach me to:
-Write poetry
-Appreciate Bob Dylan
-Not write about Love if it's going to be cliché or obvious
-Indulge in my natural wordplay
And he was definitely the first college professor to appreciate my creative writing talent. He is, by far, one of my favourite professors I've ever had. He was kind of my John Keating, with a lot less dramatic music and events. He's since stopped teaching at my university - I do not know why, but a lot of us were heartbroken when we found out he wouldn't be around for our last term. I knew he'd obviously written books - This is a must for professors - But not that he was famous enough that his poetry collection would somehow reach the hands of trendy young writer Molly Young. I felt a pride that I assume he would feel if he found one of his students had been published. Or something like it.
One can see how this find was thrilling for me.
The other find of the day is slightly less mind-blowing: 'Red Dwarf' is now in the American iTunes store. Every season. This is wild, especially since I completed my mission of watching every single season on YouTube somewhere around April '09. I discovered this when I was checking to see if a new favourite of mine, 'The Inbetweeners' was on there. Something about it [probably the awkward young male characters] reminds me of 'The Big Bang Theory.' [It's not on iTunes.]
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