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February 2010 I've donated a triptych to
art auction benefit for
the victims of Haiti's devasting earthquake which
takes place on Wednesday, 2/10 at 7pm.
December 2009 At 7pm on Sunday, December 13th,
I will give a reading at one of NYC's only leather biker
cafes, Motorcycle
Federation. Organized by Madeleine Beckman, the
reading will also feature Roberta Bernstein, Jean
Monahan, and Nicole Sprinkle. More details later.
November 2009 I will have a couple of stories
published in the Brooklyn Writers Space first anthology,
The Reader. The launch party is on Thursday,
November 5th at 7pm at BookCourt, 163 Court
Street, in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
July 2009 A photograph from my collaboration
with LuLu LoLo, Pierrot 2.0, was included in an
Italian mail art exposition here.
May 2009 My short story Back Trouble is
a semi-finalist (top 27 out of 654) in Nimrod's Katherine Anne Porter
Prize for Fiction. • Photos from my Suburban
Geometries series are published on Polar Inertia's Spring 2009
(#34) issue at the end of May.
April 2009 4/8: Max's cousin Elena
Takeuchi was born at 5:24pm Tokyo Time! • My long
story The Heart Is a Lonely Drummer is a finalist
(top 30 out of 900) in Summer Literary Seminars-2009
Unified Fiction and Poetry Contest judged by Lynne
Tillman. • A photo from my Visual Haiku series
was published in Shots's Spring 2009 issue
(#103).
February 2009 My short short story South of
the Border was awarded 3rd Place in the Sonora Review's Third Annual
Short Short Contest. The judge was Aimee Bender.
January 2009 My short story Second Actis a finalist won Honorable Mention in
Cutthroat Journal's 2008 Rick DeMarinis Short
Story Competition. The story will be published in
February.
November 2008 Brooklyn Writers Space Reading at
Union Hall, Sunday, 11/9, 5-7pm. BWS.
September 2008 Final LMCC Reading at U.S.
Custom House, Thursday, 9/18, 6-8pm. RSVP is mandatory
because of security. RSVP at LMCC's site here. Map of Bowling Green
here.
August 2008 Our Baby Boy Is Due! 8/15 is the
due date of our unnamed
boy. HE'S HERE! Max
Miles Takeuchi was born on Friday, 8-22-8 at
3:33pm! See tons of pix here.
Man on Wire is a 2008
documentary of wire walker Philip Petit’s
preparations for his world-famous Twin Towers
stunt. On the morning of August 7, 1974, Petit
made 8 crossings, lingering on the wire for over
40 minutes 1400 feet above the street without a
safety net! The audacity and the depth of
planning of this stunt are especially remarkable
given how the Towers were destroyed 27 years
later. Why did he do it? The press and police
badgered him with that question, a question the
Frenchman called very American. After you watch
this fascinating film, you realize how
irrelevant the question is.
One of my last evenings at ACA, I made a little movie
of my bike ride to Turnbull Bay. The music is a
beautiful sentimental excerpt from Gorecki's London
Symphony.
In a kind of Borgesian rewriting of history, United
Artists has apparently doctored old photographs of
Claus von Stauffenberg, the attempted assassin of
Hitler, so they resemble better Tom Cruise who is
playing the German hero in a film called Valkyrie
slated to open in February of 2009. Read about the
controversy and how it ties in to Scientology
here.