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Residual
March 30, 2007    File under: Information Technology , Language , Poetry & Poetics , Self-promotion

Found on a blog that belongs to someone whose name I cannot uncover just yet:

... Jake Adam York (whose work made my palms sweat at GSU last week) ...

That's a good thing, I hope.

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Also, among the phrases given to search engines that were eventually recorded by my stats software:

jake adam york is an ass

There it is, whoever you are. The next time you're looking for it, you'll find it, and maybe some proof as well, I don't know.

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Both blips got me thinking about the residues of our selves, or of ideas of our selves, to which we have increasingly more access.

A few years back, a reporter told me a source claimed to have had an affair with me, and I'm still occasionally accused on the basis of that suggestion.

You never know who says it. And usually the trace is human, a change in the weather that is you in the minds of others.

But sometimes there are these electric residues.

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Reading Noah Eli Gordon's Inbox, another treatment of such residues. He calls it a "reverse memoir," a collection of all the things in his e-mail inbox on a certain day, what other people were saying to him, and so a reverse portrait as well, a kind of Hockney photo-collage, but in writing, where the pieces of observation imply the lens, the sesne.

Noah's reading tomorrow. You should go.

He's been described as "a handful of fire." He'll make more than your palms sweat.

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Thank you.

Posted by Jake Adam York at March 30, 2007 4:14 PM



COMMENTS

Check this out: http://museoffireblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/seriously.html

That's how someone found my blog. Of course, no one's found me by searhing "jeff newberry is an ass."

Although, come to think of it, I often am--as much as I try not to be.

I can't wait to see the new book, Jake. I totally forgot to ask you when you were here, but I wanted to you to sign my copy of *Murder Ballads*.

Take care.

Posted by: Jeff Newberry at March 31, 2007 9:25 AM




Jeff,

There are those weird lines in my stats as well.

But I am, clearly, an ass, as I didn't sign your book while I was there. Ach.

I have a feeling we'll be seeing each other soon again.

Best,

Jake

Posted by: Jake at March 31, 2007 9:33 AM




I believe Sailpoet is Robin Kemp, Jake. If you haven't seen this post yet, you ought:

http://sailpoet.com/myblog/?p=292

Everyone finds my blog by searching for "Jake Adam York is awesome" Actually, most anyone who searches and finds my blog is looking for weird, scary things like "graphic of Mr. Burns and Smithers having sex" (true story).

Posted by: Steve S at March 31, 2007 10:53 AM




Someone came to my blog by searching the same phrase. I wrote you a long email about it & ended up not sending it. I was thinking that if I was having a bad day that wouldn't be so funny.

I think they made a typo, though, they meant to write "Jake Adam York has a nice." Or that's what my sources tell me.

Posted by: Mathias at April 1, 2007 5:53 PM




Top search that leads to my blog is "how to filet a trout". I might trade for being an ass.

Posted by: ked at April 4, 2007 10:57 AM