Visiopoetics

The Lupus Foundation of Virginia Charlottesville chapter’s regular monthly meeting will be this Saturday, May 1 (the first Sat. of the month) at Cville Coffee at 12-noon.

These are informal, open meetings where you can come for delicious coffee, and stay to discuss local/regional/larger rheumatology resources, problems, and solutions.

Autoimmunity affects more Americans than heart disease or cancer, and coordination of resources critical. That’s why these meetings are open to all people who suffer from or are otherwise affected by any autoimmune disorder. Spouses, friends, and family are welcome! We are your community resource for information and support.

Protesters tagged the Arizona capitol with “AZ = Nazi,” in refried beans. Security forces then demanded to see their papers.

“Exit Through the Gift Shop: A Banksy Film” continues with select U.S. openings. Arizona viewers may or may not leave theaters with freshly painted Hitler mustaches.

I’m pretty sure Lady Ella would’ve been nicknamed Super Ella had she been born 50 years later. (Artwork is oils on 16″ x 20″.)

It’s all a matter of perspective. 9″ x 12″ to be precise. Check out the latest Guardian poetry workshop if you’ve got halfway decent lighting in your frame.

I was reviewing the emails in the climate scientist email controversy, figuring out for myself what I thought of all this. And I discovered that the whole global warming thing was really the result of a typo. The largest threat to the existence of the human race in this century is not global warming. It is global WARNING.

To learn more about global warning and its nefarious effects, please visit Yankee Pot Roast. Here you will find my Earth Day-ready Listicles, directly under the eloquent nature haiku of fellow Birmingham, Alabama native and rock star Ryan Mazer.

Artwork is oils on 30″ x 40″ stretched canvas.

My Lord. Kumbaya.

Kumbaya.

Another fantastic local documentary is having a very gracious encore showing at the Paramount this Saturday. Be there, or be a third-grader — forever.

From the marvelous mini-Annals of Improbable Research (”mini-AIR”), April edition:

2010-04-09 Dental-Use-of-Coconut Poet

The judges have chosen a winner in the Dental-Use-of-Coconut
Limerick Competition, which asked for a limerick to honor the
study “A Quantitative Analysis of Coconut Water: A New Storage
Media for Avulsed Teeth,” Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral
Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontology, V. Gopikrishna, T.
Thomas, D. Kandaswamy, vol. 105, no. 2, Pages e61-e65.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tripleo.2007.08.003

The winner is INVESTIGATOR DANIEL KIMPIRE who wrote:

Salt solutions and milk aren’t right
For the storing of teeth overnight.
It turns out that you oughter
Use coconut water.
What’s next? Will they test Diet Sprite?

Here’s the offering from LIMERICK LAUREATE MARTIN EIGER:

Coconut water’s reliable,
Trustworthy, true, undeniable.
In HBSS
And milk, these guys stress,
PDL cells do not remain viable.

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2010-04-10 Theatrical Germs Competition

Theater and germs inspire this month’s limerick competition. To
enter, compose an original limerick that illuminates the nature
of this report:

“Artaud, Germ Theory, and the Theatre of Contagion,” Stanton B. Garner,
Theatre Journal, Volume 58, Number 1, March 2006, pp. 1-14.
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/theatre_journal/v058/58.1garner.html. Garner writes:

“This article explores the influence of Pasteurian germ theory on
Antonin Artaud’s concept of theatre as plague…. Artaud’s theatre of
cruelty tropes the Pasteurian body, refigures its structures of time
and space, and imposes an ecstatic performativity on its narrowly
microbial understanding of contagion.”

RULES: Please make sure that: (1) your rhymes actually do; and
(2) your poem is in classic, trills-off-the-tongue limerick form.

PRIZE: The winning poet will receive (if we manage to send it to
the correct address) a free, perhaps theatrically germ-ridden,
high-res PDF issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. Send
entries (one entry per entrant) to:

THEATRICAL GERMS LIMERICK COMPETITION
c/o marca AT improbable.com