Juliet Escoria's Blog, page 18

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I bought one of those disposable cameras and then forgot about...

I bought one of those disposable cameras and then forgot about it, and just now got it developed, which is exactly why disposable cameras are great: they are a fun surprise for Future You.

Top to bottom: J & S in Ohio, J & S at Seattle Graveyard, The Genius at Work at The Two Dollar Radio House, Two Newly-Engaged Shitheads About to Do a Reading, J in Front of Home She Lived in From Ages 2-4, S Humping a Tree (Original 4-Track Demo Version), Holler Boys and Some Corn.

i made this 4 ui hope u like it

i made this 4 u

i hope u like it

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my longtime forever BFFs and I had my “bachelorette”...

my longtime forever BFFs and I had my “bachelorette” party this weekend.

there was nothing traditionally bachelorette about it, though, because that shit is whack

we rented a condo in the desert for two nights

we sat by the pool

we went to the salton sea

we went to a casino

we saw a prince cover band

we ate a lot

we laughed a lot

we didn’t have a meltdown like in girls and no one got murdered like in all the horror movies

somehow i got really lucky and found something most people don’t have

which is a bunch of friends i really love and can trust and they’re also very fun

it was a really good trip

it is sad though because soon i will be moving away

this is different than when i went away to grad school

that felt temporary and this doesn’t

i like thinking about the six of us on the jetty at the salton sea

with the sun setting and it being very hot and it smelling a little bit like rotten fish

listening to tinny music played off my phone

everything is orange and purple

and all of our hearts are beating warm and light

we have not been together, all of us, for more than an hour or two, in so long

none of us did anything illegal

half of us no longer drink

none of us do drugs anymore

it is weird to feel yourself grow up

INTERRUPTING BROADCAST FOR A SELF-PROMOTIONAL BULLETIN

I have an excerpt of Black Cloud up at Dazed. This was my first published story; it originally went up in January of 2010 on The Outlet. I have a soft spot for the story and a soft spot for Dazed so it is nice to see them together. 
I have some poems in the latest issue of the Bushwick Review. It is handsome as hell and well worth $5.
I have a story in the inaugural issue of The Lazy Fascist Review. Elizabeth Ellen has a story in there also. Gabino Iglesias wrote a really kind review for Black Cloud and it’s in there too, along with an interview of Dennis Cooper by Chris Dankland, and a bunch of other cool stuff. The cover is amazing. It’s only $5 for the digital version, and $8 for the paper. Over 100 pages of goodness.
I was on the Books & Booze podcast
Tobias Carroll interviewed me for Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
Patrick Trotti interviewed me for Banango Lit.
This reading was really nice. I look good in this pic. (heehee)
I recommended a story by Timmy Reed for Jason Diamond at Flavorwire. 
I recommended five books for the summer at HTML Giant. Janey Smith recommends my book for his summer reads there, too.
If I don’t fuck up I will have some digital art in this super rad witchy show at Catland in Brooklyn.

I’m jealous of the moon, because you look at it....

I’m jealous of the moon, because you look at it.

I’m jealous of the sun, because it warms you.

I feel you, even when I’m not feeling you.

I talk to you when I’m not talking to you.

I love you, even when I’m not loving you.

….what a glorious three minutes of film

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a perfect pop song and a perfect music video

a perfect pop song and a perfect music video

from 2012 until a few weeks ago i didn’t enjoy readingthis was very troublesome to mei...

from 2012 until a few weeks ago i didn’t enjoy reading

this was very troublesome to me

i wondered things like if i had grown stupider

or ruined my brain with TV or the internet

maybe i started liking reading again because i am currently unemployed and now i no longer have to read as part of my job (i used to teach literature)

maybe the switch in my brain just switched back

there are two stacks of books, one on my nightstand and one on my desk, that i intended to read but haven’t yet

they’re both maybe eight inches tall

this doesn’t include the books i have entirely given up on

those were moved to the bookshelf downstairs

i am going through the stacks now

making them smaller

this makes me feel calmer, less nervous, less angry at myself

i am worried that by posting this i will jinx it and find i don’t like reading afterall