In honor of the fact that nobody has any money to spend on something as frivolous as public reading tours by New Yorker columnists anymore, Powell’s Books is giving away five (!) free tickets to humorist Calvin Trillin’s reading at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on February 17th, 2009. Calvin Trillin is an essayist who, in addition to the wonderful book About Alice, has written such gems as Obliviously on He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme, and A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme. All you have to do is flex that long atrophied “creative” part of your brain and post your best poem about the inauguration of President Barack Obama on the Powell’s website under the contest link.
(Hint: For the two or three people who read this blog and have actual jobs, trying to write a poem is a great way to kill the last couple of hours at work on a Friday).
If you were like me and just happened to miss that historic inauguration because you were busy getting all hot and bothered over ahem, local news, then you can watch all twenty-two kneebucklingly sweet moments here.
And if the sight of Dick Cheney in a wheelchair doesn’t inspire a Whitmanesque rift on the beauty of the universe, than you should probably watch it again for further inspiration.
The deadline for entries is midnight, February 5th 2009. Visit the Powell’s website for official contest rules.
Good luck Portland !!
I have a job, and I’d thought that I’d do just about anything to kill time on a Friday afternoon, but I would totally NOT write a poem.
So…I guess I’ll get some work done now. Thanks a lot, UAI.
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I second what A cat said, except for the part about it being caturday, and fraking caps lock key.