small-sized bites of ant food.

1) There's an excerpt of Sasha Fletcher's When All Our Days Are Numbered Marching Bands Will Fill The Streets & We Will Not Hear Them Because We Will Be Upstairs In The Clouds at Lamination Colony. The except is full of new & surprising words that you'll want to eat up. You can order the novel(la) from ML here. Wish I could order it now (but I'm afraid all my internet ordering funds were caught up in ordering ML's First Year Anthology). In any case buy it cause Fletcher writes pretty pretty things such as this little thing here.

2) Speaking of ML Press (& how it basically dominates my life in alarming ways), Molly Gaudry's We Take Me Apart is ready to go will soon ship. I was thinking how nice it would be if it were the first book I read in 2010...

3) Everything is Fine is a novel by Socrates Adams-Florou. Check the extract and cover and stuff.

4) I Hate Blake Butler Cause He Makes Me Feel Like An Ignorant Poser When He Talks About 25 Important Books Of The 2000s (Of Which I Have Only Read 2) could be an awesome title for a song, yeah. It's also very, very true.

5) Mmmm, you know, when I was little I used to had this irrational hatred of number 5. I don't know when that stopped. Maybe in college. I would like to know why it happened, though. The circumstances that conspired so that I'd stop hating 5.