Miscellany

1) Above is a picture from my dad's photoblog.

My dad is a photographer and filmmaker. He's always said he wanted to be a poet but ended up taking pictures instead. A lot of his photos represent the best parts of poetry to me.

2) The Savage Detectives has been banned from a Texas prison:

"Inmate No. 1385412, in Huntsville, Texas (below), ordered a copy of the book, but on its arrival, the prison mailroom intercepted it and sent it, at the inmate's expense, to a relative of the inmate's in Austin. The prison determined that the material could "encourage homosexual or deviant criminal sexual behavior" and was "detrimental to the offender's rehabilitation." (For what it's worth, the sexual and violent acts described in the offending passage are in fact between a man and a woman.)

Inmate No. 1385412 is seeking to appeal the decision. Failing that, he'll have to find something else to read until his projected release date of August 2009."

The prison censor only got to page 39.