Bobby has made Mailer’s tag his own, but this is an adver­tise­ment fa mice elf agin. I’ll be read­ing my poems at Myopic Books this Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 20,  at 7 pm. Details here. Daniel Borzutzky is also read­ing, so please stop by if you’re in the neighborhood.

How awe­some is it that Sawyer was blast­ing “Search & Destroy” last night.

“I’m dressed as Nancy Pelosi burn­ing in hell. So I have a suit on that’s singed and cov­ered in blood, and I have chains on, and I had dead babies draped from me. If Nancy Pelosi doesn’t repent, and we pray that she does repent, and that she removes fund­ing for child-​killing from the health care bill. But if she does not, then she would be in danger of going to hell for forc­ing tax­pay­ers also to pay for the murder of children.”

—Anti-health-care-bill pro­tester Diana Rocco-​Grandy, explain­ing to NPR’s Andrea Seabrook why the “tea parties” are good news for Democrats

It’s not often that I’m amazed by a piece of new the­ater, but Young Jean Lee’s “The Shipment” really did the trick for me this past Sunday night. I’m still not really sure what to say about it, though Kai Wright’s “hilarious, racial mind-fuck” gets close. And what­ever I said would prob­a­bly end in the lazy (but true) crit­i­cal com­mon­place that like all good art, “The Shipment” is just some­thing you have to see for yourself.

The play is tour­ing the world with a single cast. I highly rec­om­mend check­ing it out if and when it stops at a city near you.