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ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY
2000 American Book Award winner
1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award "for Excellence in Literature"
just another ex-jazz-musician/proto-rapper/Jersey-Irish-poet-actor/print-junkie/film-raptor/beat-hipster-"white Negro"-rhapsodizer/ex-hippie-punk-'60s-radical-organizer's take on all things cultural, political, spiritual & aggrandizing
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UPCOMING EVENTS
TBA
SAY IT AGAIN: An Autobiography In Sonnets
CLICK ON IMAGES BELOW FOR LINKS TO ORDER (OR EMAIL ME FOR A SIGNED COPY OF ANY TITLES BELOW)
ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY
THE VILLAGE SONNETS
SWING THEORY
LOST ANGELS
IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE
IT'S NOT NOSTALGIA
2000 American Book Award winner
MARCH 18, 2003
WHAT YOU FIND THERE
CANT BE WRONG
1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award "for Excellence in Literature"
OF
ROCKY DIES YELLOW
HOLLYWOOD MAGIC
CATCH MY BREATH
ATTITUDE
some recordings of my reading from some of the books above
- PUMA PERL AND ME READING 2022
- interviewed by Grace Cavalieri for The Poet and The Poem Series
- interviewed by E. Ethelbert Miller on DC's WPFW, scroll down to On The Margins April26th 9AM
- Don Yorty filmed me reading "Sports Heroes, Cops and Lace" in my pad 2015
- Don Yorty filmed me reading "Love Never Dies" at KGB Bar 2015
- 8/11/2014 INTERVIEW/READING FRIGGIN' FABULOUS RADIO (PART ONE)
- INTERVIEW/READING FRIGGIN' FABULOUS RADIO (PART TWO)
- 1997 NPR ("BOOKWORM") INTERVIEW (by Michael Silverblatt)/READING
- 1990 "Poetry in Motion" reading of "The Healing"
- VARIOUS READINGS ON AUDIO AND VIDEO FROM 1977 TO RECENT AS ARCHIVED ON PENNSOUND
- 2008 LOCAL JERSEY TV READING/INTERVIEW WITH ME & POET JOSE FUNES
- TOM WILSON'S LALLY/OBAMA MASHUP
other sites where my work is discussed
- I Might Die Of Love For You/Burt Kimmelman reviews Another Way To Play
- JERSEY INDIE on my Leap Day 2016 reading
- Times Times 3/Swing Theory review
- Countdown To Main Street "Swing Theory"
- Best American Poetry Blog/David Lehman reviews Swing Theory
- Times Times 3
- Countdown To Main Street
- Jacket/Burt Kimmelman interviews me
- the parent du jour
- L.A. Examiner/Yvonne de la Vega interviews me
- Espresso Bongo/Jerome Sala on my writing
- fait accompli (scroll down)/Nick Piambino on my writing
- The Best Am. Poetry Blog/Brain Surgery T.Winch
- The Best American Poetry Blog
- doug lang's lally post
- doug lang's dc poetry history
- dc poetry history
- Vanitas/Libellum site reviews
- Last Night at the KGB Bar
- wikipedia as "Michael Lally (poet)"
- poem on The Best American Poetry Blog
- The Innisfree Poetry Journal
- AS AN ACTOR: YouTube
- IMDb (as Michael David Lally actor/with some incorrect info)
About Me
- Lally
MY LIFE 2
When I was 10,
I thought I was "Irish,"
even though I was
born in the USA.
When I was 20,
I thought I was "Black,"
even though my skin
is pink & freckled,
my hair is straight,
and I have no
African ancestry.
When I was 30,
I thought I was "queer,"
even though I was
married and had
two children, and
most of my fantasies
& obsessions & com-
pulsions & attractions
were and had always
been (up until then)
about women.
When I was 40,
I thought I was a
"movie star," even
though the movies
were terrible, and
I was terrible in
them, and almost
no one knew them,
or who I might
have been in them.
When I was 50,
I thought I was
"enlightened," even
though I wasn't.
But of course I was
and am—enlightened,
as I was and still am
—an Irish-Black-
Queer-Movie-Star.
CHECK OUT THESE BLOGS/SITES
- Rachel E. Diken
- @haikuavenue
- Don Yorty
- NauenThen
- BIRTH OF THE COOL
- EAST OF WEST L.A.
- COUNTDOWN TO MAIN STREET
- John Clarke
- Times Times 3
- TOM CLARK Beyond The Pale
- Leslie Greene
- The Best American Poetry (blog)
- Silliman's Blog
- Ken McCollough poet
- NOTES
- espresso bongo
- IFSF publishing
- E-NOTES
- bobby miller photos
- The Allen Ginsberg Project
- If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
- Hullabaloo
- DANGEROUS MINDS
- Friggin Fabulous Radio
- the year of yellow butterflies (the blog)
- A LONGHOUSE BIRDHOUSE
- BELGIAN WAFFLE
- Really Bad Movies
- Vanitas Magazine blog site
- MY EYE AND I
- KINDSIGHT
- PAUL'S ART
- THE TEACHER'S VIEW
- fait accompli
- Trying To Be Cool
- McPherson's Lament
- Zuckerman's Journal
- Cord Keller's Albums
- Bill DeNoyelles: Ports of Entry
- douglangsfilmblog
- douglang'sdcpoetryblog
- MY ALASKAN ADVENTURES
- TERENCE WINCH
- Rain Worthington, Composer
- MAUREEN OWEN HOME PAGE
- Nikki Nash
- erictrules.com
- JOE BRAINARD
- MIND HONEY
- PENNSOUND
posts by rough categories (and some in more than one)
- personal history (1669)
- politics (1641)
- movies (910)
- poetry (767)
- PHOTOGRAPHS (755)
- history (642)
- not to be forgotten or underrated (590)
- quotes (576)
- not to be missed or overlooked (557)
- music (496)
- TV (402)
- family history (228)
- fiction and other prose (224)
- lists (222)
- Art (218)
- economics (203)
- spirituality (201)
- internet (129)
- humor (120)
- stage (101)
- science (72)
- media (67)
- education (66)
- non fiction (64)
- overrated (53)
- dance (44)
- "fashion" (22)
- fate (16)
- greetings (3)
- personalhistory (3)
- m (2)
Blog Archive
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April
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- THREE THOUGHTS ON BEAUTY
- ALPHABET COUPLETS
- INTERESTING STATISTIC
- JASON SHINDER R.I.P.
- QUOTE FROM MEMORY
- GEORGE CLOONEY AND LEATHERHEADS
- MORE COMIC RELIEF
- JOHN ADAMS, THE TUDORS AND DRAMATIZED HISTORY
- MOVIES WITH MALE NAMES, AND MORE
- MOVIES WITH FEMALE NAMES
- BEST COMMENT I'VE READ ON THE RECENT DEBATE
- HEY, IT AIN’T ALL BAD
- THE DEBATE: TYSON VS. ALI
- QUOTE FOR THE DAY
- YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH
- JOE BRAINARD’S NANCY
- WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP?
- NOT TO BE OVERLOOKED OR FORGOTTEN RECORDINGS
- LINKS
- 10 + THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN
- STOP-LOSS
- THREE QUICK THOUGHTS OF SPRING
- WORDS
- TRAIN FILMS
- A LITTLE JAZZ RELIEF
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRUCE ANDREWS/R.I.P. ROCHELLE RATNER
- SCI FI FLICK LIST
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April
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11 comments:
Just a rant. Nothing constructive or new added.
Oh please. Get a clue. If you've read everything in that post before why don't you cite the sources Jim. What TV news show or debate has asked McCain and Hilary why they don't always wear a flag pin? Name them Jim. You can't. Because they haven't. And that's only one point night light was making. Like I said, you can't handle the truth (or at least some truths).
An intelligent rant with some obvious questions that any one who is paying an ounce of attention would have asked themselves. Thanks for posting it, now if only someone would ask the questions to the people who need to be asked, Hilary and John for starters. Sigh.
""experience, character and credibility."
In a primary, these are issues. Apparently Obama does not want to discuss such matters.
Obama is being exposed as the pretty faced smooth talking front man who when confronted on his associations evades the issue. Reminds me of the movie 'The Candidate'.
Hillary is proving that she cannot be trusted to even tell a simple story truthfully. Such embellishment has reached new hieghts far surpassing dishonesty.
Political issues and platforms are the fodder of the actual presidential debates, not primary debates. Will Obama have a plant in the crowd as Bill Clinton did to evade the issue of character also?
Mentioning McCain in a Democratic Party Debate as a co-conspirator with Hillary against Obama is hillarious and just points out the sad state of the Democratic candidates of this election cycle.
Get real. It is and has always been Democratic Party tactics to smear the opposition. History has many such cases. As usual, the best candidate is never endorsed by the Dems, merely the sleaziest and most capable in the mud slinging that is commonplace. Dems were very apparent in their cross party attacks in the GOP primariry. How sad was it when Ted Kennedy went after Romney concerning Romney's religious beliefs? I seem to recall that was decried when JFK was running when the LBJ faction made it an issue.
mmm ... mr. anonymous' sentence structure is strickingly similar to others i've read ...
i wonder if there's a prerequisite gop writing class, what color shirts they wear, and whether they have a lapel pin ...
to quote dylan; "i wish that for just one time you could step inside my shoes, then you'd know ...
I meant to comment sooner, but I misplaced my American flag pin for a couple of days. Of course it would have been unpatriotic, bordering on treasonous, for me to participate in the political discourse without it proudly pinned to my chest.
But then, I was delayed even further, because once I put it on, I realized that I would then have to recite the pledge of allegiance before I could begin writing this.
Now, with all that out of the way, just let me say, that the post to which you refer was terrific. Thanks for pulling my coat.
~ tom
I noticed that Stephanopolis attempted to work over McCain this weekend interrupting him, talking over him, challenging him on his temper etc. "Tough John" came right back at George with nary a whine. It is nice to see a candidate defend himself like a grown up who has done it before.
A little humor for "Earth Day" from Canada
So much for global warming. Earth Day festivities went ahead despite the blast of frigid weather yesterday.
Vendors and presenters from various eco-friendly groups, including Bullfrog Power, CO2 Reduction Edmonton and the local solar energy society, crammed into a lone tent in Hawrelak Park after a blizzard forced them to abandon their original locations.
New support for the man caused 'Global Warming Theory". Zawahiri is even convinced that the US is the chief culprit. That is a double wammy for the "Blame America First Croud".
Al-Zawahri spoke on a wide range of issues, even global warming, which he said reflected "how criminal, brutal and greedy the Western Crusader world is, with America at the top."
I personally get turned off when politicians use the flag to advance themselves politically. I was a Boy Scout years ago (before they were all about bashing atheists and gays), and we learned the proper display of the flag. I cringe when I see people surrounding themselves with flags or using a flag as a backdrop or using the flag as a souvenir. The flag stands for ALL of us. Not just for one political party or person.
I wonder if they will go after Barack for his supporting infanticide will surving in the Illonis senate.
Black leaders: De-fund 'racist' Planned Parenthood
Congressman joins D.C. rally to urge stripping abortion providers of taxpayer money
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Posted: April 24, 2008
6:25 pm Eastern
source http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=62504
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