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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 (756)
- history (642)
- not to be forgotten or underrated (590)
- quotes (576)
- not to be missed or overlooked (557)
- music (496)
- TV (402)
- family history (229)
- 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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- AS USUAL KRUGMAN SCORES AGAIN
- IT WAS A GREAT NIGHT (AND FOLLOWING MORNING)
- IF YOU'RE IN THE BERKSHIRES THIS WEEKEND
- 'NUFF SAID
- LAST NIGHT (HANGING LOOSE READING
- HANGING LOOSE READING TONIGHT @ BROOKLYN CENTRAL L...
- BUT I DON'T KNOW ABOUT GOOGLE
- GUESS FACEBOOK IS GOOD FOR SOME THINGS
- LEVON HELM R.I.P.
- IPHONE
- WORD VERIFICATION DEALIE (AND BRIEF POLITICAL OBSE...
- NYC PUBLIC ACCESS CABLE POETRY SHOW FROM AUGUST 1977
- JOE BRAINARD READING
- THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF JOE BRAINARD (AND READING)
- UPDATE ON/FROM TOM CLARK
- KILL THE IRISHMAN
- JULIAN FELLOWES' TITANIC
- IT'S GETTING EVEN CURIOUSER
- A FOUND LIST
- FAT CITY/OUT OF SIGHT/ATTACK THE BLOCK
- GREAT READING/GREAT EVENING
- MORE RIGHTWING HYPOCRISY
- TERENCE WINCH READING THIS TUESDAY IN NYC
- JUST A QUICK QUESTION FOR YOU TECHIES
- HERE'S TO A QUICK RECOVERY FOR THE BRILLIANT POET ...
- SAG-AFTRA MERGER
- MAUREEN DOWD SCORES AGAIN
- THE DEEP BLUE SEA
- QUOTE FOR NOW
- BACK WHEN
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15 comments:
Obamanomics strikes again. GDP growth slowed to 2.2% in the 1st quarter from 3% in the 4th quarter.
Sorry tired of the negative. Why do they want us, as a country to fail so badly. Is it time for them to move to a new country? If it is really that bad, move. Love Obama and my country. Life is pretty good.
Loyeen:)
Oops! That was suppose to be "so tired of the negative." My school has 18 absent teachers and 9 failed subs. It is a little crazy today. Two days ago we had a fire, lock-down, and 11 cop cars for a separate gang incident. Through all of it, I can still see the good in my students. Like I said, life is good.
Loyeen I'm "sorry tired" of the negative too. But I will point out that the drop in GDP number will be revised in the future (they almost always are and it seems in Obama's time they often get readjusted upward) but more importantly economists agree that one of the main reasons (and many say THE main reason) for the drop in GNP is the cutbacks in state and local governments that also contributes to the unemployment rate (the other factor in unemployment is corporations squeezing even more out of people so that even though most corporations showed extreme profits this quarter they didn't use those profits to hire back workers or add new ones but instead put a lot into more obscene CEO pay and bonuses and the rest they sit on like Scrooge McDuck counting his millions). If the rightwing Republicans who hate government were defeated and state and local governments could start rehiring teachers and cops and firefighters etc. it would not only stimulate the economy and cause a bigger rise in GDP, it would make your job easier Loyeen!
so jim acknowledges that there is continual growth.
The US GDP must grow at least 2.5% in order to have any positive effect on unemployment. 50 percent of recent college graduates are unemployed now.
The 4th quarter 2011 revision was up and the 3rd quarter revision was down. By this time in the Reagan administrtion the GDP growth was 7%.
Okay, I'm going to start deleting again. I'll leave this as an example. "Any positive effect" of course is a lie. The "any" being key to why. As they used to say it's prima facie false. The rest of the short statement is equally tilted, including the percentages and the omission that the growth Reagan saw included the GROWTH of government and therefore government jobs, exactly my point in my previous comment, and the growth of the deficit and debt to historic levels, etc. (something the rightwing Republicans refuse to allow for Obama, in fact much of what they cheered Reagan for or ignored with Bush/Cheney they criticize Obama for, proving it has nothing to do with economic theory or practice but only with pure politics, i.e. whatever Obama is for they are against one way or another)
I am against socialism and big government intrusion into everyday life. Obama is for big government intrusion into everyday life. I am against Obama.
See wHat I mean? Change the subject and get general. Interestingly these rightwingers pretend to have some standard a politician has to live up to like be "against big government" but they were nowhere to be heard when Reagan expanded the federal government, nor were they supportive of Clinton and Gore when they actually were the first ones in modern times to shrink the federal government. Then again when Bush/Cheney expanded the federal government and made it bigger than it ever had been in history, not a peep. Now Obama has once again shrunk the federal government (less employees than under Bush for instance) they actually have the cajones to declare their reason for being against Obama is because they're "against big government"!!! It would be laughable if it wasn't so pervasive due to the successful brain washing the right has done on a segment of the population that will believe black is white and up down if Fox News and Rush et. al. tell them so. This phenomenon is a direct attack on everything the Founders the right pretends to honor stood for, the ideas of The Enlightenment, belief in reason and logic. Maybe rightwing thinking and politics should be outlawed as "unpatriotic"—oh, no, "liberals" who still believe in The Founding Fathers' Enlightenment ideas wouldn't do that, that's what the right has consistently tried to do and done.
See, no answer, because there is no argument to hard facts and truth. All he will likely respond with is more agenda-based non-response---in other words, prejudicial hate speak.
Too many lies in that one to respond to. And I didn't start this blog and continue it to waste so much time and energy on one blog stalker who consistently changes the subject when confronted with the lies and misinformation and deliberate distortions, which the previous comment was full of. So he's deleted again so I can get back to work on what matters (at least to me).
FYI it matters to me and to all your other friends and followers. I and we appreciate your wisdom, passion and integrity.
The liberal lally's first amendment instincts remain pristine.
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