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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)
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- family history (228)
- fiction and other prose (224)
- lists (222)
- Art (218)
- economics (203)
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- internet (129)
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- science (72)
- media (67)
- education (66)
- non fiction (64)
- overrated (53)
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- fate (16)
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- HARRY NORTHUP INTERVIEW
- WHEN FAMILY MATTERS MOST
- FAVORITE "BIOPICS"
- RAY DIPALMA: THE ANCIENT USE OF STONE
- "WE'VE GOT REPS"
- PS TO YESTERDAY'S POST
- BETTER THAN I HAVE
- QUOTE (POEM) FOR TODAY
- STEWART NAILS REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY
- FAVORITE SONGS WITH “OF” IN THEIR TITLES
- EVAN MANN: GOOD MORNING MIDNIGHT
- BRIGHT STAR
- CATHY LALLY FREITAS R.I.P.
- POETRY AT THE ETHICAL
- NAT ADDERLY JR. & SINATRA
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- FOX, THE RIGHT AND POINTING
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15 comments:
I saw the video earlier today on Raw Story. Funny, but true.
Republicans have a couple of fools, sure (not to agree with the list). Democrats have a tax dodger and financial falsifier of his disclosure form in a crucial House Ways and means chairmanhsip in charge of tax legislation. Republicans get rid of their bad actors. Democrats protect theirs.
umm - Republicans do? Seems like there have been some Republicans who the party covered for as long as they could.
That was just fantastic.
Tom,
Name them.
you're a smart guy - i don't think i have too.
Tom,
Your tactic is familiar and common from the left. They make an accusation like racisim, core dishonesty of a party, lies told by Fox News and then are unable to back it up with even one example. No wonder only 20% of Americans identify themselves as liberal.
yeah - but in the last election, the majority were democrat - and i believe its because they believe in democracy - not the divisive, fear-mongering version of government that the rightwigs allowed under the previous administration - and look at the reps that were represented on butch's video - they're an embarrassment to government - and they're only a sampling of what the republicans have to offer ...
thanks to butch and lall for the humor - sad as it is ...
Jlm:
Your tactic is familiar and common from the left. They make an accusation like racisim, core dishonesty of a party, lies told by Fox News and then are unable to back it up with even one example.
Maybe this is the reason Jlm is not getting an answer to his question.
Paul,
The majority voted for Obama, who promised moderate non partisanship, hope and change. He did not promise socialism, curtailment of free speech, communist czars, govt. takeover of finance, autos and health care 10% unemployment which is really 17% unemployment when the people who have quit looking are counted. He did not promise a war on business and jobs. He did not promise international ineptitude. He won the Democrats, Independents and some Republican because he ran a fraudulent election in which he hid who he really was.
yeah, unfortunately his assessment of eight failed years were a bit optimistic - i guess we can only be grateful for his tenacity and his administrations hard work as the smoke screens lift ...
got to admit, your appraisals are humorously exaggerated ...
i guess another sick fantasy you can play out is; that if mccain/palin would be there - we'd be on the brink of ww3 with 'bomb,bomb, bomb, iran' and probably korea - and we'd be increasing our military as part of job expansion and exporting our war machine as a very gross national product - not to mention the fear factors that would diminish all the domestic issues under the guise of patriotic sacrifice [or fear of retribution for not adhering to party lines] ...
man, you guys have it all wrong - at least you have your media to console and affirm such stupidity ...
even rush admitted in recent interviews that he says things that are outrageous and inflamed to garner ratings and attention - its entertainment not philosophy ...
Paul,
If McCain were in there, I would like to think we would not had a nationalization of the autos. I would also like to think we would not end up with nationalized health care, however I do not think Sarah could have kept him in check. I suspect Iran, Russia and North Korea would treat us very carefully. Bomb, Bomb Iran was only partially in jest.
Thoughts on “American Exceptionalism, NOT!! From Pres Obama – Time Magazine
Inspirational words written by the American Dear Leader, from his Columbia thesis, follow. If these don’t imbue you with optimism you must be on of those dirty rotten free enterprise nuts.
“… the Constitution allows for many things, but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is not even mentioned. While many believed that the new Constitution gave them liberty, it instead fitted them with the shackles of hypocrisy.” Barack Obama or Barry Sotero or what ever his name was that year.
Re the comment directly above.
Fake Obama Thesis Story Goes Viral, Because Of Stupidity.
These tea baggers are so gullible. Am I being too charitable? Last month they believed there were 2 million people at their 9.12 protest.
How can anyone take these people seriously?
(It would have been absolutely OK with me if Obama had written what was falsely attributed to him.)
Mea Culpa,
When you are wrong. you are wrong. A few weeks ago I accused Butch of being an a**hole for shoddy documentation after calling Rush a racist based on an incomplete quote. Well, this time I am the one who acted like an anal opening. I do note that Butch is perfectly fine with the socialist and ant-American philosophy of the fictional thesis. I suspect Butch would has many compatible sojourners on this blog.
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