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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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- 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)
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- MORE LIES EXPOSED
- NO INTRODUCTION NECESSARY [I MEAN TO THIS VIDEO ON...
- ADRIENNE RICH R.I.P.
- HARRIS SCHIFF'S ONE MORE BEAT
- EVAN MANN'S REEL
- DENIAL
- 21 JUMP STREET
- ANOTHER GREAT OLD CASTENADA QUOTE
- THE SAINTS, KEROUAC, FOOTBALL & ME
- PS TO GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933
- GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933
- THE ROAD WE'VE TRAVELED
- I'LL SECOND THIS
- SOME MUCH NEEDED VERY "DRY" HUMOR
- HAPPY SAINT PAT'S
- AN OLD LIST FOR ST. PATRICK'S FEAST
- THE EVIDENCE IS IN (BUT WILL IT CHANGE ANY MINDS?)
- USEFUL QUOTE (FOR ME AT LEAST)
- JUST A QUICK (OR NOT SO QUICK) THOUGHT
- GAME CHANGE
- WILL THEY GIVE OBAMA/BIDEN ANY CREDIT?
- HUGO
- THE SINGING REVOLUTION
- TWO QUOTES
- WIN WIN
- BARBARA GUEST'S HERSELF DEFINED & HILTON TIMS' ERI...
- OH, AND ONE LAST POINT (FROM DANGEROUS MINDS)
- AND ABOUT RUSH
- WILL THEY RETRACT THIS BIG LIE?
- MAUREEN DOWD IN TODAY'S TIMES (MAYBE THE BEST COMM...
- TIMELY QUOTES
- SANJIBAN SELLEW R.I.P.
- DAVY JONES R.I.P.
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19 comments:
thank you Michael. truth, truth and more truth needed to counter and dispel the greed/fear/ignorance based lies of Jim and the sadly too many (but now diminishing number of)sucker-lemmings caught up in as you call it "the big lie."
Lal--Imagine Lockheed or Boeing or Martin-Marietta building Stealth bombers or F-13 fighters withOUT fat Defense Dept contracts? But that's what Nixon did to the Post Office Department. Later genii in the White House and Congress emburdened the now re-named Postal Service with a two-tier wage structure, an exit from the Federal Civil Service Retirement system and entry into Social Security, and the obviously bankrupting "pay forward" system of financing postal retiree health insurance. Talk about three strikes! All this adds up to four, and private contractors licking their chops at the prospect of complete privatization of the P.O.
As a retired Post Office person myself, I'm disgusted at what they've done to a formerly honorable occupation.
Bob B.
And no mention from the right that the public post office system was specified in The Constitution they
re always taunting their supposed belief in.
I honor life when possible. My family laughs at me for "relocating" insects around our home. But when a bug is clearly dangerous and toxic, as are Jim's utterances, then there is zero tolerance and they, like Jim's postings, may not stay.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/grad-job-slump-big-hiring-back-us-colleges-120235660.html
a bit of news to go along with, among other things, the record high DJIA and other indicators that, despite the massive opposition by the dogmatic, shortsighted right, things are improving and in a way that is more long-run.
And a bit of history, the first known 1080 landed by 12 year old skateboarder Tom Schaar:
http://www.grindtv.com/skate/blog/33206/skateboarder+tom+schaar+12+makes+history+with+first-ever+1080/
Thanks for all the kinks Robert (don't know why they don't come up for me as links you can click on but rather as ones you have to cut and paste. Oh vell.
The certified expert has stated with full certainty that the voice screaming in pain in the background of the 911 call in NOT Zimmerman's. This screaming/pleading directly precedes gunfire, and then silence. Had Zimmerman acted in a professional, responsible manner, he should have announced himself, as in "I'm with Neighborhood Watch and don't recognize you. Please identify yourself." Or something to this effect. Instead, he pursued Trayvon in the dark without self identification that a responsible, professional authority would have done. He instead confronted Trayvon without opportunity for dialog or reasonable information exchange. All the while packing a semi automatic gun in his belt like a thug who gets his guidance from cop shows. Trayvon's death was an execution and was so unecessary.
http://news.yahoo.com/cops-id-college-shooting-suspect-one-goh-43-012337396.html
The Second Amendment in action again, resulting in senseless, tragic, totally avoidable murder, as with Trayvon Martin. I met a young Malaysian woman today who told me that in Malaysia, anyone caught with a handgun, loaded or not, used or not, is executed.
Yeah, it's tragic news Robert and our society seems way too immature in too many ways to have so many guns available (more guns than people in the USA is one latest statistic), but I don't like execution as a solution!
Robert,
Many believe that Obama agrees with Malaysian gun laws. That is why we will fight to save our Constitutional right against Obama and many Democrats.
You have to love it when Obama attacked the Supreme Ct's right to review and possibly declare unconstitutional Obamacare. The 5th Circut today asked the Justice Dept. to clarify whether they believe the court has the right to declare a law unconstitutional. Obama really pissed off many judges.
In Australia too, there are virtually no handguns...and they do not have the strict laws of Malaysia - they just have decency, common sense, virtue and respect for life, which our society/culture largely lacks. The gun is an abberation of God's will and we are hopefully evolving, through all this madness and darkness, to where we don't need it, to where we can talk things out. Jim, you are blind. There is no Constitutional right for random individuals to walk freely into schools, churches, hospitals, shopping centers, etc, and murder people. Malaysia has zero tolerance for this and I for one, do not oppose it. I am certain that research would reveal that there are very few actual executions for gun possession in Malaysia because people know better than to possess these things whose sole purpose is killing.
2nd Amendment= The right to bear Arms. In places like Cuba, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and China there is no right to bear arms. I prefer the American Constitution and the wisdom of the Founding Fathers which gave birth to the longest surviving Democratic Republic.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Your ommisve/selective interprestation of the Second Amendment grossly distorts and toxifies its true spirit.
It was written in a time shortly after the Revolutionary war when "Arms" meant muzzle loading single shot rifles.
The current situation was not at all in the minds or hearts of the authors of the Amendment.
Robert, It is a wonderful talent to mind read people who have been dead for 200 years plus. Congratulations!
That's what reading is all about. All you have to do is read what they wrote -- in its entirety and not selectively as you do -- to know what they meant and what their intentions are. You should try it some time.
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