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About Me

I'm a poet living in south Florida. I was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University from 2002-2004, and I have poems forthcoming in Louisiana Literature and Poetry Southeast , and I've recently appeared in The Southern Review. You can find other of my works in the archives at Perigee , the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg awards and at my home page .

My Interests

Music:

Old blues--Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson, Big Momma Thornton and Katie Webster for starters. The classic jazz greats--Bird and Monk, Lady Day, Ella, Mingus and Ornette Coleman, Brubeck and of course, Lord Buckley. Squirrel Nut Zippers. The Coup and Talib Kweli. Mojo Nixon and Alejandro Escovedo. Neko Case. The New Pornographers. Nouvelle Vague. Veruca Salt. Too many others to name.

Movies:

The Princess Bride. Blazing Saddles. The Manchurian Candidate--the original. Casablanca. The Big Lebowski. Anything Charlie Kaufmann writes. Yes--these are like shooting fish in a barrel, I know.And Spike Lee's documentary on New Orleans--absolutely powerful work.

Television:

The Wire. The new Battlestar Galactica. Stewart and Colbert. Rome. Iron Chef America. Bill Moyers' Journal. Frontline.

Books:

Right now, Lorca's In Search of Duende, W. S. DiPiero's Chinese Apples, John Berger's The Success and Failure of Picasso, Geoffrey Brock's Weighing Light, and stuff for my classes.

My Blog

So Wrong and Yet So Right

It is official. I forgive Alanis Morrisette for not understanding irony. This may be the best cover song ever done. ...
Posted by Nacho Daddy on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:17:00 PST

How good are your donuts?

Are they this good?That's got to be one hell of a donut....
Posted by Nacho Daddy on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:12:00 PST

My inhaler is mocking me

Yes, I'm using an inhaler again for the first time since high school. And yes, it blows. I got a really bad cold over Christmas and it was affecting my ability to breathe. There's no congestion--the d...
Posted by Nacho Daddy on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:16:00 PST

Hello Kitty Airlines?

I can't even begin to imagine the amount of money it would take to get me on this plane.Eva Air, a Taiwan airline, has painted an Airbus 330-200 nose-to-tail with the wide-eyed super-sized characters,...
Posted by Nacho Daddy on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:43:00 PST

Magic Spells for Professors

I'm not generally in the habit of ripping people off, but this is too funny to not share, and I don't do that send-it-to-everyone-in-my-address-book thing (and no, I'm not picking on you, Lynette :) )...
Posted by Nacho Daddy on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:42:00 PST

Why does anyone watch it?

Tonight is George W. Bush's sixth State of the Union address. It will no doubt suck, as have the previous five, and I don't say that simply because I disagree with him on every possible issue. I say t...
Posted by Nacho Daddy on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:59:00 PST

What's a Saints fan to do?

For my entire sports fan life, my fandom has been based on the fact that my favorite teams always suck. It comes from being raised in south Louisiana, and coming up in the days of the Aints. It bled o...
Posted by Nacho Daddy on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:24:00 PST

I'm afraid it's true

I am a happy dancing elf.And that is just as terrifying as it sounds.
Posted by Nacho Daddy on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:21:00 PST

I'm a little sad

that Myspace is deleting all the camgirl messages these days. They're about the only myspace mail I get, and now it's just the "This profile has been deleted" message. So sad. So sad.
Posted by Nacho Daddy on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:19:00 PST

Let's Just Call Him Assholio

I mean, I don't know what else to say about a man who would do this:KATY, Texas - A plan to build a mosque in this Houston suburb has triggered a neighborhood dispute, with community members warning t...
Posted by Nacho Daddy on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:30:00 PST