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Robbie Q

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About Me

once, in sixth grade, when i was not very popular, i had a recurring fantasy that i was the star of a highly choreographed dance routine set to "king of wishful thinking" by go west. this dance also featured all the popular kids in my class, and i was to wear a beautifully bedazzled denim jacket with, if memory serves, a puffy paint tiger's head on the back.
i think this means i'm technically a drag queen.
if you liked that zany anecdote, go to my website, robbieq.net .
robbie q's writing incorporates lobes of the brain most of us don't have. as he works to convey what is within him, i am constantly smiling at the vast swamp of nerd he draws from. --Beau Sia
cool new person. --Tom

My Interests

if you would like to purchase a CD of 38 tracks of my poetry , just click on my button:

if you would like to buy my brand new book, My Huge Heart Still Has No Room For You (pictured right), then click on this separate, but equally functional button:

[email protected]

I'd like to meet:

a beaver who shits money.

Music:

tmbg, oingo boingo, most new wave, the futureheads, sleator-kinney, the specials, the beat, the aquabats, the clash, MFB

Movies:

in order: Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Raising Arizona, Ghostbusters, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.

Books:

Gulliver's Travels, One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, what Joe Sacco is doing, The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, A Gringo Like Me by Jennifer "El" Knox, Donkey Gospel by Tony Hoagland, Dreaming of Babylon by Richard Brautigan

Heroes:

jonathan swift, christopher guest, dashiell hammett, jon stewart, lynda barry, ira glass, john k, tex avery, tony hoagland, david cross, bill hicks, richard brautigan

My Blog

Found Notebook

i've been cleaning out my room in my mom's house in homewood, which had once held the various memories i had hoarded from about 1992 to the present (1980-92 memories are in elwood with my dad).&n...
Posted by Robbie Q on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:50:00 PST

Dear Facial Oils, (poem)

written from a writing workshop by roger bonair agardYou have a name, though it is so ugly so that no one remembers it.The scientist who first named you was an ugly oily well-respected man so no one r...
Posted by Robbie Q on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:35:00 PST

your help

i am dreaming toward the key(s) to an encyclopedic knowledge of everything, an airtight moral strategy, the tools necessary to end gratuitous suffering, i'm dreaming toward self-actualization, it woul...
Posted by Robbie Q on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:31:00 PST

Objet DBeatdown (poem)

The most dangerous objects at my fingertipsare A small tea pot and saucer and tea cup filled with lots of hibiscus-scalding potential An unlit dining candle A decorative gourd And an orange 36-ounc...
Posted by Robbie Q on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:38:00 PST

Come and see me!

mmhmm. saturday, i got to read three poems accompanied by mucca pazza.  they were throwing a fundraiser for, among others, yca.  it was one of the best performance experiences of my life. an...
Posted by Robbie Q on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:57:00 PST

Building Bridges to Centuries (poem)

The backyard fence was built so wellif it were socially acceptable  fuck those fucking Joneses we would have left the wood bareit was very impressive nakedBut we painted it anywayour paintbrush bris...
Posted by Robbie Q on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:13:00 PST

Free Ride (poem)

I'm 6'1I weigh 195 lbs.I'm 27I still remember being carried once If picked up nowIt's always funny and scaryI'll never be able to fall asleep in my parents flying arm harness againNor will I be able t...
Posted by Robbie Q on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:23:00 PST

Crazy Ol’ Banana-head (poem)

That's easy for you to say     said Uncleyour head is a banana!We laughed because we loved himnot because we knew whathe was talking about. Your head was longer thenand I kept want...
Posted by Robbie Q on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:16:00 PST

Mangled (poem)

How eternally disappointing it is that some warts look identical to insect eggs, attached human-land moons, they look like tiny fried dough bits and yet they contain no baby insects, no moon secrets,...
Posted by Robbie Q on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:06:00 PST

cross-fading

and by "fading," i mean "posting"... there are several things to address here.  i promise, we'll make it through.  together.   i'm performing in at least two places in september:  ...
Posted by Robbie Q on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:55:00 PST