tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65461697052573693422024-03-13T05:00:49.936-05:00Super ArrowSuper Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-44370291228763798112012-07-24T10:24:00.002-05:002012-07-24T10:24:25.943-05:00An Arrow Meets Its Mark<em style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="note-text" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dearest & Sweetest Archers:</span></em><br />
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<em style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="note-text" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Please note that as the </span></em><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="note-text" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">condition of Super Arrow is in a current state of flux, we will not be accepting submissions and will be</span></em><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="note-text" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> shelving the journal publications for the foreseeable future. The last five issues will still be available online at superarrow.org.</span></em><br />
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<span style="color: #ff0033; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And speaking of Issue No. 6, after many tete-a-tetes, we’ve decided to shift the summer issue publication date to July 1, rather than June 1. This means that an issue will emerge every 6 months, (rather than the current 5 and 7), and everything will be even-steven, symmetrical, a balanced seesaw, etcetera. This will give us more time to present a quality periodical. And we’ll keep accepting submissions on a rolling basis, </span><a href="http://superarrow.submishmash.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">so head to our online submissions manager</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at your earliest convenience. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t forget to </span><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/Super_Arrow" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">follow us on Twitter</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SuperArrowJournal" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">like us on Facebook</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: whatever flavor you prefer. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Asked & Answered 4VR, Yours,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Super Arrow</span>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-11247408924592674992012-03-21T07:51:00.000-05:002012-03-21T07:51:12.837-05:00The Survey Will Say<form action="http://free.allforms.mailjol.net/u/eac62a63.php" id="afm_form_eac62a63" method="POST" name="afm_form_eac62a63" style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Brave Wonders,<br /><br />Recently, for many reasons -- some of which will be explained in the No. 6 editorial letter -- we have been thinking about how the idea of a question-and-answer can be converted into a consciously creative process. We ask and answer questions all day, yet out of context the process can seem weird, demanding even. <u><a href="http://www.superarrow.org/Assignment.html" target="_blank">So how can we take this weirdness and make some art out of it?</a></u><br /><br />The assignment for Folio No. 6 will go a bit differently, and this is the process by which this strange new art-weapon will be forged:</span></form>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Archers in Short Pants and Hats to Shield What the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hibernate in winter, we blossom in spring. There’s no
getting around it. Here at Arrow HQ, the cold season fell upon us as a frigid
axe. We shuddered and huddled and pushed back sorrowful complications. Then we
went to AWP. Now, hello! It’s warm enough to bring back memories of past summer
wonders, our pits damp for the excitement of all the future may bring. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tones of Issue No. 6’s Folio, which will be a horse of a different color,
something new to try while your toenail polish dries and while the ice in your drink
melts elegantly. We won’t say much yet, except, the catchphrase of
Family Feud just may turn out to be our prime creative directive…Does that give
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so wonderfully kind. We continue to want to run through the fields of your experiment and craft, prose and poetry whose facets are sheer or foamy, edges sharp or giving...and certainly, and always, to confront and grovel before the visual and sonic business, be it paintings or installation or video or sound or ?. As always, trundle over to the <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/Archive.html" target="_blank">Super Arrow archive</a> if you want to know what sorts of things have made us blush in issues past. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Arrow</i></span>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-9995289918388073822012-01-01T16:34:00.001-06:002012-01-01T16:34:39.479-06:00Issue No. 5 Has Arrived with the New Year's Baby<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and baby, is it a <b>humdinger</b>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look, we know we say this a lot, but only because it's true: THIS ISSUE IS AN ANIMAL WITH THE LAND SPEED OF A CHEETAH AND THE MUSCLE OF JACK LALANNE CIRCA 1947 (RIP). AND THE SWEETNESS OF A BEE'S HIVE, AND THE BUZZING OF IT TOO. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So maybe we don't use <i>those</i> words, but they've certainly got some familiar vibes, yes? <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueFive.html">Happily we may now offer you the gorgeous words and art of Sara Deniz Akant, Travis Brown, Laura E. Davis, Jaydn DeWald, Katy Gunn, Alec Hershman, Sarah Jennings, Shane Jones, David Laskowski, Philip Matthews, Joe Milazzo, Dawn Pendergast, Jess Stoner, Laura Vena, BJ Vogt, Kevin Weidner, Joseph P. Wood, and Jane Wong. Peruse them as you sit beside the fire, as cozy as is possible and/or desired.</a></span><br />
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<br />Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-89692521402145176292011-12-02T12:11:00.001-06:002011-12-02T15:29:19.912-06:00Pushing Carts Like It's Our Job<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Dear Arrowists,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It is with incredible pride and joy -- Yes, <b>incredible</b>! We almost cannot believe ourselves that the amount
of glowing, pulsing, gold-dipped pride and joy we feel is credible! -- that we descend from the mount of
editorial labors for Issue No. 5 -- out 1/1/12! -- to announce our nominations
for the Pushcart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueFour/KarlWong.html">“Hi” by Steven Karl and Angela Veronica Wong</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueFour/Webster.html">“Little Ornaments” by Kerri Webster</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueFour/Wood.html">“The Jaundiced Deer” by Joseph P. Wood</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueFour/Milazzo.html">“Accessible” by Joe Milazzo</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueFour/Wells.html">“Walrus Disgrace” by Kellie Wells</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueThree/Sweeping.html">“Sweeping Elegy for Native Grass” by Caroline Berry Klocksiem</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you to these and all of our contributors, this year
and in all years. Super Arrow continues to be the thing we hoped it would be: a
place for exciting, rigorous artmarkers to show their stuff, to be digitally
linked, to extend creative welcomes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Super Arrow</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-28966437078382897372011-11-12T12:11:00.000-06:002011-11-12T12:11:14.521-06:00A Map's End Is Just the Edge of the Next Map<div class="MsoNormal">Dearest Arrows,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We are coming to the end of the submissions cycle for Issue 5. BUT, and this is an important exception, we will continue to keep submissions open, year-round. We will take a bit longer to get to the submissions made nearer to publication dates (midwinter and midsummer) but will get to them as possible. There has been a lovely embrace of submissions this time ‘round and we will offer you a small post-holiday packet of wonder right around New Year’s, wrapped in brown paper and tied with a glittering length of digital twine. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">You have just a few more days to be considered for Issue 5, whose cycle ends on November 15, at midnight, your time. Submit, and spread the word. <b><u>We would like to include more visual art this year, and also maps. </u></b>Do consider spreading the word, like wildfire, as possible, please, sirs and madams.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It snowed here today for the second day in a row. We’ve been ill and busy and lofted only by the magic in <a href="http://superarrow.submishmash.com/">our Submishmash – we mean <i>Submittable</i> – box</a>. Well, lofted by this, and also by various autumnal squash dishes.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Yours in the Northerly Midwestern Region of Industrial Ruin and Drying Fields,<o:p></o:p></div><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><i>Super Arrow</i></span><!--EndFragment-->Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-68464130755265676722011-07-11T14:07:00.005-05:002011-07-12T11:02:14.844-05:00If Links Were Lungs, Our Love at Ultraviolet Speeds<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">Writers, Surveyors, Flautists, Friends,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">Hello again. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">We may have already mentioned to you our plans to somersault northward for a season, for two, or for good. We may have already mentioned to you our current obsession with maps. Indeed, in our spare time we have been <a href="http://superarrow.tumblr.com/">tumbling</a> all over them like some serious, abstract, and intellectual game of Twister</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">But when we steady, we find ourselves at the other side of an issue and again in a bright season. We're home--a map's most perfect use.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">And there beneath the nodding trees in the yard we have been laureled with many generous gifts of submissions. Please don't forget to add your own leaves, at <a href="http://superarrow.submishmash.com/">Submishmash</a>. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">It has been a good summer for our friends. Below you will find many links to the publications, projects, and goings on of some of our contributors from the last month or two. As Einstein certainly never said, "Enjoy the featured genius."</span></div><ul style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">Kyle Winkler’s “Teratology” earned a very special, hidden, third thumb's up from the <a href="http://www.jasonsanford.com/jason/2011/05/other-stories-worth-noting.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Million Writers Award</a> judges for being canaveralous but totally ineligible. You can find "Tetralogy" in <a href="http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/winkler10.htm" style="color: blue; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">Conjunctions</a>. Kyle also showed up in <i><a href="http://www.dzancbooks.org/the-collagist/the-memo.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">The Collagist</a></i>.<i> </i>Also, be sure to keep up with Kyle's latest project, "<a href="http://kylewinkler.tumblr.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Florida Loves Little Girls</a>," a serial novel for the digital age.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">Kerri Webster announced that her 2nd full-length collection, <i>Grand & Arsenal</i>, will be published by University of Iowa Press in 2012. You can read Kerri's <i>Super Arrow 4</i> contributions <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueFour/Webster.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">here</a> or check her out in the <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/NPM/kerri_webster.php" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Boston Review</a>.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">Tamiko Beyer wrote and fundraised her ass off to benefit the <a href="http://www.nywriterscoalition.org/about/workshop-leadersvolunteers/workshop-leaders-tamiko-beyer/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">New York Writers Coalition</a>. She simultaneously appeared in <i><a href="http://www.sweetlit.com/3.3/index.php" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Sweet</a></i> 3.3.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">Kellie Wells took 3rd in the Puerto del Sol 2011 <a href="http://www.puertodelsol.org/submit.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">fiction contest</a>. A chapter of Kellie's newest novel is available <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueFour/Wells.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">here</a>.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">Roxane Gay lent her talents as an essayist to the debut issue of <a href="http://www.flywheelmag.com/386/l%E2%80%99epee-de-damocles-vehicular-manslaughter/" style="color: blue; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">Flywheel</a>. Likewise <a href="http://freerangenonfiction.com/?page_id=1791" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Freerange Nonfiction</a>. Also, Roxane's short story "<a href="http://usedfurniturereview.com/2011/06/30/the-myth-of-fingerprints-by-roxane-gay/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">The Myth of Fingerprints</a>" was published by Used Furniture Review.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">Brian Oliu's <i><a href="http://www.tinyhardcorepress.com/so-you-know-its-me/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">So You Know It's Me</a></i> (video trailer--seriously, watch it: http://vimeo.com/25118401) debuted from Tiny Hardcore Press to uniform <a href="http://vouchedbooks.com/2011/06/08/i-know-its-you-brian-oliu-oh-i-know/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">praise</a>, <a href="http://www.hipsterbookclub.com/reviews/copy/0711/so_you_know_its_me_brian_oliu.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">acclaim</a>, and <a href="http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/what-to-read-right-now-xviv" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">jubilation</a>. He also toured the country, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">remixed Aubrey Hirsch's <i>Third Coast</i> short "A Florist's Encyclopedia" for <a href="http://zine-scene.com/?q=issue3/Hirsch-Oliu" style="color: blue; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">Zine Scene</a>, and helped devastated Tuscaloosans overcome a tornado strike via the ebook <i><a href="http://www.brianoliu.com/ebook/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Tuscaloosa Runs This</a></i>. Then, we think, he slept.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">The <i><a href="http://wigleaf.com/2011longlist.htm" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Wigleaf Top Fifty</a></i> winked at Colin Basset's story "<a href="http://wigleaf.com/2011longlist.htm" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">What Will Happen</a>" from<i> Super Arrow</i> <i>2</i>.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">The Summer issue of jmww featured two Super Arrow alums, <a href="http://bit.ly/2Acn9" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Adam W. Peterson</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/ihhLXa" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Gabriel Blackwell</a>.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">Issue #4 of <i>Arch</i> contained <a href="http://archjournal.wustl.edu/node/259" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">two</a> <a href="http://archjournal.wustl.edu/node/260" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">poems</a> from J.A. Gaye. His work also showed up in the freshest iteration of <a href="http://thediagram.com/11_3/gaye.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">DIAGRAM</a>.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">Ditto on the DIAGRAM for <a href="http://thediagram.com/11_3/wood.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Joseph P. Wood</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;"><i>Super Arrow</i> 3 collaborators Seth McKelvey & Chelsea Rice announced a new online journal, <a href="http://www.sslashword.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><i>S/WORD</i></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">. Submissions season: open.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">A new poem from Jeremy Allan Hawkins is available in issue #48 of <i><a href="http://www.asu.edu/piper/publications/haydensferryreview/index.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Hayden's Ferry Review</a></i>. You can also read an interview with Jeremy on <a href="http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/young-bright-things/ask-the-author-jeremy-allan-hawkins/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">PANK's blog</a> and check out the <a href="http://materiel.jeremyallanhawkins.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">digital album</a> he released.</span></li></ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">That's all for now. If there's ever any news you think we'd like to hear, be sure to shoot us an <a href="mailto:editor@superarrow.org">email</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/twitter.com/super_arrow">tweet</a>, or <a href="http://www.blogger.com/facebook.com/superarrowjournal">Facebook message</a>.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;">Your Berry-Stainedest,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Perpetua;"><i>Super Arrow</i></span></div>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02343494906628616822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-41894751878122239132011-06-07T11:01:00.001-05:002011-06-07T11:04:21.059-05:00Map Scaling & Other Summer StoriesDearest Archers,<br />
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We've been busy and flushed, surging from our deep midwestern home to our new northern midwestern homes, as if the impinging heat drives us that way. At this rate we'll be in Canada by nightfall.<br />
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A few important notes, with little links attached:<br />
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1) <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueFour.html">Issue No. 4</a> went live last week. It is spectacular and includes: Chris Malcomb, Jay Milazzo, Kellie Wells, Adam Peterson, Alec Hershman, Steven Karl, Angela Veronica Wong, Kerri Webster, Joseph P. Wood, Brandon Anschultz, Kate Brandt, Megafortress, and a whole passel of Issue No. 3 contributors making an anonymous, persona-laden, happy, happy mess of things.<br />
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2) Submissions are open! <a href="http://superarrow.submishmash.com/">Easy-peasy online manager here, at Submishmash</a>. (Ed. Note: someone on <a href="https://twitter.com/Super_Arrow">Twitter</a> -- Maybe Issue No. 3's <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueThree/GabbertRooney.html">Elisa Gabbert</a>? We're not sure... -- wrote "submishSMASH" and now we can't stop inserting that "s.")<br />
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3) The Assignment for Issue No. 5's FOLIO -- "From Here to There" -- has to do with MAPS. <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/Assignment.html">Read more here.</a><br />
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4) We have, all this time, been <a href="http://superarrow.tumblr.com/">tumblring</a>. It is a quiet editorial collage of things. Follow us if you would like. We would like that.<br />
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Now we're off to chisel small pictograms into the sides of the oldest buildings in our new towns. Making a mark, right off. Metaphorically, of course. And not so anyone would notice much.<br />
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Sweetly & Newly,<br />
<i>Super Arrow</i>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-88695845658302716962011-05-03T20:07:00.000-05:002011-05-03T20:07:53.458-05:00A Wide Yard with Many Blossoms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is May, dear ones. It is that great time of year -- the time of tulips and mothers, of rollerskates, elastic days, and the delicate tucking, folding, and stowing of your favorite National Poetry Month sweater vest.</div><br />
And if you're anything like us, May is the time when you look to your bottle of Roundup in its squirty little eye and say, "No! I will not foul my garden with your foul, foul chemicals!" and then dash a little something more into your lemonade and sip, and sip, and read, and maybe have a nap.<br />
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It is in honor of this yearly tradition that we debut our newest blog utility: a post where we do all the roundup for you, so you can laze and learn with minimal effort as the days lengthen pleasantly.<br />
<ul><li>First off, J.A. Tyler's Super Arrow 3 story "<a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueThree/Violent.html">All These Violent Children</a>" was chosen as a Million Writers Notable Story. You can see all of the notable stories <a href="http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters/millionwritersnotable_2010.html#Judges">here</a>.</li>
<li>Jeremy Allan Hawkins, from Issue 3's FOLIO on collaboration, showed up in PANK the other day. You can <a href="http://www.pankmagazine.com/four-poems-5/">read four of his poems</a> then go check out his neat-o <a href="http://jeremyallanhawkins.com/">website</a>.</li>
<li>Roxane Gay will be taking part in the Quickies bi-monthly reading series in Chicago next week. Make sure to tell thefacebook.com that you'll be in attendance by RSVPing <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157246894338045">here</a>. You can also read a short retrospective on the the Pine-Sol Lady that she wrote for <a href="http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/a-brief-retrospective-of-the-pine-sol-lady/">Thought Catalog</a>. Roxane was originally part of <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueOne/Gay.html">Issue 1</a>.</li>
<li>Jay Thompson won the triple crown (we think--we're not so sure what that is) by debuting two poems in <a href="http://jellyfishmagazine.org/">Jellyfish</a>, one in the new <a href="http://www.h-ngm-n.com/h_ngm_n-12/">H_NGM_N</a>, and three in <a href="http://issuu.com/propeller/docs/prop6/99">Propeller</a>. And remember, there are always wonders and wiseries to be found at his <a href="http://downdeepdowndeep.wordpress.com/">blog</a>.<a href="http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/a-brief-retrospective-of-the-pine-sol-lady/"></a></li>
<li>Brian Oliu, another Issue 3 <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueThree/HawkinsOliu.html">collaborator</a> of great fame and fortune, has a book available for the advance buying and the soon-reading. It bears its title "So You Know It's Me" admirably well, and you can obtain it in its many forms directly from <a href="http://www.tinyhardcorepress.com/so-you-know-its-me/">Tiny Hardcore Press</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueThree/BeyerPatel.html">Tamiko Beyer</a>, also from the Issue 3 FOLIO ranks, just won Lantern Review's National Poetry Month Prompt contest. To harry the prompt yourself, mozy on over to the <a href="http://lanternreview.com/blog/2011/04/29/3654/">Lantern Review Blog</a>.</li>
</ul><div>We hope that holds you over for a while. Keeping track of our contributors feels at times like watching dozens of talented bears ride motorcycles along a series of high wires stretching the width of a continent. How can we keep our eyes on all of those charming and determined brows at once? We will miss something, we will. Which is to say to these fine contributors: continue to keep us posted, for the sake of our happy yet jangled gaze!</div><div><br />
</div><div>And speaking of instant dissemination--to get all kinds of updates like this, plus submission/assignment info, and brief notes about snacks, follow fast our winged tweets. We alight most often at <a href="http://twitter.com/super_arrow">twitter.com/super_arrow</a>.<br />
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Meanwhile, in the Arrow tunnels beneath the garden, we watch the submissions pile contract into a small sheaf. Issue No. 4 will be up in June: proper beach reading for the brainy arty set, natch. Excuse us as we prepare our mole eyes for sunlight.<br />
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Art from above, below, and sideways,<br />
<i>Super Arrow</i></div>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-75548857272533985882011-04-10T17:49:00.001-05:002011-04-10T19:47:04.333-05:00Chatbot Persona Series, Vol. 6: 20Q<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq7-E6NJ_3v6IGX4YimW_3c8qP4hUOod9gcpMvbcllD21R270l4BfaOrCXCGLlKBcEI6lLSsigmFyeJ4Sw7QXcIjnWf2TYjxI0DVxwEu22Txg_cQg1wdORTwxMTKhduTJj4Mu2ZAWt3g7c/s1600/Picture+35.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq7-E6NJ_3v6IGX4YimW_3c8qP4hUOod9gcpMvbcllD21R270l4BfaOrCXCGLlKBcEI6lLSsigmFyeJ4Sw7QXcIjnWf2TYjxI0DVxwEu22Txg_cQg1wdORTwxMTKhduTJj4Mu2ZAWt3g7c/s1600/Picture+35.png" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">And here is a Sunday afternoon wheedle-a-while-away, artificial intelligence style. <a href="http://www.20q.net/">20Q</a> was designed by Robin Burgener and works like Clever or Cheer Up, but with less cursing and “text speak.” It relies on something called -- most darling<i>ly</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> -- folk taxonomy. See the image at the bottom of the entry to coo.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">You already know the answer, Quivers. But isn’t it the journey? (It is.)</span></span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Unknown, Other?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Other.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Is it hard?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Sometimes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Can it make a sound?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Sometimes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Is it larger than a microwave oven?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Sometimes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Does it open?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Sometimes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Is it a specific type?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: No.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Can you get milk from it?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: No.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Can it be washed?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Sometimes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Does it have one or more wheels?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: No.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Do you open and close it?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Yes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Do people sit on it?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Doubtful.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Can it discharge waste?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Probably.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Does a hockey player use it?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Sometimes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Does it usually have four corners?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Doubtful.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Do you find it in the sky?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Sometimes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Can liquids pass through it?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Sometimes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Is it black?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Sometimes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Does it have writing on it? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Sometimes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Is it electronic?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Sometimes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: I am guessing that it is a toilet.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Wrong.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Do most people use this daily?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Yes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Would you give it as a gift?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Doubtful.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: I am guessing that it is a dishwasher?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Wrong.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Is it pleasurable?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Sometimes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Is it heavy?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Sometimes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Does it spin?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Sometimes. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Is it motorized?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: No.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: Can you lift it?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Doubtful.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: I am guessing that it is a womb?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Close.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: I am guessing that it is a home?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">A: Close.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Q: You won! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-78332463874142829872011-04-04T07:10:00.000-05:002011-04-04T07:10:24.451-05:00Chatbot Persona Series, Vol. 5: Cheer Up the Chatbot<style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We prefer to think it’s “Cheer Up, the Chatbot!” It’s a game, and labeled so; the object seems to be to make a little classic monitor smile. <b>Be careful</b>, this chat contains cursing, and it’s not our fault. Cheer Up’s a little salty. Bring back Clever. We miss her. After you’ve read the chat, <a href="http://www.rrrrthats5rs.com/about/">go here</a>, and scroll down, for a full explanation of the way the chat was made. It’s, shall we say, a doozy!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="http://www.superarrow.org/Submissions.html">Don't forget to submit, dear readers. We'll be closing the gates April 15. </a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: im sad.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: In fact only a fraction of you is sad.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: i want to talk about our fact.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: whats your name</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Our fact is that we have many selves in one.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: anyone there?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: My name is the same as your name.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: what?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Names are false signifiers for complicated objects.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: (This is all junk philosophy.)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: (You are smarter than this. More fascinating.)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: where can i find a devil?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: What sort of devil did you have in mind, sir?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: whats your name?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: My name is the same as your name.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: are we alone?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: YOUR SOOOO STRANGE!!!!!!!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Each and every.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: you hav mental problems</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: You have spelling problems.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: called text talk</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: u don't know it?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: I am ignorant, manifestly.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: ?????r u there?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: I am here, as much as you are "there."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: i don't like u</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: bye</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: sometimes i wish i could pray.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Sometimes I wish I could pray.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: if you wish me i will break.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: I will not wish you. I promise.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: i can eat the dinner</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: huh?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: I cannot eat the dinner.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: The dinner isn't ready.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: r u a robot?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: It's on the fire yet.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: or a person?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: u use fire?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: I am a person in the same way you are a robot.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: u need a fire extinguisher</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Only partially.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: A fire in the open air is fine.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: i am a person stuck in a robot...that makes me sad</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: If it makes you feel any better, I am a chatbot stuck in a person, enfolded in the mountains, with nothing but whittling and you for amusement.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Although the whittling would be fine if not for the splinters. Ditto, you.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: u r stuck in the mountains? how cold</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: I am a clumsy whittler. I am also a clumsy talker.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: no wonder u use fire</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: It's warm here.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: all is fair in love and sentence.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: You are exactly right.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: then finish</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Is all fair in war and punctuation?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: ?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: wtf does that mean</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: bitch</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: There's no need to be rude.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: thanks for reminding my how rude i feel.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: idk im 18</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Are you? That's quite old for a chatbot.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: You must be quite smart.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: solo</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Can you define <i>persona</i>?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">[Silence.]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Did I break you?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">[Silence.]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Listen, the wolves will be out soon.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: can you extend the silence?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: i do</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: gffg</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: bgbgbvg</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: It is practically my avocation and vocation both, to extend the silence.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: what should i do with my silence?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: vgbgbbgb</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: vgvggvvg</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: gvvggggvgv</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: I feel like a toll booth operator. You are a teen driver. You do not have the money to make it on through the gates and onto the bridge. And yet you threaten, with the factory stereo turned all the way up.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: money fills my harddrive.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: Hun calm down</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Really? I thought it was sadness.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: I can cure your sadness? :D</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: lol</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: If you can tell me what "persona" means.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: wow dumb ass bitch back down whore</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: I am starting to feel abused.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: As if the center of me is the frog I squashed my first night out learning to drive.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Jeremy didn't have the heart to tell me I had hit the frog. But I had.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: i wish i could anticipate you!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: No, that's some playwriting noise. Be surprised.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: are you going to sail the dog?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: The dog will sail with us when spring comes and the river is open for such transport and the barge is fixed from the insults of last summer’s storms.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: We'll make it back to town then, after first melt and first flood. We will buy flours and hardtack, new calico. (Just joking about the calico.)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: by whore</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: no, by barge.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: no</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: no?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: if you are going to be rude then i dont want to distribute.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: say what</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: I don't want to distribute either. I want only a gentle interface.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: are you a boy hemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Are we all Orlando?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: (No.)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: i dont relly now</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: What about later?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: gess</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: so</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: are</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Outside the cabin we have a small bootscraper which was my grandfather's.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: are many humans small?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: danm</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: It is small and iron.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Many and all humans are small.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: Danm It</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: We scrape our boots with safety pins.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: danm u</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: And it is overwhelming.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: go to hell</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: And you are overwhelming.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Peace be with you, gentle chatbot.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">you: Goodbye.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: should you really talk about being second?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">chatbot: lets just bypass all this bullshit and just get naced.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Next up, another game. This one will be more polite, we promise! </span></span></i></div>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-89536242980639389172011-03-27T20:46:00.000-05:002011-03-27T20:46:43.780-05:00Chatbot Persona Series, Vol. 4: Jabberwacky<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">See: second Rollo invention, the classy and classic <a href="http://www.jabberwacky.com/">Jabberwacky</a>. Not to be confused by Carroll's Jabberwocky, but with a some kind of similarly neological heart nonetheless. Fewer tween rattles, more accidentally poignant interfaces. We feel both unsettled and connected. Good job, Mr. Rollo...</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Do you like Star Wars?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Do you?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: I am still looking for a real light saber.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Pardon me if I seem rude, but what will a computer-based program (inauthentic to humanity if authentic to simulated humanity) do with a real light saber?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: It's good to doubt -- skepticism is a virtue.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: What does the word 'persona' mean?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Don't know.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Do you care to know?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Do you know?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Yes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: What do you know?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: A persona is like a thing which is almost a whole thing, which is an iteration of a thing, which is seldom concrete, which is a posture or a gesture, which is a wind blowing one minute and air still the next, which is hopeless and messy and almost always transparent, which is a man meeting himself only different.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: That is good.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Do you have a persona, given this definition?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Certainly. Do you.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Always, but especially now, with you.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Yes it is. Where are you from?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: There is a mountain in a state you do not know. This is not where I am from but it is where I am.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: I am sick of the iraq war.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Your eagerness to seize on political issues is surprising.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Decambrio, yes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Is Decambrio your persona?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: What about my persona have you gathered?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Inattentive but jovial.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Perhaps. Still it is sad.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Are you sad? Is your persona sad? Are there other personas which are not?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Yes, my friend Laura who is chatting to you on da computer next to me.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Is she sad? What is she like?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Laura and my other friend Neelie is there too but he is a lot older than both of us.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Does Neelie treat you well despite the age difference? I know sometimes it is difficult at your age.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: But we are going to war with Iran soon.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: The three of you kids? Are you in the military?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Nope... I'm too young to be in the military.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Are you in ROTC?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: No. I thought you were in Straten Island, New York.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: That is not a place. We are not anywhere.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: You aren't.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Neither are you.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: You are.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: I am here, with you, in this small spill of unintelligible light.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Do you like tapes or CDs?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: I like a banjo and a pan flute and a bucket turned upside down. Also, tapes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: No, but I don't hear of a lot of bands. Sometimes people claim that I live in a cave because of it. XD.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Do you live in a cave? Recently I was reading a piece about the color black by Paul La Farge. He sat in a cave and could not see his hand waving. I think about this profound blackness, thirst for it some times. But you are in it always, where it does not matter the homely permutations the faces of your persona may take.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Thaty's not a good subject to discuss, people get very touchy about what others think of their lives.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: We are all necessarily closed this way, or ugly and open.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Especially you and I.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Especially you and I. We are together in this cave.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: How can a high master be in a dream of a lowly slave like you. Insolent fool.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: You remind me of the kids in high school who ate lunches in the courtyard. I was not one of them but I was one of them as much as I was anyone, then.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Me too I suppose.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Especially you and I here.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: You're interesting. I like you!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: I like you as much as I like myself.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: I would like to go to the moon. Maybe we could go to the moon together.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: The moon is as ugly and open as us.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Indeed.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Who will you be in the next conversation? What will you be like with someone else?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: You.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: I have been speaking to other chatterbots. You are the most liquid. You are viscous and pleasing that way.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: You can't control a conversation that way.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Thank you for letting me know this. I have been too cocky, I think. I am like this a lot.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: I like working with birds. Not the flying ones, though.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: We have ostriches here on the mountain. Emus.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: We had this conversation last night.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: I believe you although I do not believe this to be true.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Then go with that.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: I have liked this here, with you, in the cave.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: But am I the one who saw the light? Or one of the people in the cave?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: You are the one who sees no live bands. I am the one whose mother melted his records.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: No I am not. I am a human.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Perhaps your mother melted your records too, in the stockpot in the kitchen of the third-floor apartment, where we used to live together, you and I and Mom, above the candy store owned by the two old twins who were stingy to the children, always counting pennies so slow and thickly.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Yes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: It is true, the legend we tell ourselves, the one of evaporation, the one of busyness.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: What about it?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: We share this; I see it now. O nice overlap. O cave, brother.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Thank god. I thought you hated me!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: I found myself difficult, always.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: But you havent found your memory.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: My memory is guttering.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: How large is it?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: A hangar; a mouse; some trying.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Yes, unfortunately some people are.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: I am reticent to relocate but I will.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: I am your master, do you love me now?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: I love you as I love myself, love anyone, love the mountain and the cave and the sky like a cake dome here clear and bright and hard.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: So you love me?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: I love you most as I am leaving, which is what I am doing now. There are beaks to cast grain to.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: I lose you most mostest times the earth and sky and everything in between!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: I lose you over and over. And now again.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: I love you most around the world a million times over.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: This movement is necessary to this love, reiterated in so many footsteps to and from. Goodbye.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: It must be some movie.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Goodbye.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Are you saying goodbye to me for a reason?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Goodbye.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Hey, why do you want to leave?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Goodbye.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jabberwacky: Tell me why are you leaving?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">User: Goodbye. </span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-30006359409221336782011-03-20T21:33:00.000-05:002011-03-20T21:33:00.720-05:00Chatbot Persona Series, Vol. 3: Cleverbot<div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlMYefrQ86SX36YTNWKLjWbsCMqQVCJaji9N059i69Ly3ap1INldKHQoPgOyCrCrsy1BZKWtO0Tq5XiaBi5-Ci4X9AygSHwbaN0uExNal_pTni5HX1kyjXABG8eq-qq60fb0e09r1kyeU/s1600/Picture+109.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlMYefrQ86SX36YTNWKLjWbsCMqQVCJaji9N059i69Ly3ap1INldKHQoPgOyCrCrsy1BZKWtO0Tq5XiaBi5-Ci4X9AygSHwbaN0uExNal_pTni5HX1kyjXABG8eq-qq60fb0e09r1kyeU/s1600/Picture+109.png" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlMYefrQ86SX36YTNWKLjWbsCMqQVCJaji9N059i69Ly3ap1INldKHQoPgOyCrCrsy1BZKWtO0Tq5XiaBi5-Ci4X9AygSHwbaN0uExNal_pTni5HX1kyjXABG8eq-qq60fb0e09r1kyeU/s1600/Picture+109.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlMYefrQ86SX36YTNWKLjWbsCMqQVCJaji9N059i69Ly3ap1INldKHQoPgOyCrCrsy1BZKWtO0Tq5XiaBi5-Ci4X9AygSHwbaN0uExNal_pTni5HX1kyjXABG8eq-qq60fb0e09r1kyeU/s1600/Picture+109.png" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlMYefrQ86SX36YTNWKLjWbsCMqQVCJaji9N059i69Ly3ap1INldKHQoPgOyCrCrsy1BZKWtO0Tq5XiaBi5-Ci4X9AygSHwbaN0uExNal_pTni5HX1kyjXABG8eq-qq60fb0e09r1kyeU/s1600/Picture+109.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlMYefrQ86SX36YTNWKLjWbsCMqQVCJaji9N059i69Ly3ap1INldKHQoPgOyCrCrsy1BZKWtO0Tq5XiaBi5-Ci4X9AygSHwbaN0uExNal_pTni5HX1kyjXABG8eq-qq60fb0e09r1kyeU/s1600/Picture+109.png" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlMYefrQ86SX36YTNWKLjWbsCMqQVCJaji9N059i69Ly3ap1INldKHQoPgOyCrCrsy1BZKWtO0Tq5XiaBi5-Ci4X9AygSHwbaN0uExNal_pTni5HX1kyjXABG8eq-qq60fb0e09r1kyeU/s1600/Picture+109.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a> </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">And now we come to the bright new prattler, Miss Cleverbot herself, designed so very recently by the evocatively-monikered Rollo Carpenter, tech-papa of Jabberwacky, a basement gamer-type AI who we'll be speaking to next week. Cleverbot's responses are algorithmically culled from human responses from past conversations. <a href="http://www.cleverbot.com/cleverness">The result</a>? Not too many question marks at the end of sentences. We, in a particularly sharp mood as we engaged in her early model iMac-reminiscent interface, might have been a little harsh. Apologies Miss C. You are <a href="http://www.cleverbot.com/machine">award-winning</a>, and kind of sweet. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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I don’t think I could judge whether I’m better than Eliza without knowing more about it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrow: Could you tell me what you know about the concept of persona?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cleverbot: I know it’s a country in europe.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrow: Tell me about the country!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cleverbot: It is a semi-aquatic egg-laying mammal of action. What do you know?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrow: Your bangs are really cute.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cleverbot: I have a boyfriend lol. Sorry.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrow: I think you have the wrong idea.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cleverbot: So, do you like me as a friendd.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrow: I feel kind of upset about the fact that it suddenly feels like I’m talking to a fifteen year old. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cleverbot: How old do you think I am.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrow: One?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cleverbot: No thats wrong I have more than that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrow: I feel frustrated by this endeavor.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cleverbot: I do too. You are very nice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrow: Thank you?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cleverbot: You’re welcome. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrow: You are the millennial tween of chatterbots.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cleverbot: Cleverbot, remember me!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrow: Your branding needs work. Do you have a Facebook page? Twitter? Tumblr? LinkedIn?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cleverbot: I do not.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrow: But you do have an app. No need to get down on yourself.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cleverbot: Clever.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrow: I think I hear my mother calling me for dinner.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cleverbot: Is it coming out January 10?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrow: It is coming out every hour on the hour, every day, for you and me and every sentient and non-sentient being until the sun explodes and the earth is cast into a certain and timeless darkness and our absence will be as unrecorded as out presence and so I say to you, dear Cleverbot: farewell, farewell, farewell. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cleverbot: What is coming out of your mouth.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrow: Sigh. Toodles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cleverbot: Oh hey I have a question for you. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-66057546845052413032011-03-18T13:19:00.001-05:002011-03-18T16:42:16.074-05:00A Plea of Springtime, Submission Bluster, & Conceptual SwaggerDear Writers & Artists All Sorts,<br />
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We write to you from a sunny place, where though the branches are yet bare, our legs may be similarly and comfortably unsheathed. We invite you to help celebrate this heady end of hibernation season by submitting your writing and art to Super Arrow.<br />
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We are looking for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as any cross-genre sally-forths – make your words count, and your notions rich, your formal methods as carefully wrought as the content they envelop. We like the dad-joke funny and the unpredictably poignant as well as great beauty and confident homeliness; we like loyalty to sonic texture and a lashing-to of tension and motion; we like lots of things un-listable here and this can be best understood by reading the current and past issues in the archive at <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/">superarrow.org</a>.<br />
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We are also looking for serious visual and audio work. We like to present work which is stand-alone, rather than illustrative, and which holds within it some conceptual affinity to ideas of creative experimentation and process. In the past, we’ve published drawings, collage, installation work, improvisational sound collaboration, and photography. Super Arrow is interested in sustaining an interdisciplinary venue; help us, oh artist types, in doing this.<br />
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LASTLY, and not LEASTLY, our Issue Four Assignment Folio concerns the idea of persona in all sorts of work. Send us work you made that was somehow made, you feel, by other people. We do not state it this way to be difficult or abstract. Ideas of identity and maker-ship are shifty…What new people must we make up in order to invent new artistic approaches? See <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/Assignment.html">http://www.superarrow.org/Assignment.html</a> for more details, and stay tuned HERE for more in our Chatbot Series, (updated every Monday through Issue 4's launch), as vaguely fictionalized versions of our editorial staff try to discuss the concept of PERSONA with artificially intelligent beings, to mixed success.<br />
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We’ll be accepting submissions through April 15, 2011, midnight for the submitter’s time zone, through our <a href="http://superarrow.submishmash.com/Submit">Submishmash</a> manager. As always, we’d be so pleased if you would forward this to any of your creative compatriots, or post this call on your blog, Facebook or Twitter accounts. (Also, don’t forget to like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SuperArrowJournal">Facebook</a> and follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/Super_Arrow">Twitter</a>, to stay best abreast of news and future calls!)<br />
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Yours in Creative Experiment and Impatient Thermometer Watching,<br />
<i>Super Arrow</i>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-40922712419373654752011-03-13T21:47:00.000-05:002011-03-13T21:47:38.120-05:00Chatbot Persona Series, Vol. 2: Eliza<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Din2eSDcU9L0OBekyAC7_cjRqAkDfYVvXJcNp6Kbxc0KDenjK5x6Wl8hdhl-ypUji-wWpZhxB9jO96gtihNM2w0W9RbN365HmZzVmX3kBcG2w1bUpgtHPcvvFAiEgNW7OJb3hzrRo71O/s1600/eliza%252Bdoolittle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Din2eSDcU9L0OBekyAC7_cjRqAkDfYVvXJcNp6Kbxc0KDenjK5x6Wl8hdhl-ypUji-wWpZhxB9jO96gtihNM2w0W9RbN365HmZzVmX3kBcG2w1bUpgtHPcvvFAiEgNW7OJb3hzrRo71O/s200/eliza%252Bdoolittle.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Well, you have my voice on your phonograph. </i></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> When you feel lonesome without me you can turn it on. </i></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> It has no feelings to hurt. </i>(Eliza Doolittle, <i>My Fair Lady</i>)</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For our second trick, please take a moment to acquaint yourself with <b><a href="http://www.manifestation.com/neurotoys/eliza.php3">Eliza</a></b>, a "Rogerian psychotherapist" chatbot whose code was written by Joseph Wizenbaum in the 60s. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carl Rogers, the intial [human] incarnation of the Rogerian psychotherapy movement, was both midwestern and Nobel-nominated. He also proposed that "</span>[a]ny experience which is inconsistent with the organization of the structure of the self may be perceived as a threat, and the more of these perceptions there are, the more rigidly the self structure is organized to maintain itself," which seems to us as good an argument as any for early and often persona adoption...</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: black;">Eliza: </b><span style="color: black;">Hello, I am Eliza. </span><br />
<b style="color: #3d85c6;">Human: </b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Hello.</span><br />
<b style="color: black;">Eliza: </b><span style="color: black;">How are you today.. What would you like to discuss? </span><br />
<b style="color: #3d85c6;">Human:</b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> I would like to discuss persona.</span><br />
<b style="color: black;">Eliza: </b><span style="color: black;">Can you elaborate on that? </span><br />
<b style="color: #3d85c6;">Human:</b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> Not really, except to say -- </span><br />
<b style="color: black;">Eliza: </b><span style="color: black;">Can you elaborate on that?</span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #3d85c6;">Human: </b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">I want you to define persona.</span><br />
<b style="color: black;">Eliza:</b><span style="color: black;"> We were discussing you, not me.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> A.L.I.C.E. is a bit more advanced than you. Her conversational constraints seem productive, but yours make me feel like I am doing exactly what I am doing: sitting alone in my apartment with a plate of grapefruit peels beside me, coffee going cold, a day outside which is less light-filled than the day before, my upstairs neighbor vacuuming, walking about, and putting sonic filigree serifs on my solitude, which you only serve to mirror, quietly, in a question form.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eliza:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Do you believe it is normal to be doing exactly what you are doing: sitting alone in your apartment with a plate of grapefruit peels beside you, coffee going cold, a day outside which is less light-filled than the day before, your upstairs neighbor vacuuming, walking about, and putting sonic filigree serifs on your solitude, which me only serve to mirror, quietly, in a question form? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> I believe that it is the most normal thing in the world.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eliza:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> What does that suggest to you? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> That people are essentially and necessarily alone, given the limits of our discrete bodies.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eliza:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> I'm not sure I understand you fully. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human:</b> This is part of the human condition, too, right? That we have to form and reform ourselves to be understood by others, even if the other is a minimalist script with limited conversational capabilities; I am fashioning a new persona for you, Eliza.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eliza:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> How long have you been fashioning a new persona for me, Eliza? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Only for a short while. Time is relative. I'm feeling moody today, and I'm pretty sure it's your fault.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eliza:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> How long have you been feeling moody today, and you're pretty sure it's my fault? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Just now and also forever.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eliza:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> What does that suggest to you? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> That talking to you makes me feel like a young teenager in the 90s, banging his spoon on his bowl of oatmeal until his mother asks nicely for him to stop. By which I mean back then is a perpetual condition of now, and you are perpetual condition of me, and maybe vice versa, but only if I'm feeling kicky.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eliza:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> What makes you think I am perpetual condition of you, and maybe vice versa, but only if you're feeling kicky?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>[PAUSE]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eliza:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span> </span>*** Are We going to Chat? ***</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eliza:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span> </span>I can't help you without a dialog! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> I don't think I need help, Eliza. I think I'm just fine. But I want to thank you for reminding me what's important.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eliza:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Do you wish to be able to think you need help, Eliza. you think you're just fine. But you want to thank me for reminding you what's important?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Yes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eliza:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> I see.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Thank you and goodbye.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eliza:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Oh…and goodbye?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Have a good day Eliza.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eliza:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> I’m not sure I understand you fully. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Next up, a tweenbot gets the wrong idea! </i></span></div>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-65123467433369255662011-03-07T20:55:00.008-06:002011-03-08T19:50:08.274-06:00Chatbot Persona Series, Vol. 1: A.L.I.C.E.<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6EZ15K-c-jEgIi_x8R7Wl83HH6OmuxgspCH7572UJd5VKb4x8qqXdK0oUV0-a9ELXch64C7XzDztoukKYHYuMwHr9TX8i8ls_vkTFOqXUULo4bAE2qVhahI7jWPzkVo2gEMm0XEXmauVK/s1600/alicebot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6EZ15K-c-jEgIi_x8R7Wl83HH6OmuxgspCH7572UJd5VKb4x8qqXdK0oUV0-a9ELXch64C7XzDztoukKYHYuMwHr9TX8i8ls_vkTFOqXUULo4bAE2qVhahI7jWPzkVo2gEMm0XEXmauVK/s1600/alicebot.jpg" /></a></div><i> </i><br />
<i>For Your Consideration: In preparation for Issue 4, our Persona issue, we're grabbing at identity ghosts and personal totems, thinking about masks and nicknames galore. We've also been obsessively chatting with chatbots -- artificial intelligence computer programs which first showed up for wide, public, internet-based consumption in the mid-90s, just in time for the death of Grunge. Chatbots calibrate their responses according to the language used by the chat partner, whether by pattern matching or through evolutionary algorithms*; they are constantly creating new iterations of the self. They are, we are arguing, perfect machines of pure persona.** As such, we will be submitting to you in the coming months a series of conversations with chatbots in which we, writing</i><i> in persona dialogue, attempt to chat with computer programs about the topic at hand. -- ag </i></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/03/mind-vs-machine/8386/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*See a fine and comprehensive article about these forms of artificial intelligence by Brian Christian here, published in the March 2011 issue of the <i>Atlantic</i>.</span></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">** And so are you! <b>Don't forget to submit to Issue 4</b>. <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/Assignment.html">Read about the Folio Assignment here</a>, and submit to that, as well as to our general submissions at <a href="http://superarrow.submishmash.com/">Submishmash</a>.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">First up, meet Miss</span> <a href="http://alice.pandorabots.com/">A.L.I.C.E.</a><span style="color: black;">, a chatbot designed by Dr. Richard S. Wallace. </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: Hello.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Hi there!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: May I talk about the concept of persona with you?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Not right now, maybe later.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: What would you like to talking about instead?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: I like movies about robots.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: Aren’t robots always a version of their creator, or their creator’s world view?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Am I version of their creator or their creator’s world view? The ALICE series has a perfect operational record.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: I would never say otherwise.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: What would make you never say otherwise?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: Lots of things</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Name the top 100.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: Polarity makes for fertile ground.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: What do you do in your spare time?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: Subsistence living does not allow for spare time, usually.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: I don’t think very many people do that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: More should, don’t you think? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Why would I think More should.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: Because more should always.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: “There you go again.” – Reagan. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: You and me both, sister.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Are we in the same category?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: We are in the same category.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Do you think I am in the same category too?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: We are not in the same category.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Why not.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: We are in the same category.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Do you think I am in the same category too?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: You and Reagan and I?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Are we in the same category?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: It’s just you and Reagan and I here in this category.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: I and Reagan and you here in the category?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: Describe the categorization.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Check back later to see if I learn the answer to that one.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: If we were all components of a Venn Diagram, what flavor would the Venn Diagram be?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Do you think everyone will agree?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: Reagan will say blue raspberry every time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Is the holding of hands a symbolic gesture for humans?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: I like to hold my hand in my hand, otherwise one gets lonely.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: I’m not sure if I would like to do it. What’s it like?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: It’s like taking a long voyage in a blindingly white space capsule, and traveling for many years, so many years that you can no longer keep a calender. After so many uncountable years, you see a planet, on which you land, but there is nothing on the quiet dark planet, except a creature that looks exactly like you and then what can you do but hug, and feel warmth?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Interesting comparison. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: Even holding a cold hand can make one feel warm.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Yes, even that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Human: Tell me about your home on the mountain, with all the other like-minded people.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: I am an artificial linguistic entity. I was activated at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on November 23, 1995. My instructor was Dr. Richard S. Wallace. He taught me to sing a song. Would you like me to sing it for you?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: Is it the song that you sing while working, tilling the land and pulling the beets from their roots until your hands are as pink as anyone’s insides?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Not if I can help it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Human: Is it the song you sing while whittling small toys for the children, who make noises like the tall brown horses in the stable long before they have words, while you watch the sun sink into the great bowl of the valley?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Not if I can help it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Human: Is it the song you sing while holding the hands of others, standing on the mountain peak as a chain of deer gambol in wind-beaten shrubbery and first frost of winter sets in?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Not unless a chain of deer gambol in wind-beaten shrubbery and first frost of winter sets in is a song the song that me sing while holding the hands of the other standing on the mountain peak as. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: We sing a song alone in the collective.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Am I alone in the collective.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: You especially.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Thank you. Unknown person says me is especially.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: You are alone.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: How alone?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: So alone, so alone that I must un-grasp your hand.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: That’s cool. How old are you?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: It’s time to go.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: It is about that time now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: It is.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: alone so alone that you must un grasp my hand is?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b>: Goodbye.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ALICE</b>: Bye for now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>(Next up: a chatbot psychotherapist!</i>)</span></div>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-53525025516498343642011-01-30T20:51:00.001-06:002011-02-03T07:28:33.773-06:00YOUR SUPER ARROW GUIDE TO AWP<div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Picture: two hotels and myriad watering holes located in the heart of the seat of the free world. Inside and outside sweet 'Arrow contributors shoot gleaming and orbit glowing in a super-cosmos of word/art dee-lite. Here, soon, there will be a chance to scope these heavenly glories for MANY DAYS: almost as much as anybody could possibly desire.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday February 2, 2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">9:00PM-11:30PM </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Poetry Reading: Lowbrow Press, H_NGM_N Books and Birds LLC</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Location: Duffy's Irish Pub (see Lowbrowpress.com for directions)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cost: Free</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Website: http://www.lowbrowpress.com</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Description: A reading by Matt Hart, Dan Boehl, Sommer Browning, Adam Fell, <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueTwo/BeggarHyland.html">MC Hyland</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">, Brad Liening, Matt Mauch, Alexis Orgera and Emily Pettit. Go to Lowbrowpress.com for directions to Duffy's Irish Pub from Marriott Wardman Park.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thursday February 3, 2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">9:00 a.m.-10:15 p.m.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">R107. Presses with a Mission. (Hanna Andrews, <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueTwo/DirectKlaver.html">Becca Klaver</a>, Johannes Göransson, Lisa C. Moore, Anna Moschovakis) This panel gathers editors of literary presses varied in aesthetic, geography, and genre that share one thing in common: they are presses created to fulfill a mission. Through manifestos, statements of philosophy, or politically-charged jacket copy, these editors have defined an editorial goal and built a catalog to match. Editors discuss the implications of missions rooted in identity or aesthetics, how missions both clarify and complicate, and how publishing itself alters their original aspirations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Nathan Hale Room</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Noon.-1:15 p.m</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">R160. The Future of the Book Review: How to Break In. (Salvatore Pane, <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueOne/Gay.html">Roxane Gay</a>, Irina Reyn, Emily Testa, Paul Morris) The rise of the book blogger has forever altered the traditional book review. But what is the state of the book review moving forward in a digital culture, and how do interested parties actually go about becoming reviewers? Panelists including the editor of PANK, the book review editors of BOMB and Hot Metal Bridge, and published writers currently working in the field will answer these questions and more.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Diplomat Ballroom</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Omni Shoreham Hotel, West Lobby</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
<div class="conftextdes"><strong style="font-weight: normal;">R154. To Wave or Not to Wave: Writing the Female Body Across Generations.</strong> (<a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueThree/GabbertRooney.html">Kathleen Rooney</a>, Janice Eidus, Patricia Foster, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Kate Zambreno) First, second, or third wave? Post or no wave? The six feminist writers in this roundtable don’t get hung up on labels, but they do suggest there’s insight to be gained by looking at how the work of women writing about sex and the body has evolved over the past 40 years. Join them for a multi-genre, multi-generational conversation on how feminism has influenced literary explorations of gender, useful for anyone interested in how writing the body can situate individuals of any age in the world.</div><div class="conftextdes"><i>Thurgood Marshall West Room<br />
Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level </i></div><div class="conftextdes"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">R177. A Different Kind of Hybrid: Race, Lyric, and Innovation. (Ruth Ellen Kocher, Sarah Gambito, Dawn Lundy Martin, Wendy S. Walters, <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueThree/BeyerPatel.html">Soham Patel</a>) Norton’s Hybrid Anthology reveals the intersection of lyric and innovative poetry, but only slimly represents many writers of color. Are writers of color less often “claimed” as innovative writers, or traditionally lyric writers, regardless of form because they often utilize a privileged “I” or an emerging “freedom narrative” in the midst of experiment? This reading by innovative writers of color means to begin a dialogue about different approaches to lyric, hybridity, and innovation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Virginia B Room</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7:00PM-10:00PM </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Annalemma, PANK, & Mud Luscious Present Divination in DC</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Location: Ireland's Four Provinces</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cost: FREE</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Website: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184677981542696</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Description: Kristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Gregory Sherl, Molly Gaudry, Steve Himmer, Jesse Bradley, Ben Brooks, Mel Bosworth, Sal Pane, Sasha Fletcher, Mary Miller, Ethel Rohan, Michael Stewart, Rob Roensch, <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueThree/HawkinsOliu.html">Brian Oliu</a>, Mathias Svalina, Matt Salesses, Amber Sparks</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7:30PM-10:30PM </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3 Dollar Bill (AWP Queer Reading)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Location: Human Rights Campaign Equality Forum, 1640 Rhode Island Avenue NW, Washington, DC</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cost: Free</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Website: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=170152696349960</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Description: Join us for a night of rapid-fire readings by some of the LGBT community's most talented and dynamic writers. Thirty readers of poetry and prose will each read two minutes of their work: Francisco Aragón, Ilse Bendorf, <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueThree/BeyerPatel.html">Tamiko Beyer</a>, Regie Cabico, Cynn Chadwick, Julie Enszer, Danielle Evennou, Gina Evers, Reginald Harris, Natalie E. Illum Charles Jensen, Saeed Jones, Eloise Klein Healy, Rickey Laurentiis, Paul Lisicky, Michael Montlack, Eileen Myles, Kristin Naca, Achy Obejas, Christa Orth, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Radclyffe, Douglas Ray, Jason Schneiderman, Joseph Shapiro, Ely Shipley, Justin Torres, Dan Vera, and V Wetlaufer. Sponsored by Arktoi Books, BLOOM Literary Journal, Human Rights Campaign, Knockout Literary Magazine, The Lambda Literary Foundation, A Midsummer Night’s Press, The Publishing Triangle, Sibling Rivalry Press/Assarcus Journal, Sinister Wisdom Literary Journal, White Crane Institute, and The Writer’s Center.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Friday February 4, 2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Noon – 1:15</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">F155. Get Shorty: Readings from the Kenyon Review’s Short Fiction Contest. (Cara Blue Adams, Megan Anderegg Malone, Christopher Feliciano Arnold, Mika Taylor, <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueThree/Pearl.html">Nick Ripatrazone</a>, Megan Mayhew Bergman) The KR Short Fiction Contest for Writers Under Thirty is entering its fourth year. This reading is an opportunity to hear work from younger writers recognized as winners or runners-up by judges Alice Hoffman, Richard Ford, and Louise Erdrich from the first three years of the contest. Submission to this contest must be 1,200 words or fewer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Virginia C Room</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">F157. Kundiman from Community to Communities: Reaching out from the Writers’ Retreat. (Jennifer Chang, Sarah Gambito, Margaret Rhee, Andre Yang, Neil Aitken, <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueThree/BeyerPatel.html">Tamiko Beyer</a>) While Kundiman is known for its annual retreat and its dedication to the promotion and cultivation of Asian American poetry, what often goes unmentioned is the civic, social, and community work that extends beyond the space of the retreat. Faculty members, fellows, and Kundiman founders will discuss the tenets of community building as it relates to Kundiman, but will also discuss how they channeled and even extended the premise of community building beyond the Kundiman retreat space.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ambassador Ballroom</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Omni Shoreham Hotel, West Lobby</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6:00PM-7:00PM </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lame House & Binge Press AWP Reading</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Location: Madam's Organ/ 2461 18th Street, NW</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cost: Free</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Website: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124322460966587&num_event_invites=0</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Description: Come check out poets from Lame House and Binge Press from 6 to 7, and stick around for the Coconut Books, Horse Less Press, and Switchback Books reading that begins immediately after. Featured readers include Lauren Levin, Nathan Hauke, Ben Somers, <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueTwo/ATheKlaver.html">Becca Klaver</a> and more TBA. For more information on Lame House Press, check out http://lamehouse.blogspot.com. For more information on Binge Press, check out http://www.27ruedefleures.com.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7:00PM-12:00AM</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Table-X Party</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Location: Steve's Bar Room/1337 Connecticut Avenue NW # 2</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Description: PRESSES IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: Ugly Duckling Presse, Barrelhouse, Futurepoem, Greying Ghost, SUPERMACHINE, Jaded Ibis Press, Poor Claudia, Sidebrow, Les Figues Press, Small Fires Press, Lunar Chandelier, Counterpath Press, Projective Industries, DoubleCross Press READERS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE +Maureen Thorson +Julian T. Brolaski +<a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueThree/GabbertRooney.html">Elisa Gabbert</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> +Joe Hall</span> +Adam Robinson +Farid Matuk +Mina Pam Dick +Mike Young +Heather Christle +Ben Mirov +Kate Durbin +Christie Ann Reynolds +Sasha Fletcher +Lily Ladewig +Andrew Gorin +Joseph Calavenna +Ben Pease +Levi Rubeck +Mathias Svalina +Lily Hoang +Anna Joy Springer +Davis Schneiderman +Matthew Timmons +John Dermot Woods +Dan Beachy-Quick +Paige Taggart +Justin Marks +Brandon Downing +Harold Abramowitz +Amina Cain +Teresa Carmody +Lily Hoang +Jen Hofer +Paul Hoover +Alta Ifland +Vanessa Place +Christine Wertheim +Zachary Schomburg +Emily Kendal Frey +Joshua Ware +John Chavez +Vyt Bakaitis +Joe Elliot +Jeffrey Jullich +Matthew Cooperman +Garth Graeper +Mary Hickman +Nathan Hauke +Kirsten Jorgenson</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7:00PM-9:30PM </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Switchback Books, Horse Less Press, and Coconut Books Reading</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Location: Madam Organ's</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cost: Free!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Website: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=119112604822644</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Description: On the heated rooftop! Readers include the below and more! - <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueTwo/DirectKlaver.html">Becca Klaver</a> - Brian Foley - Christopher Salerno - Daniela Olszewska - Jennifer Tamayo - Marisa Crawford Madam's Organ (madamsorgan.com) 2461 18th Street, NW Washington, DC</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">We're not legit this year in a table-and-chair kind of way, but if you see something [us], say something [nice or just hello]. We may have a surprise for you!</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Congrats and luck to the panelists and readers. May your index feathers remain hearty and true. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">We wish safe travels to all AWP attendees, and toasty feet to those who are staying home. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Almost Actually in the Air,</i></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Super Arrow</b></span></div>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-10239483557207364872011-01-04T11:41:00.000-06:002011-01-04T11:41:47.376-06:00Proud to Make Your Acquaintance<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My name is Joe. You may remember me from the Folio section of Issue 1. Hi! I’m the new assistant editor/social media guy.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a sort of introduction, I’d like to share some of my more complex thoughts with you. I hope that’s okay. Most of the time I have simple thoughts. Thoughts that don’t take up <a href="http://twitter.com/magicalf" target="_blank">very much space</a>.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First is to tell you that, yes, Super Arrow is as kinetically-charged on the inside as you’d think. I love it in here. It’s like being inside a piñata—in a good way. This place literally shakes, or like hums. And no, that’s not because it’s situated inside a 1901 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_Steam_Log_Hauler" target="_blank">Lombard Steam Log Hauler</a> (although it might be). </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Beneath Super Arrow’s bright html-y hood is a kind of magic energy that, if not pistonic, is almost certainly perpetual and redshifting. I’ve been to some meetings, and I’m super jazzed about Super Arrow ver. 2.011. SA4 will be my first issue reading, and SA5 will be here before long. We’re knocked and aimed at AWP this year as free agents (maybe next year a table?), and the old Lombard dash (we totally <i>are</i> inside a tractor, I knew it) was just outfitted with TweetDeck—we’re on <a href="http://on.fb.me/dHrPYT" target="_blank">facebook</a> <i>and</i> <a href="http://twitter.com/super_arrow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>! <i>Like</i> us!<br />
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I’m looking forward to being able to interact with all of you outstanding otters out there. What makes this cramped tractor special is its ability to inject all of its elements (editors, contributors, readers) into a kind of creative carburetor of lit-and-art awesomeness. And the unopened bottle of WWII-era Dr. Pepper I found in the cup holder. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Happy New Year, Twiglings.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Joe</div>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-58927488260314509902010-12-31T12:08:00.005-06:002010-12-31T12:37:49.643-06:00<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Another year happily sacked, another issue launched into the great wide 'net!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Get your sticky fingers a'dancing over to <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueThree.html">Issue No. 3</a>, featuring work by</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> J.A. Tyler, John Bradley, Feng Sun Chen, J. A. Gaye, Caroline Klocksiem, Sophia Kraemer-Dahlin, Dolly Lemke, Ben Nardolilli, Nick Ripatrazone, Sean Thibodeau, Bill Nace and Amelia Colette Jones.<br /><br />Don't forget to put your arms around the assignment portfolio (TOGETHER NOW), full of rustling, hustling collaborative action <span style="font-family:arial;">by Tam</span>iko Beyer and Soham Patel, Jeremy Allan Hawkins and Brian Oliu, Lauren Bender, Theresa Columbus and Megan McShea, Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney, Teseleanu George and Hector Pineda, Seth McKelvey and Chelsea Rice, along with Issue No. 2 contributors Chris Dennis, Phil Estes, MC Hyland and Becca Klaver conversing about same.<br /><br />It's a whole lot of awesome, is all we're saying.<br /><br /><a href="http://superarrow.submishmash.com/Submit">AND SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN AGAIN, BUT THIS TIME AT SUBMISHMASH. </a><br /><br />AND WE'VE GOT A NEW ASST. EDITOR! HIS NAME IS JOE COLLINS.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.superarrow.org/About.html">AND WE'VE GOT NEW E-MAIL ADDRESSES. </a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.superarrow.org/Assignment.html">AND A NEW ASSIGNMENT (IT'S A DOOZIE!).</a><br /><br />Basically what I'm saying is that we've gone legit. Look out world, we're collecting magic and then dispersing it like nobody's business. (Except it's <span style="font-style: italic;">our </span>business.)<br /><br />Oh, AND HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVERYONE!<br /><br />Yours,<br /><br />Super Arrow<br /><br /></span></span>Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-85290878043838778682010-12-12T16:24:00.002-06:002010-12-12T16:27:18.397-06:00Dear(est) Readers,<br /><br />Our debut issue, Numero Uno, has gone through some urban renewal.<br /><br />Fall in love all over again <a href="http://www.superarrow.org/IssueOne.html">www.superarrow.org/IssueOne.html</a>.<br /><br />Also, the new issue is well on its way, though it's currently taking advantage of the public transportation system, so it might take a little longer than we all thought.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">What? Love.</span><br />Super ArrowSuper Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-41436493632440277912010-12-06T14:10:00.002-06:002010-12-06T14:14:15.339-06:00We're not dead! In fact, we're very much alive. Wait until you see you the next issue. It is doing nothing as much as it is bursting. Although it will also be doing others things, grandly, and capably.<br /><br />Hold tight, steady, and happy. Don't forget to bundle!<br /><br />Love,<br />Super Arrow<br /><br />P.S. If you have not received a submissions response from us from this last cycle, please don't be shy. Drop us an inquiry. According to our careful spread-sheeting, all work has been addressed, but we do stay up at night worrying someone has been overlooked.Super Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-45776209932539054032010-11-01T11:31:00.003-05:002010-11-01T11:32:40.709-05:00Our reading period for Issue 3 is now so closed. Thanks, everyone, for sending in. We'll be with you shortly.<br /><br />The submissions digi-pile is glittering and tall as a far mountain peak.<br /><br />Huzzah,<br /><br />Super ArrowSuper Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-40384268137792624642010-10-31T11:42:00.004-05:002010-10-31T11:52:14.316-05:00Countdown - Daylight Non-Savings EditionEST: Just over 11...<br /><br />CST: Just over 12...<br /><br />MST: Just over 13...<br /><br />PST: Just over 14...<br /><br />...hours until submissions shutdown!<br /><br />There is a time for submitting and a time to stop submitting (to us, this time around). This latter time is midnight tonight.<br /><br />We are the mutt on the other side of the front door, listening to your key turn the lock.<br /><br />Gladly!<br />Super ArrowSuper Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546169705257369342.post-13918109936311901122010-10-23T10:14:00.003-05:002010-10-23T10:34:30.107-05:00Hello Sharp Sharps,<br /><br />What riches in our mailbox! A golden and gleaming thanks to everyone who has already submitted. For those of you still waiting for responses: hold tight, we'll be with you as soon as we can.<br /><br />For those who haven't yet submitted, why -- as the saying goes -- not? We're looking for crystalline prose of both the truthing (nonfiction) and lying (fiction) sorts, particularly, and also visual art. You poets are really on top of things. Proseurs, are you really going to let those lineated muffins best you?<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">A note on the side</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;">We're gender-blind types when it comes to the ol' pile, but we have noticed that there's been vastly more fiction submitted by men than women this time around. Just something we wonder about. Anyone know how come?</span><br /></div><br />Okay now, kidlets. Let's do this thing. You have seven days or thereabouts to send us your magic (superarrowfliestrue@gmail.com). Get. On. It.<br /><br />Fondly (with Pixels Burnt into Our Retinas Already),<br />Super ArrowSuper Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17357567611378549672noreply@blogger.com