ITL #16 - Fight or Flight

Imagined Therefore Limitless can't decide: should I stay or should I go?

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Fight or Flight
Saturday, May 12, 2012
3:00 pm

Imagined Therefore Limitless #15 - Epistolary, What We Heard

Featuring our first ever Skype participant. Mad props to DB.

heather hughes - excerpt from Pamela by Samuel Richardson
Gina Heeren - excerpt from Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
Lauren Couture - "Some albums I could not live without" from the blog Will You Love Me Tomorrow
heather hughes - "Men of Letters" from the blog Yet Another Band
Robyn Gesek - excerpt from The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
Dann Brown - "Letter to Horace Greeley" Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler; "Best Resignation Letter Ever" anonymous, from SoCalLawBlog.org; and "Rejection Rejection Letter" by Chris L. Jensen
heather hughes - 3 "Open Letters" from McSweeneys.net
Jack Miller - memo from Bill Saffire to Richard Nixon "In Event of Moon Disaster;" Mickey Mantle's reply letter to Bob Fishel, 1972; and Postal Regulation Section 526

ITL #15 - Epistolary

Imagined Therefore Limitless doesn't have a valentine. Perhaps you could send a love letter?

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Epistolary
Saturday, February 18, 2012
4:00 pm

Imagined Therefore Limitless #14 - Fire & Ice, What We Heard

heather hughes - "The Imaginary Iceberg" and "Casabianca" by Elizabeth Bishop; Canto XXXIV from The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, translated by Laurence Binyon
Jack Miller - "February" by Petaluma Vale; "Prometheus" by Lord Byron; "Bonfire" from Constellations (Vol I, Fall 2011) by Paul Lafreniere
heather hughes - Wed Mar 14 - end Mar from Diaries of the Terra Nova Expedition by Robert F. Scott excerpted in The South Pole: A Historical Reader edited by Anthony Brandt
Dann Brown - excerpts from The Game by Ken Dryden
Jack Miller - "Fire Safety and Prevention Tips" from The Onion
Gonzalo Plaza - excerpt from What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard P. Feyman
heather hughes - "Fire Is Not a Nice Guest" by Russell Edson
Robyn Gesek - Marlborough Street Fire photo by Stanley J. Forman (http://alt.tnt.tv/specials/moi/photo_boston.html)

ITL #14 - Fire & Ice

Imagined Therefore Limitless gets lots of songs stuck in the brain. You can thank Pat Benatar for this theme.

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Fire & Ice
Satday, December 3, 2011
3:00 pm

Imagined Therefore Limitless #13 - This Land, What We Heard

Simeon Berry - "Section 5: Coney Island Baby" from "The Perfection of Solitude: A Sequence" from The Widening Spell of the Leaves by Larry Levis

Azu Rocha - excerpts from The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
heather hughes - "The Sea" and "The Desert" from INRI by Raúl Zurita, translated by William Rowe
Vivek Sharma - excerpts from "Toba Tek Singh" from Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition by Saadat Hasan Manto, translated by Khalid Hasan
Jack Miller - "Arrival in London" by Natalia Rosenfield from Cave Wall #8; excerpts from So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams; "Several Horse Town" from Anobium #1

ITL #13 - This Land

We at Imagined Therefore Limitless have absolutely no clue what this means. Help us figure it out at our annual picnic event!

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
This Land
Sunday, September 18, 2011
2:00 pm

Imagined Therefore Limitless #12 - Resistance and Revolution, What We Heard

Azu Rocha - excerpt from Martín Fierro by José Hernández
heather hughes - excerpt from Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Gonzalo Plaza - excerpt from The Steadicam Operator's Handbook by Jerry Holway and Laurie Hayball
Jack Miller - "America" by Allen Ginsberg; "Torn Apart and Devoured by Lions" by Jeffrey Wells from Machine of Death edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bernardo, and David Malki!
Christine Cooper - excerpt from Chapter 1 "Angry Young Men" from The Sex Revolts by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press
Lauren Marcus Couture - "Please Master" by Allen Ginsberg
heather hughes - Chapter 3 "Sam: I mosey on." and Chapter 3 "Hailey: Mild turnings deliver me Sam skipping by." from Only revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski
Gonzalo Plaza - excerpts from Chapter 15 "Porn Wars" from The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso
Molly Zenobia - "Beef and Broccoli" by Immortal Technique

ITL #12 - Resistance and Revolution

Orbit might be the only constant in an unstable Imagined Therefore Limitless world. What is it that you resist or revolve around? Bring a reading or your listening self to:

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Resistance and Revolution
Sunday, May 15, 2011
3:30pm

Thanks to Molly Zenobia for the theme!

Imagined Therefore Limitless #11 - The Underworld, What We Heard

Thanks to all for an abundance of delicious food and interesting words!

Jack Miller - excerpt from Pilgrims by T.J. Beitelman
Dann Brown - excerpt from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes; and "Not all vampires suck blood" from The Satanic Bible by Anton Szander Lavey
Erin Ailworth - "A Colorado Life: Saving Memories of Tiny Agate" by Jim Sheeler
Maithili Jha - excerpt from Get Capone by Jonathan Eig
heather hughes - "Tollund Man" by Seamus Heaney; "A Myth of Devotion" by Louise Gluck from Averno; and "In a secret Paris cavern, the real underground cinema" from The Guardian, September 8, 2004
Simeon Berry - "Total Eclipse" from Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
Megan Grandmont - excerpt from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A. Nora Long - excerpts from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Molly Zenobia - excerpt from Scavenger Punks; and excerpt from Ghost Rider

ITL #11 - The Underworld

Take yourself down to the depths with 2011's first Imagined Therefore Limitless. Gangsters, dead people, perhaps something else sketchy or shady? Bring a reading or your listening self to:

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
The Underworld
Sunday, February 13, 2011
5pm

Thanks to Simeon Berry for the theme!

Imagined Therefore Limitless #10 - Home, What We Heard

No one ever had a better home-warming than ITL. The range of ideas about home - from outer space to a fish's mouth, from poetry to fiction to drama to sports writing - just, wow. It feels like Imagined Therefore Limitless has found its place, which is a true gift. Thank you to the readers and listeners who crowded together on a cold night to share these.

Gonzalo Plaza - "We're Going to Spain!" by Story Musgrave from Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years and excerpt by Michael Collins from Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts by Robert Jacobs

heather hughes - "If you're a Super Bowl tourist, do NOT go outside" (Feb. 3, 2010), "I take it all back: I love you, Miami" (Feb. 5, 2010), and "Living under the influence of the Underground Weirdness Magnet" (Feb. 23, 2007) from The Miami Herald by Dave Barry

Jack Miller - "Shrunken Heads" by Nina Alonso Hathaway and "Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving" from hyperboleandahalf.com by Allie

Maithili Jha - "The Gentle Traveller" by Henry van Dyke, "Sky" by Anzhelina Polonskaya, "The Little Vagabond" by William Blake, and "Summer Song" by William Carlos Williams

Katherine Rose - excerpt from Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Dann Brown - excerpts from When Living Hurts by Sol Gordon

Robyn Gesek - "Cymothea Exigua" from cracked.com

Roxanne Halpine Ward - excerpt from Gilgamesh translated by David Ferry and "Each Night Before Going to Bed" from No Other Life by Gary Young

Susanna Lamey - excerpt from Watership Down by Richard Adams

Simeon Berry - excerpts from Post-Moxie by Julia Story

Fritz Ward - "The Forgotten Dialects of the Heart" by Jack Gilbert

heather hughes - "The Surreal Life at Fenway" (Oct. 19, 2004) from espn.com by Bill Simmons

Sarah Ernst-Edwards - excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Nora Long - "The Red Dancer" by Anne Sexton and excerpt from The Metamorphosis by Mary Zimmerman

Molly Zenobia - excerpts from Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson and from A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

ITL #10 - Home

Share the comforts of a winter's night with Imagined Therefore Limitless. The notion of home is intimately tied to place and identity, people and perceptions. Bring a reading that conjures up your idea of home to:

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Home
Sunday, December 5, 2010
5pm

RSVP here or on facebook for location details. Some snacks will be provided, but feel free to bring along your own home cooking.

Imagined Therefor Limitless #9 - Poetry Picnic, What We Heard

Dann Brown - "Sheep Passing," "The Wren," "The Stranger (After a Guarani legend recorded by Ernesto Morales)" by W.S. Merwin from The River Sound
Jack Miller - "Cicada Shell" by Kevin Prufer and "Apple" by Denise Duhamel
Anya Miller - "Felt Hat" by Jon Agee
Gonzalo Plaza - "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by W.B. Yeats and "The Lamia" by Genesis
Aaron Devine - "Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth and "Accounting for the Wren," "Lightweight Champ of the World," "For Ebele," and "Steel Valley Songbook, Volume 1" by Daniel Johnson
heather hughes - "Valentine" by Frank Bidart from Watching the Spring Festival
Susanna Lamey - "In the Village" by Derek Walcott and "In Country Sleep" by Dylan Thomas
Justin Hardy - "Versailles," "Storm Warnings," and "The Tree" by Adrienne Rich
Christine Cooper - "Be Drunk" by Charles Baudelaire
Maithili Jha - "Ode to Future Time" by Pablo Neruda, "The Soul of Wine" by charles Baudelaire, "Sleep" and "Wind" by Anuradha Mahapatra, and "Put Something In," "Strange Wind," and "Hippoes Hope" by Shel Silverstein
Erin Ailworth - "Hippos on Holiday" by Billy Collins, "Archipelago of Kisses" by Jeffrey McDaniel, and "Jeremiad for Spring" by David Camphouse
Robyn Gesek - "Impeccable Conception" by Maya Angelou

Imagined Therefore Limitless #8 - Eat, Drink, & Be Merry, What We Heard

Much merriment was had in the cozy confines of the Dot. Here's a little taste:

Dann Brown - chapter on "Accidents," sub-heading "Food Poisoning" from Cause of Death: a Writer's guide to Death, Murder and Forensic Medicine by Keith D. Wilson, M.D. and "How to Boil and Egg (with hints on further uses for boiled water)" from Rising to the Occasion by Edith Hazard & Wallace Pinfold
Maithili Jha - "Johnny Appleseed was an American Dionysus" excerpt from The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan; Bottom quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream; and excerpt from "Your Radio" by 50 cent
Gonzalo Plaza - excerpt from Leonardo's Kitchen Notebooks: Leonardo Da Vinci's Notes on Cookery and Table Etiquette by Leonardo da Vinci, Shelagh Routh, Jonathan Routh and excerpt from The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso
heather hughes - retelling of the Cherokee story of the origin of corn by Marylou Awiakta from Selu and excerpt on cannibalism in the House of Atreus from "Agamemnon" by Aeschylus
Dara Grabowska - "The Sixth Sense" by Gary Shteyngart from Eat, Memory, Great writers at the Table, A Collection of Essays from The NY Times edited by Amanda Hesser
Gina Heeren -