On this day in 1997: Kathy Acker died from complications due to breast cancer at an alternative cancer clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. She was in Room 101. She was 50 years old.
Today’s book club: BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL, DON QUIXOTE: WHICH WAS A DREAM, PUSSY, KING OF THE PIRATES, and her pieces in RE/SEARCH magazine.
Today’s soundtrack: Kathy Acker with the Mekons’ PUSSY, KING OF THE PIRATES.
Today’s screening: WHO’S AFRAID OF KATHY ACKER?
Today’s quote: ”Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.”
Today’s required reading: “Kathy Acker vs. Spice Girls”
http://tinyurl.com/bohkpn5Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/c8vlkgh