Kasey responds: " So maybe I feel that giving a detailed account of a reading is a kind of pornography, and as such, a naturalistic, mimetic mode that I'm just not tuned in to."

Omigod Kasey, I hope Cori Copp doesn't see this. We were just starting to get along!

Also, I forgot to mention that after Cori's reading, the curator of the series, Chris, said he felt that "blogging is voyeuristic." Actually, once you go down this line of reasoning you end up with Freud, who finally, in exasperation at the joy everyone was having with seeing sex everywhere (it is everywhere), said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

Anyway, Kasey, I think you might be just a bit jealous of my having the chance to go to Charismatic Cori's reading and write about the wonderful time I had. Don't feel too bad. Somebody has to live in California!