The Beach as Office is now
available in
Bay Nature magazine.
Listen to Shin Splints, the latest
Backwards Ninja (Microphone
Hippie) track
HERE.
Joe returned last October from
distributing malaria nets in
Tanzania, south-east Africa. Stay
tuned for details from his journey

here
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Joe previewed new work at
InsideStoryTime
last winter, SF
Weekly's 2006
Best New Reading
Series.
Joe read excerpts from "Pandora's
Boxing" at
San Francisco's Annual
Litquake LITCRAWL 2008 and Bernal
Yoga Literary Series last fall. Click here to
view the full story.
JOE CERVELIN reviews a zombie
anthology, an post-apocalypse
anthology, an Ol Dirty Bastard
biography, Eminem's memoir and
more at
The Rumpus.
Microphone Hippie are currently
editing their music videos for
"
Shin Splints" and "Coffee Time"
- premiering this spring!
©2010 Joe Cervelin
ABOUT THIS GUY
NEWS
WRITING
GRAB BAG
MUSIC
IMAGES
Joe Cervelin read at Litquake's
LitCrawl at the Elbo Room. This was
sponsored by
Bang Out Reading
Series... Read it here.
Joe Cervelin was featured in the SF Bay Guardian
as a winner of the Lit123 contest (the challenge:
describe San Francisco in exactly 123 words).

BEFORE LIGHT CHANGES

Pick a hill. Jump between vantage points. You can
spring the entire city, like a kinged checker, or a
queen. Morphing like Mad Magazine, folding
corners B to A, bending time.

A pharmacy goes BBQ. Sushi boats drift through
your unconscious. You got dragged aboard, then
woke with a craving. Across, in that park: you've
tasted heartbreak, and smelled funny dancing,
and shot hoops with crumpled resumes, and been
winded by a jog.

The city gasps for air just before rush hour, after
running all day, breathing hard. Cue the fog. Now
it's dim: the 'Sco does twister yoga, or the funky
gargoyle, gone buck or cupcakin'. A sushi float
parades the bay, always revolving, barely
perceptible; you're on board, and circling too.