i made a crossword

Caganer of Queen Elizabeth II.

absolutely.

are you too classy for a caganer or something?

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Yes, but I want to know about all the other letters.

He's probably got stronger feelings about Cubs in Five.

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dhghem- also happens to be one of my favourite novels by smhul- dlny-

Nice!

Primal Scream? Suicide?

Anyway, on another day I would have talked the entire time about Mrs Richards (the mother living in the apartment building that the Kid helps move), and how much more sympathetic I find her now than I did when I first read the book. I don't bring her (or the family) up at all! What?!

Dhalgren is a difficult book to talk about, and I feel like I barely scratched the surface here. Wait, why would I want to "scratch the surface"? Wouldn't that just distort the light coming through even more?

Charlotte and I got to talk about some movies! One of them she had seen before, and one of them I had seen before. Can you guess which is which? Oh, you can. Yeah I guess that makes sense.

(Why I Am Not a Painter, by Frank O'Hara) I am not a painter, I am a poet. Why? I think I would rather be a painter, but I am not. Well, for instance, Mike Goldberg is starting a painting. I drop in. “Sit down and have a drink” he says. I drink; we drink. I look up. “You have SARDINES in it.” “Yes, it needed something there.” “Oh.” I go and the days go by and I drop in again. The painting is going on, and I go, and the days go by. I drop in. The painting is finished. “Where’s SARDINES?” All that’s left is just letters, “It was too much,” Mike says.

[the poem continues...] But me? One day I am thinking of a color: orange. I write a line about orange. Pretty soon it is a whole page of words, not lines. Then another page. There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life. Days go by. It is even in prose, I am a real poet. My poem is finished and I haven’t mentioned orange yet. It’s twelve poems, I call it ORANGES. And one day in a gallery I see Mike’s painting, called SARDINES.

Happy hundredth birthday to Frank O'Hara!

"Why I Am Not a Painter" is one of those poems I read when I was young and internalized in more ways than I realized.

hugo nominations close tomorrow!

as this monumental book is reprinted, honoured that my essay "Death in the Village" will be joining it as an afterword.

If you haven't read @daviddemchuk.com's book yet, this is the time to get it.

Messy little bookshelf with the complete Peanuts (and a bunch of old Penguin Classics).

Nice! I ended up grabbing the Fantagtaphics versions, but I have a few of the Treasury editions I grew up with too.

Humble Comics Bundle: The Collected Peanuts by Fantagraphics Get all of Peanuts in one bundle from Fantagraphics! Every purchase at the price of your choice helps people in need find their Snoopy with Canine Companions!

We’ve had Peanuts on the shortlist of books to cover for years. This is such a fantastic deal!

I'm fine with the difficulty being unpredictable — keeps it spicy! — but yes, I wish they were in general a little more difficult.

(But they also probably shouldn't make things harder just to make me happy! I'm usually an outlier.)

It's stolen from a (fake) band in a Monty Python sketch, if that helps.

It bent my brain at first, but it was satisfying to piece it together. (I solved it in just under 15 minutes.) I wouldn't mind a few more brutal ones occasionally!

I actually learned how to read this at school, is the thing.

Oh I was assuming you'd, you know, maybe draw some reference during the migraine, but paint it when you're feeling better!

Have you ever painted Migraine?

My Catalan is, at this point, almost entirely rusted shut, alas.

Every so often I think: I should try writing a novel. But then I remember that there is few forms of literary bliss as delightful as that felt by a person who has not read a story by someone who has not written it. Joe Brainard once again gets it.

Graphic on a light purple background saying “TPFA6 is now available” with the These Puzzles Fund Abortion logo, and several images of crossword puzzle grids. At the bottom right it says “Link in bio”

IT’S HERE! 😮

We are happy to announce the release of our sixth crossword puzzle pack.

Folks who donated during the presale period will receive their puzzles today.

If you haven’t donated yet, head to fund.nnaf.org/tpfa6 !

image announcing that I'm eligible for the Astounding Award for best new writer and my Tolkien podcast By the Bywater is eligible for best fancast. also there's a few weird medieval guys drawn on it

2025 eligibility post!

It took me many years of listening to Dylan as a teen to realize that, despite what everyone was telling me, I wasn't listening to Dylan because I loved his lyrics — I was listening to him because I loved his oratory.

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