READING EVENT ALERT: on Sat. 9/13, 2-4p, Pencilhouse is hosting another OSCILLATE POETICA event at the Cincinnati Main Library! Featured reader CLARITY AMREIN and experimental musician PETE FOSCO will be accompanying. Open Mic to follow. Can't wait to see you there!

Gulliver's Travels: more piss than you'd think

(Also it's Star Trek with boats)
(Also Planet of the Apes except horses)

done!

About to make hot dog fried rice, wish me luck 🫡

72525, by Mourning Oars track by Mourning Oars

Made a thing, give a listen

mourningoars.bandcamp.com/track/72525

iso Mike's Hard Chocolate Milk

what's Ivanka up to?

Look How We Are by Jason W. McGlone Small independent press publishing poetry chapbooks of emerging poets

A little-discussed feature of working in a grocery is seeing the tops of all your co-workers' butts. It's not a great feature.

Buy my book: www.planbpress.com/store/p104/L...

Young adult literature is not as young as it used to be, shows a librarian's research Despite its name, the young adult genre is increasingly dominated by stories about older teens and even adults. But as protagonists get older, younger readers are getting left behind, a University of ...

The possibility that 'YA' as a category name is obsolete goes unmentioned, but whatever: phys.org/news/2025-07...

Sure seems like there's subtext here that 'young adult' books are interpreted as easier reads and that's why the category is popular.

It's all just capitalism at work, isn't it?

Hey hi hello—Pencilhouse is going patrons-only for the time being due to some health stuff I've gotta figure out. More deets in image <3
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everyone's angry & worried, nobody's throwing bricks. we're toasted.

the dolphins now control the molemen. Earth is lost.

This thrift shop is something bub

6524, by Mourning Oars track by Mourning Oars

Here's a weird liminal noisy sound-thing I made & just released: mourningoars.bandcamp.com/track/6524 give a listen, read a book to it or something.

long day at work

Sup. @pencilhouse.bsky.social is hosting a reading on 6/7 at 2p at the Cincinnati Main Library. Y'all should come, it's gonna be dope. Open mic following features!

www.youtube.com/shorts/45KPS...

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home again

Students should know how to read Right now, education is too centered around technology. While new tools and technology in this field are certainly exciting, the best way to become literate is through reading and face-to-face instruc...

Read, and help other people to read, please

www.michigandaily.com/opinion/colu...

Online brain rot is undermining our ability to tell meaningful stories While social media has the potential to empower storytelling, it can also spread misinformation and lead to brain rot.

Damn shame, the truth: theconversation.com/online-brain...

There's a Wonka allegory somewhere in here

Screenshot of "news" headline reading Mark Zuckerberg, recipient of world's first rat penis transplant, announced Meta will stop fact checking

Seems right

Sports Betting YouTube video by Jesse Welles

hits home

www.youtube.com/watch?v=szBC...

My mom used the word "fupa" in passing yesterday.

Happy holidays!

might be too Viking-y

Mead, if you're REALLY going back. I imagine there are taprooms in select cities that serve mead here & there in the present...

I write feedback and dick around with pictures in a dingy little cave in Kentucky. I love my dingy little cave.

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photograph of a slug on a basement wall that's been decorated with wheatpasted magazine pages and a sticker reading THE REGULATOR BOOKSHOP

Current view, @pencilhouse.bsky.social HQ. Slug on a wall!

It's a tough pill to swallow, but that's what it takes. Unfortunately proven, I'd say.

Pencildog, mid-zoomies upon the season's first snow