hey man is everything ok? I noticed your data recording instruments were registering a profusion of unprecedented and fragmentary signals, indicating that some kind of outlandish activity capable of defeating all of your attempts at analysis was at hand
the words that make up the title THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU are unpleasant and the order in which those words appear is upsetting
some of y’all need to spend less time worrying about ben lerner and more time just “been learning” what good literature is
Feeling inspired by Artemis II and reading @markleidner.bsky.social’s RAMDOM MOONS from our “POP!” issue. Read along with us: tinyurl.com/ExpoRandom.
#moon #space #poetry
hey man is everything okay? I noticed that you have been haunted by an immense and shapeless sorrow all your life, and neither the the gratitude practice you’ve woven into your daily routine, nor your incessant clawing for influence online has been able to permanently exorcise it
dreamt my therapist was also a billionaire and they had their own therapist who was homeless. the whole time I was in therapy I couldn’t concentrate on my own needs bc I was so distracted by the fact that my therapist was a billionaire who also got therapy from a homeless person
Padme: I think the yellow M&M is kinda cute ☺️ Unassuming and nice. I guess that’s why….. I always save the yellow ones for last…
Anakin: 😏 I like grinding the shells 😒 in my teeth and 😔 spitting the chocolate onto the hot grass 😌 To put spit onto my grass out here.
if your convulsions don’t steadily intensify, peaking in a final, violent convulsion that brings about a blessed oblivion and allows you to actually leave the chrysalis of the flesh behind, then you’re not convulsing correctly or effectively
imo the bottom right quadrant is the “cool” quadrant on a standard four-quadrant grid. and no, idgaf what the axes are labeled
Yes! They have honor that suffering could not diminish. Something missing in today’s society.
dreamt golfers were crucified if they shanked a drive, and the fairways were lined with the crucified golfers each hole had claimed, many of them still alive, moaning and groaning their warnings about which clubs not to use as the new golfers passed through
every toilet in the world should be connected to the internet, and flushing it should mine a digital asset
Thank you, esp about the DUI story working
Thank you, esp about framing them successfully
these are straight up movies. they just happen to be in poem form because I couldn’t pull the funding together to make them conventionally markleidner.substack.com/p/four-poems-that-are-a24-films
hey man is everything ok?
I noticed you playing musical chairs with your coworkers; your boss controlled the music; when the music stopped, everyone but you had a chair; your boss pulled you aside; he said you were fired; your coworkers sighed; you slunk away in sobs
William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:
the big-quad-trad-pub-arc-drop challenge is when you publish 4 books in 4 genres in 1 year, each through a different traditional big 4 publisher like simon & schuster or penguin random house, and all 4 advanced review copies hit 4 diff reviewers’ desks on or before midnight 12/31
my creative writing pastor told me that clear, lucid prose that seamlessly communicates without self-consciously highlighting its own stylistic inventiveness is “godly,” and lyrical prose whose idiosyncratic syntax and diction excites and prods, regardless of the content conveyed, is “satanic”
hey man is everything ok? I noticed you seemed to be an inert hulk of irrelevant language convulsing at the center of a disappearing halo
if you can’t handle keeping me and my family in your thoughts and prayers, then you don’t deserve me respecting the privacy of you and your family at this time
the episode is the powerhouse of the show
hey man is everything ok? I noticed you lived in the wrong place and were the wrong religion and had the wrong culture
if you don’t rewatch all the old episodes of every show with me, afterwards you won’t know what’s going on in them as well as I will. I’m serious, don’t do this to yourself. don’t do this to us. don’t build that damn wall between us. rewatch every episode of everything with me
if you look at the strait of hormuz and immediately get strait of gibraltar vibes, you’re not a real strait head
if you buy one slice of pizza, it should entitle you to eat any other slice pizza for the rest of your life. in other words, pizza should be free to anyone w documentation proving they have bought pizza before—because all pizza is connected in the same way mycelium networks are
there should be a whole new system of numbers based on there being a number between every number: one twone two thrwo three throur four fourve five sive six sevix seven eiven eight nieght nine teine ten elen eleven tweven twelve thirlve thirteen throurteen fourteen fourveteen fifteen siveteen etc
hey man are you ok? I noticed you have a bunch of unique attributes but none of them happen to be aligned with the actual niche you inhabit
love this poem
about why poetry is the way it is
among other things
@darabarroisdixon.bsky.social Dara Barrois/Dixon in new iterant.org
every spider is actually a tiny artificially intelligent robot and every web they weave is AI slop