We play VHS tapes at the Broadway Theatre VHS night! Showing Carrie on May 2nd.

I Knives are the currency of young boys and father, forever the salesman, hands you a Walmart sack stuffed with whittlers all folded into cheap nylon fiber handles, blades concealed by visions of eagles screeching of does at calm unaware how soon their skin will split from the stinging touch of clearance bin steel. (keep / trade)

For years, @eldiagram.bsky.social has been my dream journal, and I finally published with them!

I have two new poems in the latest issue and I’m so, so, so happy about it 💕

This is an excerpt from the first piece, inspired by Zelda trading quests.

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I just realized the students who stop attending after the first month and then try to show up during the last two weeks are literally living my recurring nightmare.

The Mississippi Misfortune with W. Ralph Eubanks YouTube video by Take On The South

“I am trying to get people to see not only the Delta, but also the way that the Delta is this mirror to America. But there is a veil over the mirror. If you lift off the veil and then you look closely, you do see America staring back at you.”
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Oh JFC. Christofascists are the dumbest people and proof that in this world white mediocrity gets you into positions of extreme power.

Between a threat on our campus this week and now tornado watches, my nerves are frazzled. And it’s only Tuesday. And this doesn’t include the fascism though it is related (climate change, mental healthcare).

I blame Reagan for everything.

Can you and your colleagues stop the fascists first?

Grief as a state of mind, an opening, a sinkhole, a flailing, a window into history, a caress, a crash, a sudden shift in the air, a deepening of emotion, a block, a refusal, a gap, a brokenness, a sense of place, an overwhelm, a friendship, a devotion, a screen, a scream

A flowing river with bare trees and bare bushes on its banks. A blue sky above.

A path covered with leaves and sticks. Tall skinny trees stretching toward the blue sky.

Into the woods today. My happy place.

Rushing river water with white foam. Bare trees line the banks. A blue sky with thin wisps of clouds.

I think, but am not certain, Michigan (central michigan) winter has ended. Sunny and 60 today.

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Yes! Me too. I was constantly sending quotes from it to a friend. She bought it and read it too.

Today was a great teaching day. All credit to my students.

My CW students read Tommy Orange’s “New Jesus” for today and realized that most of us are Harold.

Could you work on stopping the fascists? Why don’t you understand that?

Call your reps and senators. I have called mine: Slotkin, Peters, and that asshole Moolenar.

Get all your colleagues on board!

You know that you’re in congress right? That congress has powers? Instead of passing the buck, you and your colleagues should do something.

You know that you’re in congress right? That congress has powers? Instead of passing the buck, you and your colleagues should do something.

Watching Dems do nothing is like watching the movie Funny Games after he breaks the eggs and she gives him more eggs instead of bashing his head in with a skillet.

And one of my senators just posted about basketball. Nuclear war is imminent, destruction and death, but yay basketball. @slotkin.senate.gov I’m talking about you.

Basketball? Listen to your voicemails. Stop nuclear war.

Yes.

I’ve been doing a lot of writing among all this grading and other work duties, and the end of the world. And I just read a line in a book about how writing defies the state (Liliana’s Invincible Summer). Keeps the record the state wants us to forget.

This is why we need to one day do that podcast!

I see those elements but I still think it lands in horror. Even a bit of elevated horror due to its Debordian themes.

Nope is totally horror! Yes, a little sci fi. But the raining of blood on the house—exquisitely horror.

I can’t make a list. I need Nope and The Substance on there plus the ones you listed. Immaculate because she rebirths herself and destroys the second coming of the patriarchy. But fuck Sidney Sweeney. So maybe take Immaculate off. But then I have to decide between Weapons and Barbarians. Ugh!

Online rumors got me hopeful for a moment until I saw it was only rumors.