My dog’s only magazine subscription is to Woofers Monthly, which isn’t really worth it because they run the exact same story every issue: Hey, What’s That Noise Out in the Hall?

Me: oo I am going to pulverize you into fodder for my poetry

My wife once said, “I want all books to be written by you.”

Something called Live360.

Discovered this morning that most of my students are the dupes of surveillance capitalism and that they consider this state of affairs “normal.”

From the war strip The Losers. A wonderful two pages featuring the US soldiers searching through a bombed town while being spied upon by Axis troops.

The golden age Manhunter in his red and blue costume striding into a cave filled with the huge macabre heads of slain creatures and the small alien-looking “murdering eccentric” who killed them.

In a fantastical sword and sorcery city, the gigantic fire of Atlas cracks open rocks for onlookers while he’s introduced as “The greatest of mortals!”.

OMAC, a future-world warrior-cop, walks on skis across the bottom of a lake drained of all its water by an alien power. All around him are strange dead undersea flora and fauna.

Double-page spreads from Jack Kirby’s last year or so at DC Comics in 1975. Because, despite the opinions of some in fandom at the time, Kirby really was still creating fascinating stories.

70s DC Kirby remains peak Kirby for me.

Oil painting "Pink Window of Time" by Rebecca Harp. A dimly lit room. Pink light streaming in through the window highlights a lamp on a small cabinet; a chandelier is reflected on the wall.

Thinking about time and light in this painting by Rebecca Harp, while a sleepless night spent in a hotel threatens to annihilate the coming day in every possible way.

Pink Window of Time by Rebecca Harp

“An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.”

darkest midnight black humor

Less a hobby than a vocation.

Good. I recently did that with a chap ms. as well.

Tindersticks .:. Travelling Light YouTube video by Ivan Filho

And so to bed.

Just right.

I am hilarious.

As I would expect! Xo

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

My Spring workshop for Brooklyn Poets was canceled; only one person registered. I think this is the first time in nine years that a workshop didn’t run… Oh well. Thanks to all who shared the link here.

A digital illustration done in simple contour lines and rough pencil coloring on neutral tinted paper background of a woman reclining on a surface in a faint. Seen from a foreshortened angle from her knees and feet. She’s laying on one hip with her torso twisting to supine. The back of one hand lays across her forehead and the other is held limply on her ribs. Her head is back and her red curls spread out on the ground around her. She’s wearing a white, voluminous and old fashioned night dress. Orange lettering in an Art Nouveau style to the right reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Ha. We all sound like asses to ourselves.

Scammers always look for those who are most desperate to believe something.

That feeling when a friend is interviewed, and while reading the interview you think, "If I didn't already know this person in real life I would think they were an asshole."

"‘Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. And though admittedly such a thing never happened, it is still conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never’ (Franz Kafka)."

Someone asked me what it was about; I said, "Increasingly poor decisions that reinforce the absurdity of existence."

Especially Sirat.

Is that the one with the cat in the freezer?

you know what would be nice. if any of the problems were allowed to be solved. like ideally instead of just living in a zone of interest style denial, what if we could make the horrors stop happening? I'm sure no one else has thought of this plan and now I've suggested it everything will go lovely

One of the great horror films of the 70s.