I am either ashamed or proud to state that I did not know that was what Stryper stood for. Not sure which.

Bill Evans & Monica Zetterlund - Waltz for Debbie (1966 Live Video) YouTube video by BillEvansArchive

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

To the gentleman who messaged me with the salutation "Fat Fake News Bitch" & warned "watch your back" bc he knows where I live & my kid attends school:

I know you're very sad GamerGate is over. To fill the void, you might consider taking up a hobby with less hostility; happy to teach you to knit!

Every single time I hear that Alanis Morrisette song I have to ask: How perverted is going down on someone in a theater? Pretty vanilla really.

I didn't need vindication for never liking Sublime, but it's nice anyway.

To set the record straight I never ate the plums my wife was saving in the fridge. Several people have been made to apologize for lying about me eating those plums that were so cold and so sweet. The poem I wrote apologizing to my wife cannot be categorized as anything but casual correspondence.

Maybe why his 2000s output, when he had carte blanche, leaves me largely cold?

I feel like I'm in high school again. Maybe Red Dawn is on Showtime for the fifth time this week.

New blog post wherein I grapple with having read a bit of Bukowski. www.vincentfrancone.com/dig/2026/4/6...

I have yet to have the same visceral experience here as I found on other social media platforms, but then again I have been subjected to fewer trolls and dumb fights. Traded the horrors of hell for the banality of heaven?

New blog up on my not being invited to debate the importance of my field. www.vincentfrancone.com/dig/2026/3/2...

"Dead As Doornails" by Anthony Cronin The book with the most pints per page?

HAd a great time chatting with @chadwpost.bsky.social and Ross Ufberg about Anthony Cronin's Dead as Doornails. Dig it. dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/dead-as-do...

Is Louis Theroux's Manosphere documentary supposed to scare me or make me annoyed at the vacuousness of the culture he infiltrated or do anything more than remind me how little I regard capitalism and how much I despise tech-saturation?

She Took My Dreams An old story gets a new death

Auto-cannibalism via republishing an old story. It's my site; I can do as I like. jabberliterary.substack.com/p/she-took-m...

Alternate title for Marty Supreme: American Exceptionalism.

Call for Subs Do with that as thou wilt

Send me stuff. jabberliterary.substack.com/p/call-for-s...

Trying to decide if this is worse than Kash Patel crashing the locker room celebration.

Dermot Healy's "Collected Plays" Dan O’Brien (From Scarsdale, True Story, A Story that Happens) joins Vince Francone (A Book No One Wants) and Chad to discuss Dermot Healy’s Collected Plays. After discussing Healy’s life and other wo...

The new Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast is up with me talking to Dan O'Brien and Chad Post about the plays of Dermot Healy. Good chat, or so I recall. (Been a minute since then and I can't remember anything but the horror.) dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/dermot-hea...

Flex: I wrote 43,000 words between xmas and this morning. Anti-flex: I can't get this manuscript over novella length.

My photo on this Real ID looks fake. #irony

My maturation is measured by my relationship to prog rock.

"It's Not Boring" Catherine O'Hara in After Hours (1985) YouTube video by RW Scott

A million SCTV clips and this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n33...

I do like The Fountain a lot, but I don't think there's another I can stomach. He's sort of your version of my Tarantino.

A 2026 Irish Book Preview Featuring titles that are neither from 2026, nor Irish.

Chat with @chadwpost.bsky.social about Irish books I'm planning to read in 2026. I'm sure I'll get through one of them. dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/a-2026-iri...

“Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanac”
Robert Burns

Grant me, indulgent Heaven, that I may live,
To see the miscreants feel the pains they give;
Deal Freedom’s sacred treasures free as air,
Till Slave and Despot be but things that were.

Something about seeing horrifying images of children being teargassed alongside lovely vacation photos and the least-informed people with the most certain takes and invites to birthday parties and softcore porn and pictures of food just isn't doing it for me lately.

My Alderperson makes a grammar error in their weekly newsletter and I'm happy they're not using ChatGPT.

I've used this in my classes. The students appreciate the break from the stress of scrolling through their phones while pretending to write.

Books We Have Not Read 3 Not My Prince!

Another book I totally did not read that I reviewed anyway. jabberliterary.substack.com/p/books-we-h...

Am I the only one who didn't love Sinners?