Whenever I write a poem or flash fiction, I'm putting all of that money to work. Will it come back? (No...)

It only cost me like $60,000 in student loans to learn that the best art, writing, and music, transcend value.

Well well well if it is me in the land of blue skies after a full ass year

Almost two months out, I'm amazed that "ox" the live improvisational debut of Concrete Cedars (aka @bradleymckellip.bsky.social , Til Willis, and @chancedibben.bsky.social) is still finding people.

concretecedars.bandcamp.com/album/ox

🙏🙏🙏

Evening reading.
Eight micro fictional stories revolving around crashes, and the people who handle them as another moment lived through, by my buddy, @chancedibben.bsky.social(Hit him up if you’d like a copy)

Thanks checking this one out bud! If you would like your own copy of this zine, send me an email at chance.dibben [at] gmail [dot] com. I've got plenty laying around!

Oppenheimer (2023). Dir. Christopher Nolan.

#OnePerfectShot

Hocking my wares at the Paper Plains Zine Fest

Had to

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

Yeah but what temp is it in the shade?

Reviews are in!

Two new zines, just in time for Zine Fest

"Seized... but not silenced." Today's edition of the Marion County Record in Kansas.

Wild that a publication I read for almost 20 year and helped shaped my sense of popular art, especially movies, would sputter its last breaths like this

VOLTA READING SERIES FEAT. COURTNEY LEBLANC! HOST BY MELISSA FITE JOHNSON & CHANCE DIBBEN Music event in Lawrence, KS by Replay Lounge and 2 others on Tuesday, August 15 2023

Next week! Volta, the reading series Melissa Fite Johnson and I co-present, hits the Replay Lounge stage again for an early evening of poetry and japes. Inside and cool.

facebook.com/events/s/volta-reading-s...

This is gonna be good.

The way my toddler says ‘mmmthie for “smoothie”

Would make a great double feature with First Reformed for that extra scratch of dread

Two recent little library grips

Why the Hell Haven't I Been Raptured Yet? - Electric Literature Pending Transaction The Rapture is here and I’m stuck in the bank customer service line. In terms of temperature, it’s nice. Outside, it is face-meltingly hot. No really, I watched an extremely el...

I think this short story is alright:

electricliterature.com/pending-transaction-by-c...

SHOWN SHOWN from the new SELVEDGE album, CAPACITY.CAPACITY is a collection of romantic droners inspired by midwestern thunderstorms. The full record will release o...

Another music video:

https://youtu.be/QkmX2IvrPPg

MOVING WITH THE WINDOW Visual for the track MOVING WITH THE WINDOW from the album CAPACITY, the new record from SELVEDGE.CAPACITY is a collection of romantic droners inspired by mi...

Music video I made for a track off the latest record:

https://youtu.be/8QmJKbG_Trw

I'm working on a few things, plus getting a stack of projects released. I've got a few manuscripts at the ready if anybody wants them, a photobook basically done, and tons of tunes nearing completion.

Write fast, edit slow.