current obsession thank you @floodeditions.bsky.social

spring break finally over

here in IL 7th Congressional District awoke to four Friedman yard signs installed overnight without permission in greenway—disposed of them—voting today for Dr. Thomas Fisher @tfishermd.bsky.social

My column in the Sun-Times today: www.everygoddamnday.com/2026/02/phil...

Books read 2025 / 4 of 4 Ohio Railroads by C. S. Giscombe Off Shore by Penelope Fitzgerald The Philosophy of Translation by Damion Searls James by Percival Everett Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton Gratitude by Oliver Sacks

Books read 2025 / 3 of 4 Training Exercises by Danny Hayward Bowling with Corpses by Mike Mignola George’s Daughter by Carol Becker Penitential Cries by Susan Howe North Woods by Daniel Mason Séance of the Bees by Andrea Rexilius Vaim by Jon Fosse, tr. Damion Searls

Books read 2025 / 2 of 4 Playground by Richard Powers Black Box Syndrome by Jose-Luis Moctezuma The Magicians by Blex Bolex Leaving Emmaus by Anthony D. Baker We Do Not Part by Han Kang, tr. E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris TOAF by Renee Gladman Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse

Books read 2025 / 1 of 4 Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman White Holes by Carlo Rovelli, tr. Simon Carnell The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life by Brian Massumi Transcendental Factory: For Mina Loy by Karla Kelsey

"panjandrums"

to the lions in winter--Every house has a door newsletter #6.3 bit.ly/48OaLiG

morning up from train at Monroe Dearborn corner greeted by sublime Inland Steel on my way to teach class Gehry’s “Icehenge” security desk shipwrecked in lobby ambushes every time with its eternal reminder: avoid doing something idiotic today

tomorrow

I am reading alongside Patrick Morrissey and Ed Roberson at Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 E. Locust Street Milwaukee WI 2PM Saturday December 6 attend in person or remotely bit.ly/480I9ky

this starts Thursday and we're up to eight students. a good healthy group size, you'll agree, but also there's room for one or two more. thank you for sharing!

Junkology a collaborative work of interactive sculpture and performance by Fari Shams and Every house has a door at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf tomorrow Sunday October 12 at 2:30 PM bit.ly/3W0zqcE

"The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts."

they cover their faces when they intend to break the law

I am reading alongside Danny Hayward at Housmans Bookshop in London 7PM Wednesday October 15 thank you both are worse press bit.ly/4mzUWQb

reflections lie proclaim dictators as they ban mirrors

do deportations smell? I don't get it

finally told Dario how much I miss coming to his restaurant since my doctor told me I had to stop eating pasta—he was very understanding—told me I needed a new doctor

at Art Institute of Chicago: 25-year drawing (1960-1985) in fabricated charcoal on paper by Myron Stout—not something you see everyday

thank you Kyle

read my essay *Seven degrees of silence* in current issue of Inscriptions international philosophy journal bit.ly/3GFKF6e

returning to practice this summer derived from Oliver Sacks—celebrating birthdays with sample of element sharing atomic number with age—younger friend receives ampule of argon older friend of mercury

Every house has a door newsletter #6.2: What can performance do? bit.ly/4m6IyaL

We at the Review mourn the loss of Fanny Howe (1940-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/YtQzXpd

Dried ketchup drips from a dragged-out wall. Lin Hixson and I collaboratively composed our contribution to the Portable Gray issue Pope.L The Chicago Years bit.ly/4eCuBPf

I find this email inappropriate, coming from the SSA, for too many reasons to explain, but mostly because of its partisan position. It is also misleading about the legislation to which it refers. Please send an apology and retraction to everyone who received this email.

“Given its conduct in these proceedings, the government’s posture resembles that of the arsonist who calls 911 to report firefighters for violating a local noise ordinance."

the king in the act of dreaming—when church and state are one, absolute sovereign infallible, unconstrained by human forces, enemy unspecified: a shape with lion body and the head of a man, a gaze blank and pitiless, the difficulty to think at the end of day, when the shapeless shadow covers the sun

***GIVEAWAY*** This signed/stamped Advance Readers Copy of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES, forthcoming Nov 2025 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social! Like=1 entry, Share=1 entry, Like + Share=2 entries. Will randomly select winner on Friday, May 23, 2025. US addresses only. Preorder info: shorturl.at/OXr0Z #booksky

tomorrow = Tuesday May 20th 2025

Lin and I are here in Boston speaking tomorrow hosted by the mighty ds4si bit.ly/3SH0nQG

Here's one easy and local way to resist the march of antihuman tech. Make a practice of writing sentences. DM for info or write kylebeachy at gmail to reserve a spot. I believe in this weekend course as much as I believe in just about anything.

TRUST NO ONE

today

Karla Kelsey and I will read from and talk about Transcendental Factory and Kingfisher at The Seminary Co-op Bookstore 4:00 Monday May 12 bit.ly/44YWOg6

Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery video vault showing 11 hours of complete Country Style USA 1950s live studio music performances interspersed with Army recruitment messages and scenes--happily saw the Faron Young segment

view the video recording of my April 19th conversation with Brian Massumi -- cat appearance at 42:45 vimeo.com/1078743217

April 19 2PM I will interview Brian Massumi about The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life. Join in person or remotely. Thank you @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social and Watershed Art and Ecology I wrote about it in newsletter #6.1: Contemplations in an Emergency bit.ly/3GbQw2q

undergraduate writing student referred to me as “a super-chill professor”

rising before dawn commencing chores keeping watch for a first glow’s gradient in dark sky

wood sorrel from Three Sisters Garden

Tonight!

join us one week from today--Thursday March 13--for the first Every house fundraiser gathering performance event--me, Jorge Lucero, Kinsella & Pulse in the lineup bit.ly/41ukWUt

I have lived in Ukrainian Village Chicago for 30 years and can say with confidence that no rational person picks a fight with a Ukrainian

Done.