Another poetry read for those who enjoy my dulcet tones Here's "The Trees" by Philip Larkin (easily one of his less somber, cynical poems)

How's your day going, Funny People?

Afternoon Funny People ☕🙃 Happy Easter 🐰🐣🍫 🥚 to all who celebrate Day 5 of National Poetry Month falls on its first #ShakespeareSunday Here's the famous soliloquy from The Tragedy of Macbeth

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Happy Birthday to Dr Maya Angelou (born April 4, 1928)

Morning Funny People ☕🙃 Here's just a few reflections I had recently about my own writing journey...

Evening Funny People 🥃🙃 Day 3 of National Poetry Month Here's "A Cold Front" by William Carlos Williams

Morning Funny People ☕🙃 This week on Author Fridays: William Carlos Williams Williams' poems, like "The Red Wheelbarrow," and "This is Just to Say," epitomized the Imagist Movement. He believed how a poem appeared was just as important as what it said or how it sounded.

Afternoon Funny People ☕🙃 Day 2 of #NationalPoetryMonth. Here's 632 by Emily Dickinson

Evening Funny People 🥃🙃 April is #NationalPoetryMonth, so to celebrate its start, here's a reading of one of my favorites: "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley

Morning Funny People ☕🙃 It's Wednesday. Here's Christopher. Source 📺: Christopher Titus: Carrying Monsters

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This is 33. I'm lucky to share a birthday with much more interesting people. That's it. That's the post.

Morning Funny People ☕🙃 Trying out more of this on-camera stuff. You know, AI-simps love to say that being anti-AI slop is "ablest." Bullshit. Nothing can stop a human being from creating, not even severe physical disabilities, as you can see in this reel.

"When a journalist confronts the powerful, it is easier and safer to write it in a balanced way, but that's a coward's way out. [...] Good journalists lean on the side of evidence, on incontrovertible facts." — Maria Ressa, How To Stand Up To A Dictator

Morning Funny People ☕🙃 This Week's Tuesday Title: When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning This WWII History explores the story we know through the ASE, or Armed Services Editions, specially designed books so popular among servicemen, anyone caught without one was considered out of uniform

Afternoon Funny People 🥤🙃 Just gonna leave this here...

Just gonna leave this here... youtu.be/3KS-Plcz5sU?...

Learning to type has been a Godsend to me. I can type just about as fast as I think (granted I still make mistakes). I like handwriting in cursive, but my right-hand has never been able to keep up with my thoughts. So, when I start writing something, the writing is clear, but it always degrades.

Fuck this writing books bullshit. I am never writing again. *writes 15,000 words in two days* GODDAMMIT

Morning Funny People ☕🙃 Just in case you need a bit of a giggle...

Morning Funny People ☕🙃 This Week's Tuesday Title: Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neal Hurston In her autobiography, Hurston recounts her life through a prose as rich with lyricism, dialect, tall tale, and metaphor as any of her impressive novels.

Happy Annual Reminder of Your Perpetual Singleness Day to all who celebrate 🥂

As far as I'm aware, tropes serve two purposes. 1) Codified patterns in storytelling, proven to engage readers with a satisfying narrative 2) Marketing shorthand to allow potential readers to know what flavor of story they should expect

Today is the shared birthday of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, so it seems like the perfect time to repost this 👇

Morning Funny People ☕🙃 It's Wednesday. Here's Paul. Source 🎥🎬: Paul Mooney: A Piece of My Mind (2014)

Evening Funny People ☕🙃 This Week's Tuesday Title: A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark When the Brotherhood of Al-Jahiz end up massacred, Cairo's Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities dispatches Agent Fatma el-Sha'arawi to investigate and uncover the truth of what happened.

For the evening crowd 😉

I guess this makes it official 😅 #writingcommunity #bookacquistion @cloakedpress.bsky.social

Taxpayers fund ICE Taxpayers pay for vehicle and property damage caused by ICE. Taxpayers will be paying individual and federal class action lawsuits (if won) against DHS and ICE. It’s like a fucking pyramid Ponzi scheme.

Evening Funny People 🍵🙃 NEW BLOG POST! "January 2026 in Review" in which I: - Grant a brief life update - Outline my writing priorities following a brief hiatus - Discuss current events, current reads, and my latest new favorite watch LINK IN THE BIO! ianstwocents.blogspot.com/2026/02/janu...

Return to Oz

Morning Funny People ☕🙃 This week on Sci-Fi Thursdays: Isaac Asimov One of the "Big Three," of Golden Age of SF, Asimov wrote enough books to span 9-out-of-10 categories in the Dewey Decimal System. His chosen birthday (January 2nd), is now celebrated as "National Science Fiction Day."

I never went to graduate school, mainly because I didn't think MFAs were welcoming to wannabe SF/Fantasy writers. (I know that's not true across the board now, but I didn't then.) But a part of me still wishes I'd pursued something at the graduate level.

Morning Funny People ☕🙃 It's Wednesday. Here's Pete and Dud.

Morning Funny People ☕🙃 This Week's Tuesday Title: The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A.N. Wilson In this unusual biography of Boz, Wilson explores the darker aspects of Dickens the man and how they might've influenced his creative output.

CBS Radio broadcasted this amazing piece by Stephen Vincent Benét titled "They Burned the Books." Yet now, CBS, under the vile capitulator, collaborator, and stooge Bari Weiss, would dream of putting this on their airwaves. youtu.be/n2sTFi1EuSI?...

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Morning Funny People ☕🙃 It's Wednesday. Here's W.C. Fields. Source: 🎥🎬 You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

In light of the passing of the author of the "Dilbert" comic strip... here's a repost of that sequence of #Peanuts strips by Charles M. Schulz.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

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Just gonna leave this here...again...

Morning Funny People ☕🙃 It's Wednesday. Here's Groucho.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Read Cory Doctorow's books. They're very good. youtu.be/7wE8G-d7SnY?...

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Happy #PublicDomainDay youtu.be/5sX-d1oV3Zo?...

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Reading wise, it's been a pretty good year... 📚📚📚☕🙃