Martin Scorsese's portrait of urban discomfort and loneliness lingered long after New York cleaned up

Ask the moon. Ask what it has witnessed. - Linda Pastan, "Why Are Your Poems so Dark?"

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Happy #smallpoemsunday and a farewell to January with poet Daniel Simko January I want to lie down with the snow. I want the wilf lilies to break their silence.

my poem in @somewordslit.bsky.social

Richard Siken in the underside of language after his stroke. Making do with the language of the underside. Yardstick I was heavy. I was bricks. Above the bed, the ceiling and the stars. Below the bed the floor, the earth, then out the other side and stars. I fell in all directions.

Happy to have two small poems in the beautiful new volume of @petrichorlit.bsky.social! Here’s one: petrichormag.com/29-pebbles-v...

#Poetry helps. If you're in need of some fresh poems, maybe you'd like a signed copy of *Becoming Altar*. DM if interested. I cover postage; you pay only the cover price.

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The emotional significance of objects sends ripples through our lives, which is why this is often my final poem when I give a reading. It's taken from my second full collection, Whatever You Don't, Just Don't. If you fancy a signed copy, drop me a DM and I'll sort one out for you...

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And there's the people who will hurt you, and get hurt in return / And the people who do anything for you, who you casually spurn / And it goes around, and comes around in turn. #punk #punkrock soundcloud.com/exfriends/re...

Quite simply some of my favorite chapbooks ever. @noahfalck.bsky.social

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@luaz.bsky.social: …exactitude sits on the day like a thick heavy hat…

Imagine that your makeup and prosthetics are so bad that you need the guy who founded SEAL Team Six to help you through filming. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

I merchandise cards and collectibles for a living and have totally avoided Pokemon, Funkos, etc. buuut now. How am I not supposed to collect dang Panam and Johnny Silverhand cards? 😆

I apparently could not find that much time to game this year; game five was Tony Hawk 1+2 with *zero* hours. 😆 Cyberpunk 2077 continues to be my new FFX; and I'll probably just play it every year until Cyberpunk 2077-2 (or whatever naming convention they'll use) comes out.

I love the intersection between poetry and science. Here we have the physics of the heart balancing between knowing and unknowing, love and loss, presence and disappearance. Every line hums with quiet wonder and the ache of trying to hold what won’t stay still. #poetry #poemoftheday

What made you fall in love with games? Gotta go with Sonk, as all kids of the day took their blue hedgehog with the Blast Processing he needed to become an attitudinal blur. More interesting question for me is what games rekindled your love for them, and those are The Walking Dead and Cyberpunk.

The world won't stop annihilating me. Krisma Mancia from New England Review

Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi @pizamapress.bsky.social

today's small prose poem from Maureen Thorson is a marvel, but that first sentence — "It’s nearly Christmas." — just about gave me a panic attack. https://www.havehashad.com/fm8m7

Bob Flanagan

There is a parallel universe WWE Universe where Gunther debuts 15 years before he does in this one, in the era of Cryme Tyme and do-rag Vince, and turns Cryme Tyme into a stable where he is known as "Guntha".

There’s a couple of layers of “that’s crazy” here.

Sometimes I glimpse the future in the evenings. It appears like a doe on silencing moss, foraging among pocked leaves, drinking the last light in the pools. Chase Twichell

Feel like no one is talking about this, but ray tracing mode on Cyberpunk 2077 on base PS5 runs so much smoother than it did a year or two ago. Using on my current play through. Eminently playable … crazy because wouldn’t use it for more than 10-15 minutes before.

surrounded by blue Lorri Jackson

Common L for Square. "[P]layers still had to rely on a bit of imagination to fully see the things game developers were trying to depict at the time". A Conan O'Brien bit, 'it's like books are movies that you get to direct in your head!'; old GFX/no voiceover = direct game in your head!

Somehow this S&M theme featuring a gal whipping her slave is an actual song in WWF Attitude. *Booker T voice* What da hy'ell? www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtRz...

The fact that Sonic the Hedgehog and friends is the picture AI chooses for "Freedom Fighters". I was specifically thinking of the IO Interactive game, but it's funnier when you're *not* thinking about that lol.

"93% of Gen Alpha prefer playing on mobile..." "Millennials and Gen X tend to be loyal to platforms or genres – now, the younger generations tend to be more loyal to specific experiences. They no longer identify as gamers – they identify as players of a specific game."

The internal scream of this CRT is a bit much. 😆

Thinking about this ancient relic of a website that was a very popular Yu-Gi-Oh! destination back in the day, made by a guy named Edo. He also programmed the card game into Visual Basic, which was probably better than any of the official offerings! www.edo-hrzic.com/archive/Yugi...

Coding a GeoCities ass GeoCities webpage (was surfing Wayback Machine earlier ... one thing lead to another) and I am just like "hell yea, scrollbars" right now.

Favourite books growing up? Man, depends on when "growing up" ends! Here is a broad spectrum from child to young adult. 😆

Crazy that these aesthetics have somehow become more attractive over time.

Playing through Mass Effect a second time, and all I think when I see that line of light going through the head of a Geth is "astigmatism".

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Think Macromedia Fireworks 8 borked my Windows 11 install so finally have to give up the ghost on it after a very, very long time. George R.R. Martin said on an episode of Conan that he still uses Wordstar 4.0 on his "writing computer" (as apart from his regular computer). Empathize.

what actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life? Going with Hans Gruber falling from Nakatomi Plaza.

My Top 10 Games of the 21st Century! Fill out yours on @giantbomb.bsky.social www.giantbomb.com/hey/the-10-b...

Listening to Michael Jackson's "Beat It" and thinking about trochaic meter. #YouMightBeAPoet ...