This is lovely and I just thought in the car about writing something similar: that it's also the faint, final glimmer of a world disappearing along with Kaleb.

TWO NIGHTS LEFT of the epic #DreamgazePDX festival! Tickets are going quick, so go get yours at dreamgazepdx.com The 'always wonderful on short notice' @jeebz.bsky.social made us a flyer to show all the info for both the Friday & Saturday shows for those who missed last night's festival kickoff

Another kitchen sprint day. Chocolate strawberry granola, done, although I may mix in another tub of toasted oats. Freeze dried strawberries added more sweetness than I expected and I could have skipped the raw honey.

Hey Seattle!

He didn’t say “thank you for your attention to this matter” so it doesn’t count.

Where is my AI solution for how often my computer forgets that it knows how to print to any of the three printers that I own? That's the kind of bullshit task I want AI to take over for me, not the generation of of my work. Sigh.

Completely envious this morning of people who aren’t knocked on their ass by covid boosters. Fever, chills, joints screaming at me, every goddamn time.

An abundance of perfectly ripe peaches means pies in the freezer and the return of peach habanero sauce that is perfect on vanilla ice cream. Maybe I should make some peach ice cream, too.

Hey friends! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social is looking for new volunteer readers in fiction and flash. I'm a co-fiction editor, and we're a really nice crew! Spread the word and apply yourself!

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

If you're a knitter and planning on being raptured tomorrow, I can provide a shipping address for receiving your stash and making sure it goes to good use.

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

This one. Always.

Did a cooking sprint today for the first time in years. Zucchini bread, quiche, basil hazelnut pesto, and enchiladas. My feet gave in before I could tackle poached pears.

This morning I got to hear Carletta Carrington Wilson speak about art and poetry. There’s nothing like listening to stories from someone who has been creating for decades and can look back with hindsight to make sense of previous instincts and urges.

A few weeks ago I set out on a road trip that including driving through UT and picking up a box of fresh peaches and for the rest of the journey, I got to eat a perfectly ripe peach with breakfast. Strong recommend. Get the fruit stand peaches (not the grocery store ones).

One made brittle by too much sun with faded lettering of a grocery store that closed five years ago, and there’s a winning lotto ticket inside but we all assume the bag is casual everyday trash yes, why do you ask?

Okay, so, Portland...I need an abandoned indoor pool and someone to make really large multicolored jellos from molds that look like creatures if you smashed them on the floor of the abandoned swimming pool... and then someone with some trained pet pigs to devour the remains while being photographed.

My god, everything feels so fucking stupid right now.

Our raffle benefit for Annunciation is here! $10/entry via Venmo • 70+ prizes • Local pickup in Mpls • All funds donated • Ends 9/24 Organized by the team at James Irving Salon, with contributions from artists, makers & small businesses across the Twin Cities bit.ly/MplsRaffleEntry

One of the best ways to fight fascism is by feeding people.

WOW

Yesterday on a walk a neighbor stopped me to chat a bit and hinted about it being time for yard cleanup. Next time it happens I’m gonna say I’m increasing biodiversity.

TIL

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Ugh. I hate that this kind of tech gets rolled out as adverts instead of as an opportunity to, showcase your digital photos or, just spitballing here, be a method of showing art in the home.

Placed a preorder at my fav independent bookstore today while picking up my order of The People’s Project!

Summer's about to end and gray-season-me is starting to realize what my sunshine-fueled brain committed to. This happens every year and if it weren't for this seasonal dynamic I'd simply be a studio hermit with all notifications set to Do Not Disturb.

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

Behold! Unto us is given a preorder page! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555914...

More of this, please.

I have precisely 25 spots left in this poetry project, and I start writing two weeks from Wednesday. If you are queer, and want your own personal typewritten poem from (If Grieving Were Winter/If Winter Were Grieving), now is the time. You're queer enough. Take up the space. We deserve good things.

Years ago when I had spine injury and still had a solid 18 months of recovery left, my dr didn’t talk to me about PT or exercising. He talked to me about mood and having something that brought me joy.

Spent the last couple of weeks on a road trip that ended in Tucson and that glowing cloud was a perfect end.

everything is so dumb. how is anything real

There is surely an attrition rate for young artist publishers and zine makers, but there are also people who commit to publishing as a way of life and keep at it. I love when I start to see these people at fairs and fests throughout the year. They turn into friends, colleagues and fellow travelers.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

We moved into a house that had been vacant for a long time and the giant house spiders had turned it into their party palace. Septembers were wild. Then we got a cat who thinks they are the tastiest treats ever.

Cat: MEOW Me: You have a cat flap. Use it. Cat: MEOW Me: Cat flap. We cut a hole in the bloody wall. You've been using it for a decade. Cat: MEOW Me: Oh for Christ's sake. /opens door /cat leaves /shuts door /seven seconds pass /cat flap clicks Cat: MEOW

Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu

PSA: everybody really is staring at you and they all know you're high

The deadline for QUEER + TRANS COLLAGISTS is fast approaching! As this is a global project, please submit by 11:59 pm in your local timezone. Form responses automatically come in with a timestamp, we will review anything that’s been submitted on or before 8/31! Submit at bit.ly/QueerTransCollage

Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️

If we still went by job titles we held 30 years ago like "Mayor Guiliani" did in his bullshit press release I'd be "Assistant Manager at Mad Mike's Supervideo" for the rest of my life

It is not just that these employees are risking being put on leave or even fired for standing up for science (see EPA/FEMA officials), they are standing in front of a workplace that was the subject of a terrorist attack a couple of weeks ago, by a man who believes what their boss believes.

Sewing 19 signatures into an artist book today to meet a tight deadline and of course it’s a day when the finger I broke in three places many years ago decides to remind me every ten seconds.

this is how I found out one of our publishers actually did not, and apparently other people are finding this out as well, so it is not a bad idea to go check!!! lol

Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification:

The unsexy B&W Brother laser printer that was touted to last forever and keep chugging along no matter is apparently now a large paperweight only 15 months after I bought it but the HP inkjet I found for free on the side of the road and printed beautifully in color on the first try.