taking another poetry class has let me learn how many people are doing new political action with poetry as a packaging and language. I help it guides people to dedicate towards social chance, while being insulated through creative work alone and in community to drown out the tedious bullshit.

lathe of heaven is about how portlanders ten years after it was built predicted lloyd center was going to be a giant pile of shit in any timeline

lathe of heaven is about how having near total rewrites of human history ends up giving portland the unhelpful mixture of funicular, trolley, and subway that don't meet up well we just got anyway

lathe of heaven is about creating a world where i really want to hear aliens rap battle with their communicators

lathe of heaven is about even with several apocalyptic time continuums, ursula k le guin in 1971 couldn't imagine a future where portland didn't have a subway line to vancouver

lathe of heaven is about a guy who only wants harmony with nature and also a wife who's less articulate and annoying than the lady he met forty pages in

One year ago, you met my queer Portland rock band/magical girl squad, and their new trans member, Claire. Soon, it'll be time for their next adventure! "Magica Riot: Full Bloom" is the sequel to my debut. This is the cover, once again by @ambisweetiepie.bsky.social. Release date & preorders soon!

having a biscotti and sugar free NOS breakfast then going to a doctor's appointment where the forms i fill out should really ask if i do stuff like that on the regular

i'm less trippin through time and more stumbling through the three hours nothing's ever fucking open

i've now normalized how much lifetime portland locals sound like canadians, but everytime someone born two miles north of seattle talks to me about it feels like they're gonna do a letterkenny monologue

my favorite kind of flow charts don't usefully explain flow and aren't so much charts as experimental carpet designs

many societies drive on the right today because in centuries past, only through passing on the right could you avoid combusting someone's codpiece with a lit cigarette

i wonder about all the lunch table politics i see in media, and then realize i sat in a room under the cafeteria and thus was the insectoid sub-person in h g wells the time machine in that equation

gotta recommend yearning for a night full of you as a manga that in the absence of other ways i can relate to japanese high school gal politics, you can just make one of the main characters a deranged insomniac and i can understand that just fine

i suggest organized political action because if you ask nice the IBEW will let you use their megaphone for a bit that at a 6 or above will disintegrate a house foundation

cadence, brevity, wit, stanza breaks- these are all important whether you are writing breezy high-literary verse or have decided to bring amplified sound to a protest

listen kendrick did some great work but it is pretty dire when every other rap beef on a major label is 'you posted a bitchy veiled message on instagram eleven months before this album dropped'

the tiktok scam guys wish they could bullshit as well as a US Marines recruiter who's taken an adderall right before a 19 year old who wants an xbox walks in

kumoricon starting on the 31st: HERE BECKONS HALLOWEEB

me whenever someone brings a really long winded sci-fi excerpt to workshop

watching an australian metalcore band play in sydney and jesus christ the vocalist is giving up on the studio mix and sounding like the mighty car mods guys

getting a crack team of lawyers together to rico-style nail war crimes guys on 8200 counts of negligent discharge of a firearm served consecutively

you may be getting too intense in community college if your cadence is approaching the samuel l jackson monologue in pulp fiction

my greatest crime in the trump era is i thought lady ghostbusters was pretty great

This is my apple tier list. This is just from varieties that I have had and have access to. Apple, Baking, and Cider tiers are all on the same level, just different uses for the apple.

i support world naked bike ride for their emergency rally at convention center and rolling on south, and also the portlander outfit of being totally naked and then having a rain poncho on top

as a person of scottish descent, i am riven through with calvinist remnant behavior. i'm doing grad apps on a stool in this roseline coffee where they have nice upholstered seats, because discomfort brings my work closer to god. max weber you kraut bastard.

the true summary of the year is not spotify wrapped in december, but all the awful in-the-news meme costumes in mid-to-late october

this week i got reminded of the core reality that public-facing social media will attract people who hate stuff for bad, incoherent reasons and thus agree with your bits. gross!

walked past tboy wrestling seventy five minutes before doors in lloyd district, and the BOYCON 4, would maybe venture into 3 if it wasn't kinda shitty today weather wise and hanging out the sidewalk seems more like fun. keep it up yall

reading seth harp's the fort bragg cartel, great to know every guy who got kicked out of sigma alpha epsilon as part of an administrative probation deal became part of the deniable fentanyl trafficking murder dorks

the remake of when a stranger calls (2006) had this smarterchild type chatbot you could talk to on aol instant messenger where it's the babysitter and over time the plot of the film happens and it gives you a promo. it was more terrifying than any ai horror prose yet created

the us court system often 'weighs' an issue, but the system is more measure once cut innumerable than when I was trying to make yeasted bread

i have realized that i had such a long period of putting a six on the how are you feeling scale that it's now basically a diagnostic shitpost I do

i think it's telling that the only period where i could be said to understand theology as the academy constructs it is also a time where I was day drinking during zoom div school discussion sections

editing others' work is circling something messily, writing "awk" on it, and providing no further help

whenever i start a spoken statement with "in the Unitarian tradition" i am about to say some absolute false horseshit for a while

Lmao

intro to sociology texts need to ditch their jumbled, dated approach to an information society and just play this during week three instead

the sound of someone belly laughing a joke that wasn’t funny on a first date rings out upon the clear NE Broadway night

The world champion WHAT

when i’m on the 44 and a university of portland sophomore says they tip 10% if the service is ‘slow’

"put the lightbox right in front of you but don't look at it" what you think i'm lot? i'm lot's neurodivergent they/them child now

people i only know through podcasts need to not stream. streaming i see them, and that they have faces and presumably organ systems causes psychic damage. i'm just supposed to have voices in my head, they call to me, they call to me

it's weird to finish a very well composed, vulnerable volume of poetry and my main takeaway is "well, yes, but there weren't any bangers."

there is nothing that can tell you more about someone's gestalt like what the bottle of liquor in their freezer is. mine is about 80% of a bottle of pinnacle whipped i bought a year and a half ago

you're never out of bread, truly, as long as you've got one trader joe's garlic naan

i'm not presently really a collector of postcards (the postcrossing stuff is all on my fridge), or stamps, or postmarks, but it has become so expensive that I bought printable postcards *and* printable address labels because i write the address first, then smear it all over when writing the message

forgetting i use a vpn and think my identity's been stolen because i get a monthly renewal in whatever canadians have resorted to for currency

i learned about jimmy buffet as a kid like many millennials did- my dad told a story about being in the same town as a concert and saying the fans are the most terrifying binge drinkers he's ever encountered