If I was still in academia I would be organizing a panel right now called "The Socialist Mayor Spent $700 Each of His Own Money (Probably) on Knicks Tickets and All I Got Was This Dumb Article in the New York Post"

Seeing people post pictures of themselves for World Goth Day (TM) prompts me to realize that the complete lack of photographic evidence of my "goth phase" indicates that I was, surprisingly, in fact technically a vampire

When you're Canadian you get to do this all the time, so many opportunities that most of them don't even register on you, as if 284 millilitres is just a perfectly natural amount of soup to put in a can

From the department of pleasing patterns on Merlin: Nashville warbler

In the midst of life et cetera

Introduce yourself with 10 bands / artists you've seen live. The all-Canadian acts @rick-glid.bsky.social and I have seen in the last 10 years edition! Dear Rouge Hawksley Workman July Talk The Mahones Martha Wainwright Rheostatics Sarah Slean Sloan Trans Canada Highwaymen Whitehorse

I'm an aging Gen Xer, I like my news in the paper, my music on the radio, and my websites down intermittently youtu.be/P9BfvPjsXXw

Pic of the week: Steely Pigeon birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/05/18/s...

And happy to be back in Pulsebeat! -- with a sonnet called "A Cat Contemplates His Absent Mistress", or: What Milo the Demon Cat Thinks When @rick-glid.bsky.social Goes Wherever It Is She Goes Without Him pulsebeatpoetry.com/pulsebeat-14...

Happy to have my poem (also a PSA: don't rake your leaves in the spring until the butterflies have had a chance to get out from under them) "Winter Mourning Cloaks" out in the new issue of Moss Puppy! mosspuppymag.com/issue-10-paw...

hermit thrush all the chords you can think of on the old guitar

Slightly increase a band. Scratch Cavern and the Poor Sprouts

Pic of the week: Crab Spider on Daffodil Flower birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/05/10/c...

Watching the Flyers game cuz it's there after the Jays and wow God Bless America, really takes ya back in so many ways don't it, 7th inning stretch debates over standing or not in not-America, Carlos Delgado gone down the tunnel... days of innocence and wonder by comparison

You don't know where what you got came from 'til it's gone, where are our fortune cookies and soy and plum sauce packets gonna come from now, what can they possibly say but Wing's, nothing else makes sense

So, Mr. Gerard, it seems that the face-eating leopards have eaten the face of the very person who was trying to warn everyone that the leopards were face-eating and would eat everyone's faces How ironic

Do arts other than poetry have this constant chorus of their practitioners self-flagellatingly proclaiming their futility? What the heck *do* all these poets think is gonna change souls for the better?

My attempts at maybe not spending three hours daily six months of the year on live baseball are perpetually haunted by the time in 1987 that I somehow simply forgot about the Jays game one night and woke up the next morning to hear they'd hit 10 home runs

Pro tip: when you're surprised to see your cat in a place you didn't think there was room for your cat to get to, don't get distracted before you look to see how your cat got there

This is a heck of a case in "what do we mean by 'AI' anyway"

Is your fridge actually on the fritz, or do you simply need to stop storing your milk in the vegetable crisper drawer This is the kind of revelation we invented the internet for Mostly fridge-related questions, such as can I still eat this mayonnaise

Pic of the week: Jumping Spider on Daffodil Flower birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/05/03/j...

Watching some basketball for the first time in uhhh and you will be pleased to know that I am forming highly astute opinions about it

Slightly diminish a book The Penultimate Dude and the Last Days of an Era

Slightly diminish a book Probably Not a Territory for Male Senior Citizens

So I see this poem is why Gary Lemons's "New Years Day 2005" is missing a bit about some dead poet owing him a bar tab which I expect to be in it

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Thinking about what do people think "working class" means in (N.) America has led me to discover that "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" probably started as a misquote of Steinbeck The kind of news that comes slow when you give up arguing about politics on the internet for a couple of decades

or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Invest in the Bomb

Looking up an old cover letter to see what I got away with last time reminded me of Annie Dillard's "I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting killed" which of course reminded me where have you gone Annie Dillard

Ok the Penguins can't get eliminated tonight, I have only learned just now that they have a guy named Elmer

The world is very dusty

I had really actually forgotten that double-crested cormorants can do this

Pic of the week: Honey Bee in Daffodil Flower birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/04/26/h...

all you know is what you’re falling through

Grudgingly listening to a playoff hockey game from around the corner of the tv It's hard, it'll take some time, baby steps

Stuck in some drawn-out negotiations with someone whose style of interaction in a case of conflicting interests is rather different from mine and I keep thinking of the guy in the union at York who said the trouble with academics is they want to treat a strike vote as a philosophical question

Too true haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-car...

Pic of the week: Red-Necked False Blister Beetle Eating Hepatica Pollen birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/04/21/r...

Doing the CV2 2-Day Contest under non-ideal conditions this year and honestly will consider it a personal victory if I manage to submit my poem with the correct number of z's in "zugzwang"

A masterclass in rhyme from one of my favourite rhymers, @lhamccabe.bsky.social

Pic of the week: Blond Squirrel with Peanut birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/04/13/b...

Notwithstanding the one in the middle (!) I do dig this set of three poems each touching on what we late-whatever-we-are humans and all this artefactual stuff we're awash in have to do with each other

Happy to be back in the always intriguingly off-beat @trampolinepoetry.bsky.social with a kinda quirky one, "Lost Keys to Desert Dreams", in which among other things I try to make something of one of my little biblical hobby horses--in the middle of a nicely trio'ed set here: trampolinepoetry.com

A late entry to amaryllis bluesky this year (JCO never posted hers??) but life careens on

I can't figure out if everyone is just too cool to react the way Krugman has been reacting, or doesn't really mind insane infantile murderous fascism, or what

This is yet another moment where I feel like it's the beginning of Dr. Strangelove where Mandrake can tell there isn't really a war on because there's civilian programming on the radio

Pic of the week: What's Up birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/04/07/w...

Political principle of "hard choices": hard choices must be made; hard choices are recognizable by their bad consequences; the worse the things that will happen because of a choice the harder it is and so the easier it is to choose it

Happy to have a new sonnet out at Rattle today, "On Baby Whales Being Held Into the Air"