And here I thought I was writing something funny!

This must be the placery.

In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation and obscurity their protection. Sir Thomas Browne

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

Jim Harrison

Happy Friday. This new song from Georgia Maq is so so good. Might go see her on Sunday. youtu.be/MK_pe_qutFE?...

My May mix is up. Sometimes the world is so ugly you have to wind up a mix with a Jennifer Warnes hit followed by a Joe Cocker / Jennifer Warnes megahit, sit back, and swoon. jimkourlas.com/2025/06/06/m...

KORN. CORN plate. 🌽

Just over here making new friends

Now let’s just sit down and see what all this David Lynch fuss is all about.

Can’t get Chuck Mangione out of my head now.

Wish someone would metoo this Ryan Adams song that’s been in my head for a week.

Skokie, Illinois, November 2022

Winton’s dad hooked up with the Terriers’ mom at the chemist. Arooo!

Okay Bluesky let's make this happen!

Dreamt I invented a recipe for depressed people reluctant to eat: raw eggs and maybe ham squished together by hand into a slice of cheap white bread. I called it the hairball. The gal in the commercial was eating it in bed. She was wearing a turtleneck.

New (really smart, super fun) interview with @jimkourlas.bsky.social coming on Short Story, Long tomorrow! ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/high-slope...

Excited as hell to have this weird story out in the world! And the art is fantastic!

I do love to read words written by @jimkourlas.bsky.social I hope you enjoy them too.

Watching the Omaha nightly newscast for the first time in forever and the newscaster is wearing braces and it’s awesome. The weatherman’s suit does not fit.

Saw the pic and only kinda recognized the tools and then punchline yes yes yes

This is marvelous

Tulane’s road uniforms tonight are gorgeous.

LOTS of journals open for submissions today! Including, SHORT STORY, LONG, my humble little Substack lit journal for longer stories that pays $100 and also commissions original art for accepted stories. ashortstorylong.substack.com

I wrote a little something about Mark Eitzel / AMC in prep for his US living room tour this fall. Hoping people go out to see him while they still can as he doesn't tour a ton. The Omaha show is Thurs 10/12 at Zipline! jimkourlas.com/2023/09/27/m...

Fellow fans of mopey indie rock from yesteryear, take note: American Music Club has their entire catalog--including hard to find 80s albums--on Bandcamp! https://americanmusicclub1.bandcamp.com/music

This site or whatever feels like a housing development in the middle of cornfields and for the first time I understand that urge to speculate

Perfect brainf*ck of everything that’s insane about American infrastructure and our techie overlords.

Got invited to NYC with friends. Maybe I can get a knockoff agent in Chinatown!