wrote a story about a dream and some events which followed it. check it out below

this thing. take notes, people

today in Keep Planning, a baroque narrative of gods, bodies, the world dimly sensed through a shattered kaleidoscope from @ergot.bsky.social editor Samuel M. Moss. give it a read below

it must feel so amazing to be lying out in the middle of a big open field on a bright sunny day when suddenly a huge earthquake starts and the ground splits open beneath you and you fall all the way down into fucking biblically accurate Hell

wrote about one of the more singular works of the post-'68 french cinematic avant-garde, a film where you do nothing but watch the colors change on a pissarro painting for half an hour. i wrote about because i haven't been able to stop thinking about it. check it out below

politics

today in Garden Scenery, a poetic sequence organized around the figure of the canine – or, in other words, six dog poems. tap in below ⬇️

it's friday night so i'm listening to ambient noise wall and playing solitaire on my computer

today in Keep Planning, a "Zukofsky-inspired phonetic translation/rewriting" of Mayakovsky by returning contributor Noam Hessler. Noam is, imo, one of the most exciting young poets working right now, and this is a great showcase of their compositional prowess. do give it a read

today in Garden Scenery, three brief fictions concerning, respectively, a tyrant, a drill instructor, and something lying in the bushes. thank you for your attention to this matter

i recommend the word "metagrobolize"

today in Keep Planning, some striking, elemental language poetry from Blue Đào Nguyễn. check it out below!

have some new fiction in ergot. today! a man who was very insistent about buying you a drink now really wants to tell you about his job at a place that isn't a prison. he's sure you're a dog person. you really hope he isn't going anywhere with this...

out now in Keep Planning, new fiction from returning contributor Eric Angal, a story about a man going on a date, and a tour de force rendering of obsessive-compulsive consciousness. Eric told me he thought there was "something ugly" about this piece – i agree. do give it a read

it's my birthday today btw

today, for the 50th piece on Keep Planning, something different: a selection of philosophical dialogues by the 19th century poet and essayist Giacomo Leopardi, one of the major figures of Italian Romanticism, a strange, sickly man with a great sense of irony. do give it a read

new story in Garden Scenery today, about not being able to sleep, and a game played with a knife. do give it a read, i would appreciate it

the problem with gaming is that people want to do things rather than just live in the world

genre tag "4th World Music" on the Tuluum Shimmering slsk rip I Know That's Right Brother

today in Keep Planning, a poem by Alec Ivan, spiky and calloused, split open in places, smelling of gasoline, coughing up blood and broken teeth. do give it a read

you don't hear much about people becoming taciturn anymore

now in Keep Planning, new work from always-adventurous returning contributor Eric T. Racher, a text which is not a story, not a poem, not even an essay, but rather an agreement he would like to make with you. will you sign? peruse the terms at the link below

Gather the joy of listening and with true spoken words write your true.

it's actually so much worse than it looks here. like you can't even imagine

Sketchers is my uncle

"world is fucked up" –CaringBard20260521231247

Marcel Hanoun: "By dint of telling stories, cinema becomes lived experience. By dint of being lived, it becomes true. By dint of being true, it becomes fiction."

now in Keep Planning, new fiction from the one and only Sarp Sozdinler, a sharply-drawn little story about identity and dissociation in a time when you never know when you might run into a video of someone that looks just like you, doing something strange. do give it a read

im half-submerged in gravel and feeling fine about it

now in Garden Scenery, a story about an old woman who buys a plastic fern

John Paul George Ringo Minecraft Steve Yoko

today in Keep Planning, new writing from Simon Firth. it's a kind of prose miniature, oddly beguiling, not really a story, something else, something "hypnotic or narcotic" – do give it a read

wrote 3100 words about one of my favorite poetry collections of recent years

I wish you well in your adult literacy journey

Cady Noland, THE AMERICAN TRIP., 1988 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137101

went to the late night burger joint after seeing Wolf Eyes earlier and a guy picking up a delivery order spontaneously started a conversation with my buddy by asking "what do you think about aliens?"

you gotta have a gabber guy

new fiction from Ivy Grimes in Keep Planning today, about trying to make it in the city with nothing but a $222 bill that's too beautiful to spend. Grimes is a skilled, confident storyteller, and she's put her talents to very good use here. do give it a read

okay im not "on here" enough to have been really following the drama but i thought everyone understood the only way to do moderation effectively on a social media platform is to have the mod team be nameless and faceless, completely anonymous. twitter understood this. fucking *4chan* understood this

saw a Ford Explorer with the vanity front license plate "POP IT " today

Mr. Living Zombie Who's About To Die

i love the way the torchlight flickers on the stone walls of my mountain fortress

Robert Morris, Magnified and Reduced Inches, 1963 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136610

when i listen to Incapacitants i think "this is what separates man from the cowering animals"

whenever someone responds to some obviously made up propaganda thing with like "they only try this because they know how docile the american people are" it's just. how do you think this works. they're seeing what sticks man. if it doesn't work they just don't use it again. that's all that happens

today in Garden Scenery, a story about a man who goes to a restaurant alone. this is more or less my take on a "Bad Luck Brian" type narrative

today in Keep Planning, a story from Fran Kursztejn about watching Turner Classic Movies with your father, and about a woman who was told she was not damned. there's an earthy, midnight beauty to this piece that isn't quite like anything else i've come across. do give it a read

helmut heissenbüttel, "situation"

wrote up a little piece about one of my all-time favorite noise albums, Sea Wolf Leviathan by The Rita, and more broadly the difficulties of writing about work like this