You're telling me that Understanding wrote this Memorandum?

Just another case of sour fissile materials

Country musicians are America's goths

alt text betrays the real truth: patrons got to read this five weeks ago AND today.

As if From Hell isn't already a harrowing re read, being reminded that Emily Dickinson's last words were "The fog is rising" really does it to a fella.

This is a much more impressive accomplishment than becoming a trillionaire

god bless everyone that spoofed their phones

Sometimes you read a poem that reinforces how much you undeniably are and desperately want to be a poet that also kicks your ass with how much ground you've still got to cover. Ever onward, we say, in this house.

I think I'm unbelievable, but I know I'm no liar.

i hope they never figure out that *I'm* boring

Anything that increases the chances of him having a traumatic event on camera, I am in favor of.

What's great about the internet, despite it all, is that you can still Google "Bruce Wayne birthday"

Caribbean Blue stolen valor, Widow's Bay?

An overcrowded theater with no one in attendance! A fruitful garden where nothing grows!

Let Us Be Perfectly Clear my favorite prayer

I don't have deja vu, I've got the Discover Tab blues.

Is that Thanos?

Try it when you're alone, call it a conversation, not talking to yourself.

i also only care about one thing: everything

I know there's a room in heaven where you can see every single thing you ate in your lifetime. Gotta assume there's one for this, too.

Do kids break their arms as much as I remember them doing? I think I anticipated seeing more casts when I arrived at a world larger than my classrooms, and my imagination balks and guffaws at the idea of adults signing one another's plaster.

Saw @themountaingoats.bsky.social tonight with the same friend I first saw him with 24 years ago, at a venue smaller than I expect to see him at in the near term. Everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone sang along, "I'm gonna kill all the judges," and I felt renewed.

Based on what I understand (not much!) about the accelerationism that drives cyber security, it's starting to sound like the Butlerian Jihad is going to be something like a wet fart suicide that makes all, all, all, all of our computers turn themselves off.

i re read song of myself and now so many other things just seem boring

Gotta do better at incorporating 'by my life lumps' into the ol vernacular

It's been evening all day long!!!

When they tell you that you've gotta adapt, it is truly a threat.

having a rager in the gem city

Not the point here at all, but I officially nominate 'sycophancy' as word of the century.

Walking around the house singing If I Had A Hammer at the top of my lungs

So far, on today's read of Song of Myself, it's 17.

"a catcher's mitt of a brain"

Listening to country music to become a better poet.

I woke at five recalling a dream from much earlier in the night. I opened an umbrella in the dream. Was there light rain? I wore boots. Nothing in my day's (or life's) horizons resembling. Something to keep in mind, maybe.

One ear on the ground, the other skyward, cupped with both hands: this way, I'm sure I can figure out who's listening.

Passport, two magazines, and the onion, all in one day's post. It's like the USPS is telling me 'go on vacation, you handsome devil!'

There's a Boots Riley profile by Emily Nussbaum in this week's New Yorker, everybody gets to call out of work for an hour or two, I don't make the rules

sole control/soul control is this a thing or just a fishy idea

Saw several posts about Grogu. Not sure what's going on there but maybe this will help: swanboy.com/comic/mandal...

Write letters, I implore you.

Wharf Cat, Quay Cur

Lol at Homer describing the neon color of that vibrant sea, Kevin.

Fitful sleep into productive editing, maybe it's a restlessness I am looking for in my voice.

It is hysterical to have any conversation about AI that does not end with laughter about Pierre Menard.

you eschew puns, i defy augury, tomato, tomato, let's call the whole thing off

Report from the front lines: the sparks still fly upward.

Not very good?

"A government of the people, by the people, and against the people."

Fighting in the Age of Loneliness