Usually, I rely on my calendar app. It keeps my schedule. It reminds me of appointments with doctors, coworkers, and friends. Today, though, it keeps showing Friday as Thursday. Do I need to delete and reinstall?

Some nights, Sad Songs and Waltzes is the greatest song Willie Nelson recorded. Some nights, it’s even more than that.

That Whalefall trailer is certainly original.

If you’ve never been much of an apartment dweller, you likely have no idea how greatly the fear of laundry night granting you no open machines can make or break your week. Tonight, free washers, free dryers. =whew=

“It won't be long, She said again. I've felt a fever Rise, subside. It never seems So strong Now.” Full Poem thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/06/aujo... #poet #poetry

Did you ever think you’d see the day Democrats rally behind a mentally unstable man who got a Nazi tattoo on his chest?

“I am gravity. I can't be bothered Every time a comet Blasts into my surface, Finds itself In sudden orbit, Doomed to end in fire In my atmosphere.” Full Poem thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-... #poet #poetry

I’m one tempting swirl of what Paris used to be and what New York used to be.

Okay, I spent most of my evening doing my work as a citizen, investigating every candidate on the primary ballot tomorrow, and now my sore body is off to bed. Sleep tight, friends!

It doesn’t matter what position I’m in or how old I grow, if the company needs some sucker to move forty three boxes of copier paper around outside when the heat’s in the 90s… …Yup, me. I’m the sucker.

“The cathedral Proud and pointing up, Converted gold untold To mortar, stones, Artistic glory, Awing and reminding vulgar villagers Of divinity intruding on finite reality, Eternity.” Full Poem thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/06/duom... #poet #poetry

This Week’s Movies in the Theater Power Ballad *** Carolina Caroline *** Passenger ?

Ha! I was looking at a list of upcoming films, and the moment my eyes hit Robin Hood, my speakers playing Prefab Sprout’s Appetite sang out his name.

I had to leave Passenger halfway through yesterday. The couple next to me took off their shoes, held conversations at normal volume, and played on their phones, including having Google loudly speak responses. As usual, they weren’t teenagers. They were a couple around 45 years old. =sigh=

On this day in 1985, The Goonies hit theaters. I’ve been annoyed by people who adore this shitty movie ever since. “You love movies and you don’t love Goonies?!? Maybe you just need to see it again. Let me get it started…”

Happy Saturday, friends! May all of your to-dos turn into ta-das! Or do nothing, which is equally as satisfying.

Please don't forget D-day, 82 years ago. The largest seaborn assault in history. 10 thousand allied troops died on that one day as we scrabbled for a foot hold in Europe that eventually took us to Berlin and the absolute destruction of Hitler's Nazis.

One of my favorite contemporary heroes is MacKenzie Scott.

I learned today Anthony Head, Buffy’s Giles (Goodbye…), is the younger brother of Murray Head, the Broadway star who managed a few hits on the radio, including the divine One Night in Bangkok.

Graham Platner is dead weight. Democrats can dick around with him like they did with Biden last election or they can take real action *now* and perhaps save the race. He’s nothing but bad news.

“I see you take it black These days, Abandoning your snowy sugar sands. Your daring lipstick Is a lethal thrust Or bloodied shield for sheltering.” Full Poem thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/06/spen... #poet #poetry

I’ll let you keep Klimt’s The Kiss if I can keep Chagall’s The Birthday Kiss.

Of all the spices to spill over my white comforter… Cloves? Really, L.? Boy, does that smell spread…

“You landed Lifted, A lunar rocket in reverse. Venice is a world away.” Poem Also Here: thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-wo... #poet #poetry

TicketMaster has an impossible, error-ridden website that does not work. I guess I’m not going to the Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy concert after all. TicketMaster 🖕

My little city is finally getting a concert with great artists who didn’t peak forty years ago! Hello, Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy!

“You took such pride in proving self-reliant. You chopped your hair defiant. You left your home to find it Dragging in the dirt behind you Everywhere you go.” Full Poem thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/06/ever... #poet #poetry

“Perhaps the humid sky's Too heavy. You are never there, The ending of the yarn You've strung throughout the trees Is simply tied onto a barren branch.” Full Poem thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/06/part... #poet #poetry

“The angel visited me early. She only speaks in warnings, Never blessings. Our highway's buckled and uncertain. You've got to toss down more Than penny antes When there's blood In the middle Of the table…” Full Poem thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/06/call... #poet #poetry

This Week’s Movies in the Theater Backrooms ** Pressure *** Tuner *** 1/2

I don’t often repost, but this is kooooool.

“I remember when you hid the knives Beneath the pillows Because the devil pulled your strings, The night you danced anointed Purple, pastel red, and tangerine, The stolen day the baby died.” Full Poem thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-... #poet #poetry

Okay, Democrats… Focus on the economy and, in a related manner, the war. Promote achievable fixes. Steer around culture war battles. You can’t rely on playing up what an evil incompetent President Trump is. People proved immune. Listen to your local folks and stay on message. This is the way.

“Maybe I'm too tired to muster up a meal. Maybe I'm not hungry anymore. Perhaps I've eaten my last. She whispered soft Beneath her arctic eyes She loved me.” Full Poem thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/05/peng... #poet #poetry

Sometimes you read or hear a line you wish you wrote… “Last night it snowed / Sky slid off the bone” - Night Teacher, Barbie in Bethlehem

Today is the birthday of Tahini, one of my favorite citizens of Squirrelsville. Happy birthday, Tahini!

Here are three words you can use frequently to keep me at a good distance! 😃👍🏻🏃🏻‍♂️ Saddened Impactful Gifted (as a verb, not adjective)

More than one picture of her dog on her dating profile and you know she’s gonna demand that dog’s in the bed.

Today, May 27 **

Wait… There are people who actually opt to watch Spider-Noir… in color?!?!

“Push the brush across To trail a maze, Moonlight above The sudden city. Poetry, It breathes without the blood. It cannot Set this scene, Her hair in tides against your shoulder…” Full Poem thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/05/acro... #poet #poetry

“Her shoulders rise, Release, A little rap id er Now after I've leaned Into her breath. The air is threatening to tear…” Full Poem thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/05/at-b... #poet #poetry

Goodbye, Sonny Rollins.

Today I learned Anna Rudolf may be the sexiest woman alive.

Wait a minute… Melissa Leo and Pope Leo aren’t related?

This Week’s Movies in the Theater Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu ** Saccharine ** 1/2 I Love Boosters *** 1/2

I don’t know why this film is only showing at one theater in town at one time, 10:35 pm, but I drove 30 minutes and I’m here, even though I’ll be driving home around 1 am.

Happy 85th, Bob Dylan! We are so fortunate you’re hanging out with us so long!

Little kid staring out the window of this Thai joint - “It *is* raining. Mommy, it’s raining, it’s raining, it’s raining!” Finally, somebody who understands me.

“…Interpreting her private language Of dancing hands and shifting shoulders. My stomach blazes. Smoke intoxicates attempts at thinking. There are days I know she knows And days I doubt she's ever noticed.” Full Poem thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/05/danc... #poet #poetry