#90sTop30 9 busted down the pretext

John Wieners

I had this movie poster on my wall as a kid and I miss it so much

If your book or show about LA doesn’t have quinceañeras, smog alerts, deep hatred for the 405, people speaking Armenian, Farsi, and Korean, gangsta rap nostalgia, blue-collar entertainment workers, getting so used to brushfires you don’t even call your parents about them, just text… it’s not my LA.

In another life I was a spirit Halloween store manager and I can confirm the unholy alchemy of bubbly preteens, frantic parents and bumrushed employees clawing their way to the sweet collapse of October 31

listen, I didn't stop listening to Nirvana when they started selling the smiley face shirts at Urban Outfitters; I'm not gonna stop using em-dashes just because chatGPT uses them

maybe an outlandish pair of glasses would fix me

Your daily horoscope: Today you will feel like a retired gladiator - exhausted, scarred, lucky to be alive, and looking for peace.

yes, i do want it to be impermissible to call people slurs in public. that is the moral ground i am staking out. i want people to be afraid to express their views that are bad in public, not because they will be killed, but because they want to live in a society

Personally I prefer a society whose members feel some pressure to signal virtue over one where vice is continually rewarded

i will calm down i will do drugs i will pet the cat i will pretend we do not suffer under the most slobbish, unimpressive robber barons in the history of the world

Please save this, read it, feel it. Shame on all those who do not see our children!!

Don't stop searching for joy. Track it down if you can. Look in cluttered bookstores, movie theaters, spooky cemeteries, and mossy forests. Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.

Rain! Mwah love you welcome stick around

I must remind myself that revision is when a writer builds brilliant writing from the compost of the ordinary. And honestly, "uninspired" writing is better than we think it is, and the more "uninspired" writing we do, the better we get

“Then he came, the speaker. He stood in the square. He told us who to hate.” Been starting my mornings with William Stafford. Did not expect this one. (From The Way It Is) #poetry #writing

An evergreen lament

No better time to post Hunter S. Thompson on 9/12/2001. www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

Writing prompt

Up next.. This fantastic album turns 20 next year. "..and we don't make eye contact, when we have run-ins in town.. just a barely polite nod.. nervous stares towards the ground" Return To Cookie Mountain (2006) - TV On The Radio #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #musicsky

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

I regret to report (and source confirms) that going outside and moving my body does indeed improve my mood.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

#sealeychallenge day idunno - the last week has been bananas and I hardly had time to breathe let alone read - but my neighbor had more books for me! “You still read poems right? Here have these. Oh yeah and a puzzle book. A puzzle is kind of like a poem.”

Bernadette Mayer

Tattoos - they tell a story

#TheSealeyChallenge day 7, Jack Gilbert's THE DANCE MOST OF ALL (2009), and elegantly earthy book of late life melancholy, beauty, and contentment. Book cover & two poems. #SealeyChallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #poetry

#Sealeychallenge day 6 that turned into day 7 cuz some collections demand it - “Unaccompanied” by Javier Zamora Picked this up at the library yesterday. Commands attention from jump, demands to be read like a novel. Each poem feels so full and big hearted. Just tearing me apart over here.

Hell yeah - you love to see it when the AI data center proposal for your desert city gets shot down - Taking the win and eating a cupcake

#sealeychallenge day 5 - Mary Oliver “New and Selected Poems” Apropos of the poetry gods, my neighbor gave me this book this morning: “you like this kind of stuff, right?” Been flipping through it in quiet moments through the day. It’s nice to carry a book of poetry around again.

#SealeyChallenge day 4 “A 10 peso burial for which truth I sign” by Gabriel Palacios (Didn’t read anything yesterday because it was my kiddo’s birthday party, which was just frantic poetry in motion) Nice to be rereading my friend’s collection, and finding new things to love about it.

"You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal." — James A. Baldwin, born on this day in 1924 #AmWriting

#SealeyChallenge day 2 - 100 Classic Chinese Poems, translated by Qiu Xiaolong Picked this up in a Shanghai bookstore a few years ago - all Tang Dynasty poets so the poems are lush, coy, romantic, witty - I read some to my 5 year old and she likes the pictures and tbh I do too

Pedro Pietri

#sealeychallenge day 1 - Woman Without Shame by Sandra Cisneros

I’m not spiraling, I’m pirouetting. It’s artistic

There is air inside a shark to live Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi (@pizamapress.bsky.social)

You’ve inherited a movie theatre, what’s your first double feature? Master and Commander (2003) and Hunter Killer (2018)

MOOD

State and local health departments, first responders, and rescue groups spend MILLIONS of dollars a year trying to tell people not to do this.

Healthcare analyst @charlesgaba.com has an updated chart on the number of people who are at risk of losing healthcare based on the Senate’s version of the budget bill. His analysis? It could be as high as 100,000 in #AZ06.

the Star Tribune just called me and told me they would not be publishing the obituary I wrote for my father as it is “unfair to him” and “in poor taste” so here it is and fuck the strib ✌🏻

Writing prompt: write from the POV of the gardener, or the cats, or the store clerk on the phone, or the neighbor, or the rats, or the telephone wires crisscrossed over the backyards

Set phasers to Automatic Preorder

babe i don’t know how to tell you this but you’d make a hell of a novelist

One of my recent paintings 🎨🛁