I think about this a lot. #mamiya #mamiya7 #loadingdock #film #photography #filmphotography #mediumformat #mediumformatfilm #mediumformatphotography #colorphoto #colorfilm

More on Chores. rattlesnakehallelujah.substack.com/p/deep-local...

Deep Local | Ep. 1: Busy New #photoessay write-up for the first Deep Local starring @seanjbates.bsky.social #photography #filmphotography #film #mediumformatphotography #shotfilm #poetry READ HERE: rattlesnakehallelujah.substack.com/p/deep-local...

New: 404 Media is making a zine! Risograph-printed zine all about the surveillance tech ICE has deployed. Facial recognition app; Palantir; much more. Will be available in January but you can pre-order now. The art is amazing, printed by local LA business. Details: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

Who's coming to town?

Who's coming to town?

these episodes are my comfort watch Deep Local - Episode 3 youtu.be/guhSuWn0vYE by @rattysnake.bsky.social #writingcommunity #cinepoem #poemsky #winterarc #cozy #cozycore #winter #poetry #5amwritersclub #chores #joepera

Soon.

Me and mine don't play. #leica #leicam6 #film #photography #35mm #35mmfilm #35mmphotography #filmphotography #colorfilm #colorphoto #chickens #backyardchickens

Friends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense. Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever. I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Says it all right there. #mamiya #mamiya7 #film #photography #filmphotography #akihabara #mediumformat #mediumformatfilm #mediumformatphotography #japan #tokyo #colorphoto #colorfilm #streetphotography

Soon.

you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.

“The whole world is covered with buttons, and not one of them is mine!”

Lady and her horse on a snowy day Photo by Félix Thiollier, 1899

dead internet theory was just slightly ahead of its time

All I wanted was my own room. My own door to hang a 'KEEP OUT' sign on. But losing that house, moving out of what I thought was forever, forced me to change; I started to grow up. Today's poem: "Recreation//Recreation" tinyurl.com/msj833fe #poems #writingcommunity #growingup #centuryhomes #poemsky

All I wanted was my own room. My own door to hang a 'KEEP OUT' sign on. But losing that house, moving out of what I thought was forever, forced me to change; I started to grow up. Today's poem: "Recreation//Recreation" tinyurl.com/msj833fe #poems #writingcommunity #growingup #centuryhomes #poemsky

Bari Weiss just appointed anchor Tony Dokoupil to CBS Evening News. Here's what Ta-Nehisi Coates had to say about him: zeteo.com/p/ta-nehisi-...

It’s different with Poetry. —Suzanne Lummis

For the record, I will be swearing in on Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower after I’m elected.

Once again, the ads in the print edition of @theonion.com are worth the price alone

ALA is disappointed and concerned with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow a lower court ruling in Little v. Llano County stand. This decision will significantly restrict the freedom to read in public libraries across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Our statement: https://bit.ly/48HOSAl

This is just stupendous...

Paris of the Midwest. #mamiya7 #film #photography #filmphotography #mediumformat #mediumformatfilm #mediumformatphotography #colorphoto #detroit

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

In another life I was a distance runner. Year-round, from 7th grade until my senior year of college, for ten years, my feet beat pavement. I'm 35 now and my body deserves some love and flowers. Today's poem is "Dear Body," tinyurl.com/5y3tkun2 #poetry #writingcommunity #running #XC #growingup

In 1964, the Mexican government forcefully relocated the largest stone sculpture in the Americas from the town of Coatlinchan to a Mexico City museum. Sandra Rozental's "The Absent Stone" traces how the monolith continues to affect Coatlinchan. Read the intro for free on our website: buff.ly/PxoxFxd

In another life I was a distance runner. Year-round, from 7th grade until my senior year of college, for ten years, my feet beat pavement. I'm 35 now and my body deserves some love and flowers. Today's poem is "Dear Body," tinyurl.com/5y3tkun2 #poetry #writingcommunity #running #XC #growingup

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Happy Krampusnacht to all who observe.

"Come away with me to the simple countryside; we'll be together & pure!" Pastoral poetry is for city folk. Be apprised; there is toil out here too, but also a wildness that defies your imagination. Today's poem: "Unreasonable Wonder" tinyurl.com/yrj7r9e8 #poetry #poems #writingcommunity #pastoral

If I were the spirit of Christmas subjunctive...

One more week in the semester

new from above/ground: Cahill, Earl, Cavaleri, Niespodziany, Comay/Fagan, Birchard, Chernoff, la Rocque, carisse, Hill, Nećakov, Siklosi + Bjerg/Jung, @neonpajamas.bsky.social @amandaearl.bsky.social @jungcharlotte.bsky.social @jimmytcahill.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/new-from-a...

Just keep grading grading grading

just keep grading just keep grading just keep grading grading grading

In the future, my kids will never believe me...but here's how it was... Today's poem is "Muddy Christmas, Not Too Far From Now" tinyurl.com/2pxh9y6n #poetry #writingcommunity #politics #climatechange #suburbia #boomers #poemsky #authors #poemaday #politicalpoetry #snow #christmas #winter

Had a chance last month to read alongside Elise Houcek and Zack Darsee while they toured their new book From The Pocket of Agent Dikinson. Imagine yourself swimming in language like a hand in unsnug, loosely fitting latex gloves. It’s a word-for-word psychic gyre worth every bit of your day.

In the future, my kids will never believe me...but here's how it was... Today's poem is "Muddy Christmas, Not Too Far From Now" tinyurl.com/2pxh9y6n #poetry #writingcommunity #politics #climatechange #suburbia #boomers #poemsky #authors #poemaday #politicalpoetry #snow #christmas #winter

Every thing on earth is perfect all the time. #leica #leicam6 #35mm #film #35mmfilm #photography #filmphotography #colorfilm #colorphoto #michigan #puremichigan

#5amwritersclub I have to tell you all...SNOW DAY? SNOW YAY!

December seems to demand some form of attention to misery... But today's poem is "When I Stopped Caring" tinyurl.com/mr2z4abj #poetry #winter #seasonalaffectivedisorder #mentalhealth #idgaf #writingcommunity #December #poemsky #poemaday #poets

December seems to demand some form of attention to misery... But today's poem is "When I Stopped Caring" tinyurl.com/mr2z4abj #poetry #winter #seasonalaffectivedisorder #mentalhealth #idgaf #writingcommunity #December #poemsky #poemaday #poets

& Up #leicaphotography #m6 #35mm #35mmfilm #film #photography #filmphotography #colorphoto #colorfilm #leica #michigan #streetphotography

Do anything, but let it produce joy. Whitman, Leaves of Grass

#5amwritersclub It's almost "get back to my projects" season 🙏

Deep Local | Ep.2: Spark Plug #short #shortfilm #digitalshort #canon #canon5d #digitalphotography #digitalphoto #sparkplug #smallenginerepair #writing WATCH HERE: youtu.be/-rrC784oV-w

A kind neighbor limits your need for new things. A new short from Deep Local. "Spark Plug" open.substack.com/pub/seanjbat... #zine #shortform #poetry #smallenginerepair #selfreliance #writingcommunity #film #poemsky