Purgatory! Huh

It was so nice to have sunlight all day, and when I went out, to leave my coat open, not out of bravado but to avoid overheating.

Call bullshit once a day (at least)

Well, or, don’t do it for anything besides relief from the unbearable pressure of seeing great work go unnoticed

Have you read The Nimbus yet and if not when will you be getting on that

[trying to remember what not running a thousand miles an hour feels like] what’s for lunch

About five years before I joined the band, i.e. 2001, I spent about three months listening to pretty much nothing but this wonderful album and Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout, and they both remind me very much of getting divorced and 9/11 but that’s ok

Have you read The Nimbus yet and if not when will you be getting on that

Superstrain Kennedy Jr

“Antisemitism is the socialism of fools.”

It’s funny to disable replies to a post about Blanchot’s Infinite Conversation

Good name for a poetry collection.

Beauty? That’s nice

Well, or, don’t do it for anything besides relief from the unbearable pressure of seeing great work go unnoticed

Call bullshit once a day (at least)

Everything is cool

Who’s going to see Pylon Reenactment Society in April? Me, I am

Who schedules meetings for 9 am on Friday? Chiefs of staff in areas other than mine, are who

Do you have this book? Have you read it. Well, I do, and I have, and I look forward to reading it again. (Need to find my copies of Riley’s other books.)

Shame, you say.

#Poetry -- Such a pretty book! I know the main style now is a lot more with images and creative type treatments, but this just sings to me. (pic by Pearl Pirie, screengrabbed by me.) A few copies still available signed, or you can get one from asterismbooks.com if you want to gaze at this eye candy.

The Singapore government reaped billions of dollars more in vehicle quota premiums and car taxes than it projected.

I go into a wormhole on October 15 or so and I come out February 14 or so and if I do anything at all not related to work while I’m in the wormhole it’s amazing to me, it makes me believe in quantum physics, how could I have done that while I was in the wormhole

Music criticism is a form of sociology that mainly consists of bullying

Yumbo

so relatable honestly

My “how music criticism lost its edge” essay

[likes a thing] [sees a group of people making fun of the thing] [keeps liking the thing but says mean stuff about the thing in public sometimes] [waits for the group of people to die] Man those people sucked!

Tinkering with my ai prompt: Write a good poem, like the kind I like.

This is true — one of the reasons we got back in gear was to get Kyla’s work into readers’ hands in a staple-free form. (We love staples! But it’s hard to find chapbooks on bookshelves.)

I still have to track down three more Knicks fans at work to relive key moments of last night’s game with. I’ve talked to twelve so far

Grim

YOU DON’T SAY

My busy season at work just ended and now I want to write a review of a book to celebrate

Nice try, Diddy

Rhetorial question but how is it ice's job to go after agitators

I complain about Substack but as far as I’m concerned @lloydcole.bsky.social redeemed the entire enterprise today with a poem (!) called The New York Poets

I kind of like all of McLennan’s solo work. The Jack Frost stuff I’ve never totally warmed to — the bad juju of the Church always bugs me

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A skeleton racer representing war dead would be the sort of on-the-nose metaphor you’d cut from a poem but in real life? Unbeatable. Bravo.

tell it to the hague, buddy

Meaning what, precisely

This would be funny if things weren’t so dire. “What’s more, Rasmussen head pollster Mark Mitchell posted on X (Twitter) Tuesday: ‘If an election were held TODAY between Trump and Biden, Biden would win.’” www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Corollary to the precept “be yourself” — “be specific.”

🎶 all the Signal ladies, all the Signal ladies 🎶

Famous? Hm. Jen Sincero? Greatest achievement, I might go with Brice Marden.

Gotta find some O-U ok’d pączki asap. (Seen in Ohio a few years back; can’t remember whether I’ve ever found them in NY.)

I saw these sentences today and will be reflecting on them for some time: “This is important to remember amid all the headlines about the asset management industry's troubles. Despite all the pressures and murky outlook, for the most part it remains a phenomenally profitable business.”

sort of unrelated to this point, though not entirely: the fact that there's such a thing as professors of rare moths etc is one of humanity's crowning achievements to date and this is what the right wants to take away from you

Bing, and I cannot emphasize this enough, bong