How fun was it to be interviewed about American Trickster, the Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda by Anna Oakes? For OR Radio? it was super fun ... open.spotify.com/episode/0A84...

Carlos Castaneda promised his followers they could escape death. In 1998, he died of liver cancer. Then the skeletal remains of five of his followers were found. What really happened inside his circle? 🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517 @rumarshall.bsky.social

mom can you pick me up at the strait of hormuz, my friends are laughing at me and wont help

thrilled to see this starred review in PW. now available for preorder at 15 percent from orbooks.com. alternately, full price from the guy who just decimated Wapo

Andrew, the Windsor formerly known as Prince

anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/10/p... a little something I wrote, about gender and whatnot ...

Weak/ling

Zohran!

Heterosexuality as social contagion ...

Word of the day: Cissplainng

Just a suggestion: Maybe the other progressive candidates for mayor could spend the remainder of the campaign down at federal plaza escorting folk. And maybe all future protests could be held there. Just suggestions ...

LAPD’s Chief says they still have no idea what the military’s mission in LA is. There are no open deconfliction channels between the military and local law enforcement. Having multiple groups with weapons operating in the same area with no way to communicate is fucking insane.

ICE out of NYC @resist

Loving the Musk business model. First, totally antagonize your predominantly Democrat voting EV driving customer base. Then piss off most of the MAGA base. A true genius at work

Oh my Gawdess! The Trump musk death match has started! Who could have ever seen it coming??? #ironywasnevertheproblem

@dietmarbusse in studio #contemporaryart #painting

Rehearsal still, Interlope

news.artnet.com/market/art-b... One does wonder at moments if there might be a bit of ethical inconsistency in the art world

Maybe just let the Qataris run Newark airport?

New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka arrested at ICE facility - POLITICO

Miscommunication, the rule, not the exception...

Dreamt that I started new organization: TATSAM trans alliance to save America Do with this what you will

Thursday May 1, 5pm, Foley Square

Oh my Gawdess, Vance killed the pope!

Question: What do I say to my Christian friends today? Good Good Friday? Or will a single " good" do? So confused ...

HAPPENING NOW: AIDS ACTIVISTS DELIVER MOUNTAIN OF COFFINS IN FUNERAL PROCESSION OUTSIDE US STATE DEPARTMENT PROTESTING MARCO RUBIOS ATTACKS ON PEPFAR IMPACTING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV WORLDWIDE.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

You'll discover an abstract formulation that explains everything. You'll hold fast to it--you want to live in a world that makes sense. You'll eventually be disturbed by information that unsettles that formula. The more unsettled you are, the more angrily you'll bat away this info I'll do the same.

Fight fiercely, Harvard ...

Would not be surprised if Harvard and Columbia faculty didn’t show up to teach for weeks—all sick from measles or flu or—until their presidents and boards realized they can’t run a university without faculty who believe in free speech and association, including for foreign students and faculty.

When do we get to the part where the nobility decides to cut its losses and exiles the mad king?

“He beheld a great stark sublimity that basked in the morning light. Its glaring fixity seemed to regard him with the eye of doom.”—from Sad Conquistador, my novel in progress. #MountainMonday

"When a cult's alternate reality is threatened, when the sense grows that the end is near, cognitive dissonance theory suggests that the madness will increase." - American Trickster

I, too, have never figured out the proper way to clean a blender

www.zohranfornyc.com Just went canvassing for Zohran. The energy and passion of this campaign are quite refreshing

“He scaled a tangled staircase of rocks and roots. Brown needles carpeted the path and found their way into his shoes. Mist topped the pine-blue mountains, and mist left tiny droplets along his sleeves.” From Sad Conquistador, my novel in progress. #ForestFriday #scape

Marching: I too dislike it. Thing is: when you protest, you make it easier for others to protest. That's how change happens. I too would rather be working on my epic poem, cooking cassoulet. But I'll be there April 5, 1 pm Bryant Park

I think I'm going to be ok if I never see any more "political" art that, relying on the dramatic, theatrical effects afforded by lots and lots of money and institutional support makes didactic points which surprise the audience not at all. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think I'll be ok

Et tu, White House correspondents dinner?

Re the FDA's crackdown on poppers: A bridge too far? The demise, at last, of the log cabin club? The final straw for Lindsey Graham?

Jews against Deportation. 6 to 8 pm Thursday. Foley square. I'll be there the first hour.