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No love for Corel; as always the action's in the alt text

Really enjoyed writing this.Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for making a space for essays on essays!

"And suddenly you just have to sit there and be sad as the sad thing happens." @jacobgeller.com on the ways Shadow of the Colossus' music plays with our emotions. Listen to the full episode here: postgame.substack.com/p/20-years-l...

NEW ESSAY DAILY NEW MAYNARD LET'S GO

over at @essaydaily.bsky.social we’re gearing up for our annual Advent Calendar (the only time of year we actually post daily); send us yer stuff if you want to join in the advent adventures!

Ho ho ho it's book prize time send me your badass work

SUPER excited to see Kathleen Edwards announcing a date at Hotel Congress in February (got my tix obviously): hotelcongress.com/event/kathle...

I'm enjoying this interactive fiction, Slated for Demolition, from the 2025 IFComp: ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...

My essay on Creed's "My Own Prison" is in here! Thanks to @meganc.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @splitlippress.com for including me!

So @eldiagram.bsky.social made broadsides for @richard-siken.bsky.social, @mathiassvalina.bsky.social, @joshriedel.bsky.social, and Thomas Dai for their recent @uapoetrycenter.bsky.social readings. We have some left; if you want to buy em here you go: thediagram.com/merch/produc...

Today I'm at the Pizza Hut. I'm at the Taco Bell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8V...

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

Hey there, so I'm doing a project called What Happened On Oct 9th today, an outgrowth of the @essaydaily.bsky.social What Happened projects, in which we just write down/about what happens today. Join me if you want privately or on the public collaborative doc? docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Really happy to see this translation of an experimental poem by Mohammad Azarm in the wonderful journal Diagram. Many thanks to Ander Monson. thediagram.com/25_3/ eldiagram.bsky.social @angermonsoon.bsky.social

Deserved; vote

Oh I see one of my favorite albums of all time, Slumber Party's self-titled, just got added to Bandcamp, just in time for you to pick it up: slumberpartydetroit.bandcamp.com/album/slumbe...

My mom took too much Tylenol when she was pregnant with me and accidentally created the worlds foremost Kate Braverman scholar

"You commit to something, and you just become the incubator for the work." My conversation with Yuts / @geographyofrobots.bsky.social (maker of the great game NORCO) is up on @graywolfpress.bsky.social's Games Lab today: graywolflab.org/2025/10/03/e...

Next Tuesday I'm giving a Work Talk for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social at 7pm at Wave Archive with @leahmensch.bsky.social and Katie Jean Shinkle. I'm talking about a Michigan 1995 Simulator, Leah's doing Braverman impersonations, and KJS is dishing on Bad Men. Deets: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

CAMPUS FLOWERS, a new show up in the Tiny Cabinet by Hanna Wilkens: the.tinycabi.net/2025/10/camp...

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All I know to do when things are Very Bad is make art with more artists. I hope my little lit mag @zinemachine.bsky.social (launched today!), brings you what it’s brought me—an insistence that there’s so much brilliance, cleverness, humor, & beauty. That it’s never far away.🩷 zinemachine.com/the-mag

"On one corner of their big, dumb work truck that they didn’t use for work, they had fastened up a confederate flag. On the other corner, the flag of the United States. I don’t know why it bothered me." And lo, it's Chris Swartzentruber with a Villain Era turn: villaineralit.com/2025/09/30/b...

Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social! Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology

XNESS ESSAYS IN A BOOK???????

TACKS.BMF

For whatever reason I'm seeing more Arizona slander than usual on the timeline & I just want you all to know that it only makes us desert rats stronger.

"What if we had to live, remembering? Would we do something different if we knew we’d have to live alongside ghosts?" —Katherine Larson, "Haunted Household Objects"

New feature on @richard-siken.bsky.social's newest book which is arguably essays! open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

Mighta did a thing : thediagram.com/merch/produc...

HAMPTON.BMF

the one trick mods don’t want you to know

Good work @housleydave.bsky.social and @tmcallister.bsky.social

Hi y'all!! Still super pleased with how this came out, would love to see it on some folks walls!

Two new Tucson Essay Club stickers for you in the shop: tucsonessayclub.org/store/

Come join us and Manuel Muñoz tonight at Casa Video 8pm for Tucson Essay Movie Club, featuring 1975's Dog Day Afternoon. These events are primarily social, a writer introducing a movie that excites them with a brief essay, and we all watch it together.

in these troubled times let’s also review some vital self-defense tactics

Cosigned

Ok so 2004's Cellular is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, particularly considering the stellar cast. SO MUCH casual misogyny! So much depends on the technology of the newish-then cellphone. But credit's due for a clever credit sequence, soundtracked by "Sinnerman."

DAMN THIS ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF IS HITTING: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpMH...

top tier

"Untastables (Fictional Chips)" now up in the Tiny Cabinet. Let’s Potato Chips, Community, 2009 Potato Crisps, Fallout 4, 2015 Potato Chips, Control, 2019 Zalgitos, Omega Mart, 2021 Judy’s Potato Chips, Open Roads, 2024 MAI** Potato Chips, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, 2025

I'm into this essay by Eliot Hagyard just out in @villaineralit.bsky.social: villaineralit.com/2025/08/12/l...

I have a spoiler-y take on Eddington that I am dying to post but don't want to be a jerk so just let me say: Eddington is set during the pandemic but it is ABOUT a data center coming to a town where everyone is constantly using data to terrify themselves and others, it is actually a horror movie.

Thank you Tucson! Project Blue struck down by City and all of YOU! @nodesertdatacenter.com Let’s keep up the good work.

Not sure where this will go next, but this is excellent, excellent news. So many Ls lately, so going to celebrate the fact that the city council has committed to safeguarding the desert aquifers from Amazon's predations. azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer. As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free. Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

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