If you are a freak in the city of Chicago please come to Myopic Books and collect your copy of HOGG by Samuel Delany. We have so many waiting for you

Always a pleasure to make posters for Da Big Apple’s finest :)

hey NYC peeps: the "mostly trans" summer reading series I run with @joycelaurie.bsky.social is returning for a special wintertime event at Topos Too in Ridgewood :) would love 2 see you there

True of tonight’s game but also just a guiding truth of my life

Chicago has the mandate of heaven

"shitting on ai makes you sound like a Luddite" oh okay, thank you! Luddites were cool as hell

Idk if there’s a better book to have in ur bag if your working the graveyard shift as a bus driver on the rainy streets of Chicago

formative crush

The great fiction and nonfiction schism of 2026

BlueSky is a place to get updates on the kidnapping and murder operations of ICE stormtroopers, and it is a place to make somewhat empty demands for justice. It does not seem, for perhaps good reason, to be a place to strategize. Think about what you can do.

A call for people to patronize 26th St businesses and a reminder of the ICIRR hotline (855-435-7693) before the group disperses to shouts of “rapid response teams are ready,” and “chinga la migra.” “She died a hero, but be careful. They’re escalating,” an organizer says. “Take all precautions.”

Calling out of my first day back at work with “overly realistic dream about pwr bttm comeback show”

Carhartt should have a trade in program for young men with sensory issues and changing bodies who exclusively wear one specific pair of their pants

smoking a whole pack of experimental literature (putting together the monthly asterism order)

Do we have any Nicole Brossard heads in the chat

The new worrisome trend among young men is called "Magic Fishing." It's when they get high and stare at Paul Klee's 1925 painting "Fish Magic" for hours

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Less than 2 hours from wheels down in Chicago to full Rumi meal consumed. New record

Is your New Year’s resolution to read more ??? Is it not ??? Either way you should read this book and join us on February 8th for what WILL BE the METEORIC RETURN of the myopicXempty bottle book club

It is a cold dreary Chicago winter and we want you to read some Algren with us about it. February 8th at the Empty Bottle.

Two equally powerful and significant regimes begin today (Zohran in NYC and @cashbrowns.bsky.social in the funny pages)

This year was about showing up for and with the people I love, and that includes finding a creative life partner in Leo, who makes everything I do better, bolder, funnier, and more alive. Wonder twins forever baby!!

New Year’s resolution: attend more readings in order to find true love

New Years Resolution: more gradients

Today has really put me back in my classic “thinking really really hard about twin peaks” mode

Wonderful and strange

In the Pacific Northwest if you can’t recite all the details of the lifecycle and spawning habits of salmon by your eighteenth birthday they just put you on a raft and push you out into the Sound. There’s no hope for you.

Me to anyone in the city of Seattle who will listen: so the thing about my best friend is that she’s a bus driver

Rare case of “having to hand it to” the Pacific Northwest

Insane that it has been less than a week since i was watching heated rivalry with the literary transsexuals of Chicago and corridor. I have lived and died 100 times every day since then

Getting mad at my sister because she won’t stop calling the dog “Dr. Jill Stein”

this is the stuff i liked the best this year

Can’t wait to do laundry at my mom’s house tomorrow. It will be so beautiful

Hey if you live In CHICAGO ILLUNOIS you should get one of these for your wall/fridge or you WILL regret it

as we say on the business, hell yeah @gunkhole.bsky.social @wanlittlehusk.bsky.social

If there's one thing I hate to taste, it's my own medicine. Of all the things I want taste, my own medicine ranks dead last. I'd taste any medicine you threw at me unless it's my own. I hate it when my friends are tasting my medicine and they're like "oh this is so good you should try some"—fuck off

Girls rock

It's your birthday, Duane.

Sort of crushed having a single day off this week

Greg Jareczek is the #1 sponsor of Heated Rivalry

I essentially dared myself to make this a month ago and it has been a joy and a nightmare and a reminder of what I can do. Pick one up if you're so inclined! They'll have holes punched in them too, if that sweetens the deal.

the unbreakable bond between me and the bone folder i stole from my job three bookstores ago

in chicago they want transgender for everybody. everybody transgender

everyone wants to write a history of the lesbian bar but no one wants to fucking bartend

leo won't stop calling the straight poly barista at our regular coffee shop "washed and unc-pilled"