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

At least Trump sounds and looks like shit and is dying

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"

something for the end of the year (and the start of a new one) coming this weekend

oh, you're a new yorker looking to sublet your apartment from dec. 22-27? wow, i've always wanted to spend my holiday sitting alone in someone else's bedroom

Joan Jett throwing gas??!!?!!

best find of the year at myopic: self-pubbed Star Trek fanfic through the years

i went to the grace byron x kate wagner x pilsen community books event and everyone knew you and wanted to share their nuanced thoughts on cults and community with you

Happy to announce that I’ve posed this question to multiple people and their answers have all been “Lou you’re going to need both bookshelves”

Logan Square Coyote is the name of a band with about 20x the number of allegations more than the number of people that have listened to a full song

AEGIS news 4/98

when I go into the office they all point at me and yell "Algren boy!" and laugh and laugh

do I wait until I have all the perfect conditions to haul an elegant old bookshelf down from evanston or do i give into the siren song of the Billy...

loser behavior. check out this book about the guys from the original photo, who were actual tradesmen who knew skills besides con artistry