Spring Break is long enough that one realizes how dramatically untidy their home has gotten, but not long enough to do anything about it. Literally and metaphorically.

Friends, I’ll be reading at Bar Henry in LA on Thursday 3/27 with this whole slew of sweet summer children 😍 @burnsidereview.bsky.social Black Ocean and my own new fam from Saturnalia Books

The wind got up in my hood this morning and now I know Skeletor’s origin story.

More on those 504 rights Texas v Beccera threatens

Louise Bourgeois, The Couple, 2007-09 #WomensArt

The removal of a transgender reference from the National Park Service’s Stonewall website wasn’t done by NPS staff. Elon, care to elaborate?

Tell the Natl Parks how to improve their Stonewall page. Tell them real good!

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Only the freshest hell for our loyal customers 😒

When poets break up with astrologers…

How close am I to a flip phone and a paper atlas?

The last time someone appropriated this land for sketchy timeshares, giving it a misleading, dopey name, it didn’t go so excellent for them…

NYTimes must’ve blinked cuz they missed the halftime show by a mile.

Am I delighted to live in a world where I cheer corporations whose operations approach basic decency. No. No I am not. But here we are. Go Costco with your relatively livable wage and diverse workforce and your superb Korean pickles in stock just once a year so I giddily buy four gallons.

Rewatched Midsomer Murders series 1-4 re: how to subvert the inheritors of colonial wealth. We’ll need some typewriters, manure, veterinary barbiturates, wigs, and Wellington boots. Maybe a cricket bat or two. A pair of Punch and Judy marionettes and a rotary dial telephone. C u at the village fete.

Then maybe we *will* go more a roving.

Diamond Forde “That’s what daughters be: a dark center gulping. They / mend.”

Call your representatives on the Freakophone www.madisonmccartha.com/freakophone-...

Finally, inflation in our favor. Thanks, perimenopause!

The problem with faking your death, changing your name to Racoony Squirrelbird, and living in a tree is it’s actually v uncomfortable in a tree, acorns hurt your teeth, and you need your basic middle-aged meds. So there you are stuck faking your life and living in a house, Mx. Squirrelbird.

Remember when you used to get in bed with the portable phone and its bananas antenna, talking to your bestie about bootlegs, mountains, the rippled feeling of tipping your head back then raising it real quick, not to elected representatives about a billionaire rolling naked in soc sec numbers?

It’s 11am in the current timeline and you’ve sent enough email to wonder yet again why you didn’t become a nomadic puppeteer or a deer’s velvety antler or a soup bowl instead

Yesterday’s last and tiniest straw was an especially sharp toast crumb down my shirt. Toast, I turn to you for comfort! But here we are on Thursday morning, starting fresh, awaiting all Thursday’s big and little straws. [from inside haystack]

Alice Notley is my Foxfire Book. “Left dead after our cultures were broken by triumphant enemies, our stories changed to suit others. We now change them again to suit ourselves.”

God bless

Ebb off, now

Cover reveal! ALONG THE ROAD EVERYONE MUST TRAVEL this March from Saturnalia Books. Big thanks to Robin Vuchnich for the design. Blurbs, other gratitudes, links, how many dark horses you might actually expect, what to do when you’re between the underworld and topside to flood your feed soon!

I sometimes include an excerpt from The Bone People and an interview with Hulme from NZ public radio in the ace-aro unit of Queer & Trans creative writing. I’m always impressed it won the Booker in 1985 of all times. Link to interview/reading: www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Bloof and its Bloofies, myself included, making some art 🖤💛🖤💛

Tonics and homeopathics! Marie-Claire Blais’s Mad Shadows, purely grim. Joyce Mansour for staging despair. Teaching Sarah Schulman’s Rat Bohemia later this spring. Holly Raymond’s goblin poems—are those a book yet? Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s story Through the Flash.

Me looking through the Bluesky arch wondering if this time humans will surprise me 👀(Fitzgerald’s Faeries Looking Through a Gothic Arch)

In case you wanted a preview of the first act of Binti, or you wanted a tattoo of the crustacean spaceship, worldbuilding students have got you covered. This is the first time we’re running Advanced Worldbuilding and it’s such a blast to challenge them to level up 🚀

Today, Advanced Worldbuilding discusses Binti by @nnedi.bsky.social. We’re focusing on the first-act of three-act tales, this semester, and this trilogy is a matryoshka of three-acts! Plus immediately immersive, poetic of image, exciting of plot, and fiercely loyal to its own logic.

One of the things we love about living in Rochester (unceded Haudenosaunee land) is how there are more visibly trans people working here than anywhere else we’ve lived.

Due to great dissatisfaction with the oligarchy, I will be paying through the nose, and only *through the nose* from now on

Reveled in its Neanderthal content. Considering cave radio and subterranean undersky worship 2025-♾️