I feel a perverse desire to try to write a book that every single person will hate. (I believe it has something to do with feeling imagined reader expectations before one even starts writing.)

“As we walked in silence, I realized I couldn’t help myself. I was talking to the Popsicle because I literally had no one else to talk to...” radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Fake it until you've faked it for so long you don't even really know the difference any more.

The homework all dogs want to eat.

“I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.” ― Eartha Kitt

Elastic, the print magazine of psychedelic art and literature, is here. Our first issue, on the theme of dying, is available for order now—and it’s stacked, to put it mildly. Fifty contributors. 176 lush pages filled with work that bends time and space and perspective. Nab a copy at elasticmag.com.

"Perhaps it is the role of art to put us in complicity with things as they happen." - Lyn Hejinian, Happily

"School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is." - Ivan Illich

"You worried that the crisis was following you and, because of how closely it mirrored your thinking, that you were the crisis." - Renee Gladman, Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge

All this as the world burn and drowns, says every cut-rate Cassandra in statements that gain no traction. Culture will not completely collapse, but at some point soon it might be made almost only by the very rich. This situation produces the art of our time.

"Then I imagine him melting, that eventually he will melt away to nothing, leaving a long purple sticky trail behind him, like a purple popsicle snail. And it occurs to me this might be what I most want, for the problems of the world to simply melt away..." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

"It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money... Whatever is popular now—that’s all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I’m doing and why." - Nina Simone

"It’s not just publishing. A similar stagnancy has settled in at the big movie studios and record labels. Nobody wants to take a risk—but (as I’ve learned through painful personal experience) that’s often the riskiest move of them all. Live by the formula, and you die by the formula." - Ted Gioia

The final footnote in Georges Bataille's final unfinished book reads: "I don't intend to deal in this work with the question of the means of acting effectively. However, I will set out the principles of such action elsewhere." We're still waiting.

“Politics does not reflect majorities, it constructs them.” - Stuart Hall

All the essays and stories I have published on A Radical Cut in the Texture of Reality: radicalcut.blogspot.com/search/label...

"No wound is unique. Nothing human is unique. Everything becomes terribly banal over time. There’s the conundrum; but somewhere in there, literature has a chance to emerge.” ― Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, The Most Secret Memory of Men

"An economy is a system of apparently willing but actually involuntary exchanges." - Bhanu Kapil, Schizophrene

Somewhat related, I highly recommend the novel Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams, which is about the Chagos Islands among other things: mitpress.mit.edu/978163590162...

"Popular culture’s designed by a highly-trained popular culture elite" - Momus, The Philosophy of Momus

I joined Tumblr in 2012 and since then have posted 15,505 times: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2022/12/four...

"What is meaning? I don’t know, but I may know what its opposite is: thinking that nothingness is easy to bear." - Mahmoud Darwish

"Also, it was one of those days when you do something, it works out, and then you wish that you’d known in advance that it was going to work, so you could have enjoyed it while it was happening." – Julian Cope, Head On

Scotiabank fully divests from Elbit Systems. This divestment does not exonerate Scotiabank, which maintains investments in arms and extractive capital. Nonetheless, we must celebrate small wins. radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/02/scot...

I want success but I love failure.

“We prefer our personal tragedies, because we’re all cowards and bastards.” — William T. Vollmann, Europe Central

"And sometimes what you fear never comes And sometimes what you fear never leaves" - Sports Team, Unstuck

“You shouldn't ask me whether I like him or not. The way you mean it, I don't suppose I like anybody.” - Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding

The finnisage performance of Adventures can be found anywhere, même dans un cauchemar - where all the pages of rewritten Kafka are reread one last time before being stapled into a "Monster Book" - is today from 2pm-5pm at Mois Multi/Le Lieu in Quebec City.

"Property and law are born together and die together. Before laws were made there was no property; take away laws, and property ceases." - Jeremy Bentham, Theory of Legislation, 1871

The more you know how things work behind the scenes in any art form, the more difficult it is to take a given works stated intentions at face value.

“If violence is a kind of dust that lies inside the house of the soul, there does not seem to be any way to sweep it out the door. We can only sweep it into one corner or another.” - William T. Vollmann

“(If there's anything worse than an unreliable narrator, it's an unreliable narrator with a bag over his head.)” -Jacob Wren, Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim

"I often say I don’t necessarily relate to people who make art, performance, or literature, but I do relate to people who make art, performance, and literature who think of quitting every fifteen seconds. Those are really my people." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2020/04/thos...

“AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more.” - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

I had some success as a writer, but I think I managed to write my way out of it.

Excited to be here in Quebec City collaborating with Bureau de l’APA on Adventures can be found anywhere, même dans un cauchemar: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/02/adve...

I like art that's really angry and yet I'm no longer making art that's really angry.

"The flavour of literature I had once most wanted to promote was literature that took risks with both content and form and strived to connect these risks directly to radical politics. But no one seemed interested." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-wo...

“Next time I come here," he said to himself, "I must either bring sweets with me to make them like me or a stick to hit them with.” ― Franz Kafka, The Trial

For years I couldn’t stop writing about the oncoming fascism and then the fascism was here and I couldn’t seem to write about it anymore.

I used to think my problem was that I too frequently self-sabotage but now I think that my problem is actually that I too desperately want success.

"Conversation is when you don’t know what the next thing the person you are with is going to say." – John Cage

“A political art, let it be / tenderness,” - Amiri Baraka, Short Speech to My Friends

On my way to Quebec City for Adventures can be found anywhere, même dans un cauchemar by PME-ART and Bureau de l’APA radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/02/adve...

"Something was going to break, something has broken... the impression of belonging to or of being in the world, is starting to slip away from you." - Georges Perec, A Man Asleep

“Modern man…ceaselessly ‘remembers,’ chewing over the matter of his existence, the accumulated monuments of his history, empirical data, scientific facts – without ever corporealizing them or putting them into the service of life.” - Lee Scrivner, Becoming Insomniac

What kind of phoenix could rise from these ashes?

"Like Wren’s other work, this book is essentially not so much a call to action as a call for the reader to step away from apathy and to take seriously, however briefly, the most radical of positions." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2017/05/j-c-...

"Gentrified happiness is often available to us in return for collusion with injustice." - Sarah Schulman, The Gentrification of the Mind