This is extremely sad news. Domini was an engaged, original and prolific critic whose reading often took him into less charted literary terrain. Daniel Green wrote a lovely and attentive piece on his work that can also serve as a fine remembrance. www.openlettersmonthlyarchive.com/olm/john-dom...

I am so deeply shocked and sad to hear that John Domini has died. He was a mentor and a friend, a brilliant literary critic who was also one of the most generous literary citizens I’ve ever met. He was perceptive, giving me the most lovely review, taking my work seriously, intellectually - and he

I'm sorry to hear about the passing of John Domini, a writer and critic who I admired so much. He might be the only book reviewer to have reviewed every book I ever published, and I was so grateful for his keen eye on my fiction. Not to mention his own fiction, which I was always so glad to see.

Popping in to say the obvious: It’s really bad out there guys. And I’m freaked out by *waves at dumpster fire* all of this. This is the first time ever I have seriously contemplated moving overseas. I really hope not.

Who wrote this 2005 Onion article? I need to give them a wet sloppy French kiss. “City Councilman Unearths Magical Zoning Amulet” theonion.com/city-council...

Coming up here for air to say I swerve between despair and hilarity at the dark, absurd Kafkaesque situation we find ourselves as of late. A comedy club in Hell. Btw did you know there’s a hotel in Panama full of deported migrants that Trump booted out?! They can’t leave!

social media has been an interesting and highly damaging experiment. good try. let’s pack it up and do something else

David Foster Wallace, for all his problems, recognized the dangers of irony poisoning to civic life and his efforts to grapple with it are still worth reading.

From one of my good friends @venuri.bsky.social whose family is from Sri Lankan. 😍 What an impressive cookbook on Sri Lankan cuisine! And there were other treats in the box. 🥰 It totally made my day, besides chit chatting with good friends.

Giving 2024 the DEATH STARE.

If you’re new here: I’m an artist, illustrator, writer, journalist. Ex-crime reporter in NJ/NYC. Ex-welder, brick mason, private investigator etc. Varied career. Art, books, Surrealism, storytelling, making things, warfare, migration, people in extremis are my interests.

Florida…I am inside of you. 🥰

CENTCOM in Florida is hideous. An unholy crossbreed *does jazz hands* of vaguely Bhutanese architecture and New Jersey office park. These clerestory windows are a security risk to good taste.

Muslims or the Muslim curious…everybody I know who has read this book says it has changed their life for the better.

Alec Empire.

Technically, he’s great. But his subject matter overall…too pat. I would like to work harder for meaning. There’s very little ambiguity throughout his portfolio.

She likes to watch.

Quran shelfie. Eight total. Personal faves are the two in the middle.

Headed to the post office. Need to mail letters and get stamps.

Details from the Miles Johnston show.

Freelancer for hire. Have broad sword (and axe, machete, and revolver). Will travel.

LUTHER

Xmas is over.

Snaps from the Miles Johnston gallery show.

Opening reception for Miles Johnston at Harmon Projects, NYC.

Kendrick Lamar GNX, Akira homage.

Me and @davidfernandez.bsky.social: “Do you….play board games?!”

Pencil porn.

For watch geeks, Jolani appears to be wearing a Seiko Kinetic.

One of my dear friends Venuri is making waves! Congrats darling 🥳

Doing a quick Frank Miller inspired face.

The incomparable @sadarlo.bsky.social & my latest on the Maniac Murder Cult for GNET Research. "The purpose of MKY’s activities is to spread disorder & chaos with the purpose of building the org’s notoriety rather than clearly political or revolutionary ends." gnet-research.org/2024/12/04/b...

Grim stuff, here. Puppy chaser in the next tweet. 📌Key words: extremism, accelerationism, esoteric Hitlerism, nihilistic national socialism, youth culture, internet culture

Consider subscribing to my friend @saladinaldronni.bsky.social Substack. He does yeoman’s work on conflict developments in MENA.

New article from @petersmith.bsky.social and I about a dangerous militant accelerationist group that has made inroads in Europe & 🇺🇸 Brotherhood of Blood: Understanding the Origins and Trajectory of the Maniac Murder Cult – GNET gnet-research.org/2024/12/04/b...