“You will be a tiny volcano prettier than three thirsty dogs curtsying and / swapping advice on how to grow wheat in mothballed pianos.” – César Moro, “VISION OF MOTH-EATEN […]
Friday Links: They Don’t Want You Around Edition
“George did not sing along but he listened intently to the words of the song. He found them to be the words of a people that must have been constantly […]
Albums I Should Have Listened To Already: ‘Rumours’ by Fleetwood Mac
“Yesterday’s gone / yesterday’s gone” – Fleetwood Mac, “Don’t Stop” We have arrived at the album that inspired this series. How have you never listened to Rumours front to back?? […]
Friday Links: Amorak Huey’s Mouth & Other Poems Edition
“I put in a plastic bag / 8 limes, even the plastic / was alive, it used to be / Precambrian vegetables” – Matthew Rohrer, “49” It’s poetry week, but […]
Ekphrasis: Stuff Happening August 2026 Edition
“Making music is like constructing a machine whose function is to dredge up emotions in performer and listener alike. Some people find this idea repulsive…they would prefer to see music […]
Friday Links: Weirder Functioning Public Transit Edition
“To see something like that, to discover that the world you thought you’d lived in was a lie, a thin shell of respectable rationality over a roiling core of madness?” […]
Ekphrasis: Punks Edition
“The desperate, innate desire to create and perform had been exploited rather than supported. It was like taking a basic human need, like wanting to love and be loved, and […]
#26 FILMREC- THE CONJURING
There is only one good movie in “The Conjuring Universe” and it is the first one. This blog is actually less of a recommendation to watch The Conjuring (2013) and […]
Friday Links: Functioning Public Transit Edition
“This is not the bus that was foretold to us by the great prophet. This is not the bus to Chicago. This is just a temptation sent by evil doers. […]
10 or 13 Anthologies Worth Reading Cover To Cover
“There are allegedly two stories to tell: a stranger comes to town, or a person goes on a trip…This was an idea I paid to hear.” – Ben Marcus, The […]