Overpass padlocks
making sure their love never
gets out of Boston.
Saturday, December 13, 2025
My Saturday Haiku for Bluesky, 12-13-25
The sun is a lure
leading you outside so cold
snares your unscarfed neck.Correction:
The sun is a lure,
leaving you outside unscarfed
so cold snares your neck.
Advent Calendar, Day Thirteen
Another deep cut from The Fools I didn't know a lot. I tlooks like they have a lot of holiday tunes.
Friday, December 12, 2025
Dodgeball Wisdom
Bruce Wise and Wise Words closes out Oddball Magazine for the week. Thanks for reading us!
It's Official
If you aren't awake now, you should get up now and read Janet Cormier's Bamboozled No More! and kick off Friday with Oddball Magazine.
Stone Soup Croutons, 12-10-25: Apocalypse and Chill
Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.
I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.
I'm back doing this. I've missed months of work but I have to get back to the weekly grind.
It was easy this week thanks to feature Anna Geoffroy. She made it fun. Listen and watch if you don't believe me.
Instead of playing the video back the next day, I was able to take notes of everyone who was on the mic while moderating for the first time in a while. It felt good to multitask.
I even had the title before Anna was done.
I'm out of practice big time. I'm just happy to be at this again.
Thanks for reading.
Apocalypse and Chill
Hear your childhood
in the supermarket aisle.
in the supermarket aisle.
Never hear "Roadrunner"
in the Stop & Shop.
My Friday Morning Music
More new music I've discovered through YouTube. A commenter on this video thought he heard Steely Dan, and I think they're right.
Leopards Eating Faces Update!
Melania should win the Eaten Face award just based on the fact that they are calling Marjorie Taylor Greene's split with Trump a "divorce."
Poor Melania. For all her loyalty to Trump out of self-interest, she will always be the side piece.
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Monkey See
James Van Looy takes on AI in this week's poem column. Read It's All One Thing, up now at Oddball Magazine.
Anna Geoffroy Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 12-10-25
From this week's online gathering. A wonderful night of poetry. Support Anna's Holy Nonsense project.
Closer to the End
Thanks to Anna Geoffrey for helping us close out the 2025 year. Support Anna by submitting to her Holy Nonsense project. Stay tuned for a special announcement for next week's Stone Soup.
Advent Calendar, Day Eleven
Never heard this even when The Weather Girls were a thing. Playing it today.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Getting It All Over With
Going home for Anna Geoffroy's feature. Hope you're in the audience tonight for this exciting feature.
Obtuse Disappointment
Glad to feature poet K. Fern Lauth with my photography. Thanks for reading Oddball Magazine this Wednesday.
No Turn
Sandra Wyllie returns to our pages along with artist Bill Wolak, giving us a great pairing of work. Welcome to Wednesday at Oddball Magazine. We're sure you'll enjoy the experience.
Closing Out 2025
g emil reutter and Diane Sahms have come out with the final issue of North of Oxford for 2025. Give it a read.
Doug on Doug
For this week's Lyrical Somerville, Doug Holder shares a morbid poem of his own that's very much to my liking. Read it now at The Somerville Times.
It's All Gray Now
I'm really tired of the grayscaling of the city's landscape. Gray paint being spraypainted over painted graffiti, stickers, even flyers. It's a base and transparent attempt to suppress the only way some people can express themselves or share what's happening in the world without being ratioed by social media.
A Moment of Comics
I'm surprised I missed DC's 'Twas the 'Mite Before Christmas last year with the Bat-Mite story "Wonderful Toys" written by Sholly Fisch with artwork by Juan Bobillo. Check the issue out.
American Haiku: Trump Bails Out Self
When I started my Sarcastic Haiku series, I wrote my first American Haiku.
An American Haiku doesn't care about tradition, formality or history. it takes as long as it wants to make its point because America. You can read
others I've written since by clicking here and scrolling down.
American Haiku: Trump Bails Out Self
Whichever country
is hurting all our farmers,
we should overthrow their government!
Advent Calendar, Day Ten
The Lake Sirens is a music group whose membership includes a friend of my partner, who downloaded this song and recommended it for what she calls my "Chadvent calendar." I like this. I hope you do too.
Your Wednesday Morning Poetry
It's been a year since Nikki Giovanni's passing. Let's mark her passing with a Christmas poem of hers I found on the blog The Value of Sparrows. Read "Christmas Laughter," a happier poem for a change.
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
All We Can Do
Jason Wright closes out the day with his Jagged Thought poem column at Oddball Magazine.
Annoying Thought of the Day
I love it when people who profess to have emotional/mental disorders find the ability to take f--king potshots at me in front of a bunch of people.
A Prideful Retelling
Check out today's flash fiction by Emma Wells with artwork by Edward Michael Supranowicz. Enjoy your Tuesday over at Oddball Magazine.
This Week's Most Distinguished Network Name
It's amazing what people will name their online networks. I'm always trying to hijack Wi-Fi when I'm commuting, so I often come across a number of interesting names. Every Tuesday, I post the most impressive and/or cringe-inducing names.
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| I knew there had to be collusion somewhere! |
Monday, December 08, 2025
Leaving Soon
I'm actually heading to the Contro-Verse open mic tonight.
I haven't gone for a while. This will be my last chance before the new year.
Hope I can fit in some food in between now and my trip to Malden.
A Holiday Mashup
Jacques Stanley Fleury takes a look at A Sherlock Carol in this week's Act Three at Oddball Magazine.
Tonight: The Contro-Verse Open Mic at Urban Media Arts in Malden with the MK Effect Marcella Kelley
From 7:00 to 8:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM. At Urban Media Arts on 145 Pleasant Street in Malden, MA. Hosted by Anna Geoffroy and Ethan Mackler. Click here for more information.
Wisdom from the Mouth of Max
Here's a family tale from our resident cartoonist Anne Skove. Read "She Who Laughs Lasts" now at Oddball Magazine.
His Job Review's In
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons reminds us that, sadly, Trump clones aren't hard to come by. Welcome to the new week at Oddball Magazine.
Citgo Not Quite Night Yet
From last Friday. One more shot of the Citgo sign I don't think is too bad.
Sunday, December 07, 2025
December 10: Contro-Versey Comes to Stone Soup
Anna Geoffroy has become a poetry organizer and performer in good standing. Her work alongside the late Jeff Taylor with the Garage Poets and organizer and host of the Contro-Verse open mic is no small feat and no small burden to carry on. She deserves your praise and your attention this coming Wednesday as Anna Geoffroy features at Stone Soup Poetry this Wednesday on December 10.
Join us on Wednesday December 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 818 8268 0800
Password: stonesoup
A Look Back
I have a feeling the issue of torture is coming back soon. A Tom Toles cartoon I saved all the way back in 2006.
Twig on Chair
Mom got a comfy chair a while ago, this week, I got an email with the subject, "Someone likes my chair."
Yesterday
Sitting in Insert Fast Food Place Name Here waiting for my GF's car to be fixed. Old guy--forgive me, fellow old guy but slightly older--yells over to me in the middle of talking with his friend, "Hey buddy, you know what tomorrow is?
Me: Sorry, no.
Him: C'mon, it's an historical day!
Me: ...
Him: Here's a hint! Godzilla! Godzilla!
Me "flabbergasted, more confused): ...
Him: "It's Pearl Harbor Day!"
Your Weekly Dose of God
This week I'm highlighting the official Substack page for Christian Nightmares, who I've featured here in the past courtesy of Twitter. Their newest weekly recap is particularly full of Christmas fear.
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