Hope I can make it to my office in time.
Wednesday, September 09, 2026
We Are All Sisyphus
I'm really glad I wrote this piece. Check out my review of Coyote Vs. Acme over at The Ugly Monster.
Songless
Poet Savannah Manhattan and artist Kelly Sauvage Moyer close out Oddball Magazine this Wednesday. Thanks for reading us today. Please stay safe the rest of the week.
Pride Perspective
An essay by Asher Bomse with artwork by Robert Fleming kicks off Oddball Magazine the Wednesday before some kind of anniversary. I like how this day is shaping up.
School's In
The September issue of North of Oxford by Editors Diane Sahms and g emil reutter is fully loaded with poetry and reviews for your consideration.
Steffen Up
Hastings Room Reading Series Coordinator Michael Todd Steffen steps up for this week's Lyrical Somerville poet, up now at The Somerville Times.
New Graffiti
Spotted near the old Boomerangs location. I am both confused with the specifics of the message and impressed with the directness.
A Moment of Comics
Much of America is filled with seething anger over decades of having no clear-cut enemy to overwhelm from their armchairs. I've been thinking about that this week, and I've been thinking about a certain comic by Skip Williamson. Below is the final page from "Conflagration" in the Fantagraphics anthology Zero Zero.
American Haiku: Trump's Safe Space
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.
September 9: Stone Soup Poetry Returns
Stone Soup returns with an all-open mic. Am I ready for the grind again? No. Am I doing it anyway? Yes. Am I hoping you join me? God, yes.
Join us on Wednesday, September 9, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 825 1058 4516
Password: stonesoup
Your Wednesday Morning Poetry
Because there's at least one anniversary this week that people are going to make about themselves, here's the late Amiri Baraka's infamous poem "Somebody Blew Up America," a poem targeted for calling out Irsael while overlooking when the poem brought up persecution of Jewish people. Given that a lot of writing after 9/11 hasn't aged well, this poem still merits a read. Thanks to the Black Agenda Report website for posting the poem.
Tuesday, September 08, 2026
A Week of...
Poet Susan Isla Tepper and photographer Glenn Bowie unite for another Tuesday 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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| Hopefully we all learn on the first day of school. |
Plea
For all intents and purposes, it's fall.
Can we please stop screwing around?
I've made way too many mistakes this summer.
I've had way too many jobs this summer.
I've done most of them terribly.
I need a return to some semblance of normalcy.
Please.
Monday, September 07, 2026
Already a Busy September
See what Anne Skove's been seeing in her latest comic.
"She Who Laughs Lasts" is up now at Oddball Magazine.
Bully!
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons starts Monday off ugly at Oddball Magazine.
Hope your week only gets prettier from here.
My Monday Morning Music
Saw the movie Tony a couple of weeks ago. A docudrama of Anthony Bourdain's time in Cape Cod, Tony had a pretty good soundtrack. Here's one of those songs.
Sunday, September 06, 2026
Another Anniversary
Went through some old photos. Came across this one taken outside of a Southie restaurant from September 2016. Kid Rock was still seen as semi-relevant ten years ago. What a difference a decade makes.
Your Weekly Dose of God
I have been too busy and tired to find new things. Here's one more image from the inside of Notre-Dame Basilica of Montréal.
Saturday, September 05, 2026
My Saturday Haiku for Bluesky, 9-5-26
take rain as summer towns turn
to hibernation.
Friday, September 04, 2026
My Friday Evening Music
Dolly Parton took her covers seriously. She tweaked several bits of "What's Up," Which Linda Perry had to be cool with because a) she's playing on the cover and b) she's been known to rewrite verses when covering songs. At least when Dolly Parton sings that she prays for resolution instead of revolution, at least you can believe her when she says she prays. RIP Dolly Parton.
My Friday Morning Music
Even if I never saw the movie 9 to 5, even if I somehow kept myself isolated from popular music and media, I would still have this tapeworm of an earworm by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers that played constantly in the eighties.
Leopards Eating Faces Update!
Having known of Milo Yiannopoulos since the Gamergate days, any feelings of catharsis or schadenfreude over his latest fate are diminished by the truth that his comeuppance arrives over a decade too late.
Thursday, September 03, 2026
Ringing in September
"Cymbalic Dream" helps to ring in September over at the micropoetry journal dadakuku. Thanks to petro c.k. for publishing me again.
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