I mean, another fulfilling something accomplished, am I right?
I'm sure you can say the same.
But I hope you have enough energy for Stone Soup tonight.
Mignon Ariel King is our special feature.
Hopefully, you'll be one of the familiar faces in the virtual crowd.
We end with work by the poet known as DAJ 2020 with photography by Bonnie Matthews Brock. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Wednesday. More work coming along with a call for submissions!
We start with a series of poems by Jennifer Gurney with photography by Edward S. Gault. Welcome to Wednesday at Oddball Magazine.
Editors Diane Sahms and g emil reutter have compiled more poetry and book reviews for the latest issue of North of Oxford this month. Check it out today.
Christopher Cavallo is October's first entry in Lyrical Somerville. Read it now in The Somerville Times.
On Sunday I found these "'47 Clean Up" stickers. It looks like they came off purchased clothing. It looks like someone had the idea to put them on as a very not-so-subtle anti-Trump message. At least, that's how I interpreted it.
This last"Why" from Why Guy's initial run of graffiti is still holding up. It's actually easy to miss if you don't know what you're looking for. The tenth anniversary of Why Guy will be in (roughly) December 2027. I wonder if it will last.
My newest poetry project on Patreon involves new work based on a friend's chapbook. One of the poems in their collection includes a dream about flying that makes me remember the very first issue of Kurt Busiek's Astro City, which I first read when it came out in the parking lot outside Rubber Chicken Comics back when it used to be in Milford, Massachusetts. Thirty years later, and I'm still looking forward to the next story whenever it comes out. There's still a huge epic to finish! Enjoy a page from Astro City #1 by Busiek with artwork by Brent Anderson.
There are a fee poems out there in the wild web from poet Oliver Baez Bendorf. I finally decided on "I Want Biodegradable Sex" on the Poetry Daily website, where you can also read an essay on the poem by Bendorf.
Poet Mark Tulin and artist Edward Michael Supranowicz break the silence this Tuesday at Oddball Magazine.
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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| Thanks for giving me this just in time for October. |
I don't know much about Nathan Bowen, but this piece in Kenmore Square really captures the musical spirit of the area that persists no matter how much gentrification has tried to kill it off.
Saw a group of people in the Forest Hills T stop singing.
One was dressed in a dinosaur costume.
It's all well and good when spring is in the air.
But fall just...hits different.
Glad to have my photography with Eric Goldfarb's poem on the recent botched execution of Christa Pike. It's up now at Oddball Magazine.
If I had the time, I would do a followup to my Coyote Vs. Acme review with an article on all the fan art that ships Wile E. Coyote with the Road Runner.
Unfortunately, it would take a lot of back and forth interviews with young artists who may not even bother responding to messages from an older weirdo asking questions about their work.
We'll see what happens.
Life lessons for my girlfriend are in today's Anne Skove comic.
Read "She Who Laughs Lasts" now at Oddball Magazine.
We have Mike Mesterton-Gibbons on the real royal family to open the week over at Oddball Magazine. Have a happy Monday! Hope to see you alive at the end of it.
Started a new journal, so it needs stickers. I've started with free ones from this particular overseas press I hope to bring up later today.
When your appointments are finished and your partner asks you to pick up toner for school, why not walk all the way down to State Street and take a picture of the John Hancock along the way?
I wanted to catch up last week but couldn't due to exhaustion.
I'm a little more rested. Somewhat more healed.
Let's see if I can have a productive Monday for once.
Going to post a sticker I found down in Provincetown. The quote "You'll trip if you keep looking back" is actually taken from a Gucci Maine quote. Sorry, RWK.
This is some ghost graffiti I found in Kenmore a while back. Probably faded away by now, as ghosts and street pieces often do. Let's see if I have enough to last the month.
Republican politicians are killing us and people voting republican are killing themselves. We all need to vote in November.
For this Halloween month, I'm focusing on the kind of everyday modern horror I've been featuring at Oddball Magazine. The techno music of Chris Korda of the Church of Euthanasia fits this perfectly One of his most recent works, "Apologize to the Future," also serves as a retrospective of his life's work.
James Conant passed away over a decade ago. Two months later, I lost my grandmother and sister, which placed me in a stupor for the rest of 2015. Years later, I still owe him a proper eulogy. There are pieces of his artwork I'm hoping to scan later this month. Here's a piece that was never used for Jason Wright's Jagged Thoughts poem column in Oddball Magazine.
Saw this while out and about yesterday. That's the thing about religion. You can't really control who people are going to canonize as saints. Even if it's a joke, it means something.
One last song from The Atomic Wranglers with a title that at least sounds optimistic. Check out their music.
Held at the First Baptist Church on 633 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain. Doors open at 7:00. Click here for more info.
Looks like Bruce Wise and Wise Words is closing us out. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this week.
James Van Looy's poem column is back.
I hope he's back at Stone Soup Poetry soon.
For now, enjoy his work at Oddball Magazine.
September is over. Thanks to everyone who came out to our last all-open mic of the month. Please join us in October on the 7th for special feature Mignon Ariel King.
