Comics Spotlight: Alex Soriano

Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Monday.

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.

Going Home Soon

Haven't told many people where I've been, but the views have been nice.

This Week's Friendly Reminder

Keeping it simple this holiday Monday, but the message still matters.
 

Obligatory

I'm sure I've posted this sticker before, but I felt like posting it again.

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. 

 

 

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.

Happy Birthday, Belinda Subraman

 

 

Happy Birthday, Gail Moran Slater

Where you at now?

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. 

My Saturday Haiku for Bluesky, 9-5-26

Abandoned beaches

take rain as summer towns turn

to hibernation. 

Happy Birthday, Sara Letourneau

 

 

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.

 

Wisdom by Night

Bruce Wise closes out with Wise Words at Oddball Magazine. 

Thanks for reading us this week.

Move Forward

Janet Cormier's Bamboozled No More! is back for Friday.

Enjoy your Friday with Oddball Magazine. 

 

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. 

Umber Burnt

 

Jeffrey Gustavson is this week's poet at The Arts Fuse.

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.

Boy, Oh Boy

Read James Van Looy's poem column. 

It's All One Thing is up now at Oddball Magazine. 

It's Almost Over

The Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes newsletter for September 2 is up now at Substack.

That Old Tale Again

Poet Noah Berlatsky and artist Ira Joel Haber close out Oddball Magazine for Wednesday. Thanks so much for reading us.

WAYFS, 9-2-26

No one truly gets canceled I guess. Just deported.
 

From the Nest

Poet Emma Wells and artist Bill Wolak return to kick off the first Wednesday of September. Enjoy what's left of the morning with Oddball Magazine.  

From Revere

 

Revere's new writer and editor Holly Chatelain is this week's Lyrical Somerville poet. Read her work now in The Somerville Times.

Here Too

Even the pianted over posters aren't safe from retribution.

There's Been Escalation

Since last week's incident, there has been one more case of resistance to anti-resistance. 

A Moment of Comics

"Why does the Green Lantern show have to be about race?" Anyone who asks that never read the Green Lantern comics by writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams. A page from John Stewart's first appearance in Green Lantern #87 by O'Neil with art by Adams and Dick Giordano.

American Haiku: The Real Question

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: The Real Question

 

The one big question

about Venezuelan deal:

Do we now occupy Venezuela? How to pay for this?

Looking for a Mighty Long Time

Staring at the full moon in Provincetown. 

Happy Birthday, Gauri Dixit

 

 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

They announced Wendell Berry's death yesterday. Here's his poem "The Peace of Wild Things" thanks to the Scottish Poetry Library. 

For Once

Despite my old phone's limitations, I actually got a halfway decent shot of the moon at the Provincetown docks. 

About Time

Feels wrong for me to live so long yet I only photographed The Lobster Pot for the first time this past Saturday. 

Frozen

Jason Wright's latest Jagged Thought is back to it's regular scheduled day and time at Oddball Magazine. 

Back to Work

Poet Tammy Smith has a tribute to Dolly Parton with artwork from Eric N. Peterson. Have a more solemn Tuesday from 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.

Provincetown mocked me with it's lack of public Wi-Fi.

Winding Down at the Pier

From Saturday as we were waiting for the ferry back from Provincetown.