Local Art Shows Rule

Check out this art show in Cincinnati and read her latest comic.

"She Who Laughs Lasts" is up now at Oddball Magazine. 

 

Sad Today

 

It's Later Now, Part Forty-Two: And Remember! . Read it on my Patreon.

Hello?

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons on where it all went wrong. Good way to start Monday at Oddball Magazine. Enjoy the week more than I will. 

Two Days Left

Marjorie Pezzoli will close out Stone Soup Poetry in June. 

Did You Chuckle?

This one might be too obscure. 

 

Yesterday Evening

Sitting at Good Harbor Beach watching surfers in practice.

Happy Birthday, Leah Finkelstein

 

Happy Birthday, John Guzlowski

 

 

Happy Birthday, Isabelle Lorion

 

 

Happy Birthday, Sean Theall

 

 

Here It Is

As promised, here's the sticker found just below last week's Friendly Reminder. And I found it's source as well!

This Week's Friendly Reminder

I have to do one more before Pride Month is over. 

 

My Monday Morning Music

To keep myself young and interesting, here is music from people I've found online.

 

 

Back Again

A spring poem of min appears just as summer is starting in today's Haikuniverse. Thanks to Rick Lupert for bringing me back.

Your Weekly Dose of God

I tried to look up a song using "Summer" and "God" as my search words. This is what came up. Best I can do this week.

 

 

F**k Summer

Thankfully, the punks have the right attitude.

 

Hey, It's Summer Now

Just in time to follow up all the other bad news. 

Here's my annual posting of my "Summer's Back" poem. 

Hope You Get the Joke

My poem "The Sun" is fittingly in the new online anthology Four Feathers Press: Sun. Thanks to Don Kingfisher Campbell for letting me get in this new publication.

Yep

Bad news and good news.

Not the end of the world.

But I still have to deal with the bad news.

I’ll be back later.

My Saturday Haiku for Bluesky, 6-20-26

Bad Appointments Lane,

minor inconveniences

magically absent.

Happy Birthday, Barbara Huntington

 

 

Happy Birthday, Paul Muldoon

 

 

Ugh

I'm starting to hate Saturdays. 

Appointments to keep.

A day to salvage afterwards.

 

My Friday Evening Music

One last bit of late Madonna before the day is called.  

 

 

Puritan Wisdom

Wise Words with Bruce Wise closes out Oddball Magazine for this holiday Friday.

OR DOES IT?!?

 ...

Yeah, it probably does.

Thanks for reading Oddball Magazine this week.

 

Getting Ready for the Heat

Marjorie Pezzoli will be Stone Soup Poetry's first summer feature. 

June 24: Marjorie Pezzoli Adds to Stone Soup's Canvas

Poet and visual artist Marjorie Pezzoli has been in my feed for the last couple of years thanks to her contributions to dadakuku and other journals.

An email from Stone Soup ally g emil reutter helped me get in contact with her (thanks g!), and now she will be closing out June and ringing in summer for Stone Soup Poetry.

Join us on Wednesday, June 24, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 870 4260 4070

Password: stonesoup

Join us on Wednesday, June 24, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 870 4260 4070

Password: stonesoup

Random Thoughts Return

Jane Cormier's whose Bamboozled No More! column debuted on Juneteenth years before it was a holiday, is her for another Friday at Oddball Magazine. 

 

Another Juneteenth Message

Don't worry white people. July Fourth is just around the corner.

 

Holiday Haiku

No work this Friday
We're celebrating Juneteenth!
White people, calm down.

 

Happy Birthday, David P. Miller

 

 

My Friday Morning Music

More Madonna, which I realized is actually a good choice for Pride Month.

 

Leopards Eating Faces Update!

 

Marco Rubio is sitting right next to the leopards. 

The Iran peace debacle is collapsing in real time. 

He's ready to witness his own face being eaten in real time. 

After all, JD Vance has only so much face to give.

Metaphor!

 I've made the Angry Birds movie timely again. 

Tonight: Tony Gloeggler at the Virtual Dire Literary Series

Hosted by Timothy Gager. Click here to join the group and get information on how to join the call.

God Says "Nope"

Sometimes I lean toward absurdist humor. And sometimes God says "Nope."

 

The New Line

 

New York poet Joe Elliot faces front as this week's featured poet at The Arts Fuse.

Here We All Are

James Van Looy with a tale of humanity for this week's poem column. 

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

Happy Birthday, Katie Frank

 

Happy Birthday, Thomas E. DeFreitas

 

Stone Soup Poetry All Open Mic, 6-17-26

From this week's online gathering. Keeping cool for the last days of June. Prepping for the fiery sh-tstorm that will be July and August. Good luck, everyone.

  

 

Almost Time to Say Bye to June

Another all-open mic is done. Thanks to everyone who attended and watched. Come back here next week for special feature Marjorie Pezzoli. 

 

WAYTA 6-17-26

I could make so many clips from this single day.

 

Yeah I Said It

LIf Elon Musk was in my high school class, I would’ve wailed on him.

On a positive note, the person I actually wailed on in high school wouldn’t have been the lowest person on the social ladder.

I'm Sure I Deserved Everything I Got Today

Let's just get me home. 

Stone Soup Poetry's online all-open mic is tonight. 

Hope to see you there. 

Give Me a Rail to Ride

The Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes newsletter for June 17 is up now at Substack.

So Overcome

Really pleased with these two poems by newcomer Madeline Wierzal with photography by Oddball staple Bonnie Matthews Brock. 

Thank you for reading another Pride Wednesday selection at Oddball Magazine. We'll see you next time. 

Dear Mark Strand

I, too, have wasted my life. 

 

Here We Go Again

Flash fiction writer Thandiwe Grant and returning artist Eric N. Peterson come together for another Prideful Wednesday at Oddball Magazine. 

Trust Him

 

Mike Burgess lends his poem to this week's Lyrical Somerville. Read it now over at The Somerville Times. 

Denial is the Fifty-First State

See no evil, smell no evil.

When You Have a Message

You have to be as direct as possible. 

A Moment of Comics

The infamous killing of the gay Marvel Comics character Freedom Ring. A reminder that comics still have a long way to go towards representation. From Marvel Team #24 (third volume), written by Robert Kirkman with art by Andy Kuhn.

American Haiku: The New Old Deal

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 New Old Deal

 

Same as before but

way more dead Iranians.
Trump wins again. Trump always wins again.

Mojo Meets MAGA

RFK says let Mojo handle it!

 

Happy Birthday, Jacob R. Moses

 

Here Comes the Color

Our hydrangea is taking a little longer, but the blue is finally coming out. Let's see how long they last past the end of June. 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Adrienne Rich is our Pride feature of the week. Thanks to Poets.org for reprinting "Twenty-One Love Poems [Poem II]."

 

This Thursday: Tony Gloeggler at the Virtual Dire Literary Series

Hosted by Timothy Gager. Click here to join the group and get information on how to join the call.

How to Rotate

Jason Wright's newest Jagged Thought poem column is ready to read. 

Oddball Magazine delivers another Tuesday.

Wrapping This Up

Finding My Worse Self, Part Nine: Can Anything Be a Parable? The final part. Read it on my Patreon.

Tending to the Garden

George Freek returns to be paired with one of my photographs for Tuesday's edition of 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.
 

I could use an internet pun today.

Happy Birthday, Jake Berry

 

Why is Everyone So Excited?

Still waiting for my Elon Musk is a Trillionaire Prize.