Chad Parenteau: Poet For Hire

Took this Hancock photo after a doctor's visit. I have at least one more appointment this week, maybe two if I'm "lucky." ...

 

 

 

It's been a big archiving weekend. I'm only just getting back to the Jack Powers photos from Margaret Wesel. It isn't everyday I...

 

  

 

I still haven't posted any videos from my Montreal trip. I hopefully will after today. Here's another photo from the inside of the N...

Rain without a breeze. All heat without the relief.  F--k you, it's August. 

   

   

Come back to Oddball.

 

   

Let's watch the latest Epic Rap Battles of History video.     

 

A band does a new punk version of "We Are the World" is something I didn't know I needed until now. Thank you, Spike and the G...

 

Wise Words by Bruce Wise closes out Oddball Magazine.   Thanks for reading what we had this week.

 

Janet Cormier's Bamboozled returns for Friday at Oddball Magazine.  

Where you at?

   

I saw this Trump/Chump poster over a week ago.      

Continuously overcast leading up to today's purging rains.  

I've covered Castle Rat in the past, and that was enough to have this video on my front page.     

  Poor Natalie Harp.  It's not that she's currently being eaten by the leopards. She's in the belly of the biggest leopard volun...

 

 

  William Lessard is this week's featured poet at The Arts Fuse.

James Van Looy writes about the last time we invaded a country that started with "Ira" in this week's poem column. Read It...

 

Keep going.

   

Hey, it's the first day of the rest of your damn life.  Pathetic, ain't it?

I am disgusted with living humanity.  Especially myself.  

The Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes newsletter for August 19 is up now at Substack.

  A life examined in Marilyn Jurich's contribution to Doug Holder's Lyrical Somerville this week in The Somerville Times.  

No one dies as well as supporting characters do in comics. No one comes back form the dead the way supporting characters often do. A page fo...

When I started my  Sarcastic Haiku series,  I wrote my first  American Haiku. An American Haiku doesn't care about tradition, formalit...

 

The funeral for my partner's mother is today. Here's "The Truth the Dead Know" by Anne Sexton courtesy of the Poetry Foun...

Jason Wright's Jagged Thought poem column finally returns to Oddball Magazine.  

May Contain Traces of Me, Part Eight: Be Your Own Overlord. Read it on my  Patreon.

Poet Nick Armbrister and artist Edward Michael Supranowicz give us the Tuesday goods 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 ...

    

   

 

Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Monday.  

J. S. Coursey at Oddball Magazine.  

Here's some more autobiographical goodness courtesy of Anne Skove's latest comic. Read "She Who Laughs Lasts" at Oddball M...

"Banned Book Blurb" is my latest micropoem for dadakuku. As always, I appreciate petro c.k. every they welcome me back in their j...

  It's Later Now, Part Forty-Nine: Might As Well. Read it on my Patreon.

For Monday, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons with a magical story that J.K. Rowling can't really take credit for. Welcome to the new week at Oddba...

   

Graffiti in Montreal might be more mellow at first, but it's also more daring. Stuff like this on a bridge with no easy way to go over ...

There are groups fighting for affordable housing. Look up this site (specific to Jamaica Plain) just for starters. 

Focusing on new music again this week. Starting with another band new to me.