Just finished watching the Rings of Power. Yet another Amazon Basics knock off.

Mike Davis: my journalist/theorist hero of all heroes. Mike Davis: 1946–2022. Mike Davis: présenté thenation.com/article/cultur…

“Teams of engineers were reportedly assigned fast-paced, extended coding projects over the weekend, known as sprints” - I like my “sprints” to be a caffeinated tight 20 min followed by 10 min of crying in the bathroom stall.

What began as a way of entertaining her indoor cat and feeding a few squirrels a few peanuts, has turned into my daughter feeding the possums in our neighborhood. The possums had bald patches and various ailments and now have full, lustrous hair.

In other news, I learned that set theory isn’t that hard and may actually help me understand whatever Georges Perec was up to.

Deposited ballots, safely.

Posting a flurry of tweets before bailing for Friendster, maybe.

Communities are emergent properties like consciousness and can’t be owned. Communities can be destroyed or cultivated.

How can this happen? I thought Twitter was going to last forever. Or at least longer than my car.

An installation and deployment guide for a local area network using coffee cans and wire in the style of Goodnight Moon.

Thanks to @PacificaReview for publishing my story, "Message From the Moths". I look forward to reading this issue (19.2) with work by Suhail Sadiq Mandani, Will Musgrove, Denise Tolan. pacificareview.com/2023/05/18/mes…

"I observed immediately that dating was identical to looking for a job. You needed to send out a lot of resumes. You needed to interview to find a promising match. But you didn't need to make a career of it. I essentially created a sales funnel." Matt Briggs mrbullbull.com/newbull/fictio…

so much more fun to read in a book group. basically "Ulysses" is musical, & akin to a Catholic mass celebrating language (i.e., Irish idiomatic speech), the vicissitudes of life, life itself as a stream continuously rushing past, unfathomable. a sensation as of life itself

The certain dog?!?!?!?

Fire Walk With Me, in North Bend with Sheryl Lee

The real debate about Haitians we should be having is that the USA and France owe Haiti many billions in reparation.

Halloween Rain

The New York Journal of Books (@NYJournalofBook) posted my review of Susanne Clarke’s wintertime booklet, The Wood at Midwinter. Her book had me thining about fantasy and anthropomorphism. #books #bookreviews nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/wo…

Fantagraphics Bookstore observes Seattle Indie Bookstore Day on April 26 with “Speed Readings” from SPREAD contributors including Stacey Levine, Willie Smith, Cristie Coffing, Hamish Todd, Matt Briggs, Eric Acosta, L.E. Cornelison, David Post, and more. seattlebookstoreday.com

My review of Trisha Ready's first book, Nobuko, was published in this week's issue of The Stranger. Her book uses a sequence for a short form that reminds me of the OULIPO's use of constraint (Calvino's formula for If on a winter’s night a traveler)... thestranger.com/books/2025/11/…