Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 7, 2024Deux Ex Machina, Suckers! Another #PoliCartoon (I consider religion political!) by me and @nadinescholtes.bsky.social
- Untitled May 7, 2024New ruling from the Board of Masculine Masculinity: Using your hands to pull your boots on is now effeminate. Real men use their teeth.
- Untitled May 7, 2024A genocide has been going on somewhere in the world every single year for the last twenty. Is culture supposed to come to a halt until tragedies stop happening? I'm furious at Israel, at Hamas, and at Biden, but Gaza isn't the Met Gala's fault.
- Untitled May 7, 2024I second this. An awesome, smart graphic novel that not enough people have read. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled May 6, 2024What I find curious about this thread is that the image he's critiquing is much, much more interesting than any of the images he brings up as examples of good images. The "Lois and Clark" images in particular are blandness personified. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Category Archives: Writing
A Publication Announcement & An Upcoming Event
I have some very exciting news! Ghostbird Press has agreed to publish For My Son, A Kind of Prayer, a chapbook of poems about being a father and raising a son. If all goes well, the book should be out … Continue reading
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“Because You Have Been a Feast for Me” is Part of the 2015 LitBulb Literary Festival
I am thrilled that my poem, “Because You Have Been a Feast for Me” has been included in the 2015 LitBulb Festival, an international, online gathering of literary work. Rather than gather all the included works onto one website, each author … Continue reading
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Running a Literary Reading Series and the Politics of Inclusion
This post has a very specific purpose: to ask those who might be interested to offer feedback on the draft vision statement that appears at the end. The statement is for a small literary reading series called First Tuesdays that I … Continue reading
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Congratulations to Mythago!
Mythago, under her meatworld name “Laurel Halbany,” has published a story in a new anthology from Celeano Press, In The Court of the Yellow King. The anthology contains new stories set in the King in Yellow Mythos created in 1895 … Continue reading
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Workplace Politics: Is the Risk Worth the Danger?
In “Story 16” in “Padeshahan,” or “Kings,” the first chapter of Sa’di’s Golestan—the stories are simply numbered; they are not given titles—the protagonist is having a hard time earning enough money to support his family. He has become so poor, … Continue reading
Would We Be Living in a Better World if the Tyrants of the Past Had Never Existed?
When Someone is Driven to Murder, Where Does the Responsibility Lie? It’s been a very long time since someone called me a bleeding-heart liberal, a label that was never complimentary and always carried with it a connotation not simply of … Continue reading