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Novelist (RELENTLESS MELT out now from Melville House) // collagist // inveterate notetaker // gracefully aging zinester // to be found in the Greater Boston/Chicago metro region

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Snoopy inventing graphic notation.

10.03.2026 22:39 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
made sometime in february, though weather and technical failures conspired so that it couldn't get scanned until today // grimy brown textures, roughly gridlike, enlivened by a patch of bright red and one of soft blue. comix toughguys confer in one corner while a candle burns in the opposing corner

made sometime in february, though weather and technical failures conspired so that it couldn't get scanned until today // grimy brown textures, roughly gridlike, enlivened by a patch of bright red and one of soft blue. comix toughguys confer in one corner while a candle burns in the opposing corner

recent collage

10.03.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

also co-signing this important associated point!!

10.03.2026 15:06 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

teacher of writing here co-signing this

10.03.2026 15:05 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

oh buddy, you should see the rest of the posts I'm looking at

10.03.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

forbidden freestyle machine

10.03.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Henry Flynt & Nova’Billy

Henry Flynt & Nova’Billy

there’s a version of him singing β€œThe Internationale” on this

10.03.2026 10:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
small hours
big time

thinking about local archaeology 
and reading Lincolnshire by Arthur Mee

made a drawing of tumuli at night - beneath 
found text - "maze of mounds and moats - and the ditch"

small hours big time thinking about local archaeology and reading Lincolnshire by Arthur Mee made a drawing of tumuli at night - beneath found text - "maze of mounds and moats - and the ditch"

22/2/26 - nocturn

22.02.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did you know: drone luminary Catherine Christer Hennix started out playing jazz drums

10.03.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Good read! Thanks

09.03.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I will read poetry or perform experimental music in Door County

08.03.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This would have been an instant buy for me as well, and for the same reason ☠️

08.03.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Zenjitsutan 前ζ—₯譚, by YUKO ARAKI 7 track album

here's a hot burst of contemporary Tokyo noise to shear your Sunday morning blues away

23.02.2025 14:36 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today is the official releases day for Cleared β€˜Lustres’ CD and digital download. Released on the wonderful @room40.bsky.social label.

Thanks to all who preordered, purchased, listened, and support. Very much appreciated.

clearedreleases.bandcamp.com/album/lustres

06.03.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New work on show this month at NOMA Gallery, two abstracts in mixed media collage.

Concrete.
Rain.

found papers, graphite, wax, foil, acrylic

#art #artist #artwork #collageart #mixedmedia #artsky

08.03.2026 02:40 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry but it's this inscrutable C64 game youtu.be/e8nU4Qk1ZjI

08.03.2026 01:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

08.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 5944 πŸ” 3447 πŸ’¬ 285 πŸ“Œ 234

πŸ“š 4. COSMIC SCHOLAR: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HARRY SMITH by John Szwed. I've never been much of a reader of biographies, but I'll make an exception for Harry, forever one of my favorite people from the 20th century. May his memory remain an inspiration

08.03.2026 00:41 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Original 1984 L'Argent poster, which makes it look like a whimsical cartoon

Original 1984 L'Argent poster, which makes it look like a whimsical cartoon

how depressing could it be when it features this loveable scamp?

07.03.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Twitter account impersonating Werner Herzog www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...

06.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Every single time a new outlet feels compelled to interview an unremarkable billionaire they should pause and ask themselves if there isn't an under-represented artist, scientist, activist, engineer, or academic actually doing useful/interesting things that's more deserving of your readership's time

06.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 485 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3
A guinea pig outside in our yard. I don't want to give you his name, he's not online.

A guinea pig outside in our yard. I don't want to give you his name, he's not online.

Bandcamp friday - use code vhf30 for 30% off everything at vhfrecords.bandcamp.com (also good at vhfrecords.com). Get the new LPs by @nofansrecords.bsky.social @dos777.bsky.social and Drew Gardner and Universal Light. Get some 25-30 year old CDs too!

06.03.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If a social media platform dominated by elder millennials/Gen X isn't for this purpose, then I have no clue what it's for. One cannot lament the collapse of arts verticals and ignore the arts. Like, I can't stress this enough. Share what matters to you even if the world is burningβ€”especially then.

06.03.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Alfred & May Tiefenbronner Memorial Endowment, Laura T. Magnuson Endowment, and Cyrus H. McCormick funds

Alfred & May Tiefenbronner Memorial Endowment, Laura T. Magnuson Endowment, and Cyrus H. McCormick funds

Hot Spring https://www.artic.edu/artworks/250556/

05.03.2026 08:10 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a good one

06.03.2026 15:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s tiring that we are increasingly stuck organizing our intellectual lives around arguing for the value of having an intellectual life

05.03.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 629 πŸ” 111 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

what about as favorite film

05.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

wonder who will get to drop "This is more of a comment than a question"

05.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nicholson Baker, in ROOM TEMPERATURE, uses the adjective "Xenakian" in the description of a sweater manufacturing process <3 <3 <3

17.11.2013 01:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trumpism presents an extreme example of the pitfalls of personalism: Personalist rule with a lazy, delusional leader at the top, a bunch of sycophants and zealots around him, and a base drifting ever deeper into fantasy land – that’s not a recipe for efficient authoritarian consolidation.

04.03.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 145 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0