Scene: in line at the cinema
Me (to my GF): We should see HAMNET! It’s about a fisherman who keeps catching pork roasts in his nets. He brings the catch home everyday and his wife’s like, ‘What’s with all the pork?! Can’t you do anything right?!’
GF: Sounds weird.
Guy behind us in line: 🥴🥴🥴
I wrote about COLLAPSE INTO NOW for @spectrumculture.bsky.social ‘s R.E.M. discography series: spectrumculture.com/2026/01/15/d...
I started drifting away from R.E.M. after Berry left the band in ‘97, but revisiting their final album COLLAPSE INTO NOW (2011) has given me new appreciation for what a banger it is. All the pop and flow of the band’s best work, tempered with the bittersweet awareness of the end of it all. A must!
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Issues 21 & 22 are at the printer!!
If you want to help keep a lit mag that pays & prints & prices fairly & ships quickly going strong (or at least, going) your pre-orders of one or both of these music-themed issues would be rad. They're fantastic.
Stanchionzine.com/shop
Chomsky: really putting the “sin” and the “ick” in syntactic structures
I especially love that it's positioned as the first track on side B, which is so often where the cool tunes show up. Use the link in the comments to pre-order a copy and support a great independent publisher!
3/4
The story is a stand-alone excerpt from my MFA thesis manuscript, and it's one of my favorite pieces I've written in years.
Set in Zacatecas, MX, it's about sudden love, cruising town in a VW Bug, and the trick to overcoming stage fright.
2/4
This is going to be good! STANCHION is one of the coolest literary presses around, and they are putting out a "double album" of music-themed stories. A piece of mine, "Las Máquinas del Amor," will appear on album #1 (Issue 21).
1/4
Jesus is on Newsweek, MLK is on What If, my story is in the current issue of Analog, and we’re all hanging out in the periodicals section of Barnes & Noble. Join us!
⚡️Starman⚡️
Thanks for reading and sharing!
It's a huge honor to have my work included in Charlie Mehrhoff's podcast, BEFORE THE PAGE, among some freaking TITANS of the written word like Rilke, Emerson, Mary Oliver and Charlie himself. Charlie's reading/speaking voice is hypnotic, and serves the work beautifully.
5)The Starworthy Slip by @ackoch.bsky.social: heist on Jupiter moon gets-almost-sidetracked when one accomplice falls for beautiful local identity mixer. Slick, smooth
It’s happening! The Chef André Show has been rescheduled for this Thursday, Nov. 20, 7 pm at Mutiny Information Cafe. Brace yourselves, gird your loins, and wear your best shoes.
Have to postpone this show due to illness. Watch this space for a new date
Attention Earthlings: I’m playing a bunch of new songs next Friday, Nov. 7 at Mutiny Cafe in Denver, but it won’t mean anything if you aren’t there. Let’s do this thing. 7 p.m., no charge. Wear your best shoes.
I’ll be playing songs from my new studio album, ASK THE MOON, at Mutiny Information Cafe on Friday, Nov. 7, if that’s okay with you. There are some songs about shipwrecks, haunted stuffed animals, a Spanish mambo, and a love song about a Japanese fountain pen. Show probably starts at 7 pm.
Chef André will play songs from his new studio album, ASK THE MOON, at Mutiny Information Cafe on Friday, Nov. 7, if that’s okay with you. There are some songs about shipwrecks, haunted stuffed animals, a Spanish mambo, and a love song about a Japanese fountain pen. Show probably starts at 7 pm.
Friends! I’ll be reading from some new stories this evening at Fort Greene as part of the Reading Den series. Hope to see you there!
I’m just a boy
Standing in front of the Universe
Asking it to let me watch MICHAEL CLAYTON (2007) for the first time again.
Our trip through R.E.M.'s discography reckons with "Reckoning." Was "Time After Time" our least favorite song?
spectrumculture.com/2025/08/28/d...
The penultimate list is up! We're ranking all of U2's 259 songs. Here's #20-11!
Happy 3-Week Anniversary to my submission to Clarkesworld still not being rejected yet 👀👀👀
FF#26 cover. A woman's face, surrounded by broken shards of mirror and a few fragments of Noh masks. Each mirror contains a different eye. Above, two evil looking eyes peer down on the scene. Everything's rendered in light and dark blues.
The beautiful FF#26 cover by @evelynepark.bsky.social is here! In a few months, you'll get to read stories by @thesuiway.bsky.social, @slharris.bsky.social, @straith.ca, @leokaaolive.bsky.social, @eggandcressida.bsky.social, @nkereuwxm.bsky.social, Emma Russell-Trione, and Nana Afadua Ofori-Atta!
Happy One-Minute Anniversary to my realization that the words to Stone Roses’ amazing song “I Wanna Be Adored” are NOT “I Wanna Be Your Dog.”
Happy One-Minute Anniversary to my realization that the words to Stone Roses’ amazing song “I Want to Be Adored” are NOT “I Wanna Be Your Dog.”
Happy Two Weeks Since I Submitted to Clarkesworld and Have Yet to Receive a Rejection to all who celebrate! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
My review of EDDINGTON for @spectrumculture.bsky.social : spectrumculture.com/2025/07/17/e...
