Matt Briggs

I read this as a beatle on its back.

I've been trying to find an image of Rabbit God K.

I learned Python after years of tech writing and supporting API docs. (And then C# and JavaScript). It is worth the effort, I think, even if you don’t use it professionally. I found Allen Downey’s books to be really helpful. He doesn’t have a Rust Book, but greenteapress.com/wp/think-pyt...

I found it off base and maddening for this reason, but The Conquest of Cool by Thomas Frank.

The name Piggy reminded of Lord of the Flies. "Introduced as a plump, bespectacled boy, Piggy represents logic and civilization throughout the novel. He discovers the conch shell that becomes a symbol of order and democratic process on the island."

Her Debut Novel, Nobuko, Strings 108 Vignettes Into a Narrative Philosophy Nobuko was released on FrizzLit Editions in August.

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 form/constraint (Calvino's formula for If on a winter’s night a traveler)...

www.thestranger.com/books/2025/1...

I think Seattle Public Library or King County Library may have access. It may be limited to the digital access to the print edition, however.

Except that the 2nd person POV in fiction is presumptuous. This not actually an opinion, but fact, so maybe not unhinged.

Walking across a bridge near the Green River and saw this sign: Trap. What do you think they were trying to tell me?

Has Seattle finally worn you down to an essential suspicion of good cheer? The thought: what do you really mean? And in that direction are newts, pillbugs, and those fungal filaments where the trees exchange news and data. Or maybe, you were a ray of sunshine!

Book to review for The Raven Chronicles. Future X, a novel by Georg Koszulinski.

I’ve been slowly making my through the Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry during coffee breaks. Today I read, “After [Frank] O’Hara‘s death ( he was hit by a doom buggy on Fire Island )”… if you gotta go, that seems like a way to go.

So you walked right into that, and proposed weather engineering.

Yet the rain didn’t come and the troubles continue.

Only humans can make excellent typis.

He felt the sadness of riding a tandem bike alone.

The air smells like jam.

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises

You can now, at last, pre-order CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY directly from Princeton UP. It's at the printer and is likely to arrive in September, though the official pub date is October 21. Can also preview TOC and intro at this link
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If you don't get the occasional, “That cover letter put it all into perspective, man," then you need to up your cover letter game. I have a sweet, $497.50 Zoom class and PDF reading packet for you. Write cover letters that kick open doors!

The Parrot in the Machine | James Gleick The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.

“Chatbot ‘writing’ has a bland, regurgitated quality…. No chatbot could ever have said that April was the cruelest month or that a fog comes on little cat feet (though they might now, because one of their chief skills is plagiarism).” — @around.com

Why are you not writing? It has become so easy these days. You just say computer I have this idea, and it writes it for you.

Martin Creek passes over a bridge on the Taylor River Road about 3 miles from the trailhead

This is the Martin Creek Bridge about 3 miles from the trailhead. It’s not as impressive as the otter creek bridge which is made of cement and improbably in the middle of the forest.

This is a view West on the Martin Creek Bridge

A walk yeaterday to Martin Creek Bridge on the Snoqualmie Lake Trail in the Middle Fork. It was 90 degrees and then drizzling this morning.

@nicholsonbaker.bsky.social converted me long ago to the em dash comma and the em
dash semicolon combo. I'm glad ChatGPT is bringing back the em dash. But we should revive true, hairy Victorian punctuation.

R.I.P., Alice Notley Here are some quotes from the superb writer’s oeuvre:   “Writing is not therapy. That’s the last thing it is. I still have my grief.”   “I think I try with my poems to c…

R.I.P., Alice Notley.

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The pixels have become so small. Progress.

Fantagraphics Bookstore observes Seattle Indie Bookstore Day on April 26 with periodic “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.

www.seattlebookstoreday.com

A watermelon with a hole bursting from inside out indicating an eruption of gas or animal from the melon flesh.

Something escaped from "inside" the watermelon. The Alien is real.

that's not an RL Burnside lyric?