Poems and Whiskey

This was wildly uncomfortable! Why do y'all let me do this to you! Thank you for inflicting me, on myself Jaime. It was about damn time! Thank you everyone for an incredible season 3!The next time you hear from me, it will be through that mysterious medium known as Hiatus Peaks! A nice place to visit! 🌲🌲☕🌲🌲Cheers y'all!Mentions:Todd DillardMurderbot by Martha WellsRay Bradburye.e. cummingsT.S. EliotLamp LitBiscuit the Bad Dog (but excellent co-host)GISHKurt VonnegutNINPoetry SchoolHurricane Melissa ReliefGood people doing good things --->Food Not BombsJail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under AttackAcacia JusticeRandom Acts Natural Disaster RecoveryINARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundLegacy of War FoundationUNHCR,*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

🎃🎃Happy Halloween Y'all! 🎃🎃In my truly horrifying tradition, minimal editing was done to this. Chilling, I know! Elisheva, Kimberly, and I read some tarot then read some poems and stories.Stay well, keep safe!I read from Scary Stories for Sleep-overs by R.C. Welch and use The Wildwood TarotHurricane Melissa ReliefGood people doing good things --->Food Not BombsJail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under AttackAcacia JusticeRandom Acts Natural Disaster RecoveryINARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundLegacy of War FoundationUNHCR,*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

Like a dead bird, inspiration will find you. Omen or gift, pick it up! Nothing is promised. Do it anyhow. At soul's midnight, it sings like a match.Find Hamant here!Mentions:Tales from the CryptLamp LitE.R.Garrett Carroll Candy ManNaked Cat Lit (pssst lots of their stuff went to Circus Collective Lit)Good people doing good things --->Food Not BombsJail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under AttackAcacia JusticeRandom Acts Natural Disaster RecoveryINARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundLegacy of War FoundationUNHCR,*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

I don't really like traditional summaries, clearly. lol Coming to the close of s3 is something alright. Joaquin Fernandez and I do the art talk, as per. We've got; art as expression of free will, play as an intentional practice, ease not equating legitimacy, and of course, the death of happily ever after. You know, for fun! So it goes!We are remade when we create and again in witness, doors opening, and opening into endless rooms.Cheers y'all!Joaquin's LinksFrom Joaquin:In May of 2018, my friend Lantz Arroyo and the good people at Radix Media put together a book and they were kind enough to let me help them out. It was one of the highlights of my creative life.AFTERMATH: Explorations of Loss & Grief (and here's the book at Thrift Books since it is out of print)Mentions:Carmen Maria Machado :Her Body and Other PartiesGabriel García Márquez: Very Old Man with Enormous WingsLouis Sachar: Holes and Wayside SchoolKurt Vonnegut MuseumSlaughterhouse VGood people doing good things --->Food Not BombsJail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under AttackAcacia JusticeRandom Acts Natural Disaster RecoveryINARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundLegacy of War FoundationUNHCR,*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

Hall of Mirrors by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.(This episode is dedicated to Danielle. You like voices? I can give you voices. Enjoy!)Foltz and Carney are flatfoots working the dragnet on some missing rich widows and find something far stranger than they bargained for in a suspected multiple homicide.Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Museum and Library The Website™️and then there's me...sorry bit of a let down after Kurt but hey...The bird is a red-winged blackbird and I snagged the call hereGood people doing good things --->Food Not BombsJail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under AttackAcacia JusticeRandom Acts Natural Disaster RecoveryINARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundLegacy of War FoundationUNHCR,*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.***Third Wednesdays with Kurt pod cover is based on Carin Goldberg's stunning designs, in particular my own cover of Slaughterhouse-Five by Dell.

Meaning and purpose of what's made is often only focused in the rearview as you're leaving it behind. You only have to let the dark monster of creation long for what's bright. Sometimes, brightness reaches back.Go show Raye some love!Mentions:Keetje KuipersJudith ButlerHanif AbdurraqibFBBCGISHEmmanuel LevinasKristoffer HughesSarah Fawn Montgomery Elizabeth BishopMathew RohrerRosemary Garland ThompsonAlison KaferAlbert CamusLisa OlsteinEthel CainRainbow Kitten SurpriseAdventure TimeMidnight Gospel🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️In the Darkening Blue ⭐Good people doing good things --->Food Not BombsJail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under AttackAcacia JusticeRandom Acts Natural Disaster RecoveryINARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundLegacy of War FoundationUNHCR,*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

What a goddamn gift it is. That we get to make things over and over again. That we get to create ourselves.What are you waiting for? Make something! No one can stop you, my dear Peeps.Natalie's LinksMentions:Courting the Wild Twin by Martin ShawNeil HilbornChuck TingleScrivenerBread LoafPoetry SchoolGhost Theory🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️In the Darkening Blue ⭐Good people doing good things --->Food Not BombsJail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under AttackAcacia JusticeRandom Acts Natural Disaster RecoveryINARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundLegacy of War FoundationUNHCR,*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

Deer in the Works by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.David Potter is the proud father of now, two sets of twins. A big, beautiful family! It's wonderful but...what about ten years from now? Can he continue to provide on a Newspaper Man's income? How secure is it, really? And everyone knows the Works, hiring again, will be around for a long, long time...Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Museum and Library The Website™️and then there's me...sorry bit of a let down after Kurt but hey...The bird is a red-winged blackbird and I snagged the call hereGood people doing good things --->Food Not BombsJail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under AttackAcacia JusticeRandom Acts Natural Disaster RecoveryINARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundLegacy of War FoundationUNHCR,*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.***Third Wednesdays with Kurt pod cover is based on Carin Goldberg's stunning designs, in particular my own cover of Slaughterhouse-Five by Dell.

So you get to your goal...and then what? What makes the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves more than a re-enactment? Where we put our attention there we are, with whatever worth we give it. Quoting Hamlet here would be silly when there's a whole show to play.Cheers! Kira Cordova's links and stuffMentions:Misha Collins: Some Thing I Still Can't Tell YouMellissa Febos: Body WorkSophie HoranChuck TingleCarol MurphySuzanne McConnell & Kurt Vonnegut: Pity the ReaderJanet DailyKen Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestPaul B. PreciadoMartin Shaw🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️In the Darkening Blue ⭐Good people doing good things --->Food Not BombsJail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under AttackAcacia JusticeRandom Acts Natural Disaster RecoveryINARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundLegacy of War FoundationUNHCR,*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.