Already feeling a little melancholy as fall sneaks in...
20.09.2025 22:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@thespectacles.bsky.social
Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader.
Already feeling a little melancholy as fall sneaks in...
20.09.2025 22:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm excited! (Rare for me, exciting in itself.) "Why?" you might ask. Well, my short story, "Billy's Paradox," was recently named runner up in @press_53 's Prime Number Magazine Award for Short Fiction.
I'd be delighted if you took a look at the story:
www.press53.com/issue-277-pn...
"The largest U.S. copyright settlement in history."
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Thanks, Obama! (And I mean it this time.)
05.09.2025 22:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Some more...
01.09.2025 19:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Quite a year, quite a week. At least we still have the Great Minnesota Get Together. Peace.
01.09.2025 19:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0One great thing about film photography is that you have to wait to see your images. Another great thing is you can misplace a roll of film for long enough to forget what's on it. Here's one from winter 2020 that I just found. I had no idea what was on it. Brrrrr!!!
05.08.2025 00:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sadly, one of the best improvements to Larpenteur Avenue is temporary - but for now, peds and bikes rule the road in Falcon Heights.
13.07.2025 22:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When worlds collide...
12.07.2025 23:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you appreciate and often return to artwork centered around love and loss, you will feel something achingly familiar about this piece by Ocean Vuong: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
12.06.2025 17:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If Wisconsin offered Tim Walz a $40,000 Harley Davidson, the entire Republican Party would have a full melt down.
16.05.2025 14:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'll be reading some new fiction at the Nokomis Library this Thursday, May 15, at 6:30 p.m. Would be thrilled to see you there!
15.05.2025 00:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Water, sun, and no bugs (yet)!!
13.04.2025 22:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My father used to say that the first thing that separated human beings from other animals was not language or art or music, but the ability to tie knots.
19.03.2025 23:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Been looking forward to reading this collection from CoffeeHouse press by the great Brian evanson, but I'm a little worried I may never sleep again...
11.03.2025 00:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Prince still crushing it #greatnorthernfestival
27.01.2025 00:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Rough 2025 so far, but at least it's cold enough to remember when it really used to get cold. #minnesota
19.01.2025 02:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Little Drummer Boy? (sorry couldn't help it)
15.12.2024 23:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine
14.12.2024 02:45 β π 43412 π 12272 π¬ 925 π 483I recently completed a collaboration with West St. Paul artist Carolyn Swiszcz:
www.etsy.com/listing/1753...
βThe NOvA Experimentβ zine, with text by Steven Lang and illustrations by Carolyn Swiszcz, is now available on Etsy.
Please check it out!
So relieved that they *finally* installed some support for this short rusty very important useless pole.
01.12.2024 22:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0For the writers out there... Switching social media platforms counts as writing.
25.11.2024 04:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's actually funny to watch Turnip pressure Vance to stump for Gaetz. It's a loyalty test - the whole reason behind the nomination in the first place.
20.11.2024 20:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 050% of Canadians live south of Duluth, and part of Canada is south of Detroit. This means moving from Minnesota to Canada is a parallel move at worst.
14.11.2024 05:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Decided to get the latest COVID vaccine while it's still legal.
11.11.2024 01:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 02023: The year humanity became the primordial soup for the genesis of Artificial Intelligence. Let's hope that survival of the fittest doesn't apply to silicon. Either way, happy 2024!!
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