Jan Stinchcomb

not going to mention ash wednesday

At Young Writers Camp Six Weeks After My Second Laparoscopy by Emma Bolden Eighteen and sunstruck and sweating, my body was a wave that crashed and crashed. On the way to the picnic, I peeled a secret path away from the others to stand alone by the lake and consider my in…

We have a great new piece today by @emmabolden.bsky.social! Check out “At Young Writers Camp Six Weeks After My Second Laparoscopy.” lost-balloon.com/2026/02/18/a...

Only Perfection Can Save Us - 100Words Chelsea StickleThere’s a cemetery under my house where I’ve buried all the old versions of me that didn’t work out, abandoning them in the damp darkness that would otherwise gnaw me to the bone.

If you're doing new year, new you, then this one is for you!

I'm immensely proud of this @100wordstory.bsky.social! Thank you to the editors for publishing it! Thanks also to @alinaetc.bsky.social whose @bendinggenres.bsky.social workshop inspired it! #micro #flashfiction #flash

Tom Noonan in a monk's robe, against a stone wall, shaft of light

Tom Noonan, unpublished photo, 2008, from the set of THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL. Noonan was the first actor I ever saw asking what focal length lens was on the camera, and then adjust performance accordingly - completely aware and controlled.

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

Yay!

Just tell me how many days I have left.

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

Photo of three kittens--black, white & tabby--investigating the contents of a box of doughnuts. The black kitten has investigated a powdered doughnut so closely its face is a little white mask.

Happy lunar new year & Chinese New Year & Mardi Gras & Paczki Day & Pancake Day & Huey Newton's birthday & eve of Ramadan & eve of my birthday. Yes, I know those aren't paczki in the picture but what do you even want from me.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…

Trump’s FCC pressured CBS into not airing Stephen Colbert’s interview of James Talarico.

Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching.

youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

So, You Think This Might Be a Fairy Tale: A Checklist by Laila Amado Your journey begins with… ☐ a stranger ☐ a damsel in distress ☐ a sticky situation demanding you skip town until it resolves itself ☐ all of the above Your transport of choice is… ☐ a tin on wheels ☐ ...

"Your journey begins with…

☐ a stranger

☐ a damsel in distress

☐ a sticky situation demanding you skip town until it resolves itself

☐ all of the above..."

New hex! @amadolaila.bsky.social leads us far from the land of Scantron. Please select choices carefully and let us know your results! 📝💯

The Lamb by Lucy Rose

Just watched A Star Without A Star on Kanopy.
Tremendous.

Duvall as Boo Radley

Duvall as Tom Hagen in The Godfather

Duvall as Kilgore in Apocalypse Now

Duvall as Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies

RIP Robert Duvall: as central to American film as anyone in his generation

Celebrating a Century of Black History Month We have never had more need to examine the role of Black History Month than we do when forces weary of democracy seek to use legislative means and book bans to excise Black history from America’s s…

Proud to be included in University of Nebraska Press' powerhouse list of books celebrating Black History Month!

@univnebpress.bsky.social

The Lunatics’ Ball: Some Backstory and the Invitation List Our suburban New Jersey household in the nineteen-sixties was a dark one, my depressed mother sleeping all day, my parents bickering every night over cocktails.

A new substack post on why I wrote THE LUNATICS' BALL and what "lunatics" are included. open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever

“I keep telling young people: keep a diary, get a camera, learn to print your own photos. Don’t put it all in your phone, because everything in your phone belongs to someone else."

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Hardcover of She’s Under Here, a memoir by Karen Palmer.

A good Valentine’s Day with hailstorm, trip to the library (where I saw @karenpalmer.bsky.social’s book), Chinese dinner, and sunset.

Troop 6000

It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️

A pile of red, heart-shaped candies on a woman’s palm

Happy Valentine’s Day.
Here’s one from the archives.

All My Moms Are Movies Now #2 Happy Galentine's Day

New zine is out! It’s the Galentine’s Day issue, and it’s sapphic and jock-tastic 💘 I wrote about Bring It On, Stick It, and more.

Clicks/shares/subscribes are super appreciated 🫶🏼
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What is your most mundane celebrity encounter?

I waited on Carlos Santana and his wife when I worked at a bakery in the Bay Area.

A pile of red, heart-shaped candies on a woman’s palm

Happy Valentine’s Day.
Here’s one from the archives.

My dream is still to have Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir host the impeachment that sticks.

A black cat sits behind a rock in a garden setting.

Here’s the resident black cat to bless your Friday the 13th.

very very excited (& nervous! stage jitters!) to share news of a project that my person & I have been working on for so long now

we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House!

www.thedollhouse.studio

it's Friday the 13th, i'm obligated to tell you my book about horror movies is out now.

it's about folk horror, ecohorror, gastrohorror. sadly Jason only gets a cameo, but Stardew Valley makes a surprise appearance at least

The new Write Like a Motherfucker:

A black cat sits behind a rock in a garden setting.

Here’s the resident black cat to bless your Friday the 13th.

On a Ghostlight Night - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Avi Theret on Unsplash by Pat Foran Fresh off a ghostlighting incident that left him clear-eyed and cold, the horse we rode in on didn’t seem to mind that we didn’t seem to know what we signe...

I have a piece with ghostlighting and the horse we rode in on in it in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. Thanks so much @jhhwriter.bsky.social for including this one in Issue 40. gooseberry-pie.com/on-a-ghostli...