@cdbrown.bsky.social
writer, filmmaker, and professor in New Orleans who is now publishing a monthly fantasy magazine he/him dirtymagickmagazine.com
Mr Bubbles ube and pandan was at King Cake Hub. My wife told me I was eating too much (she was being greedy).
17.02.2026 04:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And they were throwing like they needed to save all their beads for Canal St.
17.02.2026 03:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cover Reveal: Dirty Magick Issue Nineteen
Not a completely themed issue, but certainly St. Patrick's Day adjascent.
General Call: If you have nominating rights for the Hugos, please consider Dirty Magick Magazine. Just getting into the conversation would help boost us to the next level and hopefully increase subscriptions so we can continue to publish great stories unabated.
12.02.2026 15:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow did my mind go to dark places with that.
08.02.2026 22:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very New Orleans question: why did Cleopatra and Femme Fatales not only have the same floats but the exact same theme? Are they connected somehow? Is this me or is this weird? #mardigras #neworleansquestion
08.02.2026 21:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Look up Occasional Wife
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Dirty Magick's February book reviews by @ninjafingers.bsky.social include @millieabecassis.com "A Legacy of Blood and Bone" and Anbara Salam's "The Salvage."
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Available on Dirty Magick: Our film column "Naked Steel" reviews the groundbreaking but flawed animated film "Fire and Ice," the collaboration between Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta.
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#filmreviews #fantasyfilms
Available now on Dirty Magick, amidst the many coloful supernatural being in Lagos, Nigeria, a winged iwin woman contemplates sacrificing her wing for money in Anoualuwa Ngozi's "Those Who Dream of Flight in the City of Warriors." #afrofantasy #nigeria #magicalrealism
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Available now from Dirty Magick: a country conjure woman struggles to keep her son in line while serving the needs of her town in "Loose The Darkness" by Suzanne Paul. #afrofantasy #southernlit #witchcraft
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Now available from Dirty Magick, "Red Calabash" by Makeda Braithwaitem follows a young woman as she decides her fate: will she become a witch? Why is her grandmother pushing her so hard? Buy now on Patreon. #afrofantasy #guyana #indiepublishing
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From Dirty Magick's AfroFantasy Issue: Just in time for Carnival, Khalifaziz explores a dreamlike New Orleans and Congo Square as a young man quests for love and redemption in "The Big Bamboula." #NOLA #afrofantasy #urbanfantasy
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Now available on Patreon: Dirty Magick Eighteen: The AfroFantasy Issue. Explore African, South American, and Afro-American versions of fantasy and witchcraft. #indiepublishing #fantasyfiction #afrofantasy
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Now available on Weightless Books, Dirty Magick Eighteen: The AfroFantasy Issue. Explore African, South American, and Afro-American versions of fantasy and witchcraft. #indiepublishing #fantasyfiction #afrofantasy
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Just in time for Black History Month and Carnival, Dirty Magick presents its AfroFantasy Issue featuring Khalifaziz, Makeda Braithwaite, Suzanne Paul, and Anoualuwa Ngozi. Naked Steel features Fire and Ice plus book reviews by @ninjafingers.bsky.social Jennifer R. Povey. Please subscribe if you can.
04.02.2026 17:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Says everyone who ever had an appointment on St Joseph St.
02.02.2026 22:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh, that wonderful time of day when the middle school band practicing for Mardi Gras marches by your house yet again playing a clunky and off key version of "Rock and Roll Part Two," the only hit of a convicted pedophile.
#NOLA #CarnivalTime
I review Al Green's new EP featuring covers of The Bee Gees, R.E.M., and, very delightfully, Lou Reed. Read on my Substack Yat's That. Subscribe if you can. #NOLASky #recordreviews
28.01.2026 16:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Their kolsch is an absolute all-timer.
27.01.2026 16:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sorry to cyberstalk you here, but your e-mail keeps bouncing. Please DM me.
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I'm always up for a muffaletta or a roast beef po-boy, but I found a few variations on theme that push the traditional to a new level: Porgy's muffalettu with tuna conserva and Dough Ngyuner's pho debris po-boy. Read on my Substack Yat's That.
#NOLAsky #foodreviews #poboys
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Nothing like opening a tap in New Orleans in July and getting second-degree burns.
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Carnival is coming, so I reviewed the latest album from Monk Boudreaux and his grandson Jwan "Slip Don't Fall" on my Substack Yat's That. Subscribe if you can. #neworleansmusic #NOLAsky #mardigrasindians
21.01.2026 19:23 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Looks like there's beans and rice present, but to call what is pictured "New Orleans-style" is a travesty.
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Dirty Magick Magazine Issue 18: The Afro-Fantasy Issue Stories by Khalifaziz, Makeda Braithwaite, Suzanne Paul, Anuolowa Ngozi Cover shows an African woman dressed in a traditional style
Cover Reveal: Dirty Magick Magazine Issue 18: The Afro-Fantasy Issue. If you are a reviewer and want a preview, my DMs are open.
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Read Jennifer R. Povey's @ninjafingers.bsky.social January book reviews for Dirty Magick Magazine 17. Read for free on Substack. dirtymagickmagazine.substack.com/p/book-revie...
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Dirty Magick's film column Naked Steel covers the sorcery epic Dragonslayer. Read for free on Patreon.
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