Paz Pardo

I mean, why do they think the jewels in her hair are RED????

Recently I realized that because I've profoundly reduced my news consumption (from relentless obsession level), but my brain still wants/needs new information daily (learning, yay!), I'm reading much more nonfiction than usual. This current book about fungus is MIND-BLOWING.

it's been a long road but I finally found my way home

I remember deciding to write about McCarthyism; I remember drawing Sailor Moon on everything
I do not remember thinking "these are two great tastes that taste great together"

bluesky bound since middle school, baby

A stained report titled "Looking Back at the McCarthy Era" by me, May 25th 1999, title page featuring a big drawing of Sailor Moon. The pages are held together with a staple and a safety pin.

helping my parents clean out my childhood home before they move and
guys

I mean, I'm all for them testing out experimental goo-forming technologies on themsevles

*expires*

pour one out for a real one

FREE SPEECH BABY
*is immediately hit by lightning and burned to a crisp*

ah ok, I was hoping no one had done this, glad to hear that it is hypothetical (and also: yuck & solidarity)

Radioactive Wasps in the Tuna Purse Café is the cyberpunk Tom Robbins tribute that I would read but that I never wanted to live through

what

can I make this my pinned post

class action lawsuit for exposure to toxic levels of cursed phrases when

I'm sorry, I refuse to believe that "purse tuna" is a phrase from anything other than overwrought erotica

I am in this picture and I don't like it—I *love* it

the weirdest!!

"The facial expression of enthusiasts who are punctuating potage St. Germain with Pagliacci is not beautiful, but it should be seen by those who are bent on observing all sides of life. One cannot discount the unpleasant things of this world merely by looking the other way."
morning brightened, ty

can you include discussion of the shitty jazz covers of classic rock thing? Because I would not feel the lack if I never hear a breathy white lady scatting over the chorus of "sweet child of mine" again

Brazil keeps innovating

This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover

😍😍

yes! formative! most of my writing has been trying to somehow recreate that feeling in non-high-school-cast-party forms

well, if I had to learn that Lehrer passed, this was the best way to do it
We didn't all go together after all, Tom (at least not yet). May no one non-consensually nibble on your fingertips postmortem.

quarter pounder of that stuff is going to be disappointingly tiny

Oh what a Goddamn shitty business we've taken on, being writers! Oh what shit! What shit!

can't wait for it to be available at burger king!

EliEliEli

More people are considering AI lovers and we shouldn't judge.