Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press

Do you know the way to Santa Fe?

there was a time when cinema trusted their audience - now we have Taylor Sheridan explaining too much shit (Sicario excepted)

I have participated in writing groups like this

he is a true gentleman

game recognizes game

Chimpanzees Are Really Into Crystals

my takeaway is that bananas and yogurt could be the new drip

"the researchers ended up needing to trade large amounts of bananas and yogurt to get back the largest crystal"

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/s...

How I arrived on BlueSky

Never stop being this perfect at bsky, sir

A previous episode!
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At the movies with @dael.bsky.social is good bsky, folks

Notre Dame Review had asked me to write about my poem in their 60th issue, Southern Accents— which is also the title poem for the book manuscript I'm sending around.

Thanks again to @johannesg.bsky.social for being such a constant support in this world

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I have some thoughts about "snow" 👇👇👇

Oh, sorry, I blacked out for a second... what just happened?!?! 😆😆😆

That's my guy right there

And to be clear, I will fight George Will, anywhere, anytime.

...but jfc, always seemed like it offered an opening for not taking responsibility for shitty human actions and giving up the ghost of making good changes in the world.

Like, I'm actually angry about it, both from a NAIS perspective and from a Frankfurt perspective. Sure, revise conceptions of human agency so we are not schlepping liberal-individual notions of the self...

But seriously folks, good old grey poupon country dijon, spread on some French bread with a bit of butter and baked like garlic bread? *chef's kiss*

Tbh, any Hot Brown mustard will do! 😆😆😆

"snow" is a charlatan

Love it!

Too kind! It has been really fun to figure out the word combos. So many false starts with fun words. I'm just glad to get "f-r-o-g" into one of them!

thx for your support!

I mean, sounds like a good plan to me! 😆❤️

#dhmakes, too (dang it, mark!)

knitting word search lockup in press bed

Here's the lockup for the knitting word search. Good times!

My final #letterpress #textile word search: knitting!

Word list for No. 5: knit, frog, dye, cable, cake, round, & fiber. Image: a sweet woodcut ball of yarn w/ knitting needles!

You can find all of my word searches here: hotbrownpress.etsy.com/listing/4424...

#knitsky #yarnsky #printmaking

You can't explain it. You have to feel it.

The face of the punch of Baskerville’s 16pt roman capital S

The digitisation of the Baskerville punches is a really great resource. John Dreyfus’s account of their history is well worth a read too! They travelled all over France before ending up back in England.
#typography #bookhistory

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