Joe Halstead

RIP David Lynch. A tremendous loss.

I mean, this is true. The “lists” of “good authors” are just cliques. The entire literary community is just a performance and a public persona exercise. Look at Neil Gaiman and that article. He was the world’s most beloved, wholesome writer. And yet.

Me and the three folks who read my posts.

Are you really writing unless you’re posting updates on social media about how you’re writing?

Legit A-2 Flight Jacket from @schottnyc and @ysl Saint Laurent belt

“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.” — Russell Banks, Continental Drift (last line)

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.” — Czesław Miłosz

“We need help, the Poet reckoned.” — Edward Dorn

*John Carpenter music fades in*

“Chatting up my giraffe with misspelled stories about aggressive foot massages in the Swiss Alps, where the tips of my feathers got hypothermia and my brain became a mood ring.” — lost Bob Dylan lyric, probably

2023 Awards Eligibility List — -TH-

A compelling story about a boy at a window, a fake world and a real one, if you look closely enough. What's real and honest and what's fake in regards to environment and sentiment? Think again. You might be wrong.

by @thomasha.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com

“For all things change, making way for each other.” — Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

Cool people are like eagles. They touch down on the hunt but then are off again.

Gather many friends and leave Earth knowing humans are just cells.

"When you finally returned home on your first leave, she was standing with your parents outside the gate of the airport, waiting again to hold your face against her perfumed cheek and a silken wave of auburn hair."

—Elahzar Rao

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For the evening crowd, the 5 must-read horror articles of the past week, curated by @kevharrison.bsky.social, only at @thisishorror.bsky.social.

I’ll often go and watch old recordings of MTV broadcasts on YouTube, commercials included. Good stuff.

Moseying down the Turquoise Trail. #newmexico

Congrats! Looking forward to this.

Watch:
War And Peace (1968 Sergei Bondurchuk)
Crime And Punishment (1970 Lev Kulidzhanov)
Siberiade (1979 Andrei Konchalovsky)
Dark Eyes (1987 Nikita Mikhalkov)
Last Year at Marienbad
#filmsky 🎥

You don’t play the same song for an elephant as you do a tiger.

Words to live by as a writer:

1. Stay humble, don’t crumble.
2. Be as dull as possible.
3. Be fancy while you have the chance.
4. Good books are guts, blood, and magic.
5. If you don’t reject it, you have to master it.

Remember when Stephen King appeared on those American Express commercials? What the hell was that about

We watch this every October. Instant classic.

Despite it being a “lowercase p” political novel, the book does an interesting job of showing us that existing in a border racially, culturally, sexually, can return to a kind of political productivity.

Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven. Reminds me of a Toni Morrison novel, a lot of history, a lot of trauma, and a lot of exploration of what one does with their trauma and how it characterizes them.

Hell yeah

Thanks for having me on Bluesky, y’all. On Twitter, I learned that the writing community was inexorably linked with the artificial performative nature of social media. Not many writers agree on this. Even though they joke about it they still participate in it and there is something gross about that.

Chilling