Mike Wright

The gold standard of unintentionally terrifying taglines.

“Sinners” is the right answer here.

#JamesJoyce #skateboard #dreamlogic #FinnegansSkate #JamesNoice #DangsJoyce

I had a very vivid dream last night where I learned that James Joyce invented the skateboard, first using the term in Finnegans Wake. I have been googling terms like "Joyce + skateboard" all morning. Results: No. James Joyce did not invent the skateboard.

James Joyce continues to pop up in new issues of Harley Quinn comics as an over-sexed weirdo. I'm here for it, even if the result is slightly off-putting.

At the end of Joyce's Finnegans Wake chapter 3, the text morphs into a movie theater scene, ending with "To be continued" and a mock production company:

Federals' Uniteds' Transports' Unions' for Exultations' of Triumphants' Ecstasies.

It's an acrostic — FUTUE TE — Latin for "fuck you". 🫶

James Joyce to speak at Grá Festival In a world first, the voice of James Joyce will be heard once more, reading a specially crafted poem in honour of his muse and wife, Nora Barnacle.

No. No to all of this.

YouTube video by Michael Spicer The Memories Live On

And here's a reading of it. Seriously, this kind of thing gets me out of bed in the morning.

This is peak "Finnegans Wake" IRL. Read from the beginning — it’s all here: looping cycles, abrupt shifts, mangled language, pure madness. The veil is thinner than we think.
Incredible. No notes. From a 1979 Peterborough Standard. #tremony #jamesjoyce #joyce #finneganswake

YouTube video by Adam Harvey (JoyceGeek) DON'T PANIC: it's only Finnegans Wake - thunderword #4

Here's a great breakdown of the word from the consistently excellent Wakesian, Adam Harvey...

Bladyughfoulmoecklenburgwhurawhorascortastrumpapornanennykocksapastippatappatupperstrippuckputtanach, eh? (pg 90.31-90.33) #thunderwords #jamesjoyce

And here’s where things get unsettling — brace yourself, dear reader — because buried in this monstrous word of filth and depravity is the name of our current president. Could there be a more fitting literary omen? Joyce tried to warn us! Dig into the word and see the naughty wonders for yourself...

Finnegans Wake has ten 100-letter "thunder words" — the last is 101. They're the voice of God, crashing in like a thunderclap. Most mix “thunder” in different languages, but the fourth, set in a scandalous trial, swaps stormy roots for filth — a different clap, if you catch my drift. #finneganswake

Wait.... While writing this post, I also learned that Lasky was the colorist for "El Deafo"??? As a former fourth-grade teacher, I found this book pivotal for emerging outcasts and book nerds. I read it to my to multiple years of classes. Well done, sir.

Here's @davidlasky.bsky.social Boom Boom Comics #2. From the end of Ulysses' Cyclops episode, the cover is a perfect tribute to Jack Kirby — it dropped the year Kirby passed. Lasky’s a living legend in indie comics and a Joyce fan: www.laskycomics.com/graphicdesign

#jamesjoyce #davidlasky #ulysses

a portrait of two women murdering man

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I am going to be so pissed if--after everything--I do, in fact, die of dysentery.

And don’t let anyone tell you Ulysses is set on June 16, 1904, just because Joyce fell in love with Nora that day. I mean, maybe — but what really made it memorable to him was the alleyway handjob.

#JamesJoyce #Ulysses #Valentines

James Joyce’s Love Letters to Nora Barnacle, His “Dirty Little Fuckbird” ‘The Paris Review’ celebrates James Joyce’s 136th birthday by reading some of his most seminal work.

Get yourself someone who writes you letters with the passion of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle. *pulls at collar* Yowzer! Happy Valentine’s Day!

Quantum mechanics feels like something a big tech grifter invented. "Uhh it only works when nobody is looking at it"

Joyce wasn’t just dicking around with funny sounding words — he was building something that mirrors how the world works.

Scientists find evidence of mathematical structures in classic books Researchers at Poland’s Institute of Nuclear Physics found complex ‘fractal’ patterning of sentences in literature, particularly in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, which resemble ‘ideal’ maths seen in n...

This isn’t the first time research has found hidden structure in Finnegans Wake. A 2016 study revealed that the novel has a multifractal pattern — its sentence lengths repeat in self-similar ways, like structures found in nature.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/books/2016/j...

Most novels follow a Weibull distribution for punctuation — pauses appear at predictable intervals, like speech patterns.

Finnegans Wake breaks this mold. Its punctuation follows a more natural flow, a lot like how your breathing patterns shift throughout the day and night.

New research analyzes 'Finnegans Wake' for novel spacing between punctuation marks Statistical analysis of classic literature has shown that the way punctuation breaks up text obeys certain universal mathematical relationships. James Joyce's tome "Finnegans Wake," however, famously ...

New research to show Joyce wasn’t just blowing smoke when it came to Finnegans Wake: A study analyzed punctuation patterns and found the Wake consistently followed a similar pattern to how our brains think and rivers flow.

🔗 phys.org/news/2024-08...

#JamesJoyce #Fractals #FinnegansWake

The two often went out drinking, sometimes stirring up trouble. When a fight broke out, Joyce would duck behind Hemingway and yell, “Deal with him, Hemingway!”

Honestly, who wouldn’t want a Hemingway henchman?

#hemingway #joyce #ulysses

Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce were an unlikely duo — Hemingway admired Joyce’s intellect, and Joyce just thought Hemingway was a cool dude.

When Ulysses was banned in the US on obscenity charges, Hemingway famously ran a smuggling ring to illegally sneak in copies.

#jamesjoyce #finneganswake #mikewatt #punk

YouTube video by Adam Harvey (JoyceGeek) DON'T PANIC: it's only Finnegans Wake - Shem part 1

It’s James Joyce’s birthday. And two things I love is JJ and punk.

So, here’s a reading from Finnegans Wake with an original(!) score from the Minuteman himself, Mike Watt.