Angela Chaidez Vincent

For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨

Two Step Devil is so beautifully written. Seconded.

This is how you blurb

Man's Emotional Support Alligator Denied Entry to Walmart After a Customer Complaint. He Says They've Been Going for 'Years' A man in Pennsylvania and his alligator were denied future entry into a Walmart in West Brownsville, Pa. Wesley Silva, 60, and his alligator Jinseioshi were photographed on a shopping trip in the box ...

I'm posting this because...well, because why the fuck WOULDN'T I post this? share.google/cqXyLKIccWir...

“What falls away is always. And is near.”

I’m excited to read this one. Just came across the wild war / camper / snail premise.

Um, this sounds like a horrifying foreshadow.

*nods knowingly

Domestic anxieties have wicked reverb.

This scene will haunt my dreams forever. Rest well, Rebekah. 🎤 🍂

Great event. Minimally mid / meh. 😆 So interesting to hear several perspectives on poetry criticism. I feel charged up to articulate more robust responses to the books I’m reading. Thank you to panelists and moderators for making this available.

Book cover: my little book of domestic anxieties by Elizabeth Sylvia. Green with an aerial view of a perfectly centered teacup on a saucer, the tea red-hued like a brewing emergency. Backdrop: yard, fence, crepe myrtle about to pop.

Pic of the beginning of a poem called Yearning: “What a word, work and pay / & desire boxed and ringing / in the gut. I won’t say // I awoke, but one morning the little house / below my lungs // began to shout.

Text from a book of poetry: “…the both of us, by placid growing things / whose troubles wait for patient ministry. / Or else die quietly. I sometimes think / that quiet's all I want—this life is messy / and so loud, without reprieve. Can't I be / a seed inside my brittle coat, asleep?”

It’s the first day in weeeeeeks that I haven’t needed to extrovert, perform, or do external biddings.

Reading this gorgeous chap (my little book of domestic anxieties by Elizabeth Sylvia | ballerini book press) in the breeze. Whispering expletives in admiration and recognition.

Same. California.

screenshot of an online article titled “drunk man sends injured baby bird to wildlife rescue center in Uber.” The caption reads: “A man who had a few too many alcoholic beverages ordered an Uber for a baby goldfinch that he found struggling on the ground. The baby bird was the sole passenger to a wild life rehab. There are two pictures of the bird: one of the bird resting in someone’s hand, and another of it chirping from a pile of towels.

but who is going to write the poem

Illustration of a Yellow-Rumped Warbler perched on Northern Bayberry.

Yellow-Rumped Warbler, AKA "butter-butt." From my book A Field Guide to Cape Cod, Yale University Press. a.co/d/eK4A0sd

🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #warblers

I feel like there might be a minotaur at the end. Also hahahahhhahahha!

Wondered the same.

Sculpture of crap on a stick wearing a crown at NoKings Fresno. Upper left has a wire with a fly attached.

A favorite protest sculpture / sign at #NoKings Fresno. Zoom in to the fly attached by a wire. 😂 The event felt peaceful, kind, joyous, moving. Something is definitely shifting in favor of constitutional rights.

I may not take this one out today (I have more / too identifying) but it felt cathartic to make it. Fist bump to all the other Geminis who deserve a better birthday twin. #NoKings

Nonviolent Political Actions for Writers 1) Writing-speeches, letters, statements, flyers, leaflets, group letters, petitions...plus your poems, stories, plays, and commitment to making art as a person who desires a better world. 2) Banners bumperstickers, t-shirts, protest signs, sky-writing, sidewalk chalk, broadcasts, social media posts, articles, editorials, displays of language in public places. 3) Symbolic Acts-pickets, marches, prayer circles, vigils, mock awards, delivering symbolic objects (pies, dildos, dead flowers, glasses of water delivered by citizens of Flint, MI, to their local politicians, etc), displays of flags or other symbolic objects (in the Polish Solidarity movement, members wore electronic "resistors" from radios), public performances, satire, costumes (pussy hats at the Women's March; nuns' habits worn by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, etc.), disrobings, die-ins, mock funerals, effigies, puppets. 4) Public disapproval-whistles, bullhorns, assemblies, sit-ins, stand-ins, ride-ins, solidarity with those being attacked (Angel Action against the Westboro Baptist Church, US Veterans acting as "Human Shields" to protect the Standing Rock protesters), walk-outs, silence, withholding approval, turning one's back, boycott, sanctuary, total personal non-cooperation, conscientious objector status. 5) Witness-At any level of action, remember that action speaks louder with words. You not only have to be willing to participate, you must be willing to testify. You are here on this earth at this time. Don't act like you're not a part of what's going on.

I made this list of Nonviolent Political Actions for Writers for a course I taught during TFG 1.0 on Writers & Resistance. Please share. You do not need to be a writer to participate.

"You are here on this earth at this time. Don't act like you're not a part of what's going on."

Add to your TBR to balance out all the anxieties that are outside the house. ☕️ 💚

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

I defer to your awesome grandma as a fellow June 14 birthday girl. In her spirit, I’m going to a protest that day.

This novel is so good.

Just finished Migrations. Wow! 😮‍💨 Will definitely read this one soon.

She’s not wrong. 😂

It’s my book’s 1st birthday! Arenaversary wish? Consider adding to storygraph and /or goodreads want-to-read pile? 💜

app.thestorygraph.com/books/3ba060....

www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Ooo! My copy is en route!

I saw her in concert once and she was an absolute delight of a performer. This is horrible news. Rest well, Jill. I admire you so much.

May we all be loved and honored this much. My condolences for your loss.