Christopher Lockett

The poet muses on mortality.

It sounds like we teach some remarkably similar courses. :-)

Gloucester and Bartleby

I am a single-issue voter and that issue is "Nuremberg Trials for Kristi Noem."

A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.

(1) Internet blocking software.
(2) Delete all games/distractions.
(3) Sit in chair. Eventually you get so bored writing is the attractive option.

And the fact they won't shut up about their screenplay.

Honestly can't be emphasized enough.

Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s AI engine inside the Pentagon network.

The world's most powerful military merging with the world's most capricious, hallucinatory, and overtly racist and misogynist AI.

What could possibly go wrong?

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Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

Loved this. Taught it twice now in classes on weird fiction, and it’s a reliable favourite among students too.

Not since Cecilia hooked up with someone new in the time it took to wash one's face has there been a more inconstant lover than the one described in "Last Christmas."

SUPREME EXECUTIVE POWER DERIVES FROM A MANDATE FROM THE MASSES, NOT SOME FARCICAL LETTUCE.

Reflections on Returning to the Personal Web | Stephanie Vee Stephanie Vee's personal website: a repository for writing on many nerdy things.

I returned to the personal web in 2025 after many years spent contributing to algorithmic social media platforms and SEO-focused WordPress blogs. Some thoughts on this, and why the personal web has given me hope for the future of the internet:

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#blog #blogging #indieweb

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I think this is an excellent idea, and we should try it out on a grand scale--starting with Elon Musk and Larry Ellison and working down from there.

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Don't forget the other half of this equation.

We have fed the heart on fantasies
The heart's grown brutal from the fare
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love

I will give FIFTY DOLLARS to the person who convinces MAGA types to do this.

introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen

U2
The Pogues
The Cure
Pulp
Barenaked Ladies

Totally including this in my course syllabi next year.

"We're more of the blood, love, and rhetoric crowd. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three, concurrent or consecutive. But we can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory."

Arrakis, a desert, planet, can you believe it? Some people call it Dune, I call it Arrakis. The SPICE must flow, and quite frankly, it will be flowing much faster than under the failed DUKE LETO. Maybe he was a nice guy, maybe not,I think he was jealous of me! We're looking into that very strongly.

I want a DC-Marvel crossover that's just Simmons as Jameson and Wendell Pierce as Perry White shouting at each other.

Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me

Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.

It’s the fifth of November.

I have this nagging sense that I’m forgetting something, but for the life of me I can’t imagine what.

[Exit Clown.]