Happy to have two new sonnets called "Slush Pile" and "December Zinnias" up today at Third Wednesday:
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Happy to have two new sonnets called "Slush Pile" and "December Zinnias" up today at Third Wednesday:
thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2026/03/06/t...
David Frum in this interview is the first person I've seen seem to get what Mark Carney was actually saying in his Davos speech: the sign Carney is taking out of Canada's window is not "God Bless America", it's "We Believe in the Rules-Based International Order"
How in the world did they not put Tonya Harding with Warren G. Harding
I dunno, I like this kind of thumping alliterative rhythm (not sure whether the lack of rhyme highlights the rhythm more or if you were deliberately aiming to play it up in this one?)--I think maybe it goes well with your word-length inclinations?
Anyway I did like Under the Skin a lot more than Bugonia so go figure
...which I guess people have because everyone isn't telling you what they think and why they think it all the time and how else could you possibly know
IMDB topline numbers for Barry Lyndon: 78% on the Tomatometer, 92% on the Popcornmeter
IMDB topline numbers for Poor Things: 92% on the Tomatometer, 80% on the Popcornmeter
Just occurred to me to look up the numbers for the two movies I think of most in relation to "WH" and well hit and miss (as I knew Poor Things would be), but Barry Lyndon is the one I keep thinking of in relation to the idea that "WH" is "shallow"...
Of all the this guy is that guy at the bar on his tenth Coors Lite of the night things that guy has ever said, the Revolutionary Guard should just hand their weapons over to the people is certainly one of them
If I were the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the US attorney-general said the congressional committee requiring her to testify about crimes should be talking about me instead I would also simply drop 20% in the next three weeks
I wonder how else I am like the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Funny thing about that comparison is that given what all you hear about WH you would not remotely guess that of these two movies it's the one with not even a flash of nudity (as opposed to, uh, a lot), which to me is one of WH's great little tricks
IMDB topline numbers for Under the Skin: 83% on the Tomatometer, 55% on the Popcornmeter
IMDB topline numbers for Wuthering Heights: 58% on the Tomatometer, 76% on the Popcornmeter
We watched Under the Skin last night, and I just saw some more Wuthrering Heights bashing on here, and, well, I am a man of the people
Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink. And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was one cat
Screenshot of a bluesky post from the New Yorker promoting an article about Robin Wright having met Ayatollah Ali Khamenei once; there is a picture of mourners for Khamenei; in the middle there is a woman holding a portrait of him, and to the side there is a man wearing a grey toque with a New York Yankees logo on it
I can't get over the fact that there is New York Yankees logo in this picture
Pic of the week: Woodhopper
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One of the mysteries of life: how did it come to be that we all take for granted that the equinoxes and solstices are when the seasons "officially" start
A whimsical 5-7-5er by me up at haikuniverse today!
(God as my witness, wild turkeys can fly.)
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In the postsecondary education system, the people are represented by three separate yet equally important groups—the generative AIs who create content, the chatbots who interface with content-consumers, and the AI agents who consume content. This is their content.
👼I am now the poet laureate of a very big power play goal for Switzerland there goes my brain ha yeah I saw your AI agent doesn't work I will get it to the vet so where is my leg if anyone has a pointy toe or something like an angel I will be there for you and the Last Man is the best for the record
xkcd comic about how you should not make fun of people for not knowing things everyone knows but instead show them the coke and mentos trick
It occurs to me that "diet coke and mentos thing" is now a meta thing due to the xkcd comic, congrats if you are among today's lucky 10,000
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My diet coke and mentos thing for today: mud volcanoes
Not waving but damning
Jury still out, unfamiliar plumbing jobs are always like episodes of House except there's no limit to the number of wrong answers you can come up with before you get the right one
Anyway just an excuse to post the Rheos song really
youtu.be/u4nZ8BKMt_s
The meat of the thing though is that insofar as the academic enterprise is rotten to begin with having your AI agent go to school for you is just the logical conclusion, the reductio ad adsurdum. But how far does that insofar go? Having spent some years on the inside, you know, it's complicated.
We are the horses... holy Mackinaw Joe.
AWP is like the Super Bowl for writers in that if you're not particularly personally interested in it you're always kind of vaguely gauging how soon it is by the volume of mentions you see on social media
The waves come in increasing swells and ebbs, big swell happening now, got to be soon, surely
Jury is out, until sometime after unanticipated hard-to-get replacement parts arrive, on which I should've listened to
Reddit vs youtube on plumbing DIY:
Reddit is your dad, says you incompetent idiot you can't do that you'll die & flood your house & your house will fall down & you'll die, call a plumber
Youtube is your cool uncle, says hell yeah let's do it, first things we need's a quart of whisky & a blowtorch
There is maybe nothing more emblematic of the current totalitarianism of the soul than being emotionally invested in the political leanings of hockey players
As am I, as am I, of course
Pic of the week: Chickadee Spill
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