TODAY IS THE DAY.
06.03.2026 08:54
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TODAY IS THE DAY.
Wife: How’s the conference?
Me: Great! I think I’m starting an Arizona regionalist literary journal!
Wife: …
Me: No, no, no, honey, you don’t understand. This is going to cost us money.
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It's a beat-up Strat with a faucet stuck on where one of the knobs used to be.
Here, pictured with the guitar I've been playing since college, is @stanchion.bsky.social's gorgeous music issue. I have a story in it! It's about a band; everyone in the story sucks and they're all me.
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Barlow Adams has a beautiful new essay out in the world: www.whaleroadreview.com/adams-3/
News bump- "coming up:more problems"
Sees shower rod is slightly higher on the right and tries to adjust it. It now sits slightly higher on the left. Sees shower caddy is leaning slightly to right. Adjusts it. It now sits slightly to left. Trims facial hair because it's slightly longer on left side, now is slightly longer on right...
(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)
True Art
In case you've been hibernating and are just waking up with the Spring weather, Cowboy Jamboree has come out of the gates like a house on fire in 2026. Just look at these bangers (in thread below):
Overheard at AWP ain't got shit on this bombshell.
We name all the fish Byron,
so when he dies,
it’s always Byron,
dying again.
ove the strange tenderness of this Tricia Bogle poem
https://www.havehashad.com/0gqd6
If you’re not at awp you can still get our books at awp prices: $10, $15 or $20: malarkeybooks.com/store
Hey, if these funny tweets or whatever y'all do about current events don't work out at least you can fall back on... Uh. MarkWayne sure is a funny name isn't it?
If you're at AWP, head to the @jacklegpress.bsky.social table to find Every Galaxy a Circle. If you're not at AWP, you can also get a copy from your favorite bookstore!
On #WorldBookDay, please consider buying my debut novel, IN THE DESERT just published this week
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TFW the zine has been sent to our printer @fireballprinting.bsky.social
Snag our Spring 2026 print issue featuring CINEMATIC NUNS, available for preorder here: www.moviejawn.com/shop/spring-...
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NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1-SLUGGO IS OUTSIDE OF A RECORD SHOP AND HEARS A SQUARE DANCE RECORD PLAYING SLUGGO: NANCY LOVES TO DO THOSE SQUARE DANCES SLUGGO DOES A LITTLE DANCE AS HE LISTENS TO THE MUSIC P2-SLUGGO GOES IN THE RECORD SHOP SLUGGO: I THINK I'LL BUY HER A RECORD P3- SLUGGO CALLS NANCY ON A TELEPHONE SLUGGO: OH, NANCY ---I BOUGHT YOU A SQUARE DANCE RECORD P4- NANCY ASKS SLUGGO ON THE TELEPHONE NANCY : BUT HOW WILL IT FIT MY PHONOGRAPH?? NANCY IS IMAGINING THAT THE RECORD IS ACTUALLY SQUARE.
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
March 04,1948
One must imagine Syssiphus reading.
"The mindset is to stay curious and be challenged."
👏 Contributor @darrencdemaree.bsky.social was interviewed in @pinchjournal.bsky.social! Find it here: buff.ly/2Av56OK
Must I be the one? Henry Sunkissinger.
I do most of my work there.
Why does man not simply buy book.
Screenshot of Klaus Kinski in Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo
Follow your dreams: find a career in the arts. Drag that boat across a mountain. Wreck the lives of those around you. Wear a white suit in the Amazon. Build that opera house. Nothing is impossible!
Charlie Sheen (mostly just head and hand, which is holding a gun) and Kristy Swanson, both heavily airbrushed, in front of an almost abstract background of warm-toned speed lines and the image of a truck hitting cars on a freeway Added text reads "Hate Watch/Great Watch, Episode 126"
THE CHASE • the messy, '90s, Charlie Sheen one • released #OTD in 1994. Listen to a classic Hate Watch/Great Watch Podcast episode all about it from @moviejawn.com or find it anywhere you get podcasts
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Forgetful Man Playing Fast And Loose With Free Trials
Forgetful Man Playing Fast And Loose With Free Trials https://theonion.com/forgetful-man-playing-fast-and-loose-with-free-trials/
Oops. I'm posting a lot. I need to calm it down. Sorry. Hypomania.
Bummed not to be headed to AWP in Baltimore this week but gonna read this little guy from @havehashad.com tonight at wild & wonderful words here in wintry Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada www.havehashad.com/hadposts/bud...
I hate when they force that narrative on a character who doesn't deserve it, though and the character still has to play out the win back part of the story like in 40 Days and 40 Nights or Dan in Real Life or whatever that Steve Carrel movie is
Would dark chocolate be better with ginger?
