Learning the “Police & Thieves” bass line; Savoring 4Columns; Reading Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton
Junior Murvin’s lovely inversions
What do any of my city planning poems have to do with coyotes, you ask?
One trickster I've been taken with is Mary Quant, an avant la lettre hacker and/or punk.
Articles about A.I. and meta-prompts; a Bed of Nails; goodbye to the black hole on my block.
Dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins
Robert Glasper’s Abstract R&B; Bryan Washington’s short stories; and dispatches from the cities of the 21st century.
Linger in the weightless vibes.
Saving a Dragon Tree Plant; Sissy Jupe; Rosalynn Carter
As the circus side wins the dialectic.
I recently found myself mischievously giggling at a bar with a friend as we conspiratorially agreed that David Byrne was not as clever as all that!
They might not stand the test of time/But remember, remember, remember…
The Ugly Rise in Anti-Semitism
I’m having a hard time thinking about anything else right now or thinking that the world is a safe place for me to be.
Joanna Garcia; Andrea Jin; “You’ve Really Got a Hold On Me.”
“The supernatural darkness of d minor.”
“I want to put up posters/on the newspaper boxes/on the banks/and on the Stores”
This wish to be both living in the swirl of a city scene and besmirching the city at the same time, points to a defining aspect of urbanism.
Our Evidence-based Nightclubs
Every Orchard & Delancey./
Every Istiklal Avenue./
Every Carnaby Street./
Every Midnight in the Rue Jules Verne.
Best Seller at Valium Tom’s Bookstore
Tom, aka @Phinneybooks, has always been about lists.
Transit Oriented Pop
The Night of Electric Bikes publication shindig at Good Weather Bike Shop.
Poetry Northwest Q&A
“Life is not the beauty, life is the mishmash and the overlapping ideas.”