This Week's Writing 12/14/24
we hit 10k free subscribers!
The blog hit 10k free subs! As you can see, the cats are so excited they are milling!
To celebrate I’ve got a 40% off sale just today for new annual subscribers; $30/year. Help me feed all those cats!
Thanks everyone for helping me to scribble through 2024, and I hope you’ll help me keep scribbling in the new year too.
Okay; here’s what I published this week.
Politics
Chris Wray folds like cheap suit; don’t be Chris Wray. (Public Notice)
Biden using the pardon power to thwart Trump is good. (EIH)
Alexander Hamilton, immigrant and anti immigrant demagogue. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
Alynda Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff moves to Chicago. (Chicago Reader)
In Romulus, Hollywood is the hungry xenomorph. (EIH)
Weep for the beautiful people in The Beast. (Splice Today)
Chicago folkie Cass Cwik is pretty great. (Chicago Reader)
Weep for the beautiful people in We Live in Time. (EIH)
Poetry
Zeno’s paradox poem. (Five Fleas)
I am 15% done
with this poem.
That means
I will finish this poem
never.
I will never finish this poem.
Statement of purpose of sorts. (Five Fleas)
I do not want your
raw and honest poetry.I want your poetry
overcooked and rubbery
and filled with lies.
SO MANY CATS!
I currently share my living space with one just like the orange cat, and have owned doppelgangers of the other two on the right side. Love them all, yours and mine :)
I actually comment here because of poetry. From early days in elementary school, I never really "got" poetry, generally had to have it explained to me. But yours are so down-to-earth and easily understandable, I enjoy reading them. "Zeno" particularly strikes my fancy because of my lifelong love of math. Perhaps that explains the aversion to poetry? :)
Keep the poems coming as an additional attraction, but keep your focus on the non-cat, non-poetic world at least part of the time, please.