This Week's Writing 12/21/24

NOT AKHMATOVA still 20% off for Jewish Book Month.

Dec 21, 2024

The White Stone One memory is drowned in me. In a well, a stone, white. I will not remove it from me. It is joy. It is night. It is all my eyes see. It is all you can see in my eyes. It’s a mournful thought, a story inside, where the stone lies. The gods turn people into things that can still feel and know. You’ve become me. The well sings with mute wonder. With sorrow.

The poem above is from my poetry collection, NOT AKHMATOVA, which is still 20% off! Buy it now! Don’t miss out! etc! More info here! (and you can purchase it here.)

I thought I’d take a break from posting next week, but I have a backlog of christmas pieces and movie reviews…so I don’t know. We’ll see how it goes! But this is what I published this week:

Politics

Trump’s Time interview; he’s even more terrifying when he’s trying to be normal. (Public Notice)

Sydney Sweeney and evaluative aggression. (EIH)

Why do parts of the left fall for fascism? (EIH)

Cultural Criticism

2024 and the ongoing golden age of queer film. (Chicago Reader)

A great Chicago MCA show explores the history of painting. (Observer.com)

Disney bans trans content, embraces hate. (EIH)

ANORA is about half of a great film. (EIH)

George Bailey would have voted MAGA. (EIH)

SWEETHEARTS is a surprisingly unconventional romcom. (Chicago Reader)

Poetry

Night sky poem. (Five Fleas)

The moon
will be there tomorrow
until it isn’t.

Pretending to be a LLM poem. (Five Fleas)

Katsushika Hokusai Algorithm
Write, erase, rewrite
erase again, glitch, and then
an AI blossoms.

Domestic angst poem. (Five Fleas)

No escape. It waits.
The laundry.

Typographical shenanigans. (dadakuku)

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Everything Is Horrible

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