Man, what is up? January proceeded in its usual way, that is to say, I feel like a cartoon character who’s been sucker-punched so hard they almost topple, and the only thing keeping them upright is another punch from a different direction.

Anyway, it’s February. Next week I’m visiting Florida, and although it’s for a book festival, do you think three Februaries in a row visiting Florida makes me a snowbird? You understand if I would feel conflicted about this. My heart has an evolving topography, wherein the map is certainly not the territory and there’s plenty of room for all the places I’ve lived—but upstate New York is both easy to love and also consistently strange and off-putting.

But it does have good little movie theaters. I went to one of them to see the new Steven Soderbergh film, Presence, and loved it because Soderbergh always knows what the ladies (me) want (we want Lucy Liu ghost stories and a cool 85-minute run time). Another little movie theater claims to be hosting a David Lynch retrospective this month, although there’s no evidence of that on their website so far. Good thing I started my memorial viewing at home (with Lost Highway and the new Twin Peaks box set—what about you?), but I’ll never miss an opportunity to see his work on the big screen.

At some point I promised this newsletter would occasionally contain cat pictures. Here’s a cat picture.

Link jungle!!

• We at DIS/MEMBER added our voices to the aforementioned Lynch tributes thronging air and copy. I also did our first cover reveal.

• Three Halloweens ago I began making little vaguely-spooky, mostly-cohesive zines. Last year I had some copies printed and loved how they turned out. You can order them if you’re a zine fiend or need a cool gift for your disaffected niece!

• Fortune favors the unhinged: catch my pantoum about Miami Vice (film, not series) in Islandia vol. 11. This magazine is a great present for anyone you’re not making moves on.

• I love sludge metal because a) I’m from the south and b) sometimes shit just sounds good. Here’s a band I’ve been into lately.

What have you been listening to? (Broken English, perhaps?) Reading? Are you looking forward to seeing David Lynch again in 25 years?