Supernatural Feat - June 2025
Yo, it's June 2025. Let's see what's going on over here!
Let's see whats going on over here
I had some stuff published (most-recent to least-recent)!:
Don’t Worry, This is My Second Rodeo; Let Me Tell You How Rodeos Work | dishsoap quarterly: Dishsoap is a really cool little journal who politely and enthusiastically published this fever dream. It's one of my favorite pieces because I think I wrote it in one go. Maybe just a couple of tiny edits after the initial draft. Just going in one go without rails is what is called Living.
My Name Is Jim Parcheesi Owner of Jim Parcheesi's and I've Worn the Same Pair of Socks for 45 Years So Sue Me | X-R-A-Y: Super proud to be in XRAY. They publish legit stuff by legit people. They liked this wild voicey monologue and when I got the acceptance email I literally whooped and holy-shitted because I didn't think anyone would ever take it, let alone XRAY. Also, up to a couple dozen online people have indicated they super enjoyed this, and that's a nice feeling.
Feel Free to Make Yourself Some Coffee in the Morning – Don't Submit and I have much monies – Don't Submit: Don't Submit is an interesting journal. You just put your thing in a form and if they like it they post it (sometimes same day), and if not you never hear about it. It's full of really wild and a lot of times, honestly, not-understandable writing. For example these pieces about disgusting oligarch fascists and the banalities of coffee making in our current techno-consumerist dystopia or whatever.
I also wrote a poem about Godzilla and King Kong kind of at my website.
Let's see what else?
Here is a list of stuff I really enjoyed from other writers online (you should check these out, but honestly, I don't expect you to, I'm surprised you've made it this far into this thing as it is, mostly I just want to acknowledge that I liked this stuff):
- SPRING FORMULA by Tom Snarsky | X-R-A-Y
- migration season by dana wall — scaffold literary magazine
- I'll Always Be Your Lemon Daddy - Electric Literature
- Deathbed Wisdom - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
- Three Prose Poems by S. Cristine - BRUISER
- matchbook | Stephen Dixon
- “My Cosplay as a World-Renowned Saxophonist at the Family Function” by Sarp Sozdinler. – Citywide Lunch
- I Don’t Know What Wind Is by Chris Scott | New Flash Fiction Review
- Sisters, Lovers | MrBullBull
- bonsai kitten by leya ivanov — scaffold literary magazine
Let's see what else?
Here are a few random notes out of context from last month from when I daily write random notes in my notes app which is called Obsidian and highly recommended:
- Other names besides Esteban
- pen name of yugo poop-o pee-o
- The birds are so disappointed in us
- 2 chimichangas
Al pastor tacos (meal w/3)
Beans and rice
Quesabirrias - Imagine you’re in the middle of a digital transformation
Let's see what else?
Literally today I for the first time really listened to Horses by Patti Smith. I know right? I wasted so many years really not listening to Horses by Patti Smith.
I decided I should really listen to Horses by Patti Smith because we watched a warm and chill movie called Perfect Days which is directed by Wim Wenders and is about a very nice Japanese man living in Tokyo and about finding beauty in daily routines and the seemingly mundane–I mean, the very nice man cleans toilets for a living, public Tokyo toilets, which, interesting side note here, my wife and I thought was a very interesting side note of the movie because there are many well-considered and different and beautiful public Tokyo toilets, so we'd say little comments like Wow look at that one, what a toilet!–and in that movie the nice Japanese man, the main guy, he listens to cassettes on his way to work, and one of them is Patti Smith, and the song we hear is Redondo Beach, but I didn't know that at the time–don't forget, as I mentioned, I had at that point yet to really listen to Horses by Patti Smith (that didn't happen until literally today) and I was not at that point knowing exactly what I was hearing–so mentally I noted: This song slaps. Watch Perfect Days, it's worth it.
Also I watched Charade which is from 1963 and it has a great cast including Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn and others that I won't say because I don't feel like looking up how to spell their names. It's like a fun kind of caper/mystery/comedy/spy(?)/romance thing. Only nit I had is that Cary Grant at this point in his life has tipped into huggable dad/grandpa guy territory but we're supposed to believe peak(!) 30-something Audrey Hepburn is all about him, but also it's fine, Cary Grant has enough vibe still to make it fine. Anyway you're mostly focusing on Audrey Hepburn and her wonderful mix of auras that she has. Plus, bonus, it takes place in Paris, and long-time readers will know from ISSUE 1 that I'm in a cool movies filmed in Paris in the 60's phase right now. It's a good movie ok?
Laterrrrrr.
DW