[A thistle plant in our back yard, lit by the morning sun.]
The schools are out and summer is in full swing for the next two and a half months. I have arranged some time off from work at the end of July, and now my partner and I can begin to plan an adventure of some kind.
This past Wednesday was my fifth-fifth birthday, which means we are probably approaching the middle of the of the Age of John, or the Winkelcene (not to be confuse with the Winkelscene, which is my yet-to-be-created slam poetry/martial arts cafe, where any disputes between poets will be handled in the ring).
Reading
I’m bouncing back and forth between two books. My daytime reading, usually during breaks at work, is Capital Hates Everyone: Fascism or Revolution by Maurizio Lazzarato. I have read other of Lazzarato’s works in the past – The Making of the Indebted Man and Governing By Debt. Both are excellent. And, so far, so is Capital Hates Everyone.
The other book in my currently-reading pile is Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker, a biography by Jason McBride. This book fits well with Twentieth-Century Boy, the collection of Duncan Hannah‘s journals which I read last summer, as well as John Giorno‘s autobiography Great Demon Kings. A lot of the same names pop up in these book.
Writing
Writing has gone surprisingly well this past week, thanks to a concerted effort to spend less time fucking around online and more time being of use to myself. I have a folder with a document for each of the weekly writing prompts here, and I have been going back through and jotting down story ideas for each of them, three or four or five a day. Some of the ideas resonate, and may well be turned into full stories when I get the time. But for now the ideas are captured.
Subject: Cryptids, Aliens
Setting: Bar
Genre: Fantasy
Listening
Interesting Links
- “The Shadow of the Mob – Trump’s Gangster Gemeinschaft” (John Ganz)
- “The airlines were patient zero in the junk-fee plague” (Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic)