cmcrockford.bsky.social
@cmcrockford
BIRDSONGS (Alien Buddha, 2024) and WITH ONE'S OWN EYES (Moonstone Press, 2026). Writer, Strange Matters/Public Parking/Mass Review/Afterimages/Bright Wall Dark Room. AuDHD. West Philly. Cat dad. Anti-fascist. cmcrockford.net
Been doomscrolling and I do suspect some leftie posters would connect better if they were giving tips for what to do next instead of doing the same sarcastic rip on this cartoon over and over
I had to get up to make chicken but he was on top of my elbow
@dapowell.bsky.social on WITH ONE'S OWN EYES, out August 10th:
The country is at worst a depraved and botched experiment so I read the opening of American Tabloid pretty much every July 4th
First blurb for With One's Own Eyes from fellow Philly poet Matthew Kosinski
Putting It Together is a book that seems essential for anyone who wants to produce theater, let alone is interested in Sondheim or American musicals
Thinking of the houseless people I have seen sitting outside when it is extremely cold as I ask if they have a place to go right now
Wrote a mini-review of You Should Have Been Nicer To My Mom, a good example of justice sensitivity coming across as petty and narrow-minded (another @thestorygraph.com reviewer noted that three characters are merely jerks, three others actively committed CRIMES)
You ask one dickhead why hes targeting trans accounts and-
"Who becomes a trusted friend (and perhaps something more)" bowling partner??
There are thousands, hell millions of cooler historical women under persecution you can write about
Actively encouraging people to respond to the guy who thinks genocide is a "label" and that a timeout from his posts is a punishment
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su... I just...what would you need
Features interviews with a genocide scholar, not even appeal to authority here, it's "this person sure knows a shitload about this subject so I should pay attention"
Reading Derek Wolcott's The Prodigal, this passage stopped me in my tracks