Chris Piuma
@wordgarbler
podcasts (on MST3K, "great books", old trivia): megaphonic.fm || songs with bitter words: theminorthirds.bandcamp.com || instrumentals: themesquad.bandcamp.com || crosswords, poetry, photography, and more: chrispiuma.com || pronouns: 🤷
A little queer poem from @itsakirby.bsky.social, included in On Occasion (a new anthology of occasional poems).
Friday is the next Bandcamp Friday, and there will be a new something something by the Minor Thirds.
Nice! I ended up grabbing the Fantagtaphics versions, but I have a few of the Treasury editions I grew up with too.
For a second I thought @dropout.tv managed to get Miss Piggy on Very Important People.
Did you get the recent email from Taskmaster about how they're planning to go on tour and are deciding which cities to visit?
I’m gonna finally try Thank Goodness You’re Here with @erlking.bsky.social over at twitch.tv/MegaphonicFM, join us!
The painting on the cover of our new album is by Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net and I absolutely love this little skeleton guy emerging from the water in the middle of this dramatic landscape. You can (and should) check out more of his work at www.lastwater.net
It sure would be weird if my old band, the Minor Thirds, had spent the last few months recording our first full album of new songs in 18 years, and it was going to drop tomorrow, on my birthday. Heh, yeah, that would be weird. theminorthirds.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne...
I just looked through my library, and only one perfect album came out in 1991.
I am pleased to report that the new Alison Bechdel novel (Spent) is very good. (Is it weird that I was getting Middlemarch vibes from it? That's not really a helpful comparison point, as George Eliot wasn't as good at drawing cats in bed, but I kept thinking it as I was reading.)
Oh! I've only visited the Freer once — it had escaped my notice! — and I remember the art more than the building. But some of the art was itself architectural. (At least, I'm pretty sure this was at the Freer.) Anyway, I'll have to pay more attention next time!
The stairway at the Art Gallery of Ontario is the best architectural feature in Toronto. It is pornographically sensual, which I didn’t realize was an option for a stairway until I met this one.
...friends don't disappoint me friends don't disappoint me friends don't disappoint me friends...
One of these days I will be talking @sakbari.bsky.social's (and perhaps your) ears off about recent poetries whose poetics are all about Beautiful Letters. Here's just one example, Donato Mancini's The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goth Phase), from his beautiful book Æthel.
A friend and I were scheduling something and this happened and now I think on Monday we should also celebrate Very Trans Day.
My literary podcast, The Spouter-Inn, recently put out a cluster of episodes on "Essays, Essaying, Stories, Storying". We read some Montaigne, some recent Indigenous essays, some experimental poetry — and we had some wide-ranging discussions which came out pretty neat. megaphonic.fm/spouter/72
4 films you love and gave five stars, one each from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s Mildred Pierce (1945) Tokyo Story (1953) Arnulf Rainer (1960) Fantastic Planet (1973) (Keeping in mind that my scores on letterboxd are effectively a whole star below everyone else's.)
Repost with the first album you bought with your own money (I suck at this game.)