Derrick

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Derrick@dmartincampbell· 10d

My (handsome!) grandpa and his buddy Kurk celebrating after their battalion, with a host of other units under the command Gen. Patton, broke the German position in the Avranches, opening a crucial gateway for Allied tanks to flood the zone

David Berman and Stephen Malkmus dressed for their jobs as security guards at the Whitney in New York.

Derrick@dmartincampbell· 12d

Comma-play, probably? ”Zone” stuff?

Email subject line screenshot: “What Editors Want From Experimental Fiction”

Derrick@dmartincampbell· 18d

THRESHOLD CHECK - POST YOUR THRESHOLDS

August yellow grass lot divided across middle ground by cyclone fence topped with barbed wire, portion of the fence peeled open, square building beyond the field.

Aspen trunks and cyclone fencing framing grassy lot, links of the fence cut but then apparently repaired with yellow-faded-to-white "danger" tape.

Ruined pylons of old pier telescoping out center frame from grey-brown river bank into impenetrable mist.

Weed-covered lot where building was razed to foundation, wooden and chainlink fences framing the lot, two concrete stairs prominent in the foreground lead to nothing.

Derrick@dmartincampbell· 27d

Weedy, puddled cement lot surrounded by tipping cyclone fencing, cracked sidewalks, a bright green, shuttered bodega to the right midde-ground, gray sky and trees, single story homes, rusted cross shape supporting cables to the middle right, yellow grass, a huge oddly curving streetlight dominating the frame.

Cracked and mossy cement wall in center and left foreground framing lot overground with ferns, grass, and green-leaf trees, chimney and roof with an old metal radio aerial visible in the upper right, gray sky.

Fake mediterranean yellow home interior, entryway where a teal-painted front door opens to a screen door, roller suitcase stood full and at the ready to the right of the door. Live Laugh Love on the opposite wall, small living cross hung above the doorframe.

Small metal cross in a yellow-green grass yard, shot through a chainlink fence, grass tilting into the dirt bank of a larger hole out of frame, trees in the back ground, several single-story homes, a streetlight and the edge of a driveway, gray sky overhead.

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Jul 10

Screenshot of Rosalia dancing with a bunch of model-dancers in rave breakdown part of her Berghain performance at the Brit Awards - strap of her white dress has fallen from her left shoulder.

Screenshot of Rosalia dancing with a bunch of model-dancers in rave breakdown part of her Berghain performance at the Brit Awards - she has hooked her thumb under the fallen strap of her white dress

Screenshot of Rosalia dancing with a bunch of model-dancers in rave breakdown part of her Berghain performance at the Brit Awards - making brief eye contact with camera, she replaces the strap on her shoulder, as if in anticipation of something about to happen

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Jul 7

Tempting me into self-bullying I see

Iconic 70s neil young with cig in mouth and colonizer vaguely first-nations bead necklace and fringe brown leather shirt, Jack Nicholson smile

Me and my friend Joe making a single devil's horns gesture with our two hands, I am wearing a washed denim jacket with big curly emo hair and sideburns, mouth open in grinning, hubristic triumph

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Jun 26

Long-exposure night shot of gravel road, dark tree shapes and parked cars in foreground telescoping into streetlight-lit end of street. Blue-gray night sky above.

Long-exposure night shot of flag-lot driveway shot from street, blue-black starry night-sky above, black tree silhouettes, white painted garage w/ bins on the side.

white farmhouse bungalow at night, long-exposure blue-black sky, service line running from above photographer to home, light in prominent rectangular window exaggerated orange.

Shot of blue bungalow at night surrounded by waist-high yellow grass, symmetrically placed broken-down cars, red and black, black doug fir silhouettes framing the home deep-center set, golden porch lights illuminating a white door and two rectangular windows on either side.

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Jun 26

Long-exposed night shot of blue-black sky, rooftops of houses, black silhouettes of doug firs, and an arial antennae shot to look like a golgotha cross

Long-exposed night shot of bungalow-farmhouse, white paint peeling, wild rose tall in the foreground, grass yard over-grown around chain-link fence. A single rectangular window glows prominently orange.

Cracked gray cement driveway takes up main 2/3s of the shot, wildflowers and weeds overgrown several feet high around the edge, old single-car garage at the top of background, window frames glass-less and apparently filled with roofing shingles.

Blurry long-exposure night shot: green yard dark and blurred in the lower foreground, shape of farmhouse-style home vague in the middle center, window-glow very exaggerated by camera settings, lens flare streaks shooting out from center, gray-blue-black night sky above, broken by black doug fir silhouettes.

Derrick@dmartincampbell· May 25

Happy Memorial Day

A tall-grass field with gray wooden plank forms stood up cross-like at intervals beach pines along the field’s perimeter, cloudy sky above

Derrick@dmartincampbell· May 21

Green leaves, gray skies, can't lose

Blue-green May blackberries, grass, weeds, and other bushes fill the frame except for the saphic shadow opening in the center through which a person has likely walked several times

A filed of blackberries and May knot-grass, adolescent maple and elm trees towards the back, gray skies above

Colorful graffiti fills a mid-ground wall, painted on a cement strucuture implied to be part of a bridge by the river-water creeping in from the right side, lapping against the gravelly banks where volunteer palm grass thrives in a narrow column. Ivy covers the top part of the cement/graffiti and the bit of sky we see in the upper right corner is cloudy.

A pair of tall deciduous trees frame the center of the picture where a skeletal dead branch asserts itself, the smoking shelter of an industrial park building through the tree frame. Blackberries cover the near/bottom part of the frame.

Derrick@dmartincampbell· May 8

Five o'clock on Friday, get this party started

phone screenshot of spotify playing william basinski's disintegration loops 1.1

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Apr 24

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Apr 4

When your wife has her yard work outfit on

Screenshot of Don Draper from Mad Men in a suit from the shoulders up looking disheveled, incredulous, and degraded

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Mar 14

Got that ADHD like

Screenshot of Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the titular assassin in Kate (2021), deep in the back half of the film, wearing black gun holster harnesses and a gray tank top, bloody and in visible pain. SUBTITLE: "[gagging and struggling to breath]"

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Mar 12

I know it smell crazy in there

EMAIL SUBJECT LINE TEXT AS VIEWED IN INBOX: "What does an editor actually think when they read your submission?"

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Mar 8

I know @aaronburch.bsky.social loves Jesus Son (which is fine) but my fan-epigraph for this book is basically the whole of Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota BY JAMES WRIGHT

Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,
Asleep on the black trunk,
Blowing like a leaf in green shadow.
Down the ravine behind the empty house,
The cowbells follow one another
Into the distances of the afternoon.
To my right,
In a field of sunlight between two pines,
The droppings of last year’s horses
Blaze up into golden stones.
I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Mar 8

Finished @aaronburch.bsky.social‘s Tacoma sitting on the toilet w/ a kid banging on the door and I am so impressed by this book’s ambition and execution. Makes good on a promise implied by this wave of autofiction that I have never seen before: to take seriously the reimagining of one’s own life

Cover of Aaron Burch’s “Tacoma” from Autofocus books.

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Jan 31

I keep a conspicuous number of Ashes & Diamonds (1958) screenshots on my desktop at all times. Like A LOT, in case I die. My hope is that these will satisfy anyone looking for my secrets on my computer, and leave the files unexplored.

Black and white shot of a bar just outside the perimeter of a party, Zbigniew Cybulski mopes prettily in the right foreground while Adam Pawlikowski stares into space in the left middle, caption text on the bottom: "And they went, heedless of danger"

Black and white shot of war-ruined cemetery at night. severe-haloed St. Peter statue hangs crucified upside-down in the foreground. Zbigniew Cybulski mopes prettily in the right middle ground while Ewa Krzyżewska regards the statue. This screenshot capture the movie title and progress bar on the bottom of my computer.

Black and white shot of Zbigniew Cybulski holding a just-shot Wacław Zastrzeżyński, his overcoat white in the night, Cybulski's gun-hand supporting the body he has caught in his arms. Victory fireworks explode overhead.

Black and white shot of a figure in urban daylight, their identity concealed by the white bedsheet covering nearly their entire body in the right-center foreground. A hand emerges from below the sheet to gently touch the bleeding wound it discovers there in the figure's abdomen.

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Jan 18

My front-facing phone camera is failing

Gray-brown mud waste with dead timbers stacked in 2+ tangles of black, skeletal prism shapes, gray sky overcast

Abandoned house with black windows, askew “garage sale sign, January grass green from winter rain, rotting leaves and trash in the foreground, including a plastic tub filled with opaque rain water

More mid-waste and skeletal black trees dead and stacked in polyhedral shapes, blurry in the middle ground (my phone camera is failing) with white-gray sky overhead

Completely unfocused, water-color-blurry picture of brown-geeen winter grass, skeletal blackberries and leafless tree shapes in the mid ground, gray sky overhead

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Dec 29

How big, George?

Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful spreading his arm wide to indicate how big a suitcase he wants.

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Dec 19

On my run after two days of rain

Flooded creek racing around winter trees, grassy banks consumed

Flooded creek racing down left-to-right, too-corner-to-bottom, winter blackberries, trees, banks consumed

Flooded creek plain, flooding over into flooded parking lot in the upper right quadrant

Flooded creek plain ringed in partially submerged winter trees-lings, big cumulonimbus cloud in the background taking up the quarter of sky not otherwise filled by the dawn

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Dec 19

From the banks of the atmospheric river(s)

Early morning neighborhood, pitched roof silhouettes and trees, MASSIVE cumulonimbus cloud in retreat half covering the otherwise dawn-clear winter sky.

Early morning neighborhood, pitched roof silhouettes with residential street and trees, MASSIVE cumulonimbus cloud in retreat half covering the otherwise dawn-clear winter sky.

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Dec 16

Another Tuesday preschool drop-off Disneybounding as Ethan Hawke

My lower body wearing washed blue jeans, one knee hole, black clunker shoes, some sort of spotted blue wrinkled button-up tucked into my dumb belt

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Dec 10

youtu.be/j8fZKSVoDgs

They mention the bride and groom from time to time and wonder aloud if they are still together. They hope so.

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Dec 7

Late puddlecultures

Photo of puddled gravel driveway, ivy choking one of the several leafless December trees, small dirty beige house partly concealed, gray skies

Lots of plants potted in a solarium, photo taken through the window in which reflection of gray sky is also visible

Muddy/grassy driveway of blue house abandoned after fire, December trees, black, burnt out car on the right middle ground, door left open

Empty field beside the industrial campus, late fall trees all around, one willow in the center middle ground, lonely, gray skies

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Nov 19

You know who else likes to build worlds, right?

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Nov 12

Never forget: Liev Schreiber's character in The Daytrippers (1996) was writing a Karen Russell-esque magical realist novel about a man with a dog's head ("a pointer!") who accidentally starts a new religion.

Black and white pic of Hope Davis, Liev Schreiber, and Parker Posey stting in the back of a car in a scene from The Daytrippers.

Color shot from The Daytrippers of Liev Schreiber leaning in close to the camera in the midst of a very earnest explanation of his in-progress novel about a man with a dog's head, Parker Posey in mid-ground right side of the screen.

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Nov 6

When in-laws and coworkers ask how the writing is going

Screenshot of google doc fragment reading, "In two steps it was upon them, red-eyed, huge, and all at once, in the manner of its kind: the old benadryl hatmen once employed by the government as paralysis demons, then abandoned after the war. The youth scrambled to their feet looking up,"

Derrick@dmartincampbell· Oct 29

Misty atmosphere we planted in the front garden maturing nicely