Julian Day

@julianday

Poet, gamedev (Shadow of the Wyrm), pixel artist, composer. Editor/publisher, null pointer press. Chapbooks: Late Summer Flowers (Anstruther Press), Orbits (Model Press). he/him Website: julianday.ca Fedi: @juliancday@writing.exchange

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Julian Day@julianday· 13d

This summer The new horror film everyone's talking about. At the end of her suffering There is a door.

The creepy shack in the woods from the "free hugs" meme but it's been updated to read "Wild Iris".

Julian Day@julianday· 14d

Lilies along the walking path today.

Julian Day@julianday· 14d

Julian Day@julianday· 18d

Had a few cherry tomatoes ripen here and there but finally got a bunch all at once. Manitoba's growing season is...yeah, at least I can get tomatoes.

Julian Day@julianday· 20d

I think I found the most Bluesky reply ever.

Skeet showing a little library with DVDs.

Skeet replying, "hold on, making a road trip." Someone skeets back, "Public libraries also rent out DVDs, just saying."

Julian Day@julianday· 21d

Frances Cannon, from "Grotto" (above/ground press @robmclennan.bsky.social)

Limerence

It's been three days since you pressed me up against your car in the dark driveway.
You pinned my arms over my head and I wanted more-more pressure, more contact, more skin.
Now we're four states apart and I have nowhere to put my energy, no body to squish my flesh into, yet the memory still quickens my pulse and keeps me up at night. Half a week's sleep lost, and I would lose many more to keep these images on loop: Our socked feet rubbing under the table at the dinner party; your towel slipping and bunching under our grinding bodies on the pine needle slope; the kiss I stole in the dark between rooms while everyone else circled the kitchen counter; our accidentally matching button-downs; the single chanterelle we found in the woods.

Julian Day@julianday· 26d

I guess the lesson is to always pair the mouthpiece to the horn. On the left is my old Yamaha 30C4, on the right my new Laskey 75G. If I ever take the plunge and get a better horn, I look forward to doing this all again.

Julian Day@julianday· Jul 8

Julian Day@julianday· Jul 1

There's a section of "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" by Roald Dahl that's stuck in my head since childhood.

Men like Henry Sugar are to be found drifting like seaweed all over the world. They can be seen especially in London, New York, Paris, Nassau, Montego Bay, Cannes and St Tropez. They are not particularly bad men. But they are not good men either. They are of no real importance. They are simply a part of the decoration.

All of them, all wealthy people of this type, have one peculiarity in common: they have a terrific urge to make themselves still wealthier than they already are. The million is never enough. Nor is the two million. Always, they have this insatiable longing to get more money. And that is because they live in constant terror of waking up one morning and finding there's nothing in the bank.

Julian Day@julianday· Jun 26

Beautiful day for a run down country roads.

A dirt road passing a collapsing farm building.

A dirt road beside a farmer's field, filled with some sort of crop, maybe potatoes.

Julian Day@julianday· Jun 20

some days the timeline really delivers

two skeets: "ai use is a kind of ritual impurity"/"'American Gothic' but the wife is wearing an ahegao hoodie"

Julian Day@julianday· Jun 19

One of my guitar teacher's cats, looking like a sentinel from the next world.

Shadow, a long haired black cat, in side portrait, framed by lots of light exposure from a window behind her.

Julian Day@julianday· Jun 12

The biggest problem has never been actually making something - if you have the desire and the time, you can do it - it's been getting strangers to care about your work. And now, everywhere, that's going to be even harder.

So you made an app? DO NOT POST IT HERE.

Congratulations so did 10,000 other people who tried to post it on a reddit sports sub this week. With AI making coding easier, everyone and their mother made an app.

It's overwhelming the sub and considered spam to post it. You will get an automatic ban for spamming.

Julian Day@julianday· Jun 7

30 degrees. Hot night for baseball.

Goldeyes vs Explorers from the first base line.

Julian Day@julianday· Jun 4

First bloom on our white irises.

Julian Day@julianday· May 18

From "Heat Lamp" by Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social

(cinematic)

i

candle

b

ladle

*

overturned soup

gunshot

D

half moon

4

sailboat

uncaring ocean

H

ladder

VV

0

vampire swimming

life saver thrown

years left for crew learning

Julian Day@julianday· May 17

for #smallpoemsunday. from my last chapbook (Orbits, Model Press, 2023)

August 98

When the dopamine died, and the heat
of us cooled.

When you came to visit, the Brown-eyed
Susans yellow-bright.

When we briefly caught fire,
burning both

with and out, our phosphorescence
heady/empty glow.

Julian Day@julianday· Apr 30

Advertise your account with a Simpsons image

Julian Day@julianday· Apr 27

I got this for $5 at Valu Village in 1999. I think it's a first edition. At the end of high school I got in shit with my parents for staying out all night and partying (extremely unlike me), and spent the first week of summer holed up in my room, reading this, and learning to write C.

Julian Day@julianday· Apr 27

It's spring, so I'm reading Stilt Jack again.

II

In this place we might be happy; blue-winged teal, blacks, bats, steam

from cows dreaming in frost. Love, you ask too many questions.

Let's agree: we are whole: the house rises: we fight; this is love

and old acquaintance. Let's gather the stars; our fire

will contain us; two, one.

Julian Day@julianday· Apr 22

Roast Beef: why did you send a heck for $999M to "Oreos"
Ray: I like their product! I wanted 'em to have a little walkin' around money!

Julian Day@julianday· Apr 20

Really looking forward to the latest Jim Johnstone chapbook from @knifeforkbook.bsky.social

Julian Day@julianday· Apr 17

The face of a small dog who self soothes (because the older dog was getting his ears cleaned) by trying to tear a blanket to shreds.

A young beagle sitting on the couch and panting at the camera.

Julian Day@julianday· Apr 16

It's an indictment of this site's stability that I saw this on Mastodon first.

BEAT: I THINK WE'LL KNOW THE SITE IS FULLY BACK ONLINE WHEN HE FINALLY CAN LOG IN LONG ENOUGH TO DELETE THIS.

[a deleted message]

Kari Olson: Good thing I screencapped it

The screencap: Why: Looking forward to what the "ai sucks ackshoeally" crowd has to say about this one.

Julian Day@julianday· Apr 15

Post the best posture you have ever taken of your pet.

Julian Day@julianday· Apr 9

I'll report in Saturday.

Impedence transformer that allows me to run a microphone through my guitar pedals.

Julian Day@julianday· Apr 6

very tangential, but - I did my annual play through of FF1 over the last week or two, and I'm always struck by how hard the first sentence by the vampire goes.

A fighter stands in front of a vampire in the earth cave. The vampire says, "All living things were born to die. No one can defeat me, the vampire!!"

Julian Day@julianday· Apr 6

Just turned 15 ❤️

Julian Day@julianday· Mar 30

The old man avoids the camera; every so often, I catch him.

An old beagle looking past the camera, smiling. He is lying on a cheap throw blanket on a sofa.

Julian Day@julianday· Mar 29

small poem for #smallpoemsunday. originally published in @cv2magazine.bsky.social (winter 2019).