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cvrsecatcher.bsky.social
Poet, writer, & tinkerer living in Portland, OR. Writer in Residence with Chateau Orquevaux, May 2024 Grown in the Midwest — Home on the West Coast. www.vincenzocreative.com
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as someone whose life was changed by first really reading online litmags & starting to write dumb little stories & reading submissions for the journal he just started, all at work, in between customers as a bank teller 25 years ago, this sentiment actually means a lot

*Approaching a plainclothes officer and making fart noises with my hands* "wow dude was that you? Wowwww"

My favorite thing to do during pride month is blast 90s country hits cause that shits fuckinggg gay.

"Teeth-whitening strips were on sale at Costco, so I went ahead and ordered you five boxes."

i don't know how rich you gotta be to have a driver, but I wanna be that kinda rich tired of driving

Like surely if I just stop working today at noon, like quit it all, I can make a livable working wage from my poems.. right??

When I finish my chores I like to stand back and say "This house is clean" a la the woman off Poltergeist.

I love getting got by my past self.. Like oh what's this file named "Idontthinkso" from 2012 attached in a blank email from myself. OH! It's 4 pages of rap lyrics I wrote with a note at the end that reads, "I should probably never read this again".

Really poignant piece of street art from artist TopZ out of Seattle!

Ah, the golden age.

Pages from Geometria (1543) by German artist, mathematician, and cartographer Augustin Hirschvogel. In this version from the Deutsche Fotothek, amid the rigid lines of the geometrical sketches appear the chaotic forms of stains: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hirschvogel-s-geometria-1543

One time my dad saw a car for sale on a guy’s lawn in Wisconsin and thought it was a car that could transition into being a boat (???) so he told the guy he’d love to “buy this thing and drive it straight into the lake” which must’ve seemed like a massive power move at the time

I love going to the dentist because unlike the doctor they don't make you take your shoes off but also you totally can those teeth freaks don't give a shit about your sneakers

ok I feel completely insane asking this but like weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"

My wife says she needs to get her hair dyed so I've been standing outside the depot buying beer for kids for like 4 hours and those cheap asses barely tip anymore. It's ridiculous.

y’all gotta go through a portal

I’ll say it: websites should let you sign in if you got your password wrong but you were still kind of close

might just start adding "and a strange circus comes to town." to the end of anything I'm describing.

Giving a 1/2 star rating on a 5 star scale defeats the purpose. Yes I will die on this hill here.

I'm not 100% sure what this link is but But if you love how wonderful the Lord of the Rings movies are and watch them annually you should also be watching Pride and Prejudice and having those same feelings

some of yall and it shows 💀

Going "sicko mode" (getting on linkedin on a friday night)

One of my favorite social media interactions is someone will say they don't like broccoli and people will reply saying just don't eat it then. Bet you didn't think of that dumbass. Bet you were miserable eating your compulsory broccoli meal every day

Gonna go out on a limb here @nytimes.com and say the main problem facing authors isn't used bookstores but the massive AI platforms you publish apologia for every day

Next up: Used cars, what do consumers actually owe the auto manufacturers??

Used books are a low-cost way to see if you like what an author has to offer. If you do find you like them, then you can buy their next book new, possibly from the same bookseller. They're also a way to get books no longer in print. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/m...

Waiting for the eighth one.

I need the citizens of Bluesky to be ready to grieve together when it's not Pizzaballa

Pizzaballa was robbed.

Mike D: Prospect Park down to Park Slope, it’s time to listen to All 3 Beastie Boys:

Oh the world is so bad Oh we live in the worst timeline OH doomsday is imminent You can watch STORMCHASERS for free right now. Live in the moment a little.

aaaaAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHGGGGHHHHHHHUUUUUU-*cpugh*--*wheeeze* ... *inhale* uuuuaaaaaaaHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

WIth everything else you kind of forget that the president of the united states is a crypto scammer

Might become a flesh eating mist soon

Oh no, it is May already…

I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.

An all caps poem that reads like a prayer. tacobellquarterly.org/everyone-i-h...

dude that's too many bones

but be sure to bring SO MANY books

WEDLIKE3.BMF

The answer is write more, unfortunately

here's a small thread of some great journals open rn. let's add to it? i've def been rejecting some really great stuff! sometimes cause it's great but doesn't quite feel like HAD; sometimes cause i'm too tired from reading hundreds of submissions and my judgement is off; sometimes i'm just wrong!

The morning has been me vs a stump. I've used an axe, I got two kinds of shovels, a pickaxe, a chainsaw, RAW DETERMINATION and I fear on this front I am losing.

Hey does anyone have one of those 1-page folding zines that explains how to make a 1-page folding zine? Maybe in a PDF they’re willing to share with me? I need it for teaching.