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“I have nothing to say…and I’m saying it!” —John Cage Author of Playing Soldiers In The Dark Old Boy, like Basho, just Queer. Maker of boys. Too literary for anyone’s own good. I am the novelist your mother warned you about.
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Trump Has Reawakened the Resistance www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o... “Trump will keep trying to tear this increasingly fragile and beleaguered nation apart. But as Saturday showed, if and when he does so, he may not end up with the biggest piece.”

7.5 30x40" Acrylic/oil pastel Gallery canvas #earthquake #blueskyart #painter #surreal #abstract #cityscape #eastcoastkin

. make something of it .

Two color two plate etching aquatint and drypoint of the fabulous @ludmedinaartola.bsky.social - based on a painting made during one of our sessions

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Not terrible for nearly 67…

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Brian Wilson has died…”on this day I wrote no further”

TEMPTED to Post my first…=ahem= all-revealing Post on Bluesky tonight…since Bluesky gives me the freedom to! (And I know my beloved Francine will at least LOOK, haha!

RIP to the great Sly Stone. A monumental loss. His PR just sent this out.

. waiting for you .

What rights to do you have when you’re in need of #genderaffirming care? What’s covered? On this Pride 🏳️‍🌈Month podcast episode the Commissioner welcomes the Washington State LGBTQ Commission #pridemonth 🏳️‍⚧️Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o... #genderaffirmingcare #pridemonth

OSHA may be the subject of many jokes but make no mistake: without a fully staffed agency, more workers will die completely preventable deaths.

In our society (and in jobs) we are actively discouraged from talking about sex, religion and politics. That emphasis on discouraging "arguments" has created the simplistic, single-minded ignorance that lives in many people's heads, without a diversity of thought. I work with people who have

"Primo Levi understood something essential: atrocity does not begin with brutality. It begins with shrugging. It begins with quiet bureaucracies and dispassionate administrators, with what Levi called 'the functionaries ready to believe and to act without questioning.'”

#scape #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #Photography Just south of Banff, such beautiful country!

. gently .

. party .

. blue spot with wing .

. green floats by .

. looking for a homeland .

. Landscape 86 .

. series 2 on blank newspaper 33 .

. series red gray 4 .

. forgotten how to count my pen keeps track of everything a bird whistles between my ears .

. small strokes with paint 30 .

. Finally out the door Are you still here? Thank goodness! .

. where the drawing fades .

. old ghost comes along .

The Blue Water Bridge, Port Huron, Michigan…blue-gray with Canadian wildfire smoke and ash.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/a... My 1993 at Lambda Rising reading from Playing Soldiers in the Dark was the day following a reading from the rare-as-ruby literary writer Edmond White. “May angels light thy leaving…but leave your strength, my friend, to me…”

"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity." - William S. Burroughs

“Alicia in BigBendLand: the Window” Big Bend National Park/TX #BlueSkyMonday #blue #art #painting #NationalParks

If I said every hour of every day for the next year that Joni Ernst can go fuck herself, it wouldn’t be often enough.

Chasing the Light Some days you just know it's going to go off like a box of fireworks next to a drunken chain smoker. And tonight's sunset really lived up to expectations. -- #Twizel, #NewZealand -- "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul" #EastCoastKin #Sunsets #Cloudscapes #Landscape #epic

In a beautiful day Size 17 by 13 inch on paper Medium oil Original available

HAPPY PRIDE!! #Pride #blackandwhitefilm #Portland #PDX