Hall of Mirrors by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

(This episode is dedicated to Danielle. You like voices? I can give you voices. Enjoy!)

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Museum and Library The Website™️

and then there's me...sorry bit of a let down after Kurt but hey...

The bird is a red-winged blackbird and I snagged the call here

Good people doing good things --->

Food Not Bombs

Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack

Acacia Justice

Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery

INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund

Legacy of War Foundation

UNHCR,

*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

***Third Wednesdays with Kurt pod cover is based on Carin Goldberg's stunning designs, in particular my own cover of Slaughterhouse-Five by Dell.

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Meaning and purpose of what's made is often only focused in the rearview as you're leaving it behind. You only have to let the dark monster of creation long for what's bright. Sometimes, brightness reaches back.

Go show Raye some love!

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Keetje Kuipers

Judith Butler

Hanif Abdurraqib

FBBC

GISH

Emmanuel Levinas

Kristoffer Hughes

Sarah Fawn Montgomery 

Elizabeth Bishop

Mathew Rohrer

Rosemary Garland Thompson

Alison Kafer

Albert Camus

Lisa Olstein

Ethel Cain

Rainbow Kitten Surprise

Adventure Time

Midnight Gospel

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In the Darkening Blue ⭐

Good people doing good things --->

Food Not Bombs

Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack

Acacia Justice

Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery

INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund

Legacy of War Foundation

UNHCR,

*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

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What a goddamn gift it is. That we get to make things over and over again. That we get to create ourselves.

What are you waiting for? Make something! No one can stop you, my dear Peeps.

Natalie's Links

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Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw

Neil Hilborn

Chuck Tingle

Scrivener

Bread Loaf

Poetry School

Ghost Theory

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In the Darkening Blue ⭐

Good people doing good things --->

Food Not Bombs

Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack

Acacia Justice

Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery

INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund

Legacy of War Foundation

UNHCR,

*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

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Deer in the Works by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Museum and Library The Website™️

and then there's me...sorry bit of a let down after Kurt but hey...

The bird is a red-winged blackbird and I snagged the call here

Good people doing good things --->

Food Not Bombs

Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack

Acacia Justice

Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery

INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund

Legacy of War Foundation

UNHCR,

*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

***Third Wednesdays with Kurt pod cover is based on Carin Goldberg's stunning designs, in particular my own cover of Slaughterhouse-Five by Dell.

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So you get to your goal...and then what? What makes the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves more than a re-enactment? Where we put our attention there we are, with whatever worth we give it. Quoting Hamlet here would be silly when there's a whole show to play.

Cheers!

Kira Cordova's links and stuff

Mentions:

Misha Collins: Some Thing I Still Can't Tell You

Mellissa Febos: Body Work

Sophie Horan

Chuck Tingle

Carol Murphy

Suzanne McConnell & Kurt Vonnegut: Pity the Reader

Janet Daily

Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Paul B. Preciado

Martin Shaw

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In the Darkening Blue ⭐

Good people doing good things --->

Food Not Bombs

Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack

Acacia Justice

Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery

INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund

Legacy of War Foundation

UNHCR,

*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

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Creativity is part of the point. It's one of the most incredible ways we have to intentionally seek connection. It belongs to all of us, and no one can stop you, so Fuck It, we ball!

(It's my only drum so I'm gonna beat it!)

Erika's Links

In the Darkening Blue ⭐

Mentions:

Alternative Milk Magazine

S-Town

Lore

Querencia Press

Welcome to Night Vale

Troublemaker Firestarter

Cesar Prieto

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Good people doing good things --->

Food Not Bombs

Jail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigrants is Under Attack

Acacia Justice

Amnesty International

Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery

INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund

Legacy of War Foundation

UNHCR,

*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

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To be witnessed, revealed, if even only to ourselves is why we're all muddling around in this mess. Art is to be seen, for the circuit to complete it requires engagement. Including laughter. Lean into the cringe and be free babies! To everything there is a season, turn, turn, turn etc. You know the song.

Three cheers for Chrissy Stegman!

In the Darkening Blue ⭐

Mentions:

Elisheva Fox

Jared Beloff

Francesca Leader

GISH (I miss you.)

Ruben Quesada

Black Square by Kazimir Malevich

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Good people doing good things --->

Food Not Bombs

Jail Support LA

Amnesty International

Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery

INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund

Legacy of War Foundation

UNHCR,

*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

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To have something better, we have to dream it first. Whatever form it takes, you are allowed to create for yourself, for the joy and discovery it brings.

Amy Le Ann's tree of links

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Mentions:

Rebecca Gayle Howell

Covid Garden Workshop

Ross Gay, Book of Delights

Guy Clarke, Cold Dog Soup

Kentucky Foundation for Women

Andi Tillman

A.P. Harbor

Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land

University Press of Kentucky

Eastern Kentucky Mutual Aid

Willie Carver Jr.

Good people doing good things --->

Food Not Bombs

Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery

INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund

Legacy of War Foundation

UNHCR,

*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

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Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

*Episode contains themes of gun violence,*

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Museum and Library The Website™️

and then there's me...sorry bit of a let down after Kurt but hey...

The bird is a red-winged blackbird and I snagged the call here

Good people doing good things --->

Food Not Bombs

Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery

INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund

Legacy of War Foundation

UNHCR,

*I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

***Third Wednesdays with Kurt pod cover is based on Carin Goldberg's stunning designs, in particular my own cover of Slaughterhouse-Five by Dell.

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It is worth taking hold of your creativity as participant. You're part of the show and the making is the point. "...no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow." -- K.V. Jr.

Cheers babies!

Todd's Site & Insta & Blue Sky Buy The Ways We Vanish & Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance

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Mentions:

Okay Donkey

Claudia Rankine

Jericho Brown

Tony Hoagland

Mark Doty

Nick Flynn

Asimov's

Strange Horizons

Heady Topper Beer

Libre Office

Rohin Guha

Niina Pollari

David Wojciechowski

Taco Bell Quarterly

Ben Kline

Cynthia Moon

Amanda Aucter

Three Penny

Southern Review

Fairytale Review

Variant Lit

Postcard Lit

Good people doing good things --->

Food Not Bombs

Random Acts Natural Disaster Recovery

INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund

Legacy of War Foundation

UNHCR,

*I profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

**Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.