Please enjoy this extremely Kimberly blackout poem by Austin Kleon.

Me: Masquerade NYC posted a time, an intersection, and a passcode! But we can’t participate because we don’t live in New York. Spouse: I’m sorry. Me: It’s okay. I’m not gonna move to New York just to play in a Phantom of the Opera Alternate Reality Game. *heroically doesn’t search for an AirBnB*

Finished reading: In Bed With the Devil by Lorraine Heath 📚

Lorraine Heath is great at her job.

Am I Nostalgic for the 90s Because They Were Legitimately Great or Only Because I’m Middle-Aged?: The Kimberly Hirsh Story

Finished reading: Born In Ice by Nora Roberts 📚

This one made me a little weepy.

Ravynn K. Stringfield writes about the love evident in the rigor of Haniq Abdurraqib’s book, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest and what she writes is beautiful.

Finished reading: Oathbound by Tracy Deonn 📚

Ugh so good, Tracy Deonn is so wonderful and I hate that I have to wait a long time for the next book in the Legendborn Cycle and I also know writers need time to do their work. Probably will do a full series re-read ahead of the next.

Finished reading: Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe 📚

A gorgeous picture book biography.

I think one of the reasons I loved the early web is that you could exist on it purely as words. As a person whose body has often felt like a hindrance, it felt like magic to be able to communicate in the way that most made sense to me.

📚💬 " ChatGPT has access to every poem ever written, at least in theory, but it can’t feel anything when it generates a poem from a prompt. Is this still poetry?" John Warner, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI