“There is little doubt that we would have been disgracefully beaten if all the shells and bullets fired by us had passed harmlessly over the enemy and if all of theirs had taken effect”

Beautifully done and straight to the heart of it 💔❤️

thank you! I appreciate it

ANNE CARSON!!!! the best thing to come out of a bad “is poetry dead?” take i wrote years ago was the poetry recs in the comments. “if you’re asking, clearly you haven’t read Anne Carson!” they were right. autobiography of red! glass essay! albertine workout! red doc! life-changingly good! YES Anne!

what I had to say turned out not to be a column

what I had to say turned out not to be a column

I feel so vindicated!

wow this is the highlight of my bluesky experience for sure

WHAT WAS REALLY IN THOSE BAGS ON YOUR WINGS

but the most alarming one was the Drug Vulture (Google says his name is Scumble?) who opens his enormous wings to offer professor Bodywise various small ziploc bags of drugs??? HAUNTED TO THIS DAY

puppets that include: Evel The Weevil, a daredevil whom professor Bodywise has to… discourage somehow? get to wear a helmet? I just remember a crash sound effect and a crumpled piece of plastic and Professor Bodywise staring at that crumpled plastic and saying “evel! That could have been YOU”

imagine a cafeteria full of schoolchildren watching as a very high-energy actor earns the title of Professor Bodywise by urging earth’s most terrifying puppets to make better health choices

Professor Bodywise’s Traveling Menagerie! did this chaotic Kaiser Permanente show come to anyone else’s elementary school and give you nightmares about the Drug Vulture

oh no