Joshua Hebburn
@joshuahebburn.bsky.social
Eleven things I read for the first eleven months of the year and particularly liked. Honorable mention to XRAY subs and Zac Smith's book, which was a re-read.
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Eleven things I read for the first eleven months of the year and particularly liked. Honorable mention to XRAY subs and Zac Smith's book, which was a re-read.
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today we get to publish your and our good pal, Joe Aguilar, and it absolutely rules!
“Rain is the grief of the tortoise’s father, and volcanoes are the anger of the tortoise’s mother.”
https://www.havehashad.com/obnor
“Rain is the grief of the tortoise’s father, and volcanoes are the anger of the tortoise’s mother.”
https://www.havehashad.com/obnor
three tinies by Joe Aguilar
Rot in Hell On the sidewalk is a crumpled yellow wrapper that says, in red letters, “Rot in Hell.” Looking closer, I see it now says, “Cheeseburger.” The wrapper can’t fool me: I know as soon as I…
www.havehashad.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
today we get to publish your and our good pal, Joe Aguilar, and it absolutely rules!
“Rain is the grief of the tortoise’s father, and volcanoes are the anger of the tortoise’s mother.”
https://www.havehashad.com/obnor
“Rain is the grief of the tortoise’s father, and volcanoes are the anger of the tortoise’s mother.”
https://www.havehashad.com/obnor
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art by roger haus -- say hello to my little friend
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
art by roger haus -- say hello to my little friend
Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead blew my mind in highschool. Thank you Tom Stoppard and thank you Mr. Shea.
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead blew my mind in highschool. Thank you Tom Stoppard and thank you Mr. Shea.
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Rafał Olbinski IRRELEVANT QUESTION
#rafalolbinski 🇵🇱 b. 1943
#irrelevant #question
#dailydoseofart #art #artlovers #artbots #artonbluesky
#rafalolbinski 🇵🇱 b. 1943
#irrelevant #question
#dailydoseofart #art #artlovers #artbots #artonbluesky
February 8, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Rafał Olbinski IRRELEVANT QUESTION
#rafalolbinski 🇵🇱 b. 1943
#irrelevant #question
#dailydoseofart #art #artlovers #artbots #artonbluesky
#rafalolbinski 🇵🇱 b. 1943
#irrelevant #question
#dailydoseofart #art #artlovers #artbots #artonbluesky
I'm getting really good at reheating pizza in the frying pan.
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I'm getting really good at reheating pizza in the frying pan.
Fancy beers cheers
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Fancy beers cheers
I always reread this the night before Xmas but you could also read this today.
this is set the night before christmas, but the night before thanksgiving gets a shoutout, so you should all read it today.
“Biggest bar night!” he says again. “Let’s go out! Like old times!”
I wonder why he’s confused tonight, Christmas Eve, with the night before Thanksgiving...
“Biggest bar night!” he says again. “Let’s go out! Like old times!”
I wonder why he’s confused tonight, Christmas Eve, with the night before Thanksgiving...
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS by Aaron Burch
It was exciting and sad and over too fast and underwhelming and amazing, all at the same. It was all of it. It was beautiful.
xraylitmag.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I always reread this the night before Xmas but you could also read this today.
There are two kinds of people: muppets, and people.
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
There are two kinds of people: muppets, and people.
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I speculated about this (“For all I know, Ivan is on Twitter, pretending to be a pro-Trump housewife in Florida.”) in the last paragraph of my story Moskva, selected by @joshuahebburn.bsky.social and published in Hobart (before The Great Divorce).
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I speculated about this (“For all I know, Ivan is on Twitter, pretending to be a pro-Trump housewife in Florida.”) in the last paragraph of my story Moskva, selected by @joshuahebburn.bsky.social and published in Hobart (before The Great Divorce).
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
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Martin Kippenberger, Untitled, 1989
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136620
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136620
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Martin Kippenberger, Untitled, 1989
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136620
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136620
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Parviz Tanavoli, The Poet and the Beloved of the King, 1964
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1134426
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1134426
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Parviz Tanavoli, The Poet and the Beloved of the King, 1964
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1134426
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1134426
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Homage to the Square: Apparition by Josef Albers, 1959
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137401
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137401
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Homage to the Square: Apparition by Josef Albers, 1959
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137401
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137401
Wish I could send this story to New York Tyrant.
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Wish I could send this story to New York Tyrant.
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Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
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What a thrill to be interviewed by @keersteemack.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social and nerd out about structure, humor, flawed male role models, and Elvis Grbac (1998’s Sexiest Athlete Alive) xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
FAULKNER DIDN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT TEMPORAL INCONSISTENCIES, SO WHY SHOULD I?: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN WADDY BULLION by Kirsti MacKenzie
John Waddy Bullion is as versatile a writer as they come. His loosely-linked collection This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers follows coming-of-age tales of Midwestern sons and the fraught relati...
xraylitmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
What a thrill to be interviewed by @keersteemack.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social and nerd out about structure, humor, flawed male role models, and Elvis Grbac (1998’s Sexiest Athlete Alive) xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social interviews Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social about her book 'Better To Beg'
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
THE ANSWER HAS TO BE YES: AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTI MACKENZIE by John Waddy Bullion
Kirsti MacKenzie’s debut Better to Beg (Sweet Trash Press, 2025) is a rock ’n’ roll novel set against the backdrop (and at the tail end) of the Meet Me in the Bathroom-era New York indie boomlet, told...
xraylitmag.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social interviews Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social about her book 'Better To Beg'
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
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Gum Ball No. 10: “Sugar Daddy” by Charles Bell, 1975
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137691
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137691
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Gum Ball No. 10: “Sugar Daddy” by Charles Bell, 1975
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137691
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137691
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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