Michael Jay McClure
@mjmimages.bsky.social
I know you think I’m some silly little debutante.
[contemporary art, poetry, dance, film, & fashion]
instagram: mjmimages
[contemporary art, poetry, dance, film, & fashion]
instagram: mjmimages
I can’t get into a yelling match because I’d blurt out “lurid,” or “ghastly,” & it would all be over for me.
December 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I can’t get into a yelling match because I’d blurt out “lurid,” or “ghastly,” & it would all be over for me.
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I expect nothing less from a man so lonely and detached during the holidays when people gather with those they love. Why not spend your last days on earth spouting such vile garbage when deep down you know your own death will be one of the most celebrated in history.
December 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I expect nothing less from a man so lonely and detached during the holidays when people gather with those they love. Why not spend your last days on earth spouting such vile garbage when deep down you know your own death will be one of the most celebrated in history.
Café. First, there’s a strong directional light & everyone is in Caravaggio (browns, blacks, burgundies, scarlets, golds) colors. Second, the woman next to me reached across the table to clutch the hand of her friend all while I listen to French rap on my headphones. Perfect.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Café. First, there’s a strong directional light & everyone is in Caravaggio (browns, blacks, burgundies, scarlets, golds) colors. Second, the woman next to me reached across the table to clutch the hand of her friend all while I listen to French rap on my headphones. Perfect.
Um, no one told me that the Interview with a Vampire series is amazing. I note this. I write it in my Book of Vengeance.
December 15, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Um, no one told me that the Interview with a Vampire series is amazing. I note this. I write it in my Book of Vengeance.
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Saw a rhinestone framed license plate on a very mommy-car suv today on Los Feliz Blvd and I so hope it was placed with irony
December 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Saw a rhinestone framed license plate on a very mommy-car suv today on Los Feliz Blvd and I so hope it was placed with irony
I had a friend who got a flat tire near my place & she came over to wait & I seamlessly chatted while putting together a brie, Gruyère, almond, grape platter with some white Burgundy like I’m an actual person who eats food & buys supplies & not a robot who lives on fashion & coffee. Proud of me!
December 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I had a friend who got a flat tire near my place & she came over to wait & I seamlessly chatted while putting together a brie, Gruyère, almond, grape platter with some white Burgundy like I’m an actual person who eats food & buys supplies & not a robot who lives on fashion & coffee. Proud of me!
If you want a boost, a zhuzh, make brief eye contact with your server in a manner that suggests labyrinthine plots in melancholy estates protected by fog enclosed wrought iron gates & order your steak* rare.
December 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you want a boost, a zhuzh, make brief eye contact with your server in a manner that suggests labyrinthine plots in melancholy estates protected by fog enclosed wrought iron gates & order your steak* rare.
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Yes, I’m the one at the gym watching YouTubes of Tom Stoppard.
December 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Yes, I’m the one at the gym watching YouTubes of Tom Stoppard.
27% of my depth of character comes from the fact that I was consumingly but silently terrified of ghosts from the ages 5-11.
December 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
27% of my depth of character comes from the fact that I was consumingly but silently terrified of ghosts from the ages 5-11.
Café. But a different café & I don’t know the lore. Is the shaved head in a black track suit from Poland or Serbia or just gay? Is the knitter alt or traditional? Did the barista with a husky voice hurt himself or is he stoned? O, mystery! O, life!
December 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Café. But a different café & I don’t know the lore. Is the shaved head in a black track suit from Poland or Serbia or just gay? Is the knitter alt or traditional? Did the barista with a husky voice hurt himself or is he stoned? O, mystery! O, life!
Me when I get an “important”
email on Friday.
email on Friday.
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Me when I get an “important”
email on Friday.
email on Friday.
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Keat, I em bysu tonigth beucase I bith mi tounge.
December 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Keat, I em bysu tonigth beucase I bith mi tounge.
MJM (after one glass of champagne): Honestly? Screen doors are revolting.
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
MJM (after one glass of champagne): Honestly? Screen doors are revolting.
[coffee with MJM, LESBIAN BESTIE, & OTHER FRIEND]
OTHER FRIEND: Oh my God, my six-year-old said that a chicken has a lot of “hidden meat compartments.”
LESBIAN BESTIE: Hahaha. So cute. You realize he’ll kill someone within the year, right?
MJM: He has 1,000% killed someone already.
OTHER FRIEND: Oh my God, my six-year-old said that a chicken has a lot of “hidden meat compartments.”
LESBIAN BESTIE: Hahaha. So cute. You realize he’ll kill someone within the year, right?
MJM: He has 1,000% killed someone already.
December 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
[coffee with MJM, LESBIAN BESTIE, & OTHER FRIEND]
OTHER FRIEND: Oh my God, my six-year-old said that a chicken has a lot of “hidden meat compartments.”
LESBIAN BESTIE: Hahaha. So cute. You realize he’ll kill someone within the year, right?
MJM: He has 1,000% killed someone already.
OTHER FRIEND: Oh my God, my six-year-old said that a chicken has a lot of “hidden meat compartments.”
LESBIAN BESTIE: Hahaha. So cute. You realize he’ll kill someone within the year, right?
MJM: He has 1,000% killed someone already.
If I pull out my notebook & thus become a gay with a notebook, baby, you’ve already lost.
December 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
If I pull out my notebook & thus become a gay with a notebook, baby, you’ve already lost.
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Start spreading the news! I am thrilled to announce the debut of Sitting Ovations, my new YouTube podcast for Time Out. Each week, I will sit down with the creators of current plays and musicals that I've admired to discuss them at greater length and in deeper detail. www.timeout.com/newyork/news...
Time Out's new theater podcast, Sitting Ovations, launches today
Critic Adam Feldman hosts a weekly chat with top Broadway artists
www.timeout.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Start spreading the news! I am thrilled to announce the debut of Sitting Ovations, my new YouTube podcast for Time Out. Each week, I will sit down with the creators of current plays and musicals that I've admired to discuss them at greater length and in deeper detail. www.timeout.com/newyork/news...
Because I’m not on Facebook, once in a while I’ll see someone in my family with a hollowed-out expression & a faint tremor & it takes me a minute to understand that my second most difficult aunt has chaotically & hyperbolically posted there yet again.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Because I’m not on Facebook, once in a while I’ll see someone in my family with a hollowed-out expression & a faint tremor & it takes me a minute to understand that my second most difficult aunt has chaotically & hyperbolically posted there yet again.
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I'm at a hospital and I saw, and you won't believe this, a door reading Dr. Pickles
December 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I'm at a hospital and I saw, and you won't believe this, a door reading Dr. Pickles
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Au Vietnam, j'apprends que le bo bun n'existe pas, en tous cas pas dans la forme qu'on connaît en France et pire, que ce nom ne veut rien dire ici. C'est un peu l'équivalent culinaire du tatouage en hanzi qui ne veut rien dire. Ces mensonges doivent cesser !
December 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Au Vietnam, j'apprends que le bo bun n'existe pas, en tous cas pas dans la forme qu'on connaît en France et pire, que ce nom ne veut rien dire ici. C'est un peu l'équivalent culinaire du tatouage en hanzi qui ne veut rien dire. Ces mensonges doivent cesser !
A show set in Brooklyn in the 1970s with a charismatic, streetwise detective named Sodomy Smith.
December 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A show set in Brooklyn in the 1970s with a charismatic, streetwise detective named Sodomy Smith.
Do not defend or align with Calibri, a trash typeface developed for Microsoft in 2006. We can hate him & not become CalibriHeads. We need not go down that dumpy-ass road.
December 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Do not defend or align with Calibri, a trash typeface developed for Microsoft in 2006. We can hate him & not become CalibriHeads. We need not go down that dumpy-ass road.
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"This isn't my first rodeo on the four terrestrial planets of this system," I specify without elaboration.
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"This isn't my first rodeo on the four terrestrial planets of this system," I specify without elaboration.
It’s cool here & yet I saw a meaty bro, standing on the sidewalk with another meaty bro, fanning himself like a Southern lady in summer. I couldn’t figure out what was happening & then I passed them & the guy fanning himself said to his pal, “Do I still smell like weed, bro? I have to visit my MOM.”
December 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It’s cool here & yet I saw a meaty bro, standing on the sidewalk with another meaty bro, fanning himself like a Southern lady in summer. I couldn’t figure out what was happening & then I passed them & the guy fanning himself said to his pal, “Do I still smell like weed, bro? I have to visit my MOM.”
No; no more takes. It’s not possible. We make a certain amount of takes & when they’re gone, they’re gone. You try tomorrow. I have some pain au chocolat & some mille-feuille. Very good. No? Yes?
December 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
No; no more takes. It’s not possible. We make a certain amount of takes & when they’re gone, they’re gone. You try tomorrow. I have some pain au chocolat & some mille-feuille. Very good. No? Yes?
Me simply refusing to indulge the antics (the weird emergent geometries, the attention-seeking grow rates) of my always misbehaving fingernails.
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Me simply refusing to indulge the antics (the weird emergent geometries, the attention-seeking grow rates) of my always misbehaving fingernails.