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Chris Piuma

@wordgarbler.bsky.social

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new album THE NEW SONGS: theminorthirds.bandcamp.com || podcasts (on MST3K, "great books", old trivia): megaphonic.fm || instrumentals: themesquad.bandcamp.com || crosswords, poetry, photography, and more: chrispiuma.com || pronouns: 🤷

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · Aug 1

It sure would be weird if my old band, the Minor Thirds, had spent the last few months recording our first full album of new songs in 18 years, and it was going to drop tomorrow, on my birthday.

Heh, yeah, that would be weird.

theminorthirds.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne...

An announcement for The Minor Thirds' new album The New Songs, which will be released on 2 Aug 2025. It features a detail of the album cover, with a painting of a skeleton with its feet in a river, looking out at the world.

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 1d

Poetry isn't there to "mean" something, it's there to get you high.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 2d

Your job as a writer of a PR email has now become to convince me that an AI didn’t write it.

Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 4d

The (Happy) Trail

Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 4d

Einstein on the Clothing-Optional Beach

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 4d

lots of gal-on-gal action in that one

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 4d

Estrogen Jukebox

wait no does that even work uhhh

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 4d

La Belle et la Bite.

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 4d

Akhnasty.

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 5d

Well this was a depressing survey to fill out.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 6d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 13d

Oh look, I’m reading in the Portland Poetry Confluence this weekend! It has been a minute since I’ve given a reading, I hope I haven’t forgotten how to weird words mouthly nice!

portlandpoetryconfluence.org

Portland Poetry Confluence

portlandpoetryconfluence.org

Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 16d

wow way to disrespect your long-dormant blog

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Mikey Says Hey! @erlking.bsky.social · 20d

I’ll be solving crosswords with @wordgarbler.bsky.social on stream, starting…. now!

www.twitch.tv/megaphonicfm

MegaphonicFM - Twitch

Fancy little podcasts (and friendly little livestreams). Crosswords, Jackbox and trivia, video games, kitchen parties, etc. More at megaphonic.fm

www.twitch.tv

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 20d

Hey I was gonna be cool about it.

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 20d

I also briefly mention (finally!) reading @daviddemchuk.com's terrific horror novel Red X. And there are some interesting connections that I could have made between Red X and Wuthering Heights, but it would have been kind of spoilery...

The Spouter-Inn @thespouterinn.bsky.social · 20d

New! @wordgarbler.bsky.social finally reads Wuthering Heights, and @sakbari.bsky.social revisits Laurie Colwin's essay collection Home Cooking. And we admit to a few canonical books that we didn't get on with.

Listen on your podcast app or at megaphonic.fm/spouter/85

85. Wuthering Heights / Home Cooking. | The Spouter-Inn

Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights and Laurie Colwin’s essay collection Home Cooking.

megaphonic.fm

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 22d

This is arguably why we have a lot of the knowledge that has survived throughout history!

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 22d

Poetry!

Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 22d

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Dumb Industries @dumb-industries.com · 25d

In a complete coincidence, The Mads' riff of I Accuse My Parents is our sale of the week!

Thanks for the shout-outs @itsjustashow.com! We love what you do!

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 26d

Jared Pechaček (@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social) introduces and reads from his debut novel The West Passage, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

Jared Pechacek reads from The West Passage

YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 27d

The editing of this episode was absolutely crawling with gremlins, so I hope none snuck in at the last minute!

It’s Just A Show. @itsjustashow.com · 27d

In our latest episode we revisit MST3K 507, I Accuse My Parents — and the episode of The Mads Are Back where they tackle it, and the chapter of Frank's book (now out in audiobook!) where he talks about it. All of which are very good.

Listen on your podcast app or at itsjustashow.com/episode/181

Screenshots from the MST3K episode on I Accuse My Parents. This is from the short, The Truck Farmer, and shows an endless field of crops getting sprayed with an endless supply of chemicals. OK, probably not endless — it's just one guy in a vehicle spraying things — but it looks like not gonna stop any time soon.

From the movie: Young Jimmy measures nightclub singer Kitty's feet for a new pair of shoes. (In a shoe store, not in a night club.) He's going to tell her the wrong size, but for once Jimmy's not lying. He makes an honest mistake! He doesn't know what he's doing yet — but she's his first customer.

At the nightclub, Kitty sings a song that will be rattling around my head even in the grave.

Joel (with a hastily painted on pencil moustache) enjoys GPC's performance of that song. She look even more glamorous than Kitty!

Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 29d

Never too late.

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · Sep 13

And writes for the Atlantic, you say?

Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · Sep 10

oh yeah in that case

Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · Sep 10

pitch it to lit hub or something?

Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · Sep 8

French has a tradition of not putting accents on capital letters (though I don’t believe this is common anymore), so you can “well technically” yourself into feeling more ok about it.

Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ned’s thoughts on music are always worth reading, but especially when he’s saying nice things about my band’s new album!

(But his bit about Canary Records is also true. They’re great.)

Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's #BandcampFriday and so there's much going on as per. Had a few recommendations and thoughts, including on #Hydroplane, #TheMinorThirds, #LadyWray, #MasmaDreamWorld, the #CanaryRecords label and more besides. Also that @sparksofficial.bsky.social band, think I've heard of them. #music

Some Weekly Music Thoughts #160 -- A Bandcamp Friday Special | Ned Raggett

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