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Adrian Dallas Frandle
@adrianf.bsky.social
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Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Flash Reader for Split Lip Mag. Gaymer. Former chef. Occasional pebble. Lives in a rosette of mullein. MFA in Poetry (Randolph). Gay af.

words -> http://adriandallas.com
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Come on!
Actress Madeline Kahn in a Louis Vuitton-like brown patterned jumpsuit that matches her 70s style car exactly - she’s carrying a white purse and has long blond hair
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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felt weird so made a borschtlike

(with apple & horseradish cream)
a white bowl filled with bright red borscht with large chunks of beet. it’s topped with sliced apples and a dollop of sour cream with some thyme leaves sprinkled on top
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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the altar asked for a Bacchus
a small white statuette of Bacchus (a rotund small bearded man) riding on a turtle and holding out his hand authoritatively. Next to him are a bell and a photograph
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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swapped out my head for this new configuration
Adrian, in a green sweatshirt, holds up a HUGE maple leaf to his face, covering his entire head. There are trees and blue sky in the background
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Hell yea! Congrats @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social!

Electric Lit’s List of Best Non-Fiction 2025!

Go get “Human/Animal” for your holiday read - it’s a feast for the heart & mind.

electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
screenshot from Electric Lit’s website of the yellow book cover of “Human/Animal” by Amie Souza Reilly, with a link to buy it at bookshop.org for $21.43. The book cover shows a wolf mask superimposed about a white picket fence with clouds in the background
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Ross Gay

catalog of unabashed gratitude

#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
ode to the flute A man sings by opening his mouth a man sings by opening his lungs by turning himself into air a flute can be made of a man nothing is explained a flute lays on its side and prays a wind might enter it and make of it at least a small final song
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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A movie that takes place where you're from:
6 people and young person stand in a line, they all look 80s hairband goth (from the movie Lost Boys)
November 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Aptly described by @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social as a “potato gremlin”
Mikey burrito, the brown chihuahua, on his back rolling on a green couch
November 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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look at this absolute beaut

(broad faced sharp shooter)
a small grey bug with orange spots clinging to some red wood
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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chihuhua [canis tyrannulus familiaris] nest in the wild
(absent its occupant)
a swirling nest structure with a hollow in the middle made of a gray blanket
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Oh, Russell, you cad.
screenshot with the text What, exactly, is meant by the word "category," whether in Aristotle or in Kant and Hegel, I must confess that I have never been able to understand. I do not myself believe that the term "category" is in any way useful in philosophy, as representing any clear idea. [Bertrand Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy," 1945]
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Bloodborne & Derrida on the same page!
TAMING THE MONSTER Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: "Here are our monsters," without immediately turning the monsters into pets.' —Jacques Derrida During my playthrough of Bloodborne, a 2015 action RPG praised for its monster design, I entered a darkened and spacious cave that felt like a boss arena—a part of the game world where my character would fight one of her many battles with special "boss" monsters? I kept my guard up, but nobody attacked me. I ran forward, only to find a huge monster curled up and sleeping. Basking in moonlight, it looked quite otherworldly, with coral-like tentacles fluttering around its head and giant wings with a floral texture. Up to this point, I had met hundreds of monsters and killed them all. I had
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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oooo, looking forward to this one!
Photo of book cover of PLAYER VS. MONSTER The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity Jaroslav Svelch which shows an illustration of a woman holding a sword while a tentacled monster approaches. It’s colored blue and red.
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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it was a good weekend

(📸: @writesloud.bsky.social )
Photo of a path with two men walking a small dog. They have their arms around each other.
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Jane Hirshfield

#smallpoemsunday
BIOPHILIA Most of us hungry at daybreak, sleepy by dark. Some slept, one eye open, in water. Some could trot. Some of us lived till morning. Some did not.
November 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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had a fabulous time hosting @writesloud.bsky.social at Obodo Serendipity Books (Stratford, CT) for her reading and our book chat!

Go buy "First Kicking, Then Not" @stanchion.bsky.social

www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
Adrian, on the left in a brown sweater, listens to Hannah (right) as she reads from her book. She is in a tan sweater and white pants. They are both seated in a bookstore with some art on the walls behind them.
November 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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I’m leaning on honey.

—

Tomaž Šalamun

(tr. Jeffrey Young & Katarina Vladimirov Young)

From “Andes”
@blackoceanbooks.bsky.social
WHIRL The word NORMAL imprints itself inside the crypt and frightens Glagolitic priests. I open the wall. I sit on the grass. I lean against the wall. White lumps of lye, what do you want? My eyes are safe. The wall is a mogul's wall. No connection between a dolphin in the air and a dolphin in water. Those three drops are betrayal. The moon is not a round pontoon, it's not. It's not a piece of mantra in a little notebook. I'm leaning on honey.
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Let’s geaux!
Book cover of A THEORY OF GREEK TRAGEDY ARCHIVE FEELINGS by MARIO TELÒ which shows a picture of a sculpture (as if in an art gallery) of a wooden & rope construction that is abstract, but suggests an animal
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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another capital cover
Book cover for JACQUES DERRIDA The Death Penalty VOLUME II which shows an old illustration of an execution scene, where a seated and blindfolded man is about to be decapitated by the executioner behind him, who wields a giant sword. In front of the seated condemned man is another executioner, there to hold the condemned’s head in place.
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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This Saturday! Join me & @writesloud.bsky.social LIVE if you’re in the CT / NYC area:

Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
AUTHOR EVENT with Hannah Grieco in conversation with Adrian Dallas Frandle FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT JOIN US: Saturday, November 15th at 4:00 P.M. STORIES scan the code for your ticket! HANNAH GRIECO at Obodo Serendipity Books book talk and signing 3588 Main St, Stratford, CT 06614 PH: 203.209.9036
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Penance
picture of an altar with a gold pin of a man bound (in S&M style) in front of a pieta statue where Mary’s head is a golden stag head. There is also a bell with an ibus on top.
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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enjoying Dispatch for plot reasons only
a screenshot of the game Dispatch that shows a locker room scene with a large burly superhero lifting a slender man off the ground, as his towel slips off
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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“Politics (2025)”
a chair arm with screws and a drink holster hole in a configuration that looks like a screaming face
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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CT & Tri-State friends, please join us!

Very much looking forward to this book talk with @writesloud.bsky.social in a few weeks!

obodoserendipitybooks.com/event/2025-1...
Author Event flyer for Hannah Grieco Join Us Saturday November 15th at 4:00 pm (a QR code says "scan the code for your ticket!") at Obodo Serendipity Books book talk and signing 3588 Main St, Stratford, CT 06614 PH: 203.209.9036 The flyer shows a copy of the orange book "First Kicking, Then Not" Stories by Hannah Grieco, and an author photo of Grieco herself
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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time to re-read
Book cover photo of POWERS OF HORROR An Essay on Abjection by JULIA KRISTEVA the cover is a plain white background with a raven or crow flying in the foreground
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM