Pseudopodium Chronicles

2023-01-29: Enlightenment 1; English Civil War lit; anti-ProQuest; more Charles & more regicidal tendencies; Bloomsday readings & portraits
2022-06-06: Thomas M. Disch; Walt Disney Company ironists; Bloomsday gift guide; Hollywood lesbians; Christmas film festival; John Donne
A Personal Anthology: Twelve short stories selected & briefly introduced for Jonathan Gibbs's ongoing project
2022-04-28: Lord Kelvin's Monkey; or, The Heat Death of the University: Henry Adams introduces American historians to his great new friend, the Second Law of Thermodynamics
2021-06-06: Barbellion & Joyce; three Holidays; prosody first, prosody last; Two Sincerities; we should have it so simple
2021-01-10: The Swinburne Plunge; Pal Ubu; Kakania '70
2020-07-03: Jolly Coppers on Parade; Charles Francis Adams vs. Charles Francis Adams
2020-06-16: Manifolds 3. Adaptive Manifold Learning
2020-05-03: Manifolds 1. Dedication & Definition; 2. Picture Book (or, Fun with Your New Manifold)
2019-08-13: Josh Lukin, August 18 1968 - July 25 2019; Bourdieu & Eustache take it back home; Vice Ethics
2019-05-15: John Keats lingers; Let's meet again at the Hotsy Totsy Club exactly twenty years from today
Paul Kerschen's The Warm South: A book review (written for Music & Literature)
2018-10-28: Mojo Hand : An Orphic Tale by J. J. Phillips; The Death of Democracy; The Mechanical Jurk Conquers the Singularity
2017-12-15: Why not Joanna Russ?; young, loud, & snotty M. John Harrison; The Epiphany Machine
2017-05-22: The meaning of life in a world without work; Assumption by Percival Everett; trial by social media; upward mobility; Francis Ponge translated by Joshua Corey; Eddie Campbell's The Lovely Horrible Stuff
2016-12-31: Barbara Stanwyck returns to Wisconsin; The Retreat from Order, 1920-1877; Laura Riding, woman of letters
2015-11-02: The Life of the Mind; the lyric of discourse; mourning our world with Carter Scholz; mourning my country with the world
2015-01-01: Alan Halsey; James Joyce as generative procedural writer, cartoonist, & boring old guy; commuting with Rosmarie Waldrop
2014-06-23: More of Ed's Redeeming Qualities; out and about in the zone; M. John Harrison's "Getting Out of There"; Rummy's big break
2014-03-28: Leaves from an old notebook; a carnival of tough; M. K. Brown; Couch Platos; mentalizing religion
2013-11-09: Carol Reed's nice guys; Realism; The Monkey Puzzle by Veronica Hull; pretension; Ed's Redeeming Qualities; the Intellectual Conditional Adventure
2013-03-31: Friendships' ends; Wall Street finds its own uses for things; the worker's dream; Banksy; eighteenth-century EULA; Benjamin Friedlander's Etudes
2013-02-23: John Baskerville's marbled endpapers; Lubitsch's Design for Living; a condensed nonfiction historical collage novel, starring Frances Burney
2013-01-01: An old aesthete & the New Aesthetics; I would like to become a better mouse; the Furies; biographers who walk away; bad karma keep on flowin'
2012-04-08: Metafiction's place; a hug & a kiss; a community of sociopaths; hocus focus flyptus gyptus; stereotyping hormones
2011-12-22: Saturnine by Rayner Heppenstall; Lazybones; What Else Frank Harris Did Not Say
2011-09-23: Millions of Dead Critics; Eddie Campbell; William Congreve made in the shade
2011-07-10: Death & the Critic; inspirational Beckett; Four Freedoms & Pacifists; Ralph Bellamy
2011-02-23: Love & Grooves; a trip to Ireland; neuraesthetics review
2010-12-12: Christmas spirit; the male feminist or not; self-portraits; What is cheerfuller than Light?
2010-09-26: Intonation in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry; The Song of the Wimpy; Eurydice and Rabbit; I think of Confidential Agent; The Small Back Rooms
High, Low & Lethem: Jonathan Lethem's genre wars, 2005 (written for Genre)
2010-01-20: Pelican Books; Do I know the jungle?; it's a gift
2010-01-12: The ethical turn in academic literary criticism

2009-10-15: Walter Benn Michaels; Gene Wolfe; Edward Upward; Jack Spicer; Patricia Highsmith; Henry James
2009-06-21: Harvesting the eminent Victorians; relativism; omniscience; London Review of Biographies; feral flora; We Have Always Been YA
2009-01-16: Why We Cite; Oh high white brightly burning duck; Christina La Sala and "Petrified Forest"
2008-04-12: The Road to (and from) Son to Paleface; White Thighs and Thongs by Alexander Trocchi
2007-12-18: A return to one-liner roots; Profanations; guest blogger William Cornwallis; Cheech Wizard(s); enter the Road to Son to Paleface
2007-11-18: John Leonard, Jonathan Lethem, Steve Gerber, & Edmund Wilson in the library with a steak knife; Smokey gets sandy
2007-08-11: More old movies; literary functions; vanilla perversity; How I Am Not an Analytic Philospher
2007-05-28: The personal in poetry concludes; Bathos: The Art of Thinking
2007-03-21: The personal in poetry continues; Art on a Pedestal; flaming while Rome fiddles
2007-02-13: Sincerely; blog reflux; silence, exile, and cute; Sim's captions; personal poetry; truthiness and the origin of the novel.
2006-11-03: Venice; Silenus; Udine; Keats; pastorall; The Moral Order
2006-09-01: Aesthetic therapy; we must love one another and/or die; Fors Clavigera; black American intellectuals; Carve Dat Possum
2006-05-14: Then stupor — then the letting go
2006-02-28: Genrification & neighborhood; simile; Dickinson as selflorist; lit out
2006-01-14: Mystery Macintosh, My Darling; Brooks Adams legalizes decay
2005-11-06: Lou Andreas-Salomé tells stories; The Real McKee; IT'S APPARENT; "Sets Hamper Grasp" by A Contrite Form
Thinking of Cluny Brown: Ernst Lubitsch, Charles Boyer, & the place of the intellectual in interesting times (written for Senses of Cinema)
2005-09-20: T. S. Eliot's OK; The Steadfast Tin Critic; Transitions to Language or Something Like It or Not
2005-08-11: Warlock, 1959; poets with day jobs; The Terrorist of Malta
2005-07-09: Theory's Umpire; Op-Edges; The Liebestod of the Author; Warlock, 1958
2005-05-15: The City Without Character; in memoriam Kraus, Mencken, Moore; in praise of misattribution; my senses have been stripped
2005-04-23: Kubrick, Critic; Against the Millennium; Peter Bell he hath no brother; Beezark; Musil panned
2005-02-04: Should We Call it off?; a genre of conversation; All the Boy Arrested; The Spasmodic Gap
2004-12-24: I stop thinking of Cluny Brown; Stein's company & crowd; Nicholas Nagsheaded; The Blog of a Disappointed Man
2004-11-10: When I find myself in times of interest, Mr. Lubitsch comes to town speaking words of wisdom: Cluny Brown; intensity beats hue; The Witlings; the city becomes a picture
2004-10-04: Timbre; experimental fiction; The Quarrel between Philosophy and Philosophers; ~~Derrida~~; galdary
2004-09-16: An American grid, class by medium; framed!; the guts of Hans Christian Andersen; better bitter; even the launderer's hand grows red; the girls of Lewis Carroll
2004-08-22: Critique & Proposals, 1949; first rule is: the laws of Germany; no stuff but in stuff; a toast to Kerry; Morgan Odoherty's Rime; Oakland Random Acts
2004-07-03: A Cornish Man; one monkey, no show; the literary vs. the creative; Party Time; with, around, or over?
2004-06-15: The Mullingar Heifer; Joyce, realistically; Intermediate Hedonics concludes
2004-05-26: Intermediate Hedonics continues; let's get real (stupid); The Flying Tailor
2004-05-01: Overhead Clearance; "Utopia Parkway"; missing the horror show; Cholly contra Vendler contra Aristotle; Intermediate Hedonics convenes; Poop poop poop-poop, poop poop poop
2004-03-29: The eighteenth century called it a magazine; Johnson Predicts; more No Single Reason; guilty shame; The New Republic
2004-03-10: Old Daniel Dobson does not know; No Single Reason in the World concludes; someone wants you dead; cow for cow's sake
2004-02-20: About pseudopodium.org; how to write; New Historicism; No Single Reason in the World

2004-01-15: Argufying; middle class value; Karen Joy Fowler's Sister Noon; Hitchcock & feminism
2003-12-19: The ripeness of cheese; Golemland; movie mop-up; I will run; Visible Man
2003-11-25: To Sir, With Cat Head; Maria Shriver reads; formal & free
2003-11-12: The Equality of Men and Women; The Idols of the Theater; The Golden Maxim
2003-10-28: The Cuban-American Dream; Yearning of unrest; Atkins; National Lampoon's Animal Nation; a substitute world which comes from the world
2003-10-06: To the Critics, to Make Little of Themselves; CA recall; non-sequitur; a golden age; worst Bill Murray movie ever
2003-09-18: Comic poetry concluded; historical imperative; never argue about religion or politics
2003-07-19: Beluted by scholarship; comic poetry; an ugly, bald man in riding breeches with a whip; I walk the line
2003-07-01: Degeneration vs. Evolution; Good vs. Nice; Goals vs. Non-goals; Secular vs. Humanist; Spicer vs. New Yorker; Blog vs. Willard
2003-06-08: Branded commodities: passion, soul, class, sex, life; "Aye, and Gomorrah"; permalinks
2003-05-09: Fowler humors; poststructuralism; Three Reputations (de Man, Bacon, & Pilate); The Weeds of Crime concluded
2003-04-17: Burroughs & Bobbettes; quotlibetality; Milwaukee Road; hearty thankes; ressentimental journey; Ye Olde Sentence
2003-03-28: Leggott/Zukofsky concluded/appended; feet again; Leslie Cheung RIP; love defined
2003-02-27: Oulipo; Leggott/Zukofsky cont.; academic advice; political inconsequence
2003-02-09: Why weblog; Reading Leggott's Reading Zukofsky's
2003-01-12: ---king Elvis
2002-12-14: Flagging; wimps & gangsters; The Dazzle of Day; Church of Herriman
2002-11-16: Cat chat; Total Information Awareness; pig chat; through the Vanilla Straits; The Beastliness of Economies
2002-10-22: Elections; pop in the background; Dovetonsils; Veterans Day

2002-10-03: Wealth & Democracy; Caldwell County; Buffy excommunicata; What He Didn't See
2002-09-02: Copyduty; free indirect shooters; leaving dullsville; cerulian Glycine frutescens; The Secondary Source Review
2002-08-05: New Niedecker; shameful unselfish; nice guys don't finish; movie Q&A
2002-07-06: Little Roman doesn't grow up; Rohmer; ba-lue Mun-deii; bitmapped
2002-06-16: Victorious encounters with white men; the state may be jobbed; who's the weirdo?; Anarchism Is Not Enough
2002-06-04: Reading & speaking Sammy Davis, Jr.; identity; break it down
2002-05-12: Last words; representing; know nothing & care less
2002-04-15: Neuraesthetic foundations; statistics; Brenda Starr; death sentence; Campion's feet
2002-04-01: Samuel R. Delany; Earl of Rochester; computer matching; Failing towards Freedom; peripatetic weblogging
2002-03-01: Weblog community: as sphagnum, as painters advised by Duchamp & Adams, as pseudo-narrative list, & as dis system; Grandmaster cut faster; go fish; Restoration writers
2002-02-04: Grumpy movies; those nutsy artists; dissmell; Blind Willie McTell
2001-12-26: Awful banalities; Dear Abby; MOMAcide; The World That Isn't; crows; L.A.
2001-11-19: The West; gifted children; war is hell; dive or crash; (SMACK)
2001-11-04: Punch Drunk Slug Fest; crying at art; is dis a system?
2001-10-22: Bill of Artifactual Values; privacy; zombies; fat & ugly
2001-10-14: The Indefinite Conversation: Wittgenstein, Civil War, Zukofsky, determinism
2001-10-02: Alternative Buffy; Doris Wishman; Chilled the Fresh; cultural imperialism
2001-09-22: Bellona Times; patriotism; Tahiti
2001-09-12: The rocks cried out no hiding place

2001-08-19: Jealousy; like; DMCA
2001-07-25: Elater Noctiluccus; the Earl of Rochester's letters; manifestos
2001-07-08: Gascoigne's Lullaby; Melville; The Lady from Shanghai; intellectual property; love crime
2001-06-19: Flandrin captioned; Television; Charles Reznikoff; liner notes
2001-05-22: Academic publishing; Duchamp's natural twisting; criminal life; donkeys; Memento
2001-05-01: May Day; aesthetics & canons; phallus; web subscription
2001-03-18: W. C. Fields; insane teamster; Joey Ramone
2001-02-18: East & West; charades; solicitudicide; mocking the movies; accessibility
2001-01-23: Poetry special; 42; morality & mortality
2000-12-09: Henry James; holiday cheer; more irony
2000-11-11: Red Badge of Courage; science & election news; mediums & media
2000-10-28: The Parting Glass; dying; why writers?; 1860 election
2000-10-09: Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet ; Christian science; Joseph H. Lewis
2000-09-24: Small town bigotry; japes; online branding
2000-09-16: Heehaw, dreaming in trash and white; hypnotic narratology
2000-09-03: Ending Peking Opera Blues; Roxanne's Revenge; outsider art; the cat according to Edward Topsell
2000-08-25: The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors; pantyhose
2000-08-06: Sprezzatura; goddamned melancholy kindergarten world; corrections; Marlowe & Tourette's
2000-07-27: Sexual Degradation Week: Godard's nudes; bestiality; so gay
2000-07-10: Bibliotaph; African-American cinema; crazy Joyce; "Survivor"
2000-07-04: Narcissism week; life after death; narrative time
2000-06-23: Jess; virtual Braille; Clover Hooper Adams; Hoozoo by Cholly Kokonino
2000-06-21: Bloomsday; academic women; m. panse

2000-06-13: Candid friends; neuraesthetics; Long Meg
Laura True-Teller and Other Fairy Tales: A long essay about Laura Riding's Progress of Stories
2000-05-25: The Purple Cloud; ducks; Skeets; writing; Louise Brooks & Prix de Beauté
2000-05-12: Something Wild; nepotism; Swordsman II; programmers
2000-04-30: Coppolas; the lonely web; Actress; angina dentata; irony
2000-04-17: New Economy; 1933; Mr. Pooter; Oulipo Honey; metascene
2000-04-02: Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.; literary language; antitrust; crazy dames
2000-03-20: Little Leather Library; Duchamp; melodrama; entropy
2000-03-05: 1939; obtuse; The Reckless Moment; Tesla's soulmate
2000-02-20: Mansfield Park; doubting Valentine; what ails my darling?
2000-02-04: The Girl; Drink Dream; honorifics; desertion
2000-01-14: Living large; BBC America; tonal English; scholarships; Playmobil
1999-12-28: The Quest for Corvo; holiday sale; Drank to Driving
1999-12-14: Rawhide; The Trouble with Genius; folk; their goddamn hands
1999-12-02: Modernist Class; lemons; spinach; Thanksgiving
1999-11-13: The Big Sky restored; the Austrian-Hungarian empire lost
1999-10-29: Later Peanuts; La Sala interview; The Old Dark House
1999-10-15: Culture; post-structuralists vs. programmers
1999-10-05: The Ichthyoid Syndrome; retro cinema; Benton County
1999-09-27: Gun control; Los Angeles; aesthetics; Douglas Sirk
1999-09-09: Linguistics; Dubliners!; prole thrillers
1999-08-29: Netscape; Frogman; guilty pleasures; flag
1999-08-21: Howard Hawks; listening to Gertrude Stein
1999-08-07: Limbo; Hays Office politics; Krazy Kat
1999-07-26: Charlotte Brontë; San Francisco; hypertext; film noir defined
1999-07-09: Bunch of one-liners to test the indexing program

Three Anagrams of Jack Spicer's Biography: (written for The New Blind Date)
The Ichthyoid Syndrome: (24 MB, DivX AVI), a movie by Ray Davis & Christina La Sala
1998 Tiptree Jury Comments: (with Candas Jane Dorsey, Sylvia Kelso, Kate Schaefer, and Lisa Tuttle)
Losing It: A Vertigo Restoration Comedy. "I link up; I link down... I link up; I link down...."
My Acquaintance Anselm Dovetonsils, American Poet: Including a Slim Volume of Poems and Poetry (written for The New Blind Date)
Things Are Tough All Over: A generic response to Jonathan Lethem (written for NYRSF)
The Sissy Gaze in American Cinema: (written for Bright Lights Film Journal)
Doodly Squat: A condemned residential hotel of art
Read This: A Dip into the Mainstream: Enlightening the gentiles (written for NYRSF)
An Anthem for the Kids: Vocal music
White Lines: A poetry year in review (written for The New Blind Date)
The Tall Refrigerator Door: A proto-iconic-weblog
See L.A. Confidential Again, the First Time: (written for Bright Lights Film Journal)
"My fat ass is my desert": A response to Suck
Zoe Beloff's "A TRIP TO THE LAND OF KNOWLEDGE": (written for Dark Carnival)
THINGS HAPPEN by Leslie Black: (written for Dark Carnival)
Re-Covering Childhood: Sexual abuse & genre fiction (written for Dark Carnival)
Djuna Barnes: Her book Ryder, its narrator, its family, its Foreword, and the Ladies Almanack (written for Dark Carnival)

The Second Confiscation: On genre reading (written for Dark Carnival)
Delany's Dirt: A long essay on Samuel R. Delany's pornography (written for James Sallis's Ash of Stars)
Biography = Death: Journalism vs. voice
Mannerist Narrative: Wendy Walker's The Secret Service (written for NYRSF)
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: (Superseded by the band's official website)
"...Soft, Mushy...": Bitching about Pulp Fiction
Tuesday Weld: Biographical notes, filmography, objectification, and recording career
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: A prank
I Like I Like It Like That Like This: Double review with The Great Conqueror's Concubine
Brown Study: A long story about pronouns
Le critique malgré lui: (written for NYRSF)
Love or Confusion: Coming to terms with Lewis Shiner's Glimpses (written for NYRSF)
Done by the Forces of Nature: A story about popular music (written for The Horns of Elfland)
Five Stories by Martha Soukup: (written for NYRSF)
Appearance of a World: Poetics of/against science fiction (written for NYRSF)
The Man Who Shot Anarchy Gordon: A story with popular music (written for In Dreams)
Who's That Banging at My Dori?: Two widows squabbling over the grave of "Dori Bangs" (written for NYRSF)
The Annotated "All in the Game"
Blues: A short story about pronouns

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Public domain work remains in the public domain.
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1990-1999