michael röbbins
@alienvsrobbins.bsky.social
ah mother american night
books: Walkman | Alien vs. Predator | Equipment for Living: On Poetry & Pop Music | &c.
Free Palestine
http://bit.ly/3pY75Rz
Rock Chalk
books: Walkman | Alien vs. Predator | Equipment for Living: On Poetry & Pop Music | &c.
Free Palestine
http://bit.ly/3pY75Rz
Rock Chalk
Pinned
at least war with Denmark would give Shakespeareans a chance to shine
January 15, 2026 at 7:53 PM
at least war with Denmark would give Shakespeareans a chance to shine
there is too much sans-serif font in popular culture. we need to return to the noble serif before we lose our way among all these smooth angles
January 14, 2026 at 9:45 PM
there is too much sans-serif font in popular culture. we need to return to the noble serif before we lose our way among all these smooth angles
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Wow. Read this! This poem is so perfect--powerful, brave and, in its incredibly succinct ways, spiritually overwhelming. Also quite a piece of work--formally. Not to mention politically. Thank u @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social !
little throwback ditty I wrote a year or two ago when I was immersed for months in Shelley
January 13, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Wow. Read this! This poem is so perfect--powerful, brave and, in its incredibly succinct ways, spiritually overwhelming. Also quite a piece of work--formally. Not to mention politically. Thank u @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social !
Pay Heed, All Who Enter
Beware of the Phog!
Rock chalk, baby
Beware of the Phog!
Rock chalk, baby
January 14, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Pay Heed, All Who Enter
Beware of the Phog!
Rock chalk, baby
Beware of the Phog!
Rock chalk, baby
little throwback ditty I wrote a year or two ago when I was immersed for months in Shelley
January 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
little throwback ditty I wrote a year or two ago when I was immersed for months in Shelley
To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
—Percy Shelley
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
—Percy Shelley
January 12, 2026 at 6:12 PM
To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
—Percy Shelley
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
—Percy Shelley
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Working on a poem about midlife, I went for a drive, with my 46-hour driving playlist on shuffle. "Don't Look Back" by Boston comes on. A few songs later, "Don't Look Back" by Fine Young Cannibals. A few songs later, T. Rex's "Bang a Gong," whose second line says "don't look back." OK, I get it!
January 8, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Working on a poem about midlife, I went for a drive, with my 46-hour driving playlist on shuffle. "Don't Look Back" by Boston comes on. A few songs later, "Don't Look Back" by Fine Young Cannibals. A few songs later, T. Rex's "Bang a Gong," whose second line says "don't look back." OK, I get it!
Working on a poem about midlife, I went for a drive, with my 46-hour driving playlist on shuffle. "Don't Look Back" by Boston comes on. A few songs later, "Don't Look Back" by Fine Young Cannibals. A few songs later, T. Rex's "Bang a Gong," whose second line says "don't look back." OK, I get it!
January 8, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Working on a poem about midlife, I went for a drive, with my 46-hour driving playlist on shuffle. "Don't Look Back" by Boston comes on. A few songs later, "Don't Look Back" by Fine Young Cannibals. A few songs later, T. Rex's "Bang a Gong," whose second line says "don't look back." OK, I get it!
Ani doing an old Woody Guthrie song I think of often these dark days. “We died in your hills, and we died in your deserts”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0s...
Deportee
YouTube video by Ani DiFranco - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Ani doing an old Woody Guthrie song I think of often these dark days. “We died in your hills, and we died in your deserts”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0s...
They were always going to kill someone. I think we all felt that was inevitable. But the guy shouting, in the immediate aftermath, "You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis!" has it right. "Where there is power, there is resistance" is as close to a law as one finds in history
ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.
January 7, 2026 at 10:57 PM
They were always going to kill someone. I think we all felt that was inevitable. But the guy shouting, in the immediate aftermath, "You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis!" has it right. "Where there is power, there is resistance" is as close to a law as one finds in history
Rock chalk Jayhawk
January 7, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Rock chalk Jayhawk
Reposted by michael röbbins
“Aphrodite’s like sigh what now / Sappho, what’s your crazy heart / want now?”
Read “Domme Song 5” by @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social in Issue Sixteen.
www.thedriftmag.com/domme-song-5/
Read “Domme Song 5” by @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social in Issue Sixteen.
www.thedriftmag.com/domme-song-5/
Domme Song 5
Poetry
www.thedriftmag.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:03 PM
“Aphrodite’s like sigh what now / Sappho, what’s your crazy heart / want now?”
Read “Domme Song 5” by @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social in Issue Sixteen.
www.thedriftmag.com/domme-song-5/
Read “Domme Song 5” by @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social in Issue Sixteen.
www.thedriftmag.com/domme-song-5/
Mutt Lange makes Shania Twain's Come On Over (1997) sound like the Cars & Def Leppard formed a supergroup & hired the perfect singer to cover some unreleased Queen tracks
January 6, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Mutt Lange makes Shania Twain's Come On Over (1997) sound like the Cars & Def Leppard formed a supergroup & hired the perfect singer to cover some unreleased Queen tracks
Reposted by michael röbbins
Reposted by michael röbbins
15 years late to this (@ me next time, bro)
January 5, 2026 at 7:14 PM
15 years late to this (@ me next time, bro)
15 years late to this (@ me next time, bro)
January 5, 2026 at 7:14 PM
15 years late to this (@ me next time, bro)
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goddamn am i weary of these stupid violent men & their stupid fucking wars
June 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
goddamn am i weary of these stupid violent men & their stupid fucking wars
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this vicious, villainous crew of mutts
whose stars are red with malice,
who puff themselves up with crazy thoughts
and have great adventures summarily,
that is, they decide to have them—
May the thought that inflates them
bring them bad luck only.
—Marcabru (c. 1130-1148; tr. Paul Blackburn)
whose stars are red with malice,
who puff themselves up with crazy thoughts
and have great adventures summarily,
that is, they decide to have them—
May the thought that inflates them
bring them bad luck only.
—Marcabru (c. 1130-1148; tr. Paul Blackburn)
January 3, 2026 at 2:43 PM
this vicious, villainous crew of mutts
whose stars are red with malice,
who puff themselves up with crazy thoughts
and have great adventures summarily,
that is, they decide to have them—
May the thought that inflates them
bring them bad luck only.
—Marcabru (c. 1130-1148; tr. Paul Blackburn)
whose stars are red with malice,
who puff themselves up with crazy thoughts
and have great adventures summarily,
that is, they decide to have them—
May the thought that inflates them
bring them bad luck only.
—Marcabru (c. 1130-1148; tr. Paul Blackburn)
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“Velvet darkness falls over my Caracas. The stars are out in thousands. The Milky Way stretches its mysterious belt of whiteness across the heavens. The Southern Cross shines. The little city of my boyhood is sunk in slumber.” -TR Ybarra, YOUNG MAN OF CARACAS (1941)
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
“Velvet darkness falls over my Caracas. The stars are out in thousands. The Milky Way stretches its mysterious belt of whiteness across the heavens. The Southern Cross shines. The little city of my boyhood is sunk in slumber.” -TR Ybarra, YOUNG MAN OF CARACAS (1941)
this vicious, villainous crew of mutts
whose stars are red with malice,
who puff themselves up with crazy thoughts
and have great adventures summarily,
that is, they decide to have them—
May the thought that inflates them
bring them bad luck only.
—Marcabru (c. 1130-1148; tr. Paul Blackburn)
whose stars are red with malice,
who puff themselves up with crazy thoughts
and have great adventures summarily,
that is, they decide to have them—
May the thought that inflates them
bring them bad luck only.
—Marcabru (c. 1130-1148; tr. Paul Blackburn)
January 3, 2026 at 2:43 PM
this vicious, villainous crew of mutts
whose stars are red with malice,
who puff themselves up with crazy thoughts
and have great adventures summarily,
that is, they decide to have them—
May the thought that inflates them
bring them bad luck only.
—Marcabru (c. 1130-1148; tr. Paul Blackburn)
whose stars are red with malice,
who puff themselves up with crazy thoughts
and have great adventures summarily,
that is, they decide to have them—
May the thought that inflates them
bring them bad luck only.
—Marcabru (c. 1130-1148; tr. Paul Blackburn)
and "I Would Die 4 U"!
one thing I’ll say for Stranger Things is I’m always happy to hear “Running Up That Hill,” “Master of Puppets,” or Tiffany’s cover of “I Think We’re Alone Now”
January 2, 2026 at 12:49 AM
and "I Would Die 4 U"!
my most underrated post last year
January 1, 2026 at 7:34 PM
my most underrated post last year
just remembered I'm 29 years sober today, which makes me feel ... old
January 1, 2026 at 5:07 PM
just remembered I'm 29 years sober today, which makes me feel ... old