Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Gregory Crosby

@monostich.bsky.social

3.1K followers 980 following 8.5K posts

Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). https://buttondown.email/gregorycrosby

buttondown.email

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 6h

Evergreen.

CB @cborshuk.bsky.social · 6h

Ugh

Reposted by Gregory Crosby

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 10h

I find it bleak that ChatGPT now has more users than Wikipedia. Many people would rather be spoon-fed information by a machine than read and research for themselves. Tech isn't just making us dumber. Worse than that: it's killing curiosity itself and the desire to learn.

35 170 940

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 11h

I don't mind shifting books, not at all. In fact, if some fine press would publish my third book, I would be *thrilled* to start shifting it. I'll even write a jingle!

Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 3d

I have the impression that 99% of poetry publishers and poets loathe and feel creatively sullied by the process of shifting books.

It's absurd, of course. Like a chef who hates serving meals. Or a winemaker who can't stand pouring you a glass...

Reposted by Gregory Crosby

Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 11h

I don't remember either Dylan OR Springsteen being a murderer on Columbo, so I'd slow down with rating artists on the Cool Scale

4 22 85

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 11h

There so did not need to be another Tron movie, nope.

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 11h

Of course, this is the one class I'm not making them write everything in class.

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 11h

This came out very well indeed. Brava.

1 1

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 11h

Seven essays into a stack of twenty, and there it is: the one clearly written with ChatGPT. Heavy sigh.

1 3

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 12h

Current listening. I've managed to put off any real work until... now.

A picture of Thelonious Monk at the piano announcing WKCR's 24 hour birthday broadcast of his his music. 89.9 FM New York.

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 15h

Among my students, only the film majors know him.

1 1

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 16h

I concur. An astonishing song and recording. I was obsessed with it as well.

Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1d

The Roche’s Hammond Song is both life-changing and life-affirming. Blimey.

1 2

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 18h

Yet another touchstone from childhood; I was thrilled to find a copy again a few years ago.

Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 18h

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

Day 10

Alfred Hitchcock's MONSTER MUSEUM

One of the first books I read with somewhat "adult" stories at a young age. Features The Day of the Dragon by Guy Endore, The Young One by Jerome Bixby, and Homecoming by Ray Bradbury.

Cover of Alfred Hitchcocks's Monster Museum

1 2

Reposted by Gregory Crosby

BILL RYAN @faceyouhate.bsky.social · 20h

Today for @thebulwark.com I take a look at the short fiction of one of the great American genre writers, Charles Beaumont.

www.thebulwark.com/p/hopeless-h...

The Hopeless Horror of Charles Beaumont

The writer died before his fortieth birthday—but left behind an influential catalogue of stories and unforgettable Twilight Zone episodes.

www.thebulwark.com

4 10 20

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 21h

Happy birthday in Eternity, Monk.

Well You Needn't

YouTube video by Thelonious Monk - Topic

youtu.be

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 1d

Norway?

Reposted by Gregory Crosby

H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 1d

1 5 32

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 1d

My mother loved this, and I greatly enjoyed telling her it was a cover of NIN.

1 1

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 1d

Also also: why the hell would you kill off Pam Grier right away?

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 1d

Also: Carpenter really should have made an actual Western.

2 1

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Ghosts of Mars for the first time; it clearly flopped in 2001 because audiences weren’t yet ready for a film with 1985 vibes.

1 2

Reposted by Gregory Crosby

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

The America we used to live in—the America we want to think we live in—is gone.

We’ll have to build again.

We want to think that the repeated, widespread abuse of basic rights by DHS; the DOJ actions against former officials like James Comey and John Bolton; the presence of 2020 election deniers across congressional and executive branch leaders; the unconstitutional dismantling of federal agencies; the consolidation of old and new media under leadership favorable to Trump; the use of lawsuits and executive branch power to intimidate and silence critics; and the clear attempts to subvert the 2026 and 2028 elections; and Trump's constant insinuation that he might seek a third term do not all in fact mean
that we have crossed the threshold into a competitive authoritarian environment.
But we have. We have passed through the veil. Whatever becomes of American liberal democracy in the near or distant future, it will be a resurrection and not a continuation.

12 110 330

Reposted by Gregory Crosby

scare-ah 🕸️ @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, cold air.

Please, come in through the window.

I have been waiting a long, long time for you.

🍁 💨 🪟 🍂

3 7 43

Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 1d

Damn that’s good.

1 1

Reposted by Gregory Crosby

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

To be totally clear I believe the social distancing was necessary and worth it, but yikes, wow, a whole lot of people really do seem to have lost their entire minds to Online during the Peak Covid Years and have yet to recover them

4 6 130