Chris Piuma
@wordgarbler.bsky.social
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: 🤷
Did you get the recent email from Taskmaster about how they're planning to go on tour and are deciding which cities to visit?
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Did you get the recent email from Taskmaster about how they're planning to go on tour and are deciding which cities to visit?
Plus sometimes they come with fun words written on them!
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Plus sometimes they come with fun words written on them!
I’m gonna finally try Thank Goodness You’re Here with @erlking.bsky.social over at twitch.tv/MegaphonicFM, join us!
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I’m gonna finally try Thank Goodness You’re Here with @erlking.bsky.social over at twitch.tv/MegaphonicFM, join us!
The painting on the cover of our new album is by Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net and I absolutely love this little skeleton guy emerging from the water in the middle of this dramatic landscape.
You can (and should) check out more of his work at www.lastwater.net
You can (and should) check out more of his work at www.lastwater.net
August 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The painting on the cover of our new album is by Gabriel Liston @lastwater.net and I absolutely love this little skeleton guy emerging from the water in the middle of this dramatic landscape.
You can (and should) check out more of his work at www.lastwater.net
You can (and should) check out more of his work at www.lastwater.net
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...
Heh, yeah, that would be weird.
theminorthirds.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne...
August 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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...
Heh, yeah, that would be weird.
theminorthirds.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne...
I just looked through my library, and only one perfect album came out in 1991.
July 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I just looked through my library, and only one perfect album came out in 1991.
AI scammers are getting bold.
July 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
AI scammers are getting bold.
I am pleased to report that the new Alison Bechdel novel (Spent) is very good.
(Is it weird that I was getting Middlemarch vibes from it? That's not really a helpful comparison point, as George Eliot wasn't as good at drawing cats in bed, but I kept thinking it as I was reading.)
(Is it weird that I was getting Middlemarch vibes from it? That's not really a helpful comparison point, as George Eliot wasn't as good at drawing cats in bed, but I kept thinking it as I was reading.)
July 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I am pleased to report that the new Alison Bechdel novel (Spent) is very good.
(Is it weird that I was getting Middlemarch vibes from it? That's not really a helpful comparison point, as George Eliot wasn't as good at drawing cats in bed, but I kept thinking it as I was reading.)
(Is it weird that I was getting Middlemarch vibes from it? That's not really a helpful comparison point, as George Eliot wasn't as good at drawing cats in bed, but I kept thinking it as I was reading.)
Oh! I've only visited the Freer once — it had escaped my notice! — and I remember the art more than the building. But some of the art was itself architectural. (At least, I'm pretty sure this was at the Freer.)
Anyway, I'll have to pay more attention next time!
Anyway, I'll have to pay more attention next time!
June 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Oh! I've only visited the Freer once — it had escaped my notice! — and I remember the art more than the building. But some of the art was itself architectural. (At least, I'm pretty sure this was at the Freer.)
Anyway, I'll have to pay more attention next time!
Anyway, I'll have to pay more attention next time!
The stairway at the Art Gallery of Ontario is the best architectural feature in Toronto. It is pornographically sensual, which I didn’t realize was an option for a stairway until I met this one.
June 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The stairway at the Art Gallery of Ontario is the best architectural feature in Toronto. It is pornographically sensual, which I didn’t realize was an option for a stairway until I met this one.
...friends don't disappoint me friends don't disappoint me friends don't disappoint me friends...
June 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
...friends don't disappoint me friends don't disappoint me friends don't disappoint me friends...
This is a truly fantastic offer, thank you
April 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This is a truly fantastic offer, thank you
One of these days I will be talking @sakbari.bsky.social's (and perhaps your) ears off about recent poetries whose poetics are all about Beautiful Letters. Here's just one example, Donato Mancini's The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goth Phase), from his beautiful book Æthel.
April 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
One of these days I will be talking @sakbari.bsky.social's (and perhaps your) ears off about recent poetries whose poetics are all about Beautiful Letters. Here's just one example, Donato Mancini's The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goth Phase), from his beautiful book Æthel.
Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1969).
January 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1969).
She did not want to get into a box for Boxing Day.
December 27, 2024 at 3:57 AM
She did not want to get into a box for Boxing Day.
A friend and I were scheduling something and this happened and now I think on Monday we should also celebrate Very Trans Day.
November 8, 2024 at 8:13 PM
A friend and I were scheduling something and this happened and now I think on Monday we should also celebrate Very Trans Day.
My literary podcast, The Spouter-Inn, recently put out a cluster of episodes on "Essays, Essaying, Stories, Storying". We read some Montaigne, some recent Indigenous essays, some experimental poetry — and we had some wide-ranging discussions which came out pretty neat.
megaphonic.fm/spouter/72
megaphonic.fm/spouter/72
November 8, 2024 at 5:55 PM
My literary podcast, The Spouter-Inn, recently put out a cluster of episodes on "Essays, Essaying, Stories, Storying". We read some Montaigne, some recent Indigenous essays, some experimental poetry — and we had some wide-ranging discussions which came out pretty neat.
megaphonic.fm/spouter/72
megaphonic.fm/spouter/72
Anyway, here’s bagelwall.
June 30, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Anyway, here’s bagelwall.
4 films you love and gave five stars, one each from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Arnulf Rainer (1960)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
(Keeping in mind that my scores on letterboxd are effectively a whole star below everyone else's.)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Arnulf Rainer (1960)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
(Keeping in mind that my scores on letterboxd are effectively a whole star below everyone else's.)
April 21, 2024 at 2:52 AM
4 films you love and gave five stars, one each from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Arnulf Rainer (1960)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
(Keeping in mind that my scores on letterboxd are effectively a whole star below everyone else's.)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Arnulf Rainer (1960)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
(Keeping in mind that my scores on letterboxd are effectively a whole star below everyone else's.)
Repost with the first album you bought with your own money
(I suck at this game.)
(I suck at this game.)
April 3, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Repost with the first album you bought with your own money
(I suck at this game.)
(I suck at this game.)
Kudos to Daily Crossword Links for saying this. It's a papercut in the grand scheme of things, but it's infuriating, and it doesn't have to be like this.
dailycrosswordlinks.com/2024/03/11/m...
dailycrosswordlinks.com/2024/03/11/m...
March 12, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Kudos to Daily Crossword Links for saying this. It's a papercut in the grand scheme of things, but it's infuriating, and it doesn't have to be like this.
dailycrosswordlinks.com/2024/03/11/m...
dailycrosswordlinks.com/2024/03/11/m...
Happy 88th birthday, Joe Don Baker! And happy belated 80th birthday, Greydon Clark! We celebrated by watching MST3K 1008, Final Justice, where Greydon took Joe Don to Malta and got him to shoot a bunch of things.
www.itsjustashow.com/episode/148
www.itsjustashow.com/episode/148
February 12, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Happy 88th birthday, Joe Don Baker! And happy belated 80th birthday, Greydon Clark! We celebrated by watching MST3K 1008, Final Justice, where Greydon took Joe Don to Malta and got him to shoot a bunch of things.
www.itsjustashow.com/episode/148
www.itsjustashow.com/episode/148
We watched MST3K 415, The Beatniks, which includes another episode of General Hospital, and does not include many beatniks.
But we got to talk about director Paul Frees! He's more famous for being the voice actor behind Boris Badenov and a thousand other things.
www.itsjustashow.com/episode/147
But we got to talk about director Paul Frees! He's more famous for being the voice actor behind Boris Badenov and a thousand other things.
www.itsjustashow.com/episode/147
January 29, 2024 at 7:10 PM
We watched MST3K 415, The Beatniks, which includes another episode of General Hospital, and does not include many beatniks.
But we got to talk about director Paul Frees! He's more famous for being the voice actor behind Boris Badenov and a thousand other things.
www.itsjustashow.com/episode/147
But we got to talk about director Paul Frees! He's more famous for being the voice actor behind Boris Badenov and a thousand other things.
www.itsjustashow.com/episode/147
It's Gamuary, where we celebrate the friend to all children, Gamera! Except It's Just A Show has already looked at all the Gamera episodes. So instead we watched a knock-off, with MST3K 212, Godzilla vs. Megalon! Happy 70th birthday, Godzilla!
www.itsjustashow.com/episode/146
www.itsjustashow.com/episode/146
January 15, 2024 at 7:25 PM
It's Gamuary, where we celebrate the friend to all children, Gamera! Except It's Just A Show has already looked at all the Gamera episodes. So instead we watched a knock-off, with MST3K 212, Godzilla vs. Megalon! Happy 70th birthday, Godzilla!
www.itsjustashow.com/episode/146
www.itsjustashow.com/episode/146