TAFKATPOD
banner
jdcloudy.bsky.social
TAFKATPOD
@jdcloudy.bsky.social
I hide the truth in the one place I know you will never look. I write books. https://joeycloudy.online https://paoprod.com/projects/open-mic/joey-cloudy/
https://madswirl.com/author/jdcloudy/
Pinned
His writing has disappeared in the literary journals; Fatfizz, Mad Swirl, Texas Beat Anthology, Danse Macabre, Du Jour, and Death List Five. He has won no literary awards, entered no slam competitions, and never completed college. He lives to write in Dallas, Tx.
"When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
October 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Reposted by TAFKATPOD
A Hermes Media typewriter (1941) by E. Paillard & Cie S.A. in Yverdon, Switzerland.
October 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Reposted by TAFKATPOD
Just got this 1951 Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter and am so stoked to type poetry and encouraging notes on this.
October 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
October 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Reposted by TAFKATPOD
US Army officers arrested for protesting genocide.
September 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Reposted by TAFKATPOD
This is how everyone should treat this masked thugs!! ‘This is cowboy country and we don’t get down with that bullshit!…You got two options you can get the fuck off my property or we can get down.’ Bravo, sir‼️💥🔥💥
August 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I can't remember if I said thank you to Mad Swirl for inviting me to be the feature reader at last Wednesday's gathering of the poets. So thank you, Mad Swirl, for publishing my writing in your online magazine and inviting me to read to a bar full of half-drunk poets. madswirl.com/blog/2025/08...
Note of Gratitude to the Mad Ones : 08.06.25
This past 1st Wednesday of August (aka 08.06.25) Mad Swirl Open Mic was found whirling up the Swirl at Barbara’s Pavillion, getting the Mad mic opened for ALL you Mad ones out there! This month…
madswirl.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Reposted by TAFKATPOD
COMPLICIT.
WAKE UP and smell the coffee. Good morning ☀️ ☕️
August 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Tramp was my first novel. It was a story about sex, and drugs, and poetry. The sort of thing every writer has to get out of their system before they can write anything worth a damned. Isaiah Jones vs the Sea is about the right of return. A 16-year-old boy and his dog sail from Galveston to Ghana.
July 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Reposted by TAFKATPOD
I love computers, but none yet have come *close* to the industrial design of the masterwork of masterworks, the IBM Selectric typewriter.
July 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM