Michael Jay McClure
@mjmimages.bsky.social
I know you think I’m some silly little debutante.
[contemporary art, poetry, dance, film, & fashion]
instagram: mjmimages
[contemporary art, poetry, dance, film, & fashion]
instagram: mjmimages
[Thanksgiving; my turn to speak]
MJM: Aw, sweet. Um, grateful for pecs, for Virginie Viard leaving Chanel & Hedi Slimane being fired, for the Proenza boys doing well at Loewe, for triangular buildings on triangular lots, & Audra Mc…
[other gay raises hand in benediction] [table begins to hum/cry]
MJM: Aw, sweet. Um, grateful for pecs, for Virginie Viard leaving Chanel & Hedi Slimane being fired, for the Proenza boys doing well at Loewe, for triangular buildings on triangular lots, & Audra Mc…
[other gay raises hand in benediction] [table begins to hum/cry]
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
[Thanksgiving; my turn to speak]
MJM: Aw, sweet. Um, grateful for pecs, for Virginie Viard leaving Chanel & Hedi Slimane being fired, for the Proenza boys doing well at Loewe, for triangular buildings on triangular lots, & Audra Mc…
[other gay raises hand in benediction] [table begins to hum/cry]
MJM: Aw, sweet. Um, grateful for pecs, for Virginie Viard leaving Chanel & Hedi Slimane being fired, for the Proenza boys doing well at Loewe, for triangular buildings on triangular lots, & Audra Mc…
[other gay raises hand in benediction] [table begins to hum/cry]
In fact, it does not bother me at all that on my sister-in-law’s sister’s master Thanksgiving food contribution spreadsheet, under my contribution, it says, “Champagne & weird side dish.” You know what? I’m proud of that.
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
In fact, it does not bother me at all that on my sister-in-law’s sister’s master Thanksgiving food contribution spreadsheet, under my contribution, it says, “Champagne & weird side dish.” You know what? I’m proud of that.
[walking in to meet lesbian bestie for lunch]
LB: Hi, sweetie. [pause] So, are we going to talk about it?
MJM [wearing a gigantic fleece lined taupe sweatshirt that I found in the bottom of the drawer because I’m sad about Yuki the dog]: No we are not.
LB: Hi, sweetie. [pause] So, are we going to talk about it?
MJM [wearing a gigantic fleece lined taupe sweatshirt that I found in the bottom of the drawer because I’m sad about Yuki the dog]: No we are not.
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
[walking in to meet lesbian bestie for lunch]
LB: Hi, sweetie. [pause] So, are we going to talk about it?
MJM [wearing a gigantic fleece lined taupe sweatshirt that I found in the bottom of the drawer because I’m sad about Yuki the dog]: No we are not.
LB: Hi, sweetie. [pause] So, are we going to talk about it?
MJM [wearing a gigantic fleece lined taupe sweatshirt that I found in the bottom of the drawer because I’m sad about Yuki the dog]: No we are not.
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Add “unfucking the Venice Biennale selection process” to all the things we’re going to have to do, eventually.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Add “unfucking the Venice Biennale selection process” to all the things we’re going to have to do, eventually.
There’s a moment (14ish) when I could have gone for being a countertenor but decided not to & I’m mostly happy with that decision but wonder what winding paths countertenor MJM would have taken, what sights he might have seen.
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
There’s a moment (14ish) when I could have gone for being a countertenor but decided not to & I’m mostly happy with that decision but wonder what winding paths countertenor MJM would have taken, what sights he might have seen.
This is Yuki: my brother’s family’s dog but also partly my dog (we had a conversation). She disliked leaves, puddles, & night shadows. She loved being pet by seven of us & looking at her reflection in the water. I had to say goodbye to her today & will miss her. Thank you, Yuki, for being my friend.
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is Yuki: my brother’s family’s dog but also partly my dog (we had a conversation). She disliked leaves, puddles, & night shadows. She loved being pet by seven of us & looking at her reflection in the water. I had to say goodbye to her today & will miss her. Thank you, Yuki, for being my friend.
I don’t need your praise. I have my own internal thing going on.
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I don’t need your praise. I have my own internal thing going on.
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This bathroom mirror is the most homophobic thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This bathroom mirror is the most homophobic thing I’ve ever seen
There was another guy in the Pilates studio while I had my lesson today & I only made eye contact once, in an exercise called “Star,” & I mouthed the words, “My house.”
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
There was another guy in the Pilates studio while I had my lesson today & I only made eye contact once, in an exercise called “Star,” & I mouthed the words, “My house.”
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In my mind, a lot of you are slipping on stilettos, a loose fitting jersey dress, a huge fur hat, & Elsa Peretti cuffs so you can go out & buy a sandwich from a cart conveniently near a department store.
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In my mind, a lot of you are slipping on stilettos, a loose fitting jersey dress, a huge fur hat, & Elsa Peretti cuffs so you can go out & buy a sandwich from a cart conveniently near a department store.
POSSIBLE NEW IDIOMS:
Baby’s gone absolute brush bristles
Soup’s too thick
Rhinestone choker & gun in the garter
Kkssh! Check your upstairs window.
& THAT’S a Uruguayan mouthful
Picnicking the analysis
Shaking a pie tin while saying you’re Stevie Nicks
Loper, loper, time to get a corset
Baby’s gone absolute brush bristles
Soup’s too thick
Rhinestone choker & gun in the garter
Kkssh! Check your upstairs window.
& THAT’S a Uruguayan mouthful
Picnicking the analysis
Shaking a pie tin while saying you’re Stevie Nicks
Loper, loper, time to get a corset
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
POSSIBLE NEW IDIOMS:
Baby’s gone absolute brush bristles
Soup’s too thick
Rhinestone choker & gun in the garter
Kkssh! Check your upstairs window.
& THAT’S a Uruguayan mouthful
Picnicking the analysis
Shaking a pie tin while saying you’re Stevie Nicks
Loper, loper, time to get a corset
Baby’s gone absolute brush bristles
Soup’s too thick
Rhinestone choker & gun in the garter
Kkssh! Check your upstairs window.
& THAT’S a Uruguayan mouthful
Picnicking the analysis
Shaking a pie tin while saying you’re Stevie Nicks
Loper, loper, time to get a corset
Making a newspaper & news outlet where the headline every day is that Michelle Obama wore an outfit from McCollough & Hernandez’s new Loewe collection & every day I’ll whisper, “Love wins.”
November 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Making a newspaper & news outlet where the headline every day is that Michelle Obama wore an outfit from McCollough & Hernandez’s new Loewe collection & every day I’ll whisper, “Love wins.”
I’m fun. I also can’t sit in a house if the kitchen island is too big.
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I’m fun. I also can’t sit in a house if the kitchen island is too big.
Listen, I don’t know anything about the cartoon that I’m about to pitch except that it’s set in Brooklyn in 1974 & at one point an animated celery stalk says, “Yo! Zucchini! Glad to see you back in the neighborhood,” & Zucchini replies, in a sultry voice, “I go by Courgette now.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Listen, I don’t know anything about the cartoon that I’m about to pitch except that it’s set in Brooklyn in 1974 & at one point an animated celery stalk says, “Yo! Zucchini! Glad to see you back in the neighborhood,” & Zucchini replies, in a sultry voice, “I go by Courgette now.”
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Most hurtful way to be insulted is when somebody makes up a mean rhyme about your name. Not only is that the name that my own mother gave me, but you're desecrating it using the weapons of a poet!?
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Most hurtful way to be insulted is when somebody makes up a mean rhyme about your name. Not only is that the name that my own mother gave me, but you're desecrating it using the weapons of a poet!?
I shall deploy the haute cursive for my foes—& this shall decimate them.
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I shall deploy the haute cursive for my foes—& this shall decimate them.
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you're in her DMs. I'm gay
November 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
you're in her DMs. I'm gay
Take off your knit cap & your hair hurts season.
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Take off your knit cap & your hair hurts season.
[squints, in a raspy voice]
Some of us grew up in ballet. We know the taste of coffee followed by a Diet Pepsi followed by a Clif bar.
[coyote howls]
Some of us grew up in ballet. We know the taste of coffee followed by a Diet Pepsi followed by a Clif bar.
[coyote howls]
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
[squints, in a raspy voice]
Some of us grew up in ballet. We know the taste of coffee followed by a Diet Pepsi followed by a Clif bar.
[coyote howls]
Some of us grew up in ballet. We know the taste of coffee followed by a Diet Pepsi followed by a Clif bar.
[coyote howls]
Let’s go over this again: yes, at the end of every meeting someone should haphazardly throw chunky files into a capacious briefcase & shove it under his arm & storm out but THE REAL CONCLUDING GESTURE comes after: a bright & definitive click! as the meeting’s true victor snaps her pocketbook shut.
November 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Let’s go over this again: yes, at the end of every meeting someone should haphazardly throw chunky files into a capacious briefcase & shove it under his arm & storm out but THE REAL CONCLUDING GESTURE comes after: a bright & definitive click! as the meeting’s true victor snaps her pocketbook shut.
Me watching microwave.
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Me watching microwave.
The implied preface to every project I finish:
Hi, here’s a piece of writing that either indicates that I’m at my interpretive zenith as a perceiving being or that I’m being attacked by once friendly but now vicious words because I’ve gone mad.
Hi, here’s a piece of writing that either indicates that I’m at my interpretive zenith as a perceiving being or that I’m being attacked by once friendly but now vicious words because I’ve gone mad.
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The implied preface to every project I finish:
Hi, here’s a piece of writing that either indicates that I’m at my interpretive zenith as a perceiving being or that I’m being attacked by once friendly but now vicious words because I’ve gone mad.
Hi, here’s a piece of writing that either indicates that I’m at my interpretive zenith as a perceiving being or that I’m being attacked by once friendly but now vicious words because I’ve gone mad.
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When my friends and I were alcoholic 25yos, chain-smoking and drinking steel reserve on our band-house porch, giving each other homosocial haircuts, smoking weed and watching Wim Wenders movies all day, there was no one who's approval we valued more than the morally ambiguous forest-witch Baba Yaga.
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When my friends and I were alcoholic 25yos, chain-smoking and drinking steel reserve on our band-house porch, giving each other homosocial haircuts, smoking weed and watching Wim Wenders movies all day, there was no one who's approval we valued more than the morally ambiguous forest-witch Baba Yaga.
Walked by a senior center & saw a very elderly woman, from behind, hunched over in a wheelchair, & its entire back panel was a Pride flag. She was sitting with her daughter, I think, & as I passed her, I said, “I like your wheelchair!” & she straightened up & said, “Me too!,” & gave me a thumbs up.
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Walked by a senior center & saw a very elderly woman, from behind, hunched over in a wheelchair, & its entire back panel was a Pride flag. She was sitting with her daughter, I think, & as I passed her, I said, “I like your wheelchair!” & she straightened up & said, “Me too!,” & gave me a thumbs up.