Kaj Tanaka
@kajtanaka.bsky.social
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Kaj Tanaka
@kajtanaka.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Expiration Dates — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Kaj Tanaka We are at the grocery store looking for expensive cheeses and salad kits in the discount bin like we do. There’s an old man kind of hovering over our shoulder. He acts impressed with ...
www.cottonxenomorph.com
I have a cute little story over at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social about meeting a ghost at the grocery store and really feeling "living on a prayer" by bon jovi
👻😻
www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...
👻😻
www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...
My student told me I dress like a rejected Friends cast member...major moment of self knowledge unlocked!
February 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
My student told me I dress like a rejected Friends cast member...major moment of self knowledge unlocked!
Anyone willing to share some favorite poetry collections published in the last 5 years?
(Ideally collections featuring some prose poems 💝)
(Ideally collections featuring some prose poems 💝)
February 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Anyone willing to share some favorite poetry collections published in the last 5 years?
(Ideally collections featuring some prose poems 💝)
(Ideally collections featuring some prose poems 💝)
What the holy fascist fuck?!
January 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
What the holy fascist fuck?!
teaching in carhartt work pants and boots today which feels like a true level up when you teach at as rural college
January 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
teaching in carhartt work pants and boots today which feels like a true level up when you teach at as rural college
just ate two rancid lindor truffles
January 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
just ate two rancid lindor truffles
Reading list for spring...I always try to teach like it's my last semester because at some point it will be 😸
December 30, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Reading list for spring...I always try to teach like it's my last semester because at some point it will be 😸
I have a dairy hangover from drinking an entire thing of eggnog
December 20, 2024 at 1:31 PM
I have a dairy hangover from drinking an entire thing of eggnog
I will always be here to see @ambersparks.bsky.social dunk on this long-winded, cruel, uncaring, stupid, incoherent, and somehow (somehow!) beloved children's program
(And thanks @barrelhouse.bsky.social for publishing it)
www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/n...
(And thanks @barrelhouse.bsky.social for publishing it)
www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/n...
No One Deserves Happiness in Christmas Town, by Amber Sparks — Barrelhouse
Christmas Town. What a dreadful, dismal, backwater dump Have you been? And what I mean is, have you been since you were small and rather naïve?
www.barrelhousemag.com
December 7, 2024 at 2:32 PM
I will always be here to see @ambersparks.bsky.social dunk on this long-winded, cruel, uncaring, stupid, incoherent, and somehow (somehow!) beloved children's program
(And thanks @barrelhouse.bsky.social for publishing it)
www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/n...
(And thanks @barrelhouse.bsky.social for publishing it)
www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/n...
Oh wow! I love these poems by @simeonberry.bsky.social in @havehashad.com
It's not every day I get to read poems about playing D&D and being a 5th grader...What a treat!
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/2-p...
It's not every day I get to read poems about playing D&D and being a 5th grader...What a treat!
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/2-p...
2 Poems by Simeon Berry
The LaMacchia kids were kind of jerks and destined to have unsuccessful mustaches
but the older one was a decent Dungeon Master when working theatrically from a module, where he’d surprise us with ...
www.havehashad.com
December 7, 2024 at 2:31 AM
Oh wow! I love these poems by @simeonberry.bsky.social in @havehashad.com
It's not every day I get to read poems about playing D&D and being a 5th grader...What a treat!
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/2-p...
It's not every day I get to read poems about playing D&D and being a 5th grader...What a treat!
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/2-p...
Just noticed maybe the worst scarecrow
December 7, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Just noticed maybe the worst scarecrow
Just wow...love this little essay in @havehashad.com by Jessica Dawn
thinking about how to change my classes next semester so I can teach it
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-h...
thinking about how to change my classes next semester so I can teach it
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-h...
I have some notes on the family legend by Jessica Dawn
Grandma told us once that great-great grand uncle John lived in the part of the country that gets the coldest[1] and he built a cabin out there,[2] the cabin where he’d count down his last days when t...
www.havehashad.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Just wow...love this little essay in @havehashad.com by Jessica Dawn
thinking about how to change my classes next semester so I can teach it
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-h...
thinking about how to change my classes next semester so I can teach it
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-h...
Listening to mm... Food while cooking has become a Thanksgiving tradition
November 28, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Listening to mm... Food while cooking has become a Thanksgiving tradition
Reposted by Kaj Tanaka
Proud to see BIG CHIEF on this list of Indigenous fiction. What a lineup!
booktrib.com/2024/11/26/c...
booktrib.com/2024/11/26/c...
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month With 14 New Releases | BookTrib.
This month is National Native American Heritage Month. It’s a time to celebrate and recognize the rich heritage, customs, folklore, languages, stories, issues faced by and contributions of Indigenous ...
booktrib.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Proud to see BIG CHIEF on this list of Indigenous fiction. What a lineup!
booktrib.com/2024/11/26/c...
booktrib.com/2024/11/26/c...
firing up disco elysium again to help me make peace with all the knocking chaos
November 26, 2024 at 2:58 PM
firing up disco elysium again to help me make peace with all the knocking chaos
These pose poems by Daniel Findlay in @havehashad.com
"Lately I’ve been hanging around gas stations. They pull me in like a planet tugs a flailing comet."
🫥 fucking slaps 🫥
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/two...
"Lately I’ve been hanging around gas stations. They pull me in like a planet tugs a flailing comet."
🫥 fucking slaps 🫥
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/two...
Two Poems by Daniel Findlay
Unveiling the Dog
The fence trembles in the mangled dawn. Pre-disaster blues have got this whole town feeling like death row. No luck the wire cutters seem to be pleading at you. Bleeding all over ...
www.havehashad.com
November 23, 2024 at 6:46 PM
These pose poems by Daniel Findlay in @havehashad.com
"Lately I’ve been hanging around gas stations. They pull me in like a planet tugs a flailing comet."
🫥 fucking slaps 🫥
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/two...
"Lately I’ve been hanging around gas stations. They pull me in like a planet tugs a flailing comet."
🫥 fucking slaps 🫥
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/two...
Reposted by Kaj Tanaka
Here’s a reading list, hung on my fridge, I’ve been working through
November 23, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Here’s a reading list, hung on my fridge, I’ve been working through
I know @thedrevlow.bsky.social and he's a regular dude who dresses cute and gives good hugs
This story though...it's bananas 😻
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2024/11/21/f...
This story though...it's bananas 😻
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2024/11/21/f...
FRIENDS, FAMILY, NEIGHBORS, & COWORKERS WERE ALL SHOCKED ~ by Drevlow
Today I’m the friend getting interviewed on Dateline because nobody in the family will actually do the interview. Today I can tell you what was going on in the minds of the family members and my ch…
milkcandyreview.home.blog
November 21, 2024 at 10:44 PM
I know @thedrevlow.bsky.social and he's a regular dude who dresses cute and gives good hugs
This story though...it's bananas 😻
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2024/11/21/f...
This story though...it's bananas 😻
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2024/11/21/f...
This thing by Mollie O’Leary in @havehashad.com is terrifying and I want it everywhere!
www.havehashad.com/ckrs4
www.havehashad.com/ckrs4
Cento by Mollie O’Leary
Text from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (1949)
& the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (1961)
Where does your story begin? I HIT
WITH MY HANDS; I KICK
WITH ...
www.havehashad.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:46 PM
This thing by Mollie O’Leary in @havehashad.com is terrifying and I want it everywhere!
www.havehashad.com/ckrs4
www.havehashad.com/ckrs4
Anyone have lyric essays they love and would recommend?
I'm pretty much ignorant...there's no rec too basic for this guy 😸
I'm pretty much ignorant...there's no rec too basic for this guy 😸
November 20, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Anyone have lyric essays they love and would recommend?
I'm pretty much ignorant...there's no rec too basic for this guy 😸
I'm pretty much ignorant...there's no rec too basic for this guy 😸
they gave me one cookie to decorate at our toddler play group so I tried to make it count
November 19, 2024 at 10:25 PM
they gave me one cookie to decorate at our toddler play group so I tried to make it count
drinking chicken soup out of an ordinary travel mug like I'm chaos itself
November 19, 2024 at 7:14 PM
drinking chicken soup out of an ordinary travel mug like I'm chaos itself
Prepping a class about desire for next semester...
Current reading list:
Eros the bittersweet
Symposium
Gravity and grace
Iktomi stories
if you can think of any other texts about desire, color me interested!
...esp looking for a novel in the public domain
Current reading list:
Eros the bittersweet
Symposium
Gravity and grace
Iktomi stories
if you can think of any other texts about desire, color me interested!
...esp looking for a novel in the public domain
November 18, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Prepping a class about desire for next semester...
Current reading list:
Eros the bittersweet
Symposium
Gravity and grace
Iktomi stories
if you can think of any other texts about desire, color me interested!
...esp looking for a novel in the public domain
Current reading list:
Eros the bittersweet
Symposium
Gravity and grace
Iktomi stories
if you can think of any other texts about desire, color me interested!
...esp looking for a novel in the public domain
I have a cute little story over at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social about meeting a ghost at the grocery store and really feeling "living on a prayer" by bon jovi
👻😻
www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...
👻😻
www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...
Expiration Dates — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Kaj Tanaka We are at the grocery store looking for expensive cheeses and salad kits in the discount bin like we do. There’s an old man kind of hovering over our shoulder. He acts impressed with ...
www.cottonxenomorph.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:09 PM
I have a cute little story over at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social about meeting a ghost at the grocery store and really feeling "living on a prayer" by bon jovi
👻😻
www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...
👻😻
www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...
"the impossibility of bats: a pseudo-sestina" is every bit as weird and wonderful as it sounds.
Thanks @taracampbell.bsky.social for this treat!
gargoylemagazine.com/tara-campbel...
Thanks @taracampbell.bsky.social for this treat!
gargoylemagazine.com/tara-campbel...
Tara Campbell
Tara Campbell Back to Gargoyle Online The Impossibility of Bats: A Pseudo-Sestina It’s glaringly clear. You’re lying. You’ve never cared about babies. You only care about bats. If you have to liste…
gargoylemagazine.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:01 PM
"the impossibility of bats: a pseudo-sestina" is every bit as weird and wonderful as it sounds.
Thanks @taracampbell.bsky.social for this treat!
gargoylemagazine.com/tara-campbel...
Thanks @taracampbell.bsky.social for this treat!
gargoylemagazine.com/tara-campbel...
Author Nation taught me that self publishing is very much worth thinking about...even if you write experimental arty stuff like me.
Controlling the way you make money is huge and my sense is most of us would make more money in self publishing (though still not very much😿)
Controlling the way you make money is huge and my sense is most of us would make more money in self publishing (though still not very much😿)
November 17, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Author Nation taught me that self publishing is very much worth thinking about...even if you write experimental arty stuff like me.
Controlling the way you make money is huge and my sense is most of us would make more money in self publishing (though still not very much😿)
Controlling the way you make money is huge and my sense is most of us would make more money in self publishing (though still not very much😿)