Michael A. Van Kerckhove
@mvankerckhove.bsky.social
Writerly dude in Chicago. 🏳️🌈♏️ Same handle on the bird app and Insta. https://www.michaelvankerckhove.com/
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Originally written for and performed at Is This a Thing? — I Just Can’t Quit You at O’Shaughnessy’s Public House, Chicago, February 14…
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Here's my #SaturdayNightLive essay originally written for Is This a Thing? here in Chicago. Theme: I Just Can't Quit You, Valentine's Day 2022. #SNL #ChicagoWriters #storytelling
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Michael uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 1,175 films watched. Favorites: Dead Poets Society (1989), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Heathers (1989), The Empire Strikes Back (1980...
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January 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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December 7, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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“If the early AIDS movement and our ACT UP veterans taught us anything, it is how to collectively and fiercely fight for each other and never give up in times of despair.” #WorldAIDSDay
For #WorldAIDSDay, I wrote for @vogue.com.web.brid.gy about what we’re up against these next four years and how we should refuse to acquiesce. Between persisting inequities and an AIDS denialist nominee, we’ve got our work cut out for us—so let’s get to it. www.vogue.com/article/worl...
With Threats on The Horizon, World AIDS Day Is Still a Call to Action
Jason Rosenberg reflects on how far we have come in the fight to eradicate AIDS—and what we have to lose.
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December 1, 2024 at 3:35 PM
“If the early AIDS movement and our ACT UP veterans taught us anything, it is how to collectively and fiercely fight for each other and never give up in times of despair.” #WorldAIDSDay
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Let’s continue fighting stigma, educating ourselves, & ensuring those living with HIV don’t feel shame.
We’ve come a long way, but there’s still a lot of work to do. Together we can achieve that.
Solidarity with all who are living with HIV. You are not the problem, ignorance is!
#WorldAidsDay
We’ve come a long way, but there’s still a lot of work to do. Together we can achieve that.
Solidarity with all who are living with HIV. You are not the problem, ignorance is!
#WorldAidsDay
December 1, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Let’s continue fighting stigma, educating ourselves, & ensuring those living with HIV don’t feel shame.
We’ve come a long way, but there’s still a lot of work to do. Together we can achieve that.
Solidarity with all who are living with HIV. You are not the problem, ignorance is!
#WorldAidsDay
We’ve come a long way, but there’s still a lot of work to do. Together we can achieve that.
Solidarity with all who are living with HIV. You are not the problem, ignorance is!
#WorldAidsDay
Love this. 🥰
November 29, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Love this. 🥰
On Monday, I joined the fun on @thesnlnetwork.bsky.social's Feedback Show. Had an awesome time! Watch me nerd out about #SNL just past the 1:51 mark. But also follow & support the SNN! Cheers. #SaturdayNightLive #SNL50 #podcasts
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November 27, 2024 at 3:23 PM
On Monday, I joined the fun on @thesnlnetwork.bsky.social's Feedback Show. Had an awesome time! Watch me nerd out about #SNL just past the 1:51 mark. But also follow & support the SNN! Cheers. #SaturdayNightLive #SNL50 #podcasts
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#RobertSmith photographed by Tom Pallant at Troxy, London. 01.01.2024.
November 26, 2024 at 1:42 PM
#RobertSmith photographed by Tom Pallant at Troxy, London. 01.01.2024.
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Regulations exist to protect what cannot protect itself—our parks, wildlife, and cultural heritage.
November 24, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Regulations exist to protect what cannot protect itself—our parks, wildlife, and cultural heritage.
Here's my #SaturdayNightLive essay originally written for Is This a Thing? here in Chicago. Theme: I Just Can't Quit You, Valentine's Day 2022. #SNL #ChicagoWriters #storytelling
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Originally written for and performed at Is This a Thing? — I Just Can’t Quit You at O’Shaughnessy’s Public House, Chicago, February 14…
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November 24, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Here's my #SaturdayNightLive essay originally written for Is This a Thing? here in Chicago. Theme: I Just Can't Quit You, Valentine's Day 2022. #SNL #ChicagoWriters #storytelling
medium.com/bookish-part...
medium.com/bookish-part...
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It's ok to not always feel ok.
It's ok to take a day off with tea & books.
It's ok to wear a tiara of ancient goblin bones.
It's ok to wander into the forest and commune with moss and gloom.
It's ok to take a day off with tea & books.
It's ok to wear a tiara of ancient goblin bones.
It's ok to wander into the forest and commune with moss and gloom.
November 3, 2024 at 8:32 PM
It's ok to not always feel ok.
It's ok to take a day off with tea & books.
It's ok to wear a tiara of ancient goblin bones.
It's ok to wander into the forest and commune with moss and gloom.
It's ok to take a day off with tea & books.
It's ok to wear a tiara of ancient goblin bones.
It's ok to wander into the forest and commune with moss and gloom.
Sharing more of my writing links here on the Sky....Here's my essay "Weights & Pulleys" about Cry Cry Cry's (Dar Williams, @lucykaplansky.bsky.social, & Richard Shindell) cover of @remhq.bsky.social's "Fall On Me" for @marchxness.bsky.social. #essays #music #cnf
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Essays — March Second Chanceness
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November 23, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Sharing more of my writing links here on the Sky....Here's my essay "Weights & Pulleys" about Cry Cry Cry's (Dar Williams, @lucykaplansky.bsky.social, & Richard Shindell) cover of @remhq.bsky.social's "Fall On Me" for @marchxness.bsky.social. #essays #music #cnf
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Today is Christopher Tolkien 100th anniversary, without whom we would never have known Tolkien's work in such a depth, thanks to his incredible work in his father's archives, and protecting his legacy as long as he lived. 🤍
"RIP Christopher Tolkien" 🙏 #lordoftherings #tolkien #lotr
"RIP Christopher Tolkien" 🙏 #lordoftherings #tolkien #lotr
November 21, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Today is Christopher Tolkien 100th anniversary, without whom we would never have known Tolkien's work in such a depth, thanks to his incredible work in his father's archives, and protecting his legacy as long as he lived. 🤍
"RIP Christopher Tolkien" 🙏 #lordoftherings #tolkien #lotr
"RIP Christopher Tolkien" 🙏 #lordoftherings #tolkien #lotr
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Ah, yes, the legendary Badlands Tweets!
November 20, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Ah, yes, the legendary Badlands Tweets!
Having fun revisiting Sidney Sheldon’s The Other Side of Midnight on audiobook. I still have my mom’s print copy I permanently borrowed in high school. #BookSky
November 17, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Having fun revisiting Sidney Sheldon’s The Other Side of Midnight on audiobook. I still have my mom’s print copy I permanently borrowed in high school. #BookSky
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This got a ton of likes and new followers. It's a greatest hit from the other site but I stand by it because: I started a lit mag for no reason. I made friends. I got some bylines. It gave me confidence. I began transitioning. I kept writing. I got a book deal and accomplished my dream. Yes, do it.
This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
November 17, 2024 at 4:02 PM
This got a ton of likes and new followers. It's a greatest hit from the other site but I stand by it because: I started a lit mag for no reason. I made friends. I got some bylines. It gave me confidence. I began transitioning. I kept writing. I got a book deal and accomplished my dream. Yes, do it.
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"Like all empires, this one rested on a foundation of lies." #Oathbreakers, out from @harpercollins.bsky.social on 12/10. The story of how Charlemagne's grandsons fought a brutal civil war and shattered the Frankish Empire.
SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1
SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1
Oathbreakers
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that wou...
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November 17, 2024 at 3:38 PM
"Like all empires, this one rested on a foundation of lies." #Oathbreakers, out from @harpercollins.bsky.social on 12/10. The story of how Charlemagne's grandsons fought a brutal civil war and shattered the Frankish Empire.
SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1
SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1
I had this giant poster above my bed in high school. Maybe I should put it back up? 🥰
On this day in 1982, #TheCure released the single "Let's Go to Bed".
November 15, 2024 at 1:29 PM
I had this giant poster above my bed in high school. Maybe I should put it back up? 🥰
Thank you @reevesgabrels.bsky.social for the follow back. LOVE the new Cure album! Cheers.
November 15, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Thank you @reevesgabrels.bsky.social for the follow back. LOVE the new Cure album! Cheers.
Hey everyone, here's a story I shared at @chirpradio.bsky.social's First Time series last summer. Check it out.
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First Time: First Pass - Michael A. Van Kerckhove
The First Time is a live lit and music series recorded at Martyrs in Chicago's North Center neighborhood. Each reader tells a true first tale, followed by any cover of the storyteller's choosing, perf
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November 14, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Hey everyone, here's a story I shared at @chirpradio.bsky.social's First Time series last summer. Check it out.
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How is everyone doing this weekend...? The Twitter to Bluesky pipeline is strong this week.
November 9, 2024 at 8:58 PM
How is everyone doing this weekend...? The Twitter to Bluesky pipeline is strong this week.
Thank you, Martin! 😊
I very much dig @mvankerckhove.bsky.social's @marchxness.bsky.social essay on DJ Sammy's take on "Heaven"—particularly his attention to material artifacts: "lighters (that we only had for concerts!)"—& this song may be the purest example of Oughts Danceness in the bracket.
3/7, 1st Round: (6) The Killers vs (11) DJ Sammy feat. Yanou & Do — March Danceness
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March 8, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Thank you, Martin! 😊
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Both @abigailoswald.bsky.social and @mvankerckhove.bsky.social have written powerful essays for equally good yet different #Danceness songs. Read and vote! marchxness.com/1strd-killer...
3/7, 1st Round: (6) The Killers vs (11) DJ Sammy feat. Yanou & Do — March Danceness
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March 7, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Both @abigailoswald.bsky.social and @mvankerckhove.bsky.social have written powerful essays for equally good yet different #Danceness songs. Read and vote! marchxness.com/1strd-killer...
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It’s game time! Read and vote for my essay That Road Before: DJ Sammy’s Heaven.
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It’s game time! Read and vote for my essay That Road Before: DJ Sammy’s Heaven.
@marchxness.bsky.social
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3/7, 1st Round: (6) The Killers vs (11) DJ Sammy feat. Yanou & Do — March Danceness
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March 7, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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It’s game time! Read and vote for my essay That Road Before: DJ Sammy’s Heaven.
@marchxness.bsky.social
marchxness.com/1strd-killer...
It’s game time! Read and vote for my essay That Road Before: DJ Sammy’s Heaven.
@marchxness.bsky.social
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