Br. Cogneme

Donald Trump: "Why you gotta fight with me at Cheesecake, you know I love to go there?"

what can i say man. i'm just not that interesting.

A certain amount of snobbery is your defense against being trough-fed by corporate ghouls. You have to be able to say "fuck this, I'm better than that"

Learned about Regino Sainz de la Maza this weekend (thank u WRTI) and I am just in awe. Every piece is like a finely wrought sculpture of sound, infinitely delicate yet finding in that infinity a steady certainty. like a crystal figure you could never break. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gW6...

As a child growing up in Monmouth county, I just assumed Count Basie was a Dracula-style figure.

moods

A soft pretzel, otherwise known as a Philadelphia Croissant

You will log into the Instagram app and see a poem that goes -- I could not be the song that your eyes drank from the pool of the stars -- and it will have 2,000 likes

I am soft-launching a substack. It is mostly about the virtues of allowance, attention, and intention: what they are, how we practice them, and why there is a grave moral and ontological weight to our choices here. It is also, of course, about fairies. brothercogneme.substack.com/p/permission...

In America we have a holiday called Columbus Day. This is a deeply sacred day on which we allow the Italian Americans to pretend that anti-Italian discrimination is still a thing. This helps tire them out for the rest of the year, like riling up your toddler to get the wiggles out before bed.

nico seems to really dig schoenberg because he's "silly" and you know what? the kid's right. serialism is incredibly silly. There's a real humor to this work that I never picked up on until the toddler pointed it out. out of the mouths of babes, and all that.

okay so the thing about a poem is that it's more than just "a lot of really rich detail in really rich language"

Crazy that we use "sucks dick" as an insult. Dick sucking is such a cool thing to do for someone, and a cool thing to receive. It should be the highest compliment, really. "Dude you gotta play Corpse Party. It sucks so much dick."

An AI could write dungeon crawler carl

#poem called MY BIG SCARECROW WIFE

*frowning* wow okay so turns out i love wagner

The problem with playing tears of the kingdom high is that you then never want to play it any other way

#poem involving the lanternfly

I am a chauvinist about one thing and one thing only: Americans are the only people who can rap good

This drives me insane, and it's part of why chatbots have so little allure for me. I don't want the robot to tell me what it thinks I need, I want to find it myself! Do not interpose another layer between me and the world!

it's so funny how badly our fascist overlords bungled the semiquincentennial. no better proof that all the "we love america" bullshit is just posturing they do for the hogs. they couldn't even shut off the grifter grindset long enough to throw a proper party.

Orangutans are clearly just guys. You shouldn't be able to keep them in a zoo.

If I were an onlyfans model I'd start a podcast about neuroscience and call it Thot Process

When adults are really seriously into youth sports, that's a form of spiritual pedophilia

You mean to tell me that when we handed the police a nationwide surveillance system, they immediately used it to harass their exes? www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1...

Sonny Boy's "Monkey Baseball" episode is criminally underrated. (Whole show is criminally underrated, really.)

You can tell a lot about a person based on how they respond to 4'33''. By which I mean that those who respond negatively are fucking troglodytes.

normal republican behavior, unfortunately. watch the Good People of Ohio vote him in regardless.

what's crazy is that beethoven's fifth actually does go hard if you give it a chance

republicans called Joe Biden a communist. every democrat is fucking mao zedong to them. shut up.

comedy has definitely gotten way worse since the pandemic, and this is because comedians are a very stupid people.

"being outside in these conditions for an extended period of time is the equivalent of smoking 20 cigarettes" oh i used to do that every day. for years. that's nothing. you'll be fine.

i used to have this noble savage view. living in rural ohio for a bit completely disabused me of it. these people aren't "voting against their interests" or "disempowered." ensuring the suffering of the people they don't like is simply more important to them than bettering their own lives.

the sky is poison and it's 93 degrees.

oh you're having trouble selling your poetry? well, the first issue is you're trying to sell poetry. so there's your problem right there.

It's bedtime. The toddler is rolling himself all over the bed like a rolling pin. Me: Nico, buddy, it's time to settle down and sleep. What are you doing? Nico, very softly: I'm just trying my tricks.

Friday July 17th Poets @ Molly's Philadelphia COME THRU

One of my favorite modern eggcorns is "ChatGBT." My friend the correct name is right there in the url bar. It's all over the page when you're working with it. Every model is named "GPT-X." How did you get here.