Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 16/02/2025My student told me I dress like a rejected Friends cast member...major moment of self knowledge unlocked! 020
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Anyone willing to share some favorite poetry collections published in the last 5 years? (Ideally collections featuring some prose poems 💝) 010
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 23/01/2025teaching in carhartt work pants and boots today which feels like a true level up when you teach at as rural college 030
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Reading list for spring...I always try to teach like it's my last semester because at some point it will be 😸 020
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I have a dairy hangover from drinking an entire thing of eggnog 040
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 07/12/2024I 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...barrelhousemag.comNo One Deserves Happiness in Christmas Town, by Amber Sparks — BarrelhouseChristmas 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? 1164
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Oh 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...havehashad.com2 Poems by Simeon BerryThe 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 ... 120
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Just 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...havehashad.comI have some notes on the family legend by Jessica DawnGrandma 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... 051
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Listening to mm... Food while cooking has become a Thanksgiving tradition 010
Reposted by Kaj TanakaJon Hickey @jonvhickey.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Proud to see BIG CHIEF on this list of Indigenous fiction. What a lineup! booktrib.com/2024/11/26/c...booktrib.comCelebrate 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 ... 161
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 26/11/2024firing up disco elysium again to help me make peace with all the knocking chaos 010
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 23/11/2024These 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...havehashad.comTwo Poems by Daniel FindlayUnveiling 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 ... 020
Reposted by Kaj TanakaBud Smith @budsmith.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Here’s a reading list, hung on my fridge, I’ve been working through 3171
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I 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...milkcandyreview.home.blogFRIENDS, FAMILY, NEIGHBORS, & COWORKERS WERE ALL SHOCKED ~ by DrevlowToday 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… 110
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 21/11/2024This thing by Mollie O’Leary in @havehashad.com is terrifying and I want it everywhere! www.havehashad.com/ckrs4havehashad.comCento by Mollie O’LearyText 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 ... 0122
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Anyone have lyric essays they love and would recommend? I'm pretty much ignorant...there's no rec too basic for this guy 😸 230
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 19/11/2024they gave me one cookie to decorate at our toddler play group so I tried to make it count 190
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 19/11/2024drinking chicken soup out of an ordinary travel mug like I'm chaos itself 140
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Prepping 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 010
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I 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...cottonxenomorph.comExpiration Dates — Cotton XenomorphBY 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 ... 0133
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 17/11/2024"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...gargoylemagazine.comTara CampbellTara 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… 010
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Author 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😿) 030
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Okay now I'm drunk on Vegas priced beer and about to see Kevin Smith...my life is maybe getting more rad 020
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 14/11/2024just got high with a podcaster and now I'm eating sticky buns until I die 010
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I'm attending Author Nation in Las Vegas this week bc I'm low-key self publishing curious. ...what I've learned about my poetry collection: don't self publish it 😿 100
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 05/11/2024My student is wearing a Swans Children of God shirt and it's so rad, I'm tempted to just give him an A in the class right here and now 010
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 04/08/2024I know it's a plague but I kind of live for spam these days 010
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 05/05/2024Bitchy marginalia is one of the purest forms of art 020
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 13/01/2024So apparently I have a little crystal that formed inside my inner ear which is why I'm getting these sublime dizzy spells like every hour or so... It's so amazing...I hope I'm never cured 030
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 03/01/2024my wife and I had a baby and it turns out he's a little goblin who eats smashed tater tots off the floor just like his parents...we love him so much 040
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 20/11/2023Young Thug's new album sounds pretty good and the Internet is a nightmare world...happy fucking Thanksgiving 200
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 14/11/2023I'm going to watch The Beach tonight and I'm so excited 510
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 05/11/2023My clickbait is truly going next level. ...also "Cruise Hive" is the best named publication I've seen in a great while 030
Reposted by Kaj TanakaSwampLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 28/10/2023Calling it a Jack “of” Lantern on a first date because her profile said sapiosexual 0236
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 29/10/2023Death sliding into the kitchen at midnight while the house is quiet to eat your last cheese dog (the one you've been saving) 120
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 23/10/2023The spiders have once again started their annual move into the little space behind my toilet, and once again I'm a little flattered 030
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 20/10/2023my student is writing a research paper about the loneliness of stock photos and I'm feeling that idea so hard 010
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 17/10/2023I'm such a big fan of anyone who spells it "xtreme" 030
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 12/10/2023If I could add a scene to the mad max movies, it would be the montage (currently implied) where they loot a dick's sporting goods and take only hockey gear 030
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social · 11/10/2023it has been a quiet morning...I can hear the refrigerator 020
Reposted by Kaj Tanakadrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 09/10/2023when i was a kid i was at the zoo and they had a horse and as i got closer i saw it had my face instead of a horses face. it was laying down then a zoo keeper pulled it off by its rear hooves because it was dead. i think it affected me 1013812
