Mikesch Muecke

A Mensch, a teacher, a designer, a writer, a web weaver, an artist, a polytekton

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@squarespace is anyone home? I'm trying to get help renewing a domain and your website is throwing errors with no way to contact you (yes, I tried chat, which spins for a few hours and I tried email which elicits a bot response about how busy you are). So, this is the next step.

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that of other people's lives as well. Anyhow, just some thoughts on a Friday evening in January when the darkness comes early and it's still way to cold in Madison, Wisconsin...

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A thought at the beginning of the new year...What I probably like most about my work at Culicidae Press and at polytekton are the small things I do everyday, like ordering poetry books to be sent to an author (Jeremy Toombs) in Bristol, UK or sending four books by another author

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proof copy to an author (Peter Wodarz) who grew up in Minnesota and now lives (and writes) in Okinawa, Japan. I find these connections simply amazing, and even though they are tentative, temporary, and quite fragile, they make up one part of the fabric of my life, and I'm sure,

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@HumansNoContext

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@SafeStreetRebel Three unicorns in a row…

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Alan Arkin was great in Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins…a little gem from 1975 where he played a driving school instructor who has had enough bad drivers for a day, opposite Sallie Kellerman and Mackenzie Philipps.

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@NoContextBrits Today in Brighton

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@nytimes Dear Dr. Ruth, do I have the book for you (and for the ex-president): Arvid Osterberg’s “We All Fall Down” https://t.co/FbW5GQ671M

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In civil discourse, Princeton leads…

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Latest version of book cover and interior for Dean Hurliman’s second book of poetry I designed for Zanzara Press. More info at https://t.co/XxygeRYDL2 https://t.co/49ZyeYVseU

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Iowa is still leafless today, which won’t make me listless…

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Just screened The New Yorker short "The Flying Sailor". What a treat, and I visited Halifax a few years back, learning about the devastation of the city caused by the explosion in 1917. Watch it: https://t.co/r25y4p4AeT

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Working on a new book design for Duane Vorhees’ latest book of poetry for Hog Press titled “Memories Linked Like Oases”. The dark background is a detail from Holbein’s ‘The Ambassadors’… https://t.co/ctlHPfBhOQ

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@Architizer What, no Startt? @https://www.startt.it/en/office/

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@guardian @emmaggarland @samwollaston Guess who else sits to pee?

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Sad to hear that the the incomparable Richard Belzer has died…I remember him well from Homicide-Life on the Street…https://t.co/fP2Jgkctof

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For emancipated men who clean toilets… https://t.co/axl2vyPTCx