Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes, 11-15-23

I swear Saint Jude is giving me the finger

I’ll tell you the Chad News First

Spent time this weekend with a holy relic. The arm of Saint Jude. Hoping to get a poem out of it. You might even see it in a couple of weeks.

Catching up a little more. Hoping next week gets me the rest of the way.

Stone Soup Poetry

Last week’s last minute open mic was fun. Read last week’s Stone Soup Croutons poem, “Misscourse.” Or don’t It’s a failure. The pilgrimage weekend took a lot out of me.

Tonight, join us as Toni Rose gives us our last feature before Thanksgiving.

Come to the Gobble Wobble this Saturday, November 18

The Oddball Foundation will be giving away a free turkey for Thanksgiving and other prizes this Saturday on November 18 at Harold L Qualters Middle School in Mansfield Massachusetts from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

I'll be emceeing the day, but the event comes together with the work of Oddball Foundation's Jason Wright.

Click the link here for more information.

And check out the local ad from Jason here.

Oddball Magazine

Click here to read poetry by Dominik Slusarczyk, Mark J. Mitchell and Amanda Hawk. Not to mention an epic piece on the Israel/Palestine crisis by Luis Lázaro Tijerina.

Geoffrey Fallon “The Secrets of Skinny People” took the week off, but luckily we still had comics from Anne Skove (“She Who Laughs Lasts”) and newcomer Dusty McGowan adding his work via Comics Spotlight. It was a much lighter week for Jason Wright’s poem column (Jagged Thoughts), and for Thursday and Friday we’ll have James Van Looy (It’s All One Thing), Janet Cormier (Bamboozled No More!) and Bruce Wise (Wise Words). Surprise #pride at the end? Maybe.

Something for my Walden Lite Ass

"They Say You Must Go" is my latest From Picture to Page poem exclusively on my Patreon. Join for a couple of bucks a month for similar content.

Used to be a Thousand Times Worse

Part Forty-Eight of my Tuesday Poem series is now up on my Patreon. 

The Week That Was for November 6-10, 2023

We reviewed the prior week’s Oddball. Good God, just give it a pity listen.

Miscellaneous

Check out my website and get a lot of the news before it winds up in this email.

Check my blog out for exclusive content and poetry news not related to Stone Soup.

Check out my Medium as I somehow gain new followers producing absolutely nothing.

Added my twenty-seventh TikTok Haiku, with other things to follow for that app.

Patreon is revving up. Sign up for a couple of bucks a month and let’s see what else I can post before Thanksgiving.

Thanks for reading down this far.

Chad