Chad Parenteau's Lost Causes, 11-6-24
I feel done here
I’ll tell you the Chad News First
Voted last night for all the good it did me.
My one “highlight” was walking out after voting and seeing a family with MAGA hats taking a group selfie outside the voting place. Most of them were also dressed like Mario in overalls and red shirts. They were Hispanic or maybe Dominican. They also seemed so proud of voting.
I wonder if they’ll still be in the country next year.
I have other thoughts. I can’t share them now.
Stone Soup Poetry
Last week’s open mic was good. No Stone Soup Crouton poem again. I want to catch up.
Tonight, we have Richard Spisak’s timely take on Tuesday’s terror. Join us please. Next week, we have Timothy Gager. We’ll give you a reason to keep going online.
Oddball Magazine
Click here to read poetry by Tatianna Salisbury, J.H. Johns and Skooter Fein with visual art by Jennifer Matthews, myself and Edward S. Gault. Thanks to Richard Spisak with his last futile effort with Monday’s poetry and artwork and Mike Mesterton’s opening acrostic. Thanks to cartoonists Anne Skove (“She Who Laughs Lasts”) and Comics Spotlight contributor Mike Salva for their Halloweeny elements carried over from the week before.
Thursday and Friday will still give us poet columnists James Van Looy (It’s All One Thing), Janet Cormier (Bamboozled No More!), and Bruce Wise (Wise Words).
Thanks to Horrorthon contributors for the end of last week with Rick Christiansen and Rustin Larson. and
For the end of this week, we will struggle to regroup and press forward.
Getting Back on Track
Tuesday Poem Sixty-Four is up now at my Patreon. Subscribe to read all my paywalled projects.
Nice to Have One of These Up Again
My Comic Book Haiku on The Toxic Avenger #1 from Ahoy Comics is up now at The Ugly Monster.
Miscellaneous
Check out my website and get a lot of the news before it winds up in this newsletter. Also includes links to my other social media.
Check my blog out for exclusive content and poetry news not related to Stone Soup.
More work for my Medium page will hopefully be finished soon.
Had fun with TikTok during Halloween. I’ll be staying off it for a bit.
Thinking of starting a new Patreon exclusive series.
Thanks for reading down this far.
Chad