I’ll tell you the Chad News First
So I decided to go into work on Saturday to catch up on work and clean the mess that was left behind from when my office ceiling caved in from a burst boiler on the floor above. That took a week to fix. It took me a while to sort out equipment that was caught in the flood and figure out what was worth saving.
I went in Saturday afternoon to finish up. When I came stood in front of my door, I caught a blast of heat like I was in the movie Backdraft. Was I about to enter Freddy Krueger’s boiler room?
I open the door, and it happened again. Sometime between when I left Friday night and that afternoon.
Apparently the hole in the floor above me was never fixed.
If I was in a sitcom, this would be a recurring gag now. The equivalent of Al Bundy’s mother-in-law coming for a visit.
If I hadn’t gone in and reported it to the weekend maintence staff, who knows what state my room would be in today?
Instead, they got on it right away. It was dried, cleaned and even vaccumed (this never happens) before my actual Monday ended. Enviromental even sent a followup email saying they used an infrared camera and moisture meter to check things over.
I went from being in a sitcom to being in a “CSI” episode.
Still keeping up with the National Poetry Writing Month challenge. Check out my progress here. Scroll down for the rest of the news.
Stone Soup Poetry
Rich Boucher gave us an amazing feature to start off our National Poetry Month block of features. Read the latest Stone Soup Croutons poem, “Mourning Commute.” This poem was the most fun I’ve had writing in a while.
Mary Ann Honaker returns to us after years of being away. Enjoy her work, then come back next week for Sue Savoy.
Oddball Magazine
Click here to read poetry by Wayne Russell, Beverly Cartwright and Timothy Gager. Thanks to our visual artists Jeannie E. Roberts, Tybee Maitri and Digby Beaumont. Kudos to our spotlighted contributor Edward S. Gault with his poetry and photography kicking off Monday along with Mike Mesterton-Gibbons’s journalistic acrostic.
Our cartoonists Geoffrey Fallon (“The Secrets of Skinny People”) and Anne Skove (“She Who Laughs Lasts”) also kept things timely. Geoffrey with Wrestlemania references and Anne Skove with her deadline-friendly eclipse comic. Let’s also welcome back Mr. Hoss back to our Comics Spotlight section.
Jason Wright is back with his Jagged Thoughts poem column. Stay tuned for Thursday and Friday columnists James Van Looy (It’s All One Thing), Janet Cormier (Bamboozled No More! ) and Bruce Wise (Wise Words). Last Friday we spotlighted poet/artist Luis Lázaro Tijerina. Who will we spotlight this Friday?
Mask Off Again
My fifty-seventh Tuesday Poem is up now on Patreon for subscribers.
Miscellaneous
Check out my website and get a lot of the news before it winds up in this email. Also includes links to my other social media.
Check my blog out for exclusive content and poetry news not related to Stone Soup.
Hope to have something up on Medium by the weekend. Maybe some frivolous things, maybe some things not so frivolous.
Mad a bunch of TikTok videos related to the eclipse, including my first (recorded) old man rant. Not rushing anything. More stuff coming eventually.
Some more updates coming Patreon
Thanks for reading down this far.
Chad