#jim moore

[pityroad]

Teaching the Dog Not to Nip, Jim Moore (2005)

[text ID: Do you think it's easy, not biting the one you love? Try loving someone so much your mouth is only at home in the place where your teeth meet the flesh of your beloved. Try not tasting the flesh, not taking in your mouth the beloved, not going all the way.]

[cottaegecore]

[unofskylanderspages]

Seen above: Concept of Telescope Towers by Jim Moore

[dendrochronologies]

i love my darkness and my greed / for light. i often regret / not having had a calm and loving childhood. / though in that life i might not have needed the moon / the way i do now.

field goal, moonlight, men walking to work, by jim moore. yale review/grieftolight

[missedstations]

"Full Moon at Eighty" - Jim Moore

When I look up, there it is. I can see that it does not need us, but does not mind that we need it. I think I am supposed to stop trying to be someone. Be everyone instead, it says. I shine on everyone, it says: can you do the same in your waning? If I am to live at all, it will have to be in this way: knowing I am going away and shining, even so, guided by the light of knowing that.

[fl0ras]

do you think it’s easy, not biting the one you love? try loving someone so much your mouth is only at home in the place where your teeth meet the flesh of your beloved. try not tasting the flesh, not taking in your mouth the beloved, not going all the way.

teaching the dog not to nip. jim moore, 2005.

[poem-today]

A poem by Jim Moore

Also Known As

If you are closer to being old than you would like to be and slowness begins to redefine the idea of difficulty into something you would much rather take a pass on, then it is time for the sky to grow larger than the earth, than the sea even. You need to go to that place where your story is seriously quiet. Nothing in it counts compared to the things sky calls out to: birds, clouds, the occasional cypress that has reached beyond itself. You could call it a kind of waiting and that would be fair. There is a green bench in the sky — a corner of heaven, you could say — and there you can sit in the shade and watch the grandfather and grandson walk by. The little one makes the older one laugh again and again, and that is the way it works in heaven. Also known as going home. Also known as getting over yourself.

Jim Moore

More poems by Jim Moore are available through his website.

Image: Waiting for Granddad by Margo Mosher-Swain

[leafmouldandearth]

"After Michael Longley, After Amergin Glúingel" by Jim Moore.

Found in the Feb 22, 2024 issue of The New York Review of Books

[riverbird]

"Whatever else, the little smile on the face of the woman listening to a music the rest of us can’t hear and a sky at dawn with a moon all its own. Whatever else, the construction crane high above us waiting to be told how to do our bidding, we who bid and bid and bid. Whatever else, the way cook #1 looks with such longing at cook #2. Let’s not be too sad about how sad we are. I know about the disappearance of the river dolphins, the sea turtles with tumors. I know about the way the dead don’t return no matter how long they take to die in the back of the police car. I know about the thousand ways our world betrays itself. Whatever else, my friend, spreading wide his arms, looks out at the river and says, “After all, what choice did I have?” After all, I saw the man walking who’d had the stroke, saw the woman whose body won’t stop shaking. I saw the frog in the tall grass, boldly telling us who truly matters. I saw the world proclaim itself an unlit vesper candle while a crow flew into the tip of it, sleek black match, burning." Jim Moore, Whatever Else

[cull3nblaze]

I could probably ship him with everyone, not gonna lie.

[demifiendrsa]

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | Official Trailer

Poster

Synopsis

Sonic the Hedgehog returns to the big screen this holiday season in his most thrilling adventure yet. Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.

[unofskylanderspages]

Seen above: Cadaverous Crypt dungeon concept by Jim Moore

[nofatclips]

What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish

[wanderingmind867]

I suppose I get why people say they don't like The Joker. I get it, he killed Jason Todd and paralyzed Barbara Gordon. He tortures, he maims, and he doesn't even have a good backstory for doing it all. But as a counterpoint: he's just genuinely entertaining. It takes a wild character for me to be able to forgive killing children and torturing people, but Joker is that wild character. Who can't support mania that wild!? And besides, Joker isn't always that bad. Did you see Cesar Romero? His Joker did things for nonsensical reasons! He was really just a massive weirdo mobster, who did try to kill people sometimes, but mostly focused on non-lethal crime.

And you know, I love Joker. So when his stories are too dark, I choose to blame the writers instead. Jim Starlin is the actual one who killed Jason Todd (even wanted to give him AIDS, apparently), Alan Moore paralyzed Barbara Gordon and did the creepy stuff where her father saw her naked, these writers did all of that. But The Joker had existed since 1940, and he was always pretty fun. He isn't often the best thematic foe for Batman (besides in the Telltale Games, where he is a great parallel), but he is always a delight to see.

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Batman/Superman: World's Finest (2022-) #18

[hedleylamarr]

About Last Night (1986)