THIS IS FAG CITY

Billy Cheer aka Max Steele

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1991

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from SAUGERTIES

Here’s a poem about Sinead O’Connor:

SAUGERTIES (THIS IS TO MOTHER YOU)

Hey boys, it’s noontime at the bus stop. Little village sunburn. Wake up, shadow. Nail gel, I know cartoon backpack transit metal. I get it. These are true duds. I haven’t pierced my ears or learned how to drive.

This is my gallery. Didn’t you know I work here? We’re having an event tonight. I named it Saugerties because I just liked the way it sounds. It means little sawmill, little sawyer. Woodcutter, little carpenter I will be queen of meteors.  Let’s get some gay religion:

In 1990 Jesus Christ said she didn’t want them to play "The Star-Spangled Banner"  before her concerts, and Frank Sinatra threatened to kick her ass. Jesus Christ’s biggest hit was a song she didn’t even write. Prince wrote that song. Jesus Christ performed on SNL and ripped up a picture of the Pope to protested child abuse in the Catholic church and said fight the real enemy. She became a pariah. Everyone made fun of Jesus Christ. She got booed off the stage at Madison Square Garden. Kris Kristofferson told Jesus don’t let the bastards get you down. Jesus said “I’m not down.” but the crowd kept booing and Jesus Christ walked off stage in tears. Kris wrote a song about her calling Jesus Christ a bald-headed brave little girl. She was ordained as a roman catholic priest, and later came out as a lesbian for while. Jesus Christ told Miley Cyrus not to send the message that it’s somehow cool to be prostituted. She said It’s so not cool Miley. She disappeared for two days in Chicago after making a video from Travelodge threatening suicide. She became a cautionary tale.

Fiona Apple posted a video letter to Jesus Christ and this is what it said: “Hello Jesus Christ, I'm Fiona Apple. I want you to know that you are my hero as well and, I just saw the video of you and I don't want you to feel like that. You've given so much and I wish I could be there. I wish I could be... of some use to you. I just ho-- I’m your friend. That’s all I wanna say. And you’re my hero.“

One of her kids ended his earthly struggle and she backed off twitter. She just wanted a family. Now who’s the asshole.

I saw this cool punk girl on the bus doing a rosary with an ash cross on her forehead. When I got closer she was just untangling headphones And had a bruised face.

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Futurism vs. Passéism

What a strange, terrible year 2021 was. I’m not really a big fan of New Year’s resolutions, and most of the things that meant a lot to me this year were made a long time ago, or represent the culmi…

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here’s a poem I wrote about amerika

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PAINLESS: THE JOY OF GAY SUICIDE

(TW: Suicide) APPROXIMATELY INFINITE UNIVERSE Pride month always makes me feel a bit like that Yoko Ono song “Looking Over from My Hotel Window” where she sings: “Age 39 / Feeling prett…

I worked on this blog post about Gay Pride and Suicide for at least three years. Thank you for reading. 

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Shengsi, an archipelago of almost 400 islands at the mouth of China’s Yangtze river, holds a secret shrouded in time – an abandoned fishing village being reclaimed by nature. These photos by Tang Yuhong, a creative photographer based in Nanning, take us into this lost village on the beautiful archipelago.

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nature series 26/∞

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Fiona Apple at the 2000 Oscars wearing Thierry Mugler Fall 1999

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Shirley Manson at the 1999 Grammy Awards

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How to see whether a Chinese handmade teapot is well done or not - quality of the spout is an important standard. 

cr: 承启 建水紫陶

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that last teapot is like witnessing an eternal and important truth

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I just watched this with the sound on and i really recommend it because the utter silence of the last teapot is both perfectly predictable and totally remarkable.

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KISSING BOOTH

In November 2000 my best friend J and I went from our little suburb of Alameda to downtown San Francisco to participate in what she’d heard was going to be a really cool protest, for Buy Nothing Da…

New Blog

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EPSILON b/w VALENCE, by Max Steele

0 track album

NEW ZINE OUT NOW

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The suspense

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from EPSILON

This a story about a time called tequila soda. A summertime decade of wanting out. I broke mirrors and waited

My queer elders call from the afterlife to remind me where I came from. My queer elders visit me my darkest hour and whisper in my ear they say: “Show us your hole”.

I leave them be, the bovine and the blind prophets eating dust. The landscape told me to cover myself. But it feels good.

Listen: I’ll out-burn you and take too long to fade. I’ll die circles around you I’m oxidizing I could go on forever. They’ll have to play me off.

Can I just say something? I want to tell the meteor to shut the fuck up. Someone had better get the season to stop looking at me like that.

I’m ready for my sandy dinner.

These locks are worthless. Our eyes are crusted shut and our pirate captors are asleep, gorged on keybait.

Which one of my sisters can I depend on? Didn’t anyone think to poison our bosses? Who among us was brave enough to dip tin into arsenic backstage before the show, huh? That’s what I thought. My generation is the one who made reality a product and sold the world for scrap. Everyone just wants to have a platform so they can use it but I’m seeing a lot of my friends being forced to walk the plank.

I came all the way out here to meet you and I brought three wise men with me: roadkill, robot and puppet. I’m Dorothy I’m lost I just beg for help from the authorities.

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TEQUILA SODA (demo version)

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reposting bc proud I made this and 7.4

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