Jeff Lewonczyk
@jeffisawesome.bsky.social
I have no idea what I'm doing, but that's fine because I never have.
Do you write stories? Short ones? With words? As in, 500 of them or less? Submit to our upcoming issue of slips slips. Theme is Distractions. Deadline is Aug 31. Send us something? Full details on slipsslips.net. And tell your fellow storytellers that we want to hear the stories they have to tell.
As a longtime theater critic and librettist, it's no surprise @davidcote.bsky.social is attracted to the messy tangibility of slips slips—as with the stage, you can expect to get your hands dirty if you want to engage. Check out his profile in our newsletter: slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...
Sequential artists. Gag tableau specialists. People who draw wild stuff in a vaguely narrative format. In a word, CARTOONISTS! We want your short-form but indelible work on the theme of DISTRACTIONS. No style restrictions. Visit slipsslips.net or DM with questions, and please spread the word!
This week’s profile flashback features NYC-based writer/photographer Lynne Burns, whose use of slips slips as an excuse to reach out to old friends demonstrates how printed paper still has the power to keep us all connected. slipsslips.substack.com/publish/post... (Photo credit: Herb Atkins)
Reminder that next week we're collaborating with the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social to stage a one-of-a-kind event: We're gonna make a newspaper in an hour and a half. How will it go? Depends on how many of you show up. Learn more in our latest newsletter post: slipsslips.substack.com/p/lets-make-...
Let's Make a 90-Minute Newspaper!
Another foolhardy but irresistible event for slips slips
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We're seeking submissions for our 3rd issue (theme: DISTRACTIONS) until August 31, and today we're focused on POETS. Any form, style, layout, so long as it's 500 words or less. Concrete, abstract, prose, impossible to describe - we want to see it all. Details at slipsslips.net. Spread the word!
In this week's profile flashback, get to know @nycavri.bsky.social: an American raised in England, a published designer of board games, and a writer across mediums whose work has received acclaim from no less than crime writer Lawrence Block. slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...
IT HAPPENED TO ME: I was nearly a "bicentennial baby." My new Jeff Stream post collects 50 fragments of what went on in my head over the past week as my 50th birthday coincided with the nation's 250th. Neither of us come off well. Read all about it at jeffisawesome.substack.com/p/bicentenni...
Bicentennial Baby Bust
50 fragments to mark as many years
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Upcoming event: We're partnering with the Flatbush branch of @bklynlibrary.bsky.social on something reckless and exciting: Creating and printing a creative newspaper from scratch in 90 minutes! Brooklyn Public Library Flatbush Thu 7/23, 6-7:30pm RSVP: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/let...
Get the full report on our recent Rush-Hour Literary Happening with @datavandals.bsky.social - two hours of creative commotion on a sweltering summertime subway platform: slipsslips.substack.com/p/sweaty-swa...
Sweaty Swarming Subway Series
slips slips goes underground
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Whether you're in NYC or abroad, tune in tonight to see how this weird experiment turns out! A dozen readers, free copies for all! Meet us at @datavandals.bsky.social newsstand gallery on downtown 6 train platform at 51st & Lex, or check out the streaming link: www.youtube.com/@DataVandals...
“MAKE WRITING HURT AGAIN,” proclaims the website of two-time slips slips contributor @kawaishen.bsky.social. She's similarly uncompromising when answering questions for our newsletter profile - if we want to make change, it's gonna hurt a bit. slipsslips.substack.com/p/contributo...
@emenez2.bsky.social is the subject of the latest contributor profile in our newsletter, blips blips. We promise you will never in a million years guess what piece of advice she is referring to in the quote here. See her answers to all our impertinent questions at slipsslips.substack.com
We're hosting a rush-hour takeover of the @datavandals.bsky.social Newsstand, an art gallery in the NYC subway system! Drop by to pick up a free copy and listen to some great amid with the bustle of Manhattan. Downtown 6 train platform at 51st St. Fri 6/26, 7-9pm partiful.com/e/Yu1jT93eIL...?
I don't go to galleries as often as I should, but why else am I paying to take this city's crap? When I do go, there's lots of great stuff. These three commanding images represent the three commanding women who created them, all of whom currently have work on display in Chelsea. I wrote about them!
Three Sisters
A triple glimpse at some vigorous visions
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Our first (late) live event celebrating slips slips #2! Come join us in NYC (limited seating, hit us up for deets!) or live online for readings and presentations from more than a dozen of our NYC contributors around the theme of "Dialogues." Sun 6/7, 2pm. Streaming link: vimeo.com/event/597350...
Our newsletter today provides some background and insight on why we chose "Distractions" as the theme of our upcoming third issue. Submissions are open through the summer, so read on to learn more about what we're looking for and how to send us your short-form written or visual work!
Driven to Distraction
Submissions are officially open for slips slips #3
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I edit this rag, and we're looking for submissions for our third issue. The way the slides appear here on Bluesky is distracting, but I've decided that's more feature than bug.
slips slips@slipsslips.bsky.social · 2mo agoSubmissions for slips slips #3 are open through the summer! Creators of all stripes, please send us your short-form written or visual work of any sort, on the theme of.... um... uh... DISTRACTIONS. Reach out if you have any questions, and, you know, we'll try not to forget to answer.
I finally did it—I wrote about AI. My conclusions won't surprise you, but maybe you'll enjoy how I got there, through a look at computers in old movies. Also thew some Luddite history, Romantic poetry, and systems art in there for the intellectuals. jeffisawesome.substack.com/p/movie-comp...
Movie Computers and the Art of the Evitable
I guess I'm finally writing a post about AI
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Thrilled to have a short comic about my pen-pal days published in @pencilmagazine.bsky.social #3: The Letter Writing Issue. I also put a call for new correspondents in @slipsslips.bsky.social #2, as it turns out I greatly miss writing letters. If it sounds interesting, why not drop me a line?
This week, I unwisely wade into the latest kid-lit controversy, but really it's an excuse to share praise for some contemporary picture books that I especially enjoy. Plus I drew a picture of myself with a large head. See what the hell I'm talking about at jeffisawesome.substack.com/p/why-arent-...
Why Aren't You Reading These Books???
I mean, if only for the gossip and controversy?
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This week, I write about the tremendous treasures I handled at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair; an encounter with legendary animator Bill Plympton; and how I stopped worrying about birdwatching and learned to love the sky. Give it a read at jeffisawesome.substack.com/p/remarkable...
Remarkable Things I Can't Afford
Beautiful antiquarian books, but also the sky itself (with a cartoon detour)
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To the three people following me here: What are you doing? The action is over at my newsletter, The Jeff Stream, which I'm reviving as a commonplace book of things seen, read, enjoyed, and pondered - sort of like a long-form Bluesky (clamored no one ever). jeffisawesome.substack.com/p/a-bunch-of...
A Bunch of Stuff You Didn't Exactly Ask for, But Here It Is Anyway
A new phase for The Jeff Stream?
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Wanna read a long-form interview about my love of vintage children's picture books? You're in luck! Thank you to "normal about it" for asking me to expound on the power of color and line, the intermingling of craft and nostalgia, and how adults can benefit from revisiting their literary roots...
Here we are at the opening party for the @datavandals.bsky.social subway newsstand/gallery, where you can pick up a copy of slips slips! (It's also just awesome in general.) We're doing a second print run, so if you want one, visit the station, snoop around your local shops, or just let me know!
Always a good week when this arrives in the mail. Congratulations to @jeffisawesome.bsky.social @hopacita.bsky.social and everyone who contributed to the new issue of "slips slips." I am so looking forward to diving into this.
I have two new poems in Issue #2 of slips slips—this one features midlife dating and both members of my writing group, @nematode.bsky.social and @jgriffingraham.bsky.social 💜 “it's a play in a wooden O; a cypher; we are but the players, filling it an hour, short as spring, lush and too beautiful”
The new SLIPS SLIPS has arrived! I will be running some over to Beer Study and Golden Fig Books in Durham today—find yourself a copy of this awesome paper filled with comics and interviews and stories and POEMS!
