Miksimum

is the index page for Jesse Miksic,
a digital dilettante dayjobbing as a UX designer

Loyally feeding the following beasts:

(follow and/or friend me -- if you appear to be a real person capable of passing the human tests, I will probably reciprocate)

General

@miksimum on Twitter A random sampling of thoughts and anxieties and signal-boosts and self-promotion.

Verbal

Benefit of the Doubt My outlet for Media Theory, also used to track other sources

@Miksimum on Medium Home to more politics and theory writing, plus reposts from Benefit of the Doubt

Berfrois.com A great site that kindly publishes my more polished critical writings

366 Weird Movies An awesome site where I'm an on-and-off contributor

Goodreads My book reviews are long enough that I consider this an official creative outlet

Visual

@miksimum Tumblr Reposting all my visual art from Tumblr

@miksimum Instagram Visual art, plus occasional snapshots

Symbot on Flickr Digital photography, a hobby on temporary haitus

Overheated Media My short video work, on extended haitus since 2012

Scenes from a cabin #spring #textures #morninglight #stilllife...

Scenes from a cabin #spring #textures #morninglight #stilllife
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwn3Vw7Huyt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18sc73840px74

Posted on 24 April 2019 | 3:17 am

Croton Gorge just after the rainstorm #hudsonvalley (at Croton...

Croton Gorge just after the rainstorm #hudsonvalley (at Croton Gorge Park)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BwlSsbjnvus/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ouwz022zkcuu

Posted on 23 April 2019 | 3:18 am

New Poetry Online, April 2019

Some new poetry of mine has appeared this month:

Sam Neill Vs. the Abyss on Drunk Monkeys

For a while I was planning to write an essay on Sam Neill's presence in several apocalyptic horror films (for the record, it's In The Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon, and Possession). Eventually I decided to write it as a poem instead, and got to this version over several rounds of revision.

And guess whose approval it got?!? (a fine moment in the life of a poet!)

Thanks. I like it. Esp the last 2 lines.
— Sam Neill (@TwoPaddocks) April 3, 2019

Also, in Gravel Magazine, three of my favorite recent poems, which I submitted under the general title of "Sense Organs":

3 Poems by Jesse Miksic

I have a few more forthcoming: in June, poems in Whale Road Review and Liminality; in October, a group of four in Coffin Bell.

Thanks for following this little blog, all ye one or two readers. Happy Spring 2019!

Posted on 10 April 2019 | 4:41 pm

Silver sunset from the Peekskill riverside park - #bearmountain...

Silver sunset from the Peekskill riverside park - #bearmountain right of center
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvm7nQ9nTtR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1w22kw14fs041

Posted on 29 March 2019 | 10:03 pm

Afternoons at Blue Mountain Reserve are kinda our thing now (at...

Afternoons at Blue Mountain Reserve are kinda our thing now (at Peekskill, New York)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvVuqhKnUsF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=iuz983lzna14

Posted on 23 March 2019 | 5:43 am

It looks cold, down deep in dem clouds #winter2019...

It looks cold, down deep in dem clouds #winter2019 #bluemountainreserve (at Peekskill, New York)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvM2sU8H7tx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xib9xeah0fw6

Posted on 19 March 2019 | 7:00 pm

Thanks to Heron Tree for featuring my poem “A Crossing of Lines”...

Thanks to Heron Tree for featuring my poem “A Crossing of Lines” this week … https://herontree.com/miksic1/

(picture is from January, taken along the stretch of Depew Park that prompted it)

#poetry #peekskill #winter2019 (at Depew Park)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BurMvBJH1bz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13ob9edkfoez6

Posted on 6 March 2019 | 5:19 pm

Sun in the sky, ice on the walk, and a light rain just under our...

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Sun in the sky, ice on the walk, and a light rain just under our dogwood out back #winter2019 (at Peekskill, New York)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BuJZ8ntHi0C/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ga4c93nv4klv

Posted on 21 February 2019 | 2:23 pm

2018 in Consumption

(Acknowledgment: this post was written toward the end of 2018, but I held off on publishing it until now, because I wasn't sure how to frame it)

I pretty much devoted this year to poetry, didn’t I?

A lot of my consumption (readings and viewings) seem distant... like it’s already been more than a year, even since the most recent stuff.

BOOKS

I did manage to read the whole of Gregory Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind (review), which gave me several new tools for thinking, especially in separating a forest from its trees, or a metaphor from its content, or what have you.

Before that, it seems my only other reading was the stuff of nightmares and enigmas: Stephen King’s Insomnia, Cabin in the Woods by Paul Trembly, and a book-length study of Pu Songling’s ghost stories called Historian of the Strange (review).

Toward the end of the year, I also finished Craig Morgan Teicher's We Begin in Gladness, which was a wise and well-considered discussion of how poets unfold over the course of careers and lifetimes. I'll try to add a review eventually.

MOVIES

Movies? Again, I handed so many late nights over to poetry... but I managed to watch Tale of Tales just this month, and before that, Star Wars VIII, Slow West, American Fable, Babylon Berlin, and both seasons of Stranger Things.

My wife and I have also imbibed The Last Kingdom and The Great British Bake-Off, so I’ve scratched all sorts of different erogenous spots.

This has been a quick summary of my 2018 media consumption. At this point, I need to accept that this blog is pretty much entirely for my own benefit, but at least I have it recorded. Upcoming post: 2018 new work and publications. Happy January!

Posted on 17 January 2019 | 2:36 pm

Went through like 12 filters to realize there’s enough nostalgia in the photo already. Trying to add more just cheapens it. #arcade #arcadegames #arcadecabinet #classicgames #oldschool #coinmaster
https://www.instagram.com/p/Br_iFlvA2rF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1m6m4ncbwfoor

Posted on 30 December 2018 | 1:16 am