Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Terrance Hayes and his revision of poems between magazine and book publication

Former President Donald Trump “goes to eleven”:“This is Spinal Tap” in a political commentary

The similarities between men’s and women’s football – and one noticeable difference

References to the “weirdness” and “abnormality” of MAGA and the Right” from early 2024

Weird Beard’s excellent psychedelia at the Bird’s Eye Basel, 10 September 2024 (and again tonight, 11 September 2024)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Thing Around Your Neck” (2009) and xenophobic urban legends about immigrants eating pets and wild animals