I’m Leaving Twitter/X
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I’m Leaving Twitter/X

Today I deleted all content from my X.com page (formerly Twitter). My motivation is not merely political, or in protest, though of course I am doing that. It's also because I have not been happy with the erosion of the site as a platform for public discourse for quite some time now, and both the newsfeed and the technology have become entirely unstable. The app only worked intermittently on my phone ever since the transition from Twitter to X. The site also deleted my newsletter (through its subsidiary "Revue" platform, which it canceled) after Elon Musk wrested ownership of the…
February 2, 2025Posted inArnzen News, Data+ErrataNo Comments
"The Dark Librarian" by Michael Arnzen (see flickr)
Posted inArnzen News Data+Errata Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems

The Goreletter Has Ended (and What’s Happening Now)

If you're reading this, you might be curious: what happened to your newsletter, Arnzen? When did you last send out The Goreletter? I clicked on a link to subscribe and it took me to a dead webpage. Is my subscription still valid? The instability of the internet strikes again. I am ending The Goreletter, as we know it. This website continues with sporadic updates about publications and events, and I've got some fresh ideas moving forward. But the newsletter is hereby retired. So here's what has been happening. The last issue was sent quite a while ago: in January 2022.…
May 23, 2024Posted inArnzen News, Data+Errata, Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems2 Comments
The Tale of the Horribly Bloated Souffle
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The Tale of the Horribly Bloated Souffle

Welcome to my 2021 website reboot! I apologize if you've come to gorelets.com and not found what you were hoping to find. The site is about twenty years old, and was getting very crusty with old content and dozens of broken links... and in mid-2020 collapsed like a horribly bloated and badly malformed soufflé. It's such a mess that I decided to restart from scratch. Lots to rebuild. Lots of new things to share with you. But for now you just have this little sticky note on the door of the kitchen, saying come back later when it's ready.
January 3, 2021Posted inData+Errata
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Goreletter 11.1 Mailed

The Goreletter Vol. 11, #1 was delivered to mailing list subscribers on 8/2/16 @ 3am est. If you didn't get yours, check your spam folder -- or re-enter your email address in the subscription page, or contact me. It contains extra material not available here on the weblog, including a new gorelets poem, information about upcoming books, prompts, and a discount code for subscribers only on any of my new audio albums now streaming at Bandcamp! Astoundingly, this is the 14th year that I've been publishing The Goreletter, which won the Bram Stoker Award (in the now-defunct category of "Alternative…
August 4, 2016Posted inData+Errata
Posted inData+Errata

Goreletter 10.2 Mailed

The Goreletter Vol. 10, #2 was delivered to mailing list subscribers on 12/29/15 @ 3pm est. It contains extra entertainment/material not available here on the weblog version, including a new gorelets poem, a mini year-in-review, information about upcoming events, a batch of "political" instigation prompts, and new art/photos. But most importantly, it contains news about the NEW YEAR'S EVE GRAND PRIZE GIVEAWAY in the currently running contest rally. If you subscribe to the Goreletter you can win a rare leatherbound, lettered edition of my fiction collection, Proverbs for Monsters. All you need to do is sign up for the newsletter…
December 30, 2015Posted inData+Errata