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TV GUIDE

ISSUE 4, NOVEMBER 2024

CONTRIBUTORS

YOUR WEATHER FORECAST

Notes on this Earth and beyond.

May include: Zoom funerals, broken umbrellas, letters falling out of used books, Donald Rumsfeld, cousin death, the One Direction Brasil thing, the dodo, your MySpace messages, a hurricane named after you.

[9:00 AM]

From an Empty House

Julia Burgdorff

[9:30 AM]

My Husband

Emily Simon

SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS

Notes on make-believe.

May Include: Tweeting things that your kids said that kids would never fucking say, fweedom, taxes, playing doctor, Pretty Pretty Princess, losing track of character in role-play, Tucker's ghost friends.

[10:00 AM]

Four Velvet Stories

Kathleen MacKay

DAYTIME TELEVISION

Notes on the refuse of daily life.

May Include: changing filters, checking filters, ordering filters, filtering filters, opening filters, closing filters, shaking filters, shucking filters, fucking filters, FUCKING filters.

[11:00 AM]

Restaurant Fragments

Sofia Majstorovic

SOAP OPERAS

Notes on the dramatic.

May include: your mother, your mother's mother, your mother's mother's mother.

[12:00 PM]

Friday Night Lights

Steve Orth

[1:00 PM]

Monologue and Play Fragments

Nik Slackman

PAID PROGRAMMING

Notes on the things we're sold.

May include: bestsellers, the Instagram bike shorts that pucker in your ass crack, off-brand Ozempic, that satin leopard skirt from six years ago, candles.

[2:00 PM]

The Indifference of Heaven: Warren Zevon

Adam Nayman

FOOD NETWORK

Notes on the caloric.

May include: REAL Ozempic, gluten freedom, feeding your “second brain,” pooping worms, boycotting Starbucks, perfectly jammy hard-boiled eggs.

[3:00 PM]

Woebegone Is Not Getting Married Today

Claire Donato

SPORTSCENTER

Notes on the body in motion.

May include: sitting.

[4:00 PM]

Not My Birkenstocks

Claire Dougherty

[4:30 PM]

Sestina

S. Paul

5 O'CLOCK NEWS

Notes on the sensational.

May include: DOGE spiking, AOC taking pronouns out of her bio, Red 40, Tyson vs. Paul Live on Netflix, the price of eggs and milk.

[5:00 PM]

New Poetry

Anastasios Karnazes

TABLOID TALK SHOWS

Notes on intervention.

May include: telling on your sibling, telling on yourself, getting kicked out of bars during your cousin's Nashville bachelorette, finding out you're a buffer friend.

[7:00 PM]

Follow Me

Lena Redford

VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED

Notes on things of the past.

May include: everything by Ryan Petersen, those glass protectors that don't let you read your boyfriend's text messages, glucose, boofing, risking your life.

[11:00 PM]

Incontinence

Ryan Petersen