Featured in this installment of Quackisitions is a newtcomer on the scene, a new kid on the tock: J. Rob Darcel. This nonsense prankster and rapper, a student at Central Michigan University, is lighting the social media world up with his koan-like rap, his tapping into impossibilia and topsy-curvy quick cuts with an equanimous earnestness earning him a few nonsense laurels. Here is his one music video, “Don’t Make Sense” (2021), and check out his prank videos wherein he asks for nonsensical weasel patties and worm knuckles at drive-throughs and Wal-Marts. Check him out: Instagram: @jrobdarcel TikTok: @jrobdarcel Snapchat: @jalen_rob

And for our featured writer… Stephen Mitchell is a poet, translator, and anthologist, not usually known for nonsense–but our crack staff at Gromboolia have the goods: it may come as no surprise that much of his work is related to mystical spirituality, which he began studying in the early 1970s, connecting him to Alan Watts and G. K. Chesterton. His 2003 book The Wishing Bone and other poems (Candlewick) made a few waves in the syllabub sea, garnering the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award. See his poem, “The Answer,” a brilliant version of the wise nonsense fool figure