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For whatever reason I'm seeing more Arizona slander than usual on the timeline & I just want you all to know that it only makes us desert rats stronger.

"What if we had to live, remembering? Would we do something different if we knew we’d have to live alongside ghosts?" —Katherine Larson, "Haunted Household Objects"

New feature on @richard-siken.bsky.social's newest book which is arguably essays! open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

Mighta did a thing : thediagram.com/merch/produc...

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the one trick mods don’t want you to know

Good work @housleydave.bsky.social and @tmcallister.bsky.social

Hi y'all!! Still super pleased with how this came out, would love to see it on some folks walls!

Two new Tucson Essay Club stickers for you in the shop: tucsonessayclub.org/store/

Come join us and Manuel Muñoz tonight at Casa Video 8pm for Tucson Essay Movie Club, featuring 1975's Dog Day Afternoon. These events are primarily social, a writer introducing a movie that excites them with a brief essay, and we all watch it together.

in these troubled times let’s also review some vital self-defense tactics

Cosigned

Ok so 2004's Cellular is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, particularly considering the stellar cast. SO MUCH casual misogyny! So much depends on the technology of the newish-then cellphone. But credit's due for a clever credit sequence, soundtracked by "Sinnerman."

DAMN THIS ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF IS HITTING: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpMH...

top tier

"Untastables (Fictional Chips)" now up in the Tiny Cabinet. Let’s Potato Chips, Community, 2009 Potato Crisps, Fallout 4, 2015 Potato Chips, Control, 2019 Zalgitos, Omega Mart, 2021 Judy’s Potato Chips, Open Roads, 2024 MAI** Potato Chips, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, 2025

I'm into this essay by Eliot Hagyard just out in @villaineralit.bsky.social: villaineralit.com/2025/08/12/l...

I have a spoiler-y take on Eddington that I am dying to post but don't want to be a jerk so just let me say: Eddington is set during the pandemic but it is ABOUT a data center coming to a town where everyone is constantly using data to terrify themselves and others, it is actually a horror movie.

Thank you Tucson! Project Blue struck down by City and all of YOU! @nodesertdatacenter.com Let’s keep up the good work.

Not sure where this will go next, but this is excellent, excellent news. So many Ls lately, so going to celebrate the fact that the city council has committed to safeguarding the desert aquifers from Amazon's predations. azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer. As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free. Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

only one cat can possess The Box

Worried about the move from libraries owning books to just renting temporary access to eBooks? @MariaBustillos.com & the Brick House team have launched BRIET, inviting publishers to sell, not license, eBooks to libraries! More ⤵️ www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... @ftrain.bsky.social

New post up for Club Members only on substack. The Aug 3 Social (6pm at Reilly Beer Garden after the Katherine Larson book release at Club Congress) is open to anyone. open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

Weird moon/cloud combination last night

ESPN's tribute to Ryne Sandberg

Ryne Sandberg was my favorite player. Tonight, as I sat in my office under a couple of his cards and a faded yellow postcard of his HOF plaque, I worked to post his Chicago Tribune obituary, remembrances and photos. It was sad and surreal, but it is an honor to have played a part in this work.

An excerpt from MOTHER OF METHADONE by @melodyglenn.bsky.social and an interview with the author over at the Tucson Essay Club substack: tucsonessayclub.substack.com/p/mother-of-...

That's the field. Some observations on the unpicked songs in the @marchxness longlist (1/2): Sarah McLachlan: wow unpicked Alice in Chains?? Toni Braxton's Unbreak My Heart??? Garth Brooks? The Cure? Live's "Lightning Crashes"? Magnetic Fields? Pearl Jam?? Radiohead??

So here is your 64 lottery picks with their song choices updated as they come in. Congratulations to those who got lucky in the lottery this year! Those who didn't: pitch us EXTRACURRICULARS! We start running essays in September/October. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Tucsonans consider signing up for the free or paid options with @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social to keep in touch? This is a great essay by Katherine Larson. Pick up her new book Wedding of the Foxes too now from @milkweededitions.bsky.social

Fine, @leahmensch.bsky.social: tucsonessayclub.org/product/i-to...

preserving my best cohost post before they shut the lights off

Hey there, so I'm starting up a new project, Tucson Essay Club / @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social. We have a substack (our primary mode of publication). If you're connected to or curious about Tucson & literary nonfiction or just like clubs, come and join us: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

Strong rec to back/preorder this project y'all

Send us work! Deadline tomorrow!

Not a joke: there is a new Commodore 64 coming out. “The glowing, translucent Commodore 64 isn’t a software emulator — it’s the first official C64 in over 30 years, with a few new tricks.” You can preorder now & cancel before shipping for a full refund. (via @ernie.tedium.co) [commodore.net]

“Poems are the impossibility of plainness rendered in plainest form.” —Susan Howe

Hey @ninamarie.bsky.social I'm digging Lost Records: Bloom & Rage a lot, and was delighted to figure out that it's set in Upper Michigan, about 15 minutes from where I grew up. I'm really curious about that choice. Would you be up for a conversation about that?

hey @jessastraea.bsky.social pinging you here to talk Mass Effect mods with you but your DMs are closed. Wanna open them up so we can talk?

"Thinking is willing you are wild / to the weave not to material itself" —Susan Howe, The Midnight

Every writer who loves music should enter the lottery, it's the best

Quick reminder that if you want to put your name into the 2026 March Sadness 1990s Edition Lottery, do it in the next week. Here's the form to do so: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I could fight about the Alien franchise literally all day so I will limit myself to pointing out that this ranking pretty much redeems what has been called my second worst pop culture take, which is that Prometheus was good, actually

Fuck yeah 45 Grave representation

Mark Snow, ‘X-Files,’ ‘Ghost Whisperer,’ ‘Blue Bloods’ Composer, Dies at 78 variety.com/2025/artisan... cc: @sarahkendzior.bsky.social