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I’m now a druggist in 1950s Eastern North Carolina.

How many times can I watch Tenet before it leaves Netflix on the 31st?

North Carolina lost a great one today.

When Leo and I went to see Titanic, we were kind of bored with the story so about an hour in we started pounding on our armrests, whispering "Sink the boat!"

Thinking back on GI Joe, why didn't Dr. Mindbender wear a shirt? What kind of doctor was he? Was he providing medical care without a shirt on?

Today I learned that Tommy Tutone was a band and not a silly stage name for an individual artist. I am SHOOK.

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I have recognized that little fills me with rage as much as a professional who, in 2025, still does not know how Zoom works.

Oh my goodness! Read this. Literature for the win:

TONIGHT we ARRR in Durham!

You’ve got two chances to see the Gram-O-Rama: Word War III this year: Tuesday, December 2 at 7:00 pm in Coker 201 on UNC campus. Thursday, December 11 at 7:00 pm at Mettlesome Theater. (And stick around for ENGL 259’s performance at 8:15—an improv show by creative writing students!) FREE

Man, you gotta love a company whose automated phone tree sends you to the wrong department when you tell it what you need help with, then sends you back to the automated phone tree when well-meaning customer service folks in that dept. attempt to transfer you to the right place.

All profits from web sales of broadsides go to pay for the food at our House Party Reading Series. So not only will you have great art on your walls, you'll be feeding poets and prose writers.

This sale ends today. If you need some inexpensive books, now is your moment!

Do you love books? Do you love not paying a lot for them? @bullcitypress.com has its Black Friday sale on. When Friday's over, so's this sale.

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LOL, Steinbrenner is out here claiming the Yankees lose money. I DON'T THINK SO, HAL.

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Are you interested in learning improv comedy in the new year? I'm teaching a class and would love to have you there. thisismettlesome.com/lab-calendar...

A movie that takes place where you're from:

Just discovered TTSSFU. Am into it.

Just read through my journal from 2002, the year I was 27, and I was impossibly stupid. Then read through my poems from last month, and I remain impossibly stupid.

Krispy Kreme trucks have several signs on them that say "No cash on board, just fresh donuts," which does not make it any less likely that I will try to rob the truck and may, in fact, increase the likelihood

We know the publishing industry can feel like wandering a maze. If you're running into one dead end after another, our Mapping the Maze workshop is for you. The next edition is designed for creative nonfiction writers. Learn more and reserve your spot: at.pw.org/pomaze25

I need an app that notifies me when a band that was mildly popular in the 90s and has since fallen into obscurity released an album in 2022 and I missed it

Watching No Country for Old Men because it's spooky season. And Chiurgh is spooky as hell.

Friends, I’m honored to be the featured poet in the #newissue of #TheMissouriReview, a journal I’ve admired for decades. To read the rest of my poems + terrific work by #poets including #CampbellMcGrath & @kaicarlsonwee.bsky.social, consider buying the issue at secure.touchnet.net/C20067_ustor...

It's an afternoon with unfathomably sad news-- we've lost the greatest titan in American poetry. I think often of how to do work that would make her proud of me. I am grieving today but also just had a call with a young poet I believe in, which I hope honors Ellen's legacy. Thank you, EBV.

Last minute switch-up of the trivia rounds for tomorrow.

I designed a broadside for Cate Lycurgus with artwork from Wilmington artist Scott Walls. I love how it turned out.

Today’s poem is selected by Ross White (@rosswhite.com) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “Also Accidental” appeared in Licorice by Ellen C. Bush, published by Bull City Press, 2006. Purchase the book at https://bullcitypress.com/product/licorice/

Having Cate Lycurgus here this week has been such a joy... I hope you'll pack the house for her!

Does anybody know what Amazon is up to? After months of not purchasing any of our backlist titles, they’re now buying up all available stock of 1 to 3 different backlist titles each week. And their orders feel like unreasonable numbers given three-year sales on their site.

Meatspace friends: need an opinion. This new cartoon avatar of me... what do you think? Representative? Not at all? I kind of like it but I'm the last person who has a sense of how I really look.

This dude can read a poem. Love hearing him. You should peep the podcast.

The reason there's no "we rate cats" is that they all get at least 10/10 and the ones who think they deserve a higher rating will either scratch you or run away and hide all day.

I get sad when I see one of my longtime fave journals has come to its end, but I also try to celebrate two things: 1. Someone-- or many someones-- gave us a boatload of their time and attention to make that beautiful thing, and we were lucky to receive that gift as long as we did. (1/2)

I still believe a better life is possible.

Automated services that make you speak your social security number or some other personal information, with no option to enter by keypad, suck. Some people have to make calls when they don't have privacy, dummies!

So, which of his friends/family shorted Tylenol stock?

Need something to do tonight? Come play my trivia night at 8 pm at Rougarou on Henderson St. in Chapel Hill. Brand new teams start the night with some bonus points!

Just ordered $321 worth of postage. I am definitely living my best life.

If I'm being raptured tomorrow, I'm not doing this university-mandated IT security training.

I love the implication that we're all made of stardust and the recycled bits of the universe, but that means we're probably also partially composed of alien poop too.

There's simply no way.

Make books. Make journals. Make chapbooks and zines and pretty letters. Make papercraft. Make beautiful things with words. Let no one take that from you. Make words.

Chapel Hill! Do you like trivia? Do you care at all about SpongeBob? Tonight is your night, people. Grab a team and come to Rougarou for 8 pm trivia.