Who says we can't have it all????

Stuart Pecans would be a top tier writer name if anyone's in the market

Terminally online thought I had: it would work shockingly well if Marcus the Worm said some Curtis Sliwa quotes

My son is repeatedly asking to go to "the dark McDonald's" and I have no idea what he's talking about

I have such a soft spot for Paradise Lost as a lapsed early modern scholar -- really interested in this lens of it

She saw we all suffered from a deficiency

i would add both of @cameronbarnett.bsky.social's books!

Bluesky is not great at threading, but this is where i'm making my of recommendations about poetry from pennsylvania 😇🤩 please let me know what i've missed, i love to feel fomo

I had some roasted butternut squash on grits with mole yesterday bc Asheville is wilding, and now I apparently love butternut again

I can recommend you a shitton of great poetry coming out of PA instead

Great interview, I can't wait to read this memoir

The casting in Gone Girl is immaculate. Also so many Affleck shots could be the Affleck meme

Me, looking reverently up at the night sky, in a hushed, awed tone: "Goodness gracious great balls of fire"

Richest nation in human history

Lorraine really is that girl

Maybe I've said this before but whenever "Itsy Bitsy Spider" comes on I hear the lyrics as "Down came Lorraine and washed the spider out" and now I have a whole mythology in my head for Lorraine's spider wash service

Does anybody know of a good resource (course etc) for writing biographical fiction specifically

Enrolling my daughter in martial arts is a concrete way I am allowing myself to think about the future

Tfw you're experiencing democratic optimism

HELL YEAH NYC

So excited for Todd's first review on Zona!

The goat

Wow Joyelle McSweeney was on jeopardy tonight!

The continued engagement with this confession means I have to share. Do I quote myself? Very well then I quote myself

When I find out that artists are also parents they become infinitely more interesting to me

It's BAKED POTATO NIGHT again and it will be again and again

Parenting is hard but worth it because

What is the tipping point when "Wouldn't It Be Nice" stops being about looking forward to the future and starts to be about the grave

If I were a parent in the 90s, I would never go on the Ricki Lake Show episode "Turn my goth teen into a beauty queen!" I would simply say good job sweetie, pursue your dreams

So many ppl who have money also have no culture except for programmed capitalist demand fulfillment. They're like "what if we used AI to finally know what the Monster Mash sounded like???" You absolute clown. The pleasure is in not knowing

Pumpkin recipes are always like "pumpkin is so full of flavor!" .... Is it?

Elinor finally made taylor swift interesting

The coworking space is playing so many 2010s hits. I'm trying to compose emails, not smoke parliaments in my liquid gold American Apparel leggings thanks

I love to eat dinner with my husband but sometimes he's busy and so then I just simply focus on my soup (positive)

We call those people mayonnaysayers

This Halloween, trick or treat the rich

The moment of cutting into a perfect baked potato. The peel giving; the puff of steam. Nearly pornographic

Poetry prompt

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

NO

How do you search for bloglike content on a search engine these days? It used to be possible to search for "xyz review" and then find people's blogs but now it's all pinterest and shopping sites. I absolutely love the blog format and want more of it; am willing to give up my clicks so please advise

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Acrobat wants me to use its AI assistant to summarize the document I'm reading, but it so happens I'm reading the draft of an unpublished novel and it would seem sacrilegious for the computer to know the plot before I, a human, do

Inspiring

I had a dream that I did a poetry reading, but then immediately after the reading couldn't remember any of it, like I blacked out during the reading itself. Brain setting up the scaffolding only for there to be no building at all

"What radicalized you" idk, life??

The three are animal, vegetable, and mineral magnetism

When you read the headline “jewelry heist at the Louvre” / When you read the article about how they did it

Bench press with back arch