My wife's essay on Nirvana's strange little nugget "Sappy" is up against Ani DiFranco's "You Had Time." One in a laundry room, the other in a fish tank, or maybe a Baskin-Robbins. You know what to do: marchxness.com#/sweet16-nir...

Who thought Nirvana would be an underdog? Woof!

This one’s gonna be tough. I don’t know if Nirvana can beat Ani DiFranco, so I wrote this little song about “You Had Time” in the style of “Sappy.” Enjoy, @marchxness.bsky.social fans, and vote your sad little hearts out. marchxness.com#/sweet16-nir...

This Mineral song is very sad! But any given Nirvana song is the saddest song in the room, I don't make the rules. marchxness.com/2ndround-min...

It’s librarian vs librarian today. Vote “Sappy” in @marchxness.bsky.social and you will be happy! marchxness.com#/2ndround-mi...

If you ever see me vote against Kurt, I've been hacked, but Jennifer Gravley's essay also might be my favorite: "Build a memorial to the voice of your generation through your midlife, medicated and screeching. Line the ground, the glass bottom, with grass from an untended graveyard which struggles."

Never thought it was possible to topple Sinead!

This, so much... "So many things in life aren’t on purpose. So much craft is instinctual, is punishing, is pushing its way through you. You are perpetually surprised by how old you’ve become. You never thought you’d." Thank you @jygravley.bsky.social

Every bit of @jygravley.bsky.social ’s “sappy” essay—the structure, the collegiate depression of a suicide spring, the exhaustion of what I’ve often called the suicide summer to myself—is just breathtaking. Man!

If you haven’t voted in this one, GET ON IT. Two great songs, and I came in thinking Sinead (which I have going far in my bracket), but @jygravley.bsky.social ‘s essay on “Sappy” knocked the wind out of me (to borrow @suburbanprairie.bsky.social’s phrase). SO GOOD, the structure, ideas, emotion.

Cobain's specifically ghostly figure in @jygravley.bsky.social's essay evokes something we've seen elsewhere in @marchxness.bsky.social: the weird power a voice has when the speaker/singer is gone. "The voice of your generation speaks from scattered ashes, from scratched technology, from the past."

My wife wrote a whole dang essay about Nirvana's 'Sappy' and ignored pretty much all my suggestions about what she should say! Celebrate her independence and vote her essay through to the next round: marchxness.com#/1stround-ni... @marchxness.bsky.social

Obsessed with the structure of Jennifer Gravley's essay. And so many gutpunch quotes. "In the end, the choice to live wasn’t a choice at all. You just kept waking up."

Vote “Sappy” by #nirvana in @marchxness.bsky.social by 9 am Pacific time. #ifyouvoteforme #thenyoullthinkyourehappy

Round 1, round 1, round 1, I'm beggin of you please don't take my man Listen, read, VOTE! marchxness.com#/1stround-ni...

Made my day!! 🥰🥰🥰

Vote for meeeee in @marchxness.bsky.social! Otherwise, I’m sure to lose by a landslide 😂 marchxness.com/1stround-nir...

I bring my own markers, scissors, and tape to the coffee shop. @marchxness.bsky.social essay coming soon!!

Two sets of Pink Pony Club earrings but only one piercing per ear. One of both?? (Also soooooo excited to see Pink Pony Club live tonight!!!)

She’s got, she’s got tix!!!

Excited as hell to write about this classic!

Cleaning out my parents’ house, I’ve somehow had to pick up both a disintegrating diaper from when my nephew was a baby and his condoms from his current bachelor lifestyle. No. Just no. One or the other—but dear god, not both.

Just fed my car a curb as a little treat. It’d been a few days.

So cool to see readers still finding this piece!

Earlier I apologized, out loud, to a pair of socks.

Just put a third tablespoon of syrup in my dirty soda because my little treat wasn’t treaty enough.

Our nonfiction story of the week is I Check Yes on Form CC-305 by Jennifer Gravley. @jygravley.bsky.social

Friend: your hair looks great! Me: I washed it!

@jygravley.bsky.social is my hero. Writers never stop! ✍️📚🖤

Okay, to help everyone make their BlueSky what they want it to be, here's a thread about feeds. What they are, how to find them, how to add them, how to pin them, what feeds to follow if you're a #writer, and how you can make your own 🥸 1/16

Am I the only Jennifer thrilled by today’s Connections?

Columbians, come out to Yellow Dog on October 10 for some fun, and maybe even grab a book if you want one!

If you want a copy of The Story I Told My Mother: Poems and an Essay, you can order now on Amazon. a.co/d/9YIBAHi If you want a signed copy, stay tuned for local and mail options!

Just another curly-headed morning with a bad haircut.

Doing exposure therapy for fear of heights: not fun and involves nature. Two strikes!!

Cover!

Just accidentally deleted every email on my "Promotions" tab. Terrible mistake I'll never recover from or immediate frolicking freedom???

When you order off the kids’ menu for your afternoon work sesh

Students love stickers!

Making a presentation to give college students about how to make friends as adults. Your best strategies? Or tips for overcoming anxiety about putting yourself out there?

Has @marchxness.bsky.social seen the rendition of “I Touch Myself” in Deadloch?

What a welcome!

Watching Jonathan Van Ness in the garden is so wholesome!

Women’s sizing in a nutshell: my top, S; my skirt, XL.

Only Murders question: is the white room a real theater thing???

Next incoming info: my dad set the stove on fire. Everyone is okay.

The most wonderful sentence from a student worker: schedule me for the hours no one else wants to work.

Back-to-school is going well. Told my coworker to get out her voodoo doll of me tonight and go to town because I know I annoyed the hell out of her today.

Feels pointless to shower and wash curly hair at night because it’ll just be a disaster again in the morning, but morning is . . . morning.

I invite all two followers to look at the full photo of my profile pic to see what happens when you get a haircut which is not the one you asked for and have curly hair and sleep.