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So @essaydaily.bsky.social is doing our yearly Advent calendar this year and we have a few more spots if you'd like to write about visual media (games, movies, shows, anything visual is ok). Drop me/us a line.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Happy Columbo’s Day

Hatton, a sentient aerial view of a spilled bowl of soup, is the mascot for Tome City. The ingredients in the soup are local produce, and the spillage is in the shape of the city.

!!!GO BEAVS!!!

We're finally watching The Righteous Gemstones and it is the most South Carolina show I've ever seen...specifically Low Country AF Just caught a reference to PLUFF MUD, for godssake!

You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops...

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

SPRING forward into your writing goals and FALL in love with PDX during your stay at the 2025 Tin House General Fall Residency. The vibrant arts scene and dedicated writing time will give your manuscript just the boost it needs! Apply by April 7th: tinhouse.com/workshop/res...

I just sent the most Den Mother email to the grad students in my program who are heading to LA, expressing the same thing. Then I went to the store and bought myself protein bars and trail mix and tuna snack packs. #dontAWPhangry

Come experiment with me (and some AMAZING guests) this May! I promise to look much older than I do in the photo below!

FRIDAY UPDATE: 1) They were playing "the Humpty Dance" at the convenience store and nobody wanted to do the dance with me. 2) My MarchXness essay from 2019's Goth tournament gets the Second Chanceness treatment today! I've been loving reading everyone's work so far this March.

Good morning; time to cry...

Nuthin' says March 1 like the kickoff of an Xness enterprise! And this is the best anthology title ever. Give @marchxness.bsky.social a follow to join in on all the music writing chatter!

"Renata Adler wrote, 'It’s perfect, you, Lorne, a legacy for Lillian,' a cryptic reference possibly to longtime New Yorker writer Lillian Ross." Oh, to be in such company on a runaway reply-all train. nymag.com/intelligence...

We're talking about these Bohemian wonders on this week's LiveWire...you know who doesn't have to wait around for zone permits? BEAVERS.

Sorry to Elvis-splain on Superbowl Sabbath, but... americansongwriter.com/the-meaning-...

David and I went through a car wash while a Disco song played on the radio, which is, I believe, the middle aged version of clubbing.

I read this one immediately after blacking out on ebay looking for calendars from 1986 to hang on my wall in 2025 (the dates match up)...needless to say, it hit home.

for the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar, I wrote about our greatest living Santa Claus impersonator: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...

So happy to have an essay on (purportedly) bad Elvis movie songs in this year's Oxford American Music issue! I'll link a few of my fave awesome/awful tunes below.

Icelandic dogs be like bjark

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Happy Wisdom the Albatross Returns to Midway Island Day to all who celebrate! Welcome home to this septagenarian superstar.