franco luís
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Reading can be such a wonderful generative thing when you let go of any ideas about what you should read or what you should want to read, and go instead to what draws your interest and maybe even more so, your joy
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Dear god it’s Franco please forgive me for eating 3 breakfast sandwiches today on my day of travel
about 20 hours ago
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Waiting to read those gigantic Robert Caro books about Lyndon B Johnson until i die
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Guy who says “sucked out” when he means to say “sought out”
4 days ago
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Cool Guy Blaine
5 days ago
I didn’t watch 4 movies this week. I’m a failure.
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Janet Garcia
7 days ago
Me rereading my own writing nodding in agreement.
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aid*n
9 days ago
willa cather
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Misheard “I hate to lose” as “I hate Deleuze”
7 days ago
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Just discovered Borges described Kafka’s work as “a parable or a series of parables whose theme is the moral relation of the individual with god and with his incomprehensible universe” my god what a bar
10 days ago
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You should cancel your Sunday plans to read the warm, picaresque fiction of charles portis
10 days ago
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Ate 1 bagel and 1.5 croissants today
11 days ago
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Rachel Deering
11 days ago
‘I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalm’d darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine…’ ~ Keats for
#BookWormSat
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Wake up babe we’re going back to Detroit for game 7
12 days ago
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“Duncan Robinson the pride of Williams College”
12 days ago
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lindsey adler
12 days ago
nobody ever talks about how difficult it is to have a close friend who is a boston sports fan
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My Year of Reading Books on the Train
12 days ago
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Sorry man I can’t hang out on Sunday I have to fall asleep watching old episodes of Psych
17 days ago
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Turns out in Virginia libraries are open on Sunday so if any of you need me I’ll be there
17 days ago
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Instead of arguing with your spouse you should just go get some sandwiches together (And if you don’t have a spouse just replace that word with whatever you’re arguing with)
18 days ago
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My good friend Don Quixote
18 days ago
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I recommend using the freedom app to block YouTube after 9pm and then looking longingly at the YouTube app which you cannot open til tomorrow, a friend who has had to say good night, see you in a day or so
19 days ago
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Watching Michael Mann masterpiece HEAT this evening with best friend who has never seen it— the male cinephile’s dream
24 days ago
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Go Valkyries!!!
25 days ago
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I hate my favorite basketball team the golden state warriors
over 1 year ago
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Hail Mary round 2 because my soul needed it
about 1 month ago
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little lamb
about 1 month ago
When I was growing up there was a radio station that would just play the audio of Saturday morning cartoons and I would listen to it and pretend I was watching tv
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Want to read the new Ben Lerner but I read it in my dream last night and it was absolutely amazing and I’m afraid the one real Ben Lerner wrote won’t be as good as the one dream Ben Lerner wrote
about 1 month ago
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You should call out of work to read the spirited short stories of Willa Cather
about 1 month ago
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vineyille
about 1 month ago
Until we start charging $7.99 a month to look at it, we will never unlock the full potential of The Moon
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Really enjoyed Bait. It was a little insane and funny and oddly comforting. Really hoping for a season 2.
about 1 month ago
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My wife made a colorful leash for the remote because we could not stop losing that shit
about 1 month ago
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Project Hail Mary was a beautiful film about a guy who doesn’t want to go to space. He just like me fr
about 1 month ago
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Getting the Sunday scaries in a headlock with an iced coffee and a book of short stories
about 1 month ago
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My afternoon Diet Coke is one of the great joys of my life. I look toward it, a bright, sweet spot on the horizon of my day, a small good thing in my life.
about 2 months ago
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Hoping nothing but the best and most beautiful for the great Moses Moody
about 2 months ago
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when I saw robert pattinson is in dune 3 I was like yeah makes sense he's one of the 4 guys who is in every movie now
about 2 months ago
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Everybody was right. This is amazing.
about 2 months ago
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mad at my step counter for not adding new steps to my count while I'm sitting down
2 months ago
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It's incredible when you realize you don't need to explain your life to everyone
3 months ago
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fun fact, the sunday scarries actually can't survive inside a movie theater
3 months ago
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Excited to watch the criterion channel on my phone tomorrow during my lunch break
4 months ago
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Did an outline for an article I’ve been thinking about. It’s sort of a productivity strategy type thing. But instead of doing more work, it’s a guide for how to watch more movies
4 months ago
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JP
4 months ago
I feel bizarrely comforted by the perpetuity of the Allstate disaster guy appearing in Allstate commercials. I hope he outlives me.
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Just shared this bud smith interview from a few years ago with a friend because it’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever read about making art
thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...
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Writer Bud Smith on putting in the work – The Creative Independent
Writer Bud Smith discusses getting involved, doing it yourself, and fully committing to your style.
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-bud-smith-on-putting-in-the-work/
4 months ago
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The time has come for me to start reading Intermezzo
4 months ago
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Coincidentally dressed like bob ferguson for rd 3 of my favorite film of last year— first time at Alamo Draft House!
4 months ago
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Shakespeare museum today
4 months ago
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we went to go see my boy Lincoln but I got hungry so didn’t get face to face time. will link up with him soon to connect and build
4 months ago
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So glad I’m not catholic anymore they woulda made me give up YouTube shorts for lent
4 months ago
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brad listi
4 months ago
you know how some people get really into wine? that's how i am with avocados.
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Dreamt last night that I was in the movie The Shining, and was terrified running around the hotel. But then I remembered The Shining was a novel written by Stephen king and a film directed by Stanley Kubrick, so I just left and was fine
4 months ago
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