Veni vidi vici. Writer of all, master of none, editor, prof, traveler, journo, sweet tooth, MA/MFA/INFP/IDK, chaotic good, scared of people. Opinions my own.
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“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"
2008 has entered the chat.
BREAKING: Silicon Valley Bank is closed by California regulators. It's the first FDIC-insured bank to fail this year trib.al/YoNLa5h
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Three cheers to @AbbottNews for giving out covid tests, hand sanitizer, and Pedialyte as their #CES2023 swag! #wellplayed
‘Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball,
The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,
The farcèd title running fore the king,
The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp
That beats upon the high shore of this world...
W.S.
The blurb:
"Sparks fly when a confirmed bachelor and a woman with a heart of maggots take to the road on a speaking tour that will leave them both wondering: Who's conning whom?"
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, via a spokesperson, confirmed to The Daily Beast that far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is now an intern in her D.C. office.
thedailybeast.com/milo-yiann…
"Remember! Only YOU can prevent forest fires" was an awful lot of responsibility to dump on a kid who already took responsibility for everything.
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Costco free sample guy eyed me up and down and yelled: "You obviously work out a lot, so you should definitely sample my baked scalloped potatoes with real milk, butter, sour cream, and cheddar cheese. They're full of protein and oh so healthy, Miss!"
Who was scamming whom?
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Turned on The Other Boleyn Girl expecting some background schlock and within five minutes I'm blessed with not only Mark Rylance (my fave actor) but Kristin Scott Thomas, Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, AND a Peter Morgan screenplay?!?
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"When we say college students can’t write, it usually means they are unfamiliar with academic writing... Lack of familiarity and lack of practice are confused for lack of ability."
publicbooks.org/john-warner-… via @publicbooks
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Packed #AWP22 house for a cathartic panel on the stigmas and romanticism of mental illness in literary culture by @lizharmer, @c00kc0, @Ashley_E_Best, and @Hollay2 ... 10/10 would recommend
Help, AWP people! I'm too out of practice with small talk and dining etiquette and post-2020 fashion and packing and dancing and layering for East Coast early spring and and and yet I'm going??
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My life in a nutshell: One of my students is doing a history presentation about an old company named Yahoo 💀
#overheardoncampus: "The professor said we had to do our presentation on something that literally everybody has experienced, so I'm doing mine about how embarrassing it is to go to champagne brunch with your parents."
"Good idea!"
"Yeah, that's totally universal."
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Candice just doesn't know, you know? retweeted
if I haven’t responded to your email within seven years, just know that I’m still thinking about it and paralyzed with guilt
Candice just doesn't know, you know? retweeted
oh oh oh have y'all read this sentimentalgarbage.substack.…
"Thanks to her embrace of the first-person, Didion has long offered something of a model for the generation of writers who have come of age writing online. She, too, wrote prose yoked to a public persona; she, too, took her subjectivity as a starting point..." (1/2)
"...What's changed, of course, is the sense of remove — Didion’s commitment to the posture of an observer, in contrast to many of her heirs’ sense of themselves as directly engaged advocates."
thecut.com/2021/12/joan-didi…
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