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Things I won’t apologize for: 1. Loving both New Order and Peter Hook & The Light. 2. Loving Roger Waters’ contributions to music. 3. Loving Morrissey. All of him.

@KatiesDisorder @Juliebirch1210 Will do. 🤗 And same.

@Bus_stop_ratbag @Juliebirch1210 If you see us come and say Hi 👋 ☺️ would love to meet you in person.

@Juliebirch1210 It was great to see you yesterday roll on #Manchester in June. 💛🎶

@KatiesDisorder @Juliebirch1210 Oh man! Hope I get to see you irl. I am super shy, but I will have a few in me I'm sure, so I should be a good time! 🤣

@Bus_stop_ratbag @Juliebirch1210 😀👌🖤🎸

Ladies, marry this guy. I promise you, it will be worth it. (If he were a Karamazov, he would be Alyosha)

It’s strange, no one can give you permission to be a writer, but everyone seems to have opinions once you try. #WritingCommunity

Okay, here's a few. I'm done now.

My roommate from college still sends me a text every time she hears Last Nite in the wild. I must've been insufferable. Ha!

From about 2001-2012, I was the biggest Strokes fan. Saw them 5+ times in concert, rang in the New Year with them in '03 in Vegas. This comeback is strange for me. Not sure if I'm having an "I won't share you" Morrissey moment, or if the nostalgia is too much, but I can't watch.

@helloforeverwn Beautiful!

Idont know what the hell im doing #oc

@MCCCANM Made me cry this morning. She had dignity and strength in her dying because of you. Such a gift to give in the scariest of times, especially knowing she left behind her children. Hopefully, your reward for loving her so well 'til death will be something for you. You deserve it.

OK, I’m intoxicated. No need to worry about your pilot being drunk…that’s a sacred thing & crews will call it out ASAP, before you board & could notice. It’s rigid. I would call someone else out in a heartbeat & wouldn’t think of flying drunk. I now have many hours before I’d have to technically stop drinking to meet the FAA requirements , but I’m done now. So I have thoughts. I think it takes a long time for me to absorb things. I miss her. Taking her was like throwing salt on an insult added by injury. Staying with her was a good thing. I don’t think I could live with myself if I’d left when it was clear she was going to be dead, even if it was going to take a few years. Still not sure how I feel about Dad dying last year. Complicated, but that’s another subject that intertwines. Laying beside her was kind of like committing yourself to laying in a mausoleum. There was a chemical smell that permeated everything while she could barely muster the energy to turn over in bed. It was not her fault at all…I laid beside her regardless & was happy to do so. I hope she didn’t feel embarrassed – she was the height of fashion at our peak, and she was smoking hot. In retrospect, I’d put my hand on her belly & joke about how she could fry an egg,..that kind of ended up being where the cancer was. There was not much conversation in the end, but I tried to be beside her. She fought for her dignity & self-reliance *way* past what the doctors & nurses recommended. She succeeded. She died at home, surrounded by family & friends. I won’t rehash it, but I hope I can do the same someday. I just hope it’s sudden & painless. She didn’t have that good fortune. I’m drunk. I’ll be well past sober when it’s time to fly again. But for now my life is entirely for my kids, which is good, but I’d like something for me, too. I’m cynical as they come, but she was good & was supposed to be for me. She was my prize for emerging from the depths, but she passed & there is now nothing for me. If that is to be, I accept it & will give everything for my kids. Anyway, I’m drunk & you should not give any of this weight. I’m going to sleep in a Hawaii hotel room way before the FAA or airline booze limits become a factor. I’ll wake up, compartmentalize it all & operate at an elite level. That is what I do.

Breaking news: I have a new poem in Spectra Poets, and you are welcome to read it. Here: spectrapoets.org/In-Range-by-Jo…

Wow. Haven't seen this one before. @KCMANC I believe this is yours. Wowza.

Hey! Stop doom scrolling for a moment. Read a poem instead. I have a new poem in @spectrapoets.

@jmasseypoet @spectrapoets It's beautiful, Joseph. I love it!

Okay, I have found something worse than group projects. Being the parent of a 10-year-old kid who has a group project over her Spring Break. Nightmare fuel. If I don't murder these kid's moms, it'll be a miracle.

It’s time for my annual marketing tweet in hope of convincing you to buy a print so that I don’t have to go and get a proper job. Also, I should mention I finally sorted out paying via PayPal, so you can now do that…if you loath debit cards or whatever. stuffbymark.co.uk/shop

#OnThisDay 1986 New Order's classic song 'Bizarre Love Triangle' was released on 7" by Factory Records. (Fac 163)

#OnThisDay 1984 New Order @ Saga Cinema, Copenhagen Ceremony, Dreams Never End, The Village, Sooner Than You Think,  Leave Me Alone, The Him, Ultraviolence, Hurt, Everything's Gone Green, Temptation, Blue Monday youtube.com/playlist?list=… 📸 Rene Thorslund Hyldig

I contend these four lines are the sexiest lyrics of all time.