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@BackTheBunny no but wallet chains were attached to wallets

Gen X’s rebellion was mohawks, weird music videos, wallet chains attached to nothing, goatees, frosted tips, eyebrow rings, tribal tattoos with no meaning, Doc Martens while watching Little Nicky, and the Limp Bizkit–fication of the societal commons. Millennials’ rebellion was putting “bitch ass no fucks given I’m a coffeeslut” in TV shows and merchandise, therapyspeak plant moms, Harry Potter as personality, trauma as personality, whore as personality, fat as personality, woman as personality, and chungus “adulting” with “edison bulbs.”

@KeruboSk i would prefer not to

And after a while you just stop. You stop watering your plants. You stop watching netflix. You stop reading. You stop replying to your friends as fast as you used to. You stop buying yourself nice things. You stop putting an effort into how you look. You stop taking care of yourself like you used to. You stop sleeping. You stop eating healthy foods. You stop petting your dog. You stop socializing. You stop with everything. You find yourself sitting in your room for hours on end, without doing a single thing. Days feel like years. And you wonder how long you can keep doing this.

Wrote a story for The Prairie Review. you can read it! nothing to do with war or global politics. just a man, a man and another man and an orange and a bus

@wesyang A good-faith deep dive will lead you to Tracey

I haven't done a deep dive, but one senses that while the global pedo sex trafficking and blackmail ring theories are overblown, the corrective to this from Tracey and the other Epstein skeptics also overshoots the mark. What one needs is a scrupulous, non-partisan account of what is and isn't true untouched by any political or personal agenda -- partiality to a cause, contrarianism, etc. -- that I'm not sure anyone is providing. If someone is, let me know who

but anyone can be a schlemiel

Seinfeld is made of schlemiels, schlimazls, schnorrers, putzes, schmucks, schmendricks, noodniks, kvetchers, kbitzers, schnorrers, alterkakers, etc -- yiddish descriptive categories that formed the basis for "jewish comedy" and so the basis for much american comedy

@FoodProfessor ah! I've been complaining about the use of metric AND imperial in grocery pricing for years! not insurmountable, but an irritating trick

One reader sent me these pictures. I hate this. Grapes advertised in imperial at $3.89/lb in big numbers, but charged $11.00/kg at the till — roughly 25% more. Please check your receipts. Under the Scanning Code of Practice, you can get these grapes for free when the scanned price is higher than the shelf price. Most grocers adhere to it.

@OiseauDeGuerre @CSandbatch growth of the soil might count as perfect

@CSandbatch Have you read any Knut Hamsun?

Alright alright. The list of *perfect* novels. I'm sure your nearly perfect novel has an argument for being on the list. But there are the "made in a lab" perfect ones. Wuthering Heights Frankenstein Bleak House Portrait of a Lady Moby Dick The Scarlett Letter Middlemarch Heart of Darkness Absalom, Absalom

@erikmbaker -upstream color -another earth

Apropos of nothing in particular I've become interested in films where a kind of abstract cosmic wrongness gradually reveals itself... what else belongs here?

@tmiscorpio @Jasonmorin116 @ctvwinnipeg government money bails put the corporation when it loses money. from the canada post corporation act:

@Jasonmorin116 @ctvwinnipeg Nope. No taxes pay their salaries. Most of them have post secondary education. Canada Post was told 2 years ago they would strike in November and better get it done. CP was surprised Gov didn’t force them back to work. CP mgt fucked up.

Postal workers union files unfair labour practice complaint over Canada Post layoffs ctvnews.ca/business/posta…

a short speech about art: open.substack.com/pub/minimeat/p…

USRofC Prize reading: What happens when we begin spending more time immersed in the ephemera of the Internet than in reality? And how could this be represented in literature? Norma by Sarah Mintz is the answer. @invisibooks @USRofC #usrofc

The incomparable Sarah Mintz (@SarahFohno) joined Tim Blackett on his literary podcast to discuss NORMA and Handwringers. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/tim…

“There was the sound of the sky, did you know that the sky made a sound? You don’t know until it doesn’t, I bet.” Read three short stories by Sarah Mintz (@SarahFohno): relegationbooks.com/article/three-…

A new review of @SarahFohno’s NORMA, full of "gorgeous, evocative prose," in the @WinnipegNews. winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/…

Read an excerpt from NORMA (@Invisibooks), the new and exciting novel from Sarah Mintz. Free to our readers right now on Open Book! #AmReading #Novel #Excerpt #BookTwt open-book.ca/News/Read-an-E…

“Mintz is able to balance a clear-eyed, almost ruthless narrative precision with a voluble subtextual empathy. It’s a delicate feat and results in a powerful, destabilizing examination of loss, age and the darkness that—potentially—awaits us all.” thestar.com/entertainment/…

One helluva (read: luxuriously long) review for Sarah Mintz's NORMA in the @VancouverSun. NORMA is available wherever you buy books. vancouversun.com/entertainment/…

“Marred, rambling, incomplete, and terminally misguided, Norma captivates on the page”: reviewing NORMA by Sarah Mintz… vancouversun.com/entertainment/…