@FranziaMom y'all need to be serious -- numerogroup.com/products/ohio-…
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The Mabbster
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The Mabbster
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profile pic of my shoe, in which our dear late cat puked one morning...
Katılım Temmuz 2014
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And that really is 3/4 of the Ohio Mt Rushmore straight up
𝔅𝔯𝔬𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔰𝔱 𝔬𝔣 ℜ𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔶@clevelandreaper
Ohio gave us Devo, Pere Ubu and Guided by Voices
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@prolpo She's a weird, interesting novelist who's been frank over the years about her poor mental health. Now she's having trouble. To my mind, the crits of her are mostly totally ableist.
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the last time i asked who someone was who everyone was talking about (when blake shelton was awarded sexiest man alive) I got in trouble--but here i go again: who is Helen Dewitt?
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@bartlebytaco When bedtime came, I'd take off my shoes, put on the coat, and lie down on the floor. I was 34. Executive dysfunction is real. And it can truly be horrible - it can make life very nearly unlivable. Or, as in the case of my brother, actually unlivable. He was 34, too.
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@bartlebytaco Read it. She sounds in more dire straits than I'd imagined from her tweets. // At my worst, I spent a whole winter sleeping fully clothed on the floor in a surplus Russian military greatcoat after my cat pissed on my futon & comforter. Couldn't figure out how to fix this.
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Kudos to Helen DeWitt for so exactly (and movingly imo) conveying what deep depression is really like. Life becomes just that stupidly impossible.
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@bartlebytaco I didn't, but - for reasons I'm sure you know - I've followed her mental health struggles for years.
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well, anyway, so far this is my favorite novel released in 2026 - nyrb.com/products/the-m…
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@bartlebytaco and another for poets in their late 50s without a degree or any money and every chance of becoming an alcoholic bum instead of an elder statesman
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they need to make an award for writers between the ages of 36 and 39, an incredibly cool age niche (and quite a bit leftist, to say nothing of the raw, erotic appeal), due to how often they're overlooked among the tadpoles and elder statesmen
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@sadarlo1 Her tweet attacking people for harassing Kamala Harris during her book tour is an all-timer!
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Probably a hidden blessing that some of the most brilliant, crystalline thinkers and makers on this hell site are not tenured. Because look at this minor mediocrity…her career/identity is serving up neoliberal group think identity politics slop that’s endemic in Asia America.
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@Giddhon1 @cathyparkhong she *is* a cop - she's just a liberal - remember her getting upset that people were harassing Kamala Harris on her book tour?
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@cathyparkhong It’s an absurd requirement and they shouldn’t have denied her the award. Why are you being a cop?
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I have respect for Dewitt’s work but for $175,000, I would figure out a way to access WiFi. The video requirement is also minimal. Now if she has a disability, that’s on wc to accommodate her. But if not, I’m not going to shed tears for a grown woman who made her decision.
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I just took an NYC taxi driven by someone who spoke literally no English and who had never heard of Penn Station.
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@bartlebytaco The Real Kids are my fave Boston band. So good! MoB great too, of course.
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great list though i would add john wiener's behind the state capitol
Rhys@OttoPivnerBFA
Top 3 Boston cultural exports (no order) 1. Mission of Burma 2. Good Will Hunting scene where he schools the frat bro 3. "It's fuckin hilarious right, the bars full"
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@2BridgesNYC god I loathe them -- you are among my few friends who agrees - even our old Waxi pals seem mostly to love this horrible band
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@bartlebytaco I co-wrote two Dr. Dog songs, both of which ended up in TV shows. That's good money!
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never discussed this publicly but i contributed to the writing of "electric eel" by mgmt and am not only uncredited, but i've never received royalties. i've considered taking legal action a few times but it would be too expensive and likely not worth it
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@naomirwolf The light source is the fucking SUN, you batshit loonpuppet.
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was gonna submit to Deep Vellum's open reading period but then read the poetry editor's poetry, OOF
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Trying to like this novel but it’s making it hard: ‘I was glitching, craving my cellular phone on a cellular level, shamefully unresponsive to the old media that surrounded me: books, paintings, analog photographs, a vinyl record spinning somewhere in my mentor’s house.’
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@KernerAaron i used to be such a big fan but i haven't read her in so long. poemland was big for me when i was in my early 20s. had no idea there was a new book coming
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Crazy that I haven't seen anyone mention that we're all two days away from a new Chelsey Minnis book--only realized while trying to source enough copies of Baby, I Don't Care for class next week wavepoetry.com/products/opera…
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very funny to do this kind of nostalgia bait with the nyc of 1975, the year they were distributing the infamous fear city pamphlets
Kevin Sorbo@ksorbs
Look at this video of NYC in 1975, see how peaceful it was? Look at how everybody seems to be enjoying their lives, and not contrast it to today. Our country has been ruined.
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