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07.03.2026 01:09
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WE BACK ☘️
Rewatched Sinners tonight. I saw Marty Supreme, I saw Hamnet, I saw One Battle After Another and I’ve got good things to say about all of them, but Sinners is truly on a different level and whatever the awards shows say that’s the truth.
A #SuperbOwl and the Super Bowl.
This is my periodic gentle reminder that not all children in Massachusetts have Patriots gear, and special days that require or even encourage such things are going to leave some kids left out and other families scrambling for an expense they cannot afford.
Look at my son. Pride is not the word I’m looking for.
Oh jeez did I?
Whoops well there’s my number too then
I want everyone who has spent years in therapy wondering what is wrong with them, wondering why they had so many bad relationships, why they felt so much dread, to know that it was in part because you were living in a world run by evil, evil people and you could tell that somewhere deep down
The Mass state news conference rn is every public official saying “lol we BEEN ready, clowns”
Last night I wrote birthday cards for ppl in prison with @massamp1312.bsky.social & @booksmith.bsky.social and I gotta say, if you have been looking for your one small contribution in this mess—this is a good one.
“Don’t miss the divine clinging to the safety of order.” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
A bright yellow paperback book titled Refuse to be Done: how to write and rewrite a novel in three drafts.
Not quite back at it, but testing the waters with an assist from @mdbell79.bsky.social
Essay: Our traditions are treated like folklore — optional, quaint, improvisational. Substitute salt pork. Make do. Adjust, writes Bridgit Brown. But this isn't just about taste. It's about cultural survival.
I am almost fifty, and I have been protesting police brutality since I was thirteen when Coon, Powell, Briseno, and Wind got off for beating the shit out of Rodney King on video.
Oh and by the way, the reason I know the names Coon, Powell, Briseno, and Wind (which I do, off the top of my head) is that I vowed to never call them the "Rodney King Riots" because what did Rodney King have to do with it? Why does he get named and the perpetrators don't?
I think it might be— the experience she describes feels familiar to me. I wonder if it’s about newer arrivals imitating the Cabot-and-Lodge-isms.
Large brown stoneware jar on a pedestal as part of a museum exhibition.
Pilgrimage to a plot point. 😉 Related: if you are Christmas shopping for a bookworm I recommend Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson.
Pals: just saw Bill and Ted’s Existential Adventure, aka Waiting for Godot on Broadway & may I just say ALEX M’F’N WINTER is, um, revelatory. Do not sleep on this man and this performance.
Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad
The Book of Unknown Americans, Cristina Henriquez
Stag Dance, Torrey Peters
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Love Is An Ex-Country, Randa Jarrar
Let Us Descend, Jesmyn Ward
Little Rot, Akwaeke Emezi
True Biz, Sara Novic
Good Dirt, Charmaine Wilkerson
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The best books I read in 2025. Buy from your local indie, borrow from your library, or download to a non-Amazon reader!
Your Driver Is Waiting, Priya Guns
Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Rufi Thorpe
Annie Bot, Sierra Greer
Martyr! Kaveh Akbar
Gather Me, Glory Edim
Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
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I’m amazed you did, I was loud!
I hope the neighborhood enjoyed my morning reenactment of the 1984 Prince spaghetti ad, only it’s me screaming “Invisalign! Your Invisalign!” from the third-floor window.”
Image shows a statement penned by disability activist and writer Alice Wong, posted by her friend Sandy Ho, on the day of her passing.
RIP Alice Wong. ❤️
Oh NO. I was in Brookline Booksmith just last night with a copy of Year of the Tiger in my hands.
Local elections matter!
Mika has no concerns about the results.
Three cans of black beans, two boxes of macaroni and cheese, a bag of rice, and eight packs of instant oatmeal on a kitchen counter.
My friend’s lovely kid, who is not food-insecure, came home from trick or treating with 3 lbs of rice, which he genuinely does find a delicious treat. So yeah, give to your local food pantry or mutual aid and let’s keep silly holidays silly for everyone.
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
