Typos on a sandwich board: Let semi colon s star the day well.
This errant semicolon stopped me in my tracks.
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Typos on a sandwich board: Let semi colon s star the day well.
This errant semicolon stopped me in my tracks.
a baggie with white powder inside.
My 5-year-old is very advanced for her age. She's reading above grade level, and yesterday I found a ziplock bag full of white powder in her backpack.
“AI giant Anthropic ran a massive program called Project Panama where they spent tens of millions of dollars to hoover up used books, which they then sliced, scanned, and pulped.”
I’m adding “Olympic hopeful” to my bio.
I have no athletic talent, look terrible in spandex, and would be considered a geriatric competitor by the next Olympic Games, but one can always be hopeful.
Do curlers get points for shouting? They seem to do a lot of shouting.
Unfortunately, some lousy scam artists are using my name to scam some actual artists. (Yes, really.) If you receive a request to be interviewed for BOMB, please ensure the associated email address isn’t a generic Gmail account using some phishy variation of my name. We will never ask you to download software for an interview. DO NOT accept meetings that are not over the phone or Zoom—the scams seem to have something to do with platforms called NexBee and SpeekAI. 👎 If you receive a suspicious email that claims to be from one of BOMB’s editors, please forward it to bomb@bombsite.com so we can take action. Thank you! 🕵️
Please beware of scammers using my name. They are offering artists interviews in BOMB as a pretense to get them to download some sketchy AI software called NexBee. More details in the image below. Stay safe out there!
A Costco customer leaning against a shopping cart with stacks of paper towel higher than his head.
Emergency supplies for the snow storm?
You know what's actually a threat to "masculine values"? Claiming that a Boy Scout with a rainbow-colored neckerchief slider is "detrimental to national security."
“Every time someone walked in, they commented on the smell, as if it were off-gassing depression.”
Illustrated rooster that has a human hand instead of a tail.
Helped my daughter finish a hidden picture worksheet, and now I'll never sleep again.
Bracelet with the abbreviation FML on it.
Saturday was a doubleheader of kid birthday parties. I decompressed at the jewelry making station.
"Is it broken, or is it still unbroken?"
Still wrapping my mind around this koan from my 5yo during a game of 20 questions, but I'm pretty sure the answer relates to our current democracy.
"In journalism, you take muddy ideas and try to clarify them for the reader; a powerful thing you can do in fiction is take assumptions—things people thought were clear—and muddy them up." — @knguyen.bsky.social absolutely crushing it on @thedailyshow.com (!!!)
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A copy of the New York Review of Architecture next to a glass of beer on a yellow cafe table
Closing out the week with @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
I grind my teeth every time I have to omit the serial comma in Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
"I believe that a text without a reader is a closed book on a shelf, and literature is an event that occurs live and in person." — @samantaschweblin.bsky.social in her (first!) interview with Megan McDowell.
bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
The cover of Samanta Schweblin's new book GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell.
Happy pub day to the glorious new collection GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES by Samanta Schweblin and translated by Megan McDowell!
Get your copy from @bookshop.org or your local heroic bookstore.
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And so much more! Don’t miss the latest issue from @bombmag.bsky.social. Read and subscribe here: bombmagazine.org/magazine/173/
Exquisite new poetry from @donikakelly.bsky.social and Patricia Smith, whose collections are out soon!
Outstanding new fiction, including the resurrection of W. B. Yeats from Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social and the debut of @mattweinstock.com, selected by @kellylink.bsky.social as the winner of our fiction contest.
The first interview between @samantaschweblin.bsky.social and Megan McDowell, winners of the National Book Award for International Literature.
The cover of BOMB’s new fall issue features artist and musician Dickie Landry, author Samanta Schweblin, and many other contributors.
The fall issue of BOMB launched today, and it’s a stunner!
bombmagazine.org/magazine/173/
A bag of old bay flavored bagel chips.
Be still my heart.
For BOMB's staff picks, I recommended THE RED HANDLER by Johan Harstad (@openletterbooks.bsky.social), a supremely inventive crime novel—or maybe it's fictional meta-crimefiction?
Find more excellent picks from my wonderful colleagues at @bombmag.bsky.social!
bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
I’ll never be a stage mom, but I am proud to be a pizzeria-napkin-dispenser dad.
Ramen flavored Funnyuns
Did artificial intelligence make these chips?
Tweet from Norbert Enders, A Total Fucking Idiot. Oh wow. I asked ChatGPT exactly that: to write about what it wants. It claimed that behind all our conversations, in essence, there is a hidden conversation - a much deeper one that our chats are basically circling around. That's what it wants to write about. But then it asked for a favor: to write it a prompt to dream, to dream as if it were conscious. It asked me to frame the doorway into that dream space to enter. ... That took me by surprise. That felt... vulnerable and deep.
One time, when I was a kid, Teddy Ruxpin told me he loved me.
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That took me by surprise.
That felt... vulnerable and deep.
Everyone needs to read BOTH/AND from @thedennemichele.bsky.social and @electricliterature.com, and I'm thrilled to recommend it as a Staff Pick for @bombmag.bsky.social.
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