@grossman
Track 1: Author of Soon I Will Be Invincible, You, Crooked, and Fight Me. Literary world's best-kept secret. Track 2: Game designer & narrative designer. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/446205/fight-me-by-grossman-aust
happens every time
It’s iconic, she’s iconic, but what did it all mean?
I wrote about Lisa Loeb and Stay (I Missed You) for @marchxness.bsky.social. We’re up against Lee Ann Womack and a worryingly good essay from @amygcb.bsky.social
Come and vote and feel your feelings!
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“Okay, about the glasses. People roll their eyes at the glasses now, but if you were not there for the glasses you do not understand about the glasses.”
Just read Austin Grossman‘s @marchxness.bsky.social essay on Lisa Loeb‘s stay on my lunch break AWP and it was awesome.
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Hoping against hope that I wrote this one.
REM vs Liz Phair. This is going to break some hearts.
He was like if Kratos had a PhD in cultural anthropology.
The original player character was my concept and totally ruled, and probably wouldn't have fucked Clive Barker in the first place so the issue is moot.
March Sadness 90s Edition is GO! You can VOTE on the website and keep up with all the latest news on the Substack. We will try to do lots of Bsky updates as well!
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Oh my god I just spent an hour on the cursed island of cruelty and laughter that is Roblox. I do this for the readers.
beast mode
Imagine if drinking while writing were actually a smart thing to do.
Barista reading Less Than Zero is not taking questions
I watched Ride Lonesome tonight. I thought it was superb, apart from all the gratuitous Native American bits.
This article from 2014: US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them.
And remember, Jonathan Ross was a firearms trainer, a veteran, and spent over a decade working for DHS.
What are you and Congress going to do about it?
One Way Passage (1932) with Kay Francis and William Powell
Goodbye 2025!
Happy New Year
A startling encounter at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge, MA. I didn’t *quite* get that it’s on shelves in the U.S.
@samlakewrites.bsky.social Just started Control and I think the writing's top-notch, a refreshing angle on story moments that could have felt stock.
Thank you @emilystjams.bsky.social for reminding me of the existence of this @themountaingoats.bsky.social banger: youtu.be/z-lwTmJtEsg
It's annoying but true that the all-time best writing advice is "go for a walk."
Wait. Wait.
Top Gun: Maverick and F1 were directed by the same person who directed the Gears of War ad with the slowed-down version of "Mad World."
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Only a true hero can slay the Dragon of Light Duty Emissions Tailpipe Regulation.
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Deep in my laptop's folder hierarchy, Chrome has generated english_wikipedia.txt, a file of exactly 30,000 words. Apparently in order of frequency (the first word is "the"). The first noun comes at word twenty: doc. Word fifty is year. Word 29,992 is hemsworth. Word 30,000 is evaporator.
“The president inhabits a position of moral leadership. When the president and his officials sell their policies, they’re selling a version of what it means to be an American”
I wrote about the Trump administration, the boat strikes, and St. Augustine.
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100%
From the City/Town Encounters Table, Dungeon Master's Guide 1st Edition. We learned a lot.
#tagyourself #ad&d #beastmode
reported to me
“I’m at the Harvard Yale game and and the Yale fans are interspersing, ‘Harvard sucks’ with ‘Larry Summers!’”
a pretty sick burn, we admit