New Orleans Bookfair

idk i just don't think i should get a horrible headache that goes into my teeth just bc there's a lot of water vapor in the air outside

Regrets.

we don’t actually have to kill anybody

listen i am not an important person in even the tiniest sense but after finding an entire article about myself on a weird AI-generated website i will forever be paranoid now

i haven't bought anything at target since 2024 and you know what it was easy as hell for me, chilis is gonna be even easier

welp, another one for the boycott list. hope you have fun sitting next to target, chilis.

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Marco Rubio wearing a navy suit and black dress shoes. He's looking down at his feet.

"i think he bought the wrong size"

I think about this all the time and Anna did a really great job articulating it.

I mean wokka wokka but good lord Chili’s you are in no position to be discriminatory over sex and gender, there’s only 50 of you in the United States and most of them are in Florida

Still thinking about why someone would name a restaurant "Warlord"

Found The Secret Agent almost unbearably moving, and my second main takeaway is that Wagner Moura is ABSURDLY hot.

The voice that won over Ira Glass hasn't changed much since 1992. It's more subdued than it was in riotously funny essays like "Me Talk Pretty One Day," but the wry wisecracking, the deliberate bitchiness — those qualities are still in evidence. Still, in "Cash and Carry," when Sedaris critiques the phrasing on a homeless man's cardboard sign ("It should be 'Help one of the homeless,' I wanted to tell him. Otherwise it sounds like you’re going to take whatever you collect and distribute it to other people in need."), I sympathize with the guy's response that he hopes Sedaris burns in hell. His essays often derive their humor from catty, judgmental moments like that one, and so it's notable that this is the first time I can remember reading one and being firmly on the other person's side. The tone may not have changed, but Sedaris's positioning inarguably has. The very bitchiness which once made his voice feel so fresh has become a commonplace in humor writing; writers from Tina Fey to Samantha Irby have surpassed him in their own fluent versions of it. Watching him uphold it now with such determination feels like watching your dad try to squeeze into the leisure suit he last wore in 1971. Sedaris spent so many years assuring us he was an incurious curmudgeon that he seems to have talked himself into becoming one, at least on the page.

i wrote about why david sedaris’s writing leaves me cold now
www.patreon.com/posts/152798...

Here's a song called "Learning to Die"

does anyone have a way to check if grammarly used your name for their fake authors scam?

I already lived through young people being wrongly nostalgic about NY in the 80s, must I live through them being wrongly nostalgic (or at least, nostalgic about the wrong things) about NY in the 90s! Go back in time to being correctly nostalgic about NY in the 1970s and 1940s, like me!

And I will be joining the class

is that the stock photo that comes up when you type in "outraged writer"?

Image of a book named "We will rise again" edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older.

OMG somehow I received my copy of the wonderful "We will rise again" much earlier and I'm thrilled to start reading this book edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️
P.S there's also a story by one of my favorite authors @charliejane.bsky.social 😍

Fuck yeah more anti A.I. lawsuits baby

I learned later that a manager at that Mississippi Chilli's I went to had banished another group of Pentecostal diners from the restaurant because they complained about having a trans waitress and demanded a different one.

They were promptly shown the door.

I was thinking the other day about how it was a conservative youth group leader who taught me basic etiquette on respecting trans people with the pronouns I use.

Because even in conservative circles, it used to be more common.

I wonder if he's still like that, or if the politics have changed him.

The first trans person I ever met was a waitress at Chilli's.

I was 17 and with a Pentecostal (Church of God) church group. And I had no idea how to refer to her.

"Our wait—wait, what do I call her or him?" I said.

"You call her a waitress," the youth pastor said. "She's wonderful. We love her."

Anyone have any suggestions for places to go in Toronto? It’s been a while since I’ve been there.

And I’m only going to be there for a few nights, but places like restaurants and bookstores, especially ones that are open in the evening/late at night, would be great!

1. This is great news.
2. This is a great excuse to watch the best Bunheads plot of them all:

There are also people who put peanuts in their coke

I have, but also I have several NOLA residents and some genuine Cajuns helping me, notably Flash artist @gavinguidry.bsky.social!

One thing though, Gambit’s patois is also askew partly because he’s Gambit. It’s part Cajun and part weird card-throwing guy!

Starting a pool on where the next pool will happen www.wwltv.com/article/news...

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Me: I guess I see similarities but I don't know if Firefly was meant to be Lost Cause apologia-

Joss Whedon: the black bounty hunter is named after a Confederate colonel =D

Me: Jesus Christ. Also how did you get out of your box Joss Whedon, back in your box for your crimes

Joss Whedon: =(