“I turn on one track repeat, dig my nails into my palms, let myself dissolve. Eventually I don’t exist outside of this song, this tender cave of feeling. “ I mean, these lines alone are such a gut punch, it seems impossible to vote otherwise.
Also, this stunner: “This gentle memory takes it from a song of mourning to a song of celebration. The two things we hold at once at once when we grieve.”
I’ve not been there somehow, do I need to go??
I also loved your essay, the use of the Sorrento was so well-played.
Oh, wow, what a moment. And thank you!
The ending of this @erinlangner.bsky.social essay hits this mama's boy/girl dad in the right spot: between yearning for one more moment and hope for what the day will bring.
Ahh, this is so tight! Last chance to read + vote for my essay, Mariah-loving friends!
So close. If you were ever gonna vote for me now is the time, little under 2.5 hours to go. Only you can make me a Cinderella story…
Thank you!
It seems that I remain allergic to Crash Test Dummies, but I dig Erin M's @marchxness.bsky.social essay on "Superman" & grief for decency. @erinlangner.bsky.social's look back at Mariah Carey & the sad history of "Without You"—which I didn't know; yikes—is also quite good. Get those votes in!
MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 8 HALFTIME SCORES
Soul Asylum 80, Patty Loveless 70
Blink-182 88, Nick Cave 67
GnR 111, Kershaw 54
Mariah 52, Crash Test Dummies 43
Last day of the first round games finishes up at 9am AZ time 3/11 at marchxness.com
"Daydream" was the first CD I owned so I admit I'm biased here... Still, I'm finding so many quotes to love in @erinlangner.bsky.social's essay: "A fractured self is sometimes the only kind that can survive the disconnect between how we expect the world to be and how it ends up being."
Ah, thank you so much ❤️ I also love Daydream deeply.
Thank you for posting this, I could barely contain the excitement at unearthing this remix.
"Other people’s words create space to forge a separate self—one away from the story that everyone believes to be yours. "
Erin Langer's @marchxness.bsky.social essay about Mariah Carey's "Without You" captures why covers can be so great:
marchxness.com#/1stround-ca...
The hottest 90s name, no question.
We didn't plan for this confluence of erins but we're into it
My essay on all of the SERIOUS sadness bound up in Mariah Carey’s “Without You,” now live! Vote vote!
Special thanks to the #lambs who put together a truly impressive magazine archive (covers included w. essay!)
I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...
“Enough with the paintings of ships. Enough with the Romantic American landscapes. Enough with the proto-charcuterie board still lifes. We have plenty. And for the love of god, please stop adding portraits of random aristocrats with weird noses.”
The March Sadness 90s Edition First Round Game Schedule (brackets due by end of day 2/28):
marchxness.com/schedule
We’ve got this, #lambs. Mariah’s parallel status as Queen of Sadness shall go unrecognized no more.
“If at times such foundations seem to loom large, it is because in the United States, government support for health care, education, and the arts is far more limited than in nearly every other democratic nation.” —Aryeh Neier and Gara LaMarche on private philanthropy
Across Georgia, thousands of students are making the same calculation. From Lakeside High to Kennesaw State, they’re deciding that a suspension is a small price to pay to draw attention to the actions of ICE and the recent tragic deaths in Minneapolis.
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is:
"My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities."
1/14
A petition to save the WPA murals inside the Wilbur J. Cohen Building in DC (which the GSA has put up for sale) now has almost 7,000 signatures.
Murals are by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, Seymour Fogel, Richmond Barthé, Ethel and Jenne Magafan, among others.
www.change.org/p/save-the-w...
‘Your children, motherless, and the president says, “Good.”’ —Danez Smith
This article says it all. The preemptive censorship. The country’s largest museum body cowering instead of leading. And the head of the Smithsonian deciding which hill he’ll choose to die on.
"So if the violence of the deportations, and the crackdowns, and the cuts, and the raids, and the air strikes, haven’t been enough for you, let something so simple and evil as the daytime execution of a poet move you to action." Thank you, @literaryhub.bsky.social 💥
