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Ellen Clair Lamb

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I answer to both first names — what you call me depends on how you know me. Editor, writer, insufferable know-it-all. Natitude, Hoya Saxa, AMDG.

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Thanks!

11.03.2026 21:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They can end whatever they want. It won’t get me back to Target.

11.03.2026 19:02 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 6 📌 1

They do that seasonally and it makes me crazy.

11.03.2026 13:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements

11.03.2026 00:47 👍 75 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 4
10.03.2026 18:43 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They keep talking about waste, fraud, and mismanagement . . .

10.03.2026 13:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Share a movie that holds a special place for you, yet nobody seems to remember . . .

10.03.2026 13:11 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Today's Bracket City puzzle in The Atlantic is a most appropriate historical reference.

10.03.2026 12:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve always suspected the Dude had secret independent wealth.

10.03.2026 03:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Am I seeing more people smoking lately, or am I just noticing it more? (How does anyone afford to smoke these days?)

10.03.2026 02:02 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A great event!

10.03.2026 00:15 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I feel terrible.

09.03.2026 22:30 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I literally just had this conversation with a friend about "Sideways" a few days ago. (I hated the book, too; he hadn't read it.)

09.03.2026 14:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Friends are for sharing.

09.03.2026 14:31 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
You preferred human writing. 

You're either sharply attuned to the qualities that make for great writing, or a lucky guesser. Maybe you also noticed that human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian," caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: "As well ask men what they think of stone."

A.I. used to make mistakes like these. But today's systems are much more fluid than their predecessors — so fluid, in fact, that finding grammatical errors or nonstandard syntax is often a hint that you're looking at a human's prose, not a machine's.

You preferred human writing. You're either sharply attuned to the qualities that make for great writing, or a lucky guesser. Maybe you also noticed that human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian," caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: "As well ask men what they think of stone." A.I. used to make mistakes like these. But today's systems are much more fluid than their predecessors — so fluid, in fact, that finding grammatical errors or nonstandard syntax is often a hint that you're looking at a human's prose, not a machine's.

"You preferred human writing." Goddamn right I did. Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

09.03.2026 14:30 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

It's not good for me to start the day this angry. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

09.03.2026 12:00 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Dude. Tomorrow’s already the 10th.

@tomorrows10th.bsky.social

09.03.2026 09:42 👍 241 🔁 23 💬 6 📌 1

Ah, the moment in "Moonstruck" when Nicolas Cage sees Cher outside the Met. He looks straight at her and she looks straight back, and nothing has ever been more romantic. #TCMParty

09.03.2026 01:03 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I am so sorry.

08.03.2026 17:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

08.03.2026 03:46 👍 5762 🔁 2240 💬 165 📌 160

Astronomy PSA: Please be patient as our team of orbital mechanics perform Earth's twice-yearly rotational adjustment tonight. You may find your clocks are not set to the time your body feels. This is perfectly natural and will slowly ease as Earth's spin rate slows back down to what it was before.

08.03.2026 04:41 👍 304 🔁 44 💬 14 📌 4

SAXA!

08.03.2026 04:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Either way, I grow old.

08.03.2026 04:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The scoreboard at CapitalOne Arena says, “HOYAS WIN” - Georgetown 80, Providence 79.

The scoreboard at CapitalOne Arena says, “HOYAS WIN” - Georgetown 80, Providence 79.

But the yell of all the yells,
The yell that wins the day
Is the “HOYA, #HOYASAXA!”
Of the dear old blue and gray!

08.03.2026 03:29 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand.
CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. 
RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette.

CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there

RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: 
LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters.
CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. 
RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. 
LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. 
CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits.
RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

07.03.2026 04:16 👍 954 🔁 570 💬 21 📌 44

So that’s deliberate? I thought it must be some terrible accident.

08.03.2026 01:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The scoreboard at CapitalOne Arena shows Georgetown beating Providence, 19-17.

The scoreboard at CapitalOne Arena shows Georgetown beating Providence, 19-17.

Enjoying it while it lasts. #HoyaSaxa

08.03.2026 01:29 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Don't forget: Daylight saving time starts TONIGHT! Spring forward means we lose an hour of sleep tonight. In DC, Sunday sunrise is at 7:30am, sunset at 7:08pm. CDC recommends:

✅ Go to bed normal time tonight
✅ Get outside Sunday morning
✅ Drive carefully Sunday
✅ Stick to regular bedtime Sun night

07.03.2026 20:22 👍 42 🔁 17 💬 6 📌 6

Happy birthday!

07.03.2026 14:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Watching “For All Mankind” to remind myself that we used to do great things together.

07.03.2026 01:26 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0