Probably the most common bit of advice I give to students to improve their writing.
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Probably the most common bit of advice I give to students to improve their writing.
Chalamet’s little bitchass face with quote: “i don’t want to be working in ballet or opera where it’s like ‘let’s keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore’ — all respect to the ballet and opera people out there.” Post by Kelsey Abernathy: “i stand forever by my belief that this is a medieval mouse who begged a witch to turn him into a real boy and has spent centuries in an enchanted rodent-turned-boy body, unable to die”
i’ve seen countless three-hour operas and also MARTY SUPREME
guess which one had me checking my watch
Kristi Noem’s firing is long overdue. She oversaw vile crimes against humanity and we’ll never forget it.
But until ICE is abolished and expelled from our communities, we keep fighting.
Lawless federal agents kidnapping and killing people on our streets can never be normalized.
[Exit Murderer.]
4/4 to 6/6. Skin Deep: Beauty, Horror, and the Gothic Tradition. Texts include CARMILLA (LeFanu), PERFUME (Süskind), NATURAL BEAUTY (Ling Ling Huang), stories by Hawthorne, Poe, & Shelley.
NYC locals: I’m running a reading group on Beauty, Horror, and the Gothic Tradition at the Center for Fiction this spring! Sign up online and bring your uncanny doppelgänger. (Missing out is guaranteed to induce envy and spike your cortisol.)
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It’s not directly addressed, but he’s clearly given him homework to catch up!
“get down. you sleep on the floor until you’ve finished MY STRUGGLE”
Skarsgard reclines on a leather couch in a sleeveless white tee and slutty little glasses, clutching vol. 5 of MY STRUGGLE
not seeing enough chat about PILLION and definitely not enough about how funny it is to make your sub read Knausgard with you
She’s currently one book ahead of me! :)
catering
It took two encounters for me, but I love it to death.
it finally happened: i got an emergency work email looking for someone who knows shit about MOBY-DICK
“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984
The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.
"why must you hate innovation so!" I boldly proclaim as my undercooked algorithm prematurely murders your grandma
Screencaps of Boromir and Aragorn shouting into the whistling wind as they carry Merry and Pippin through the snow.
me, the local bodega guy, and a lady walking her two corgis exchanging pleasantries in the street this AM
Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.
Comedy writer @amandalehr.bsky.social and I highlight the never ending healthcare injustices by turning them into cartoons for the Out-of-network Network. Here's one written and illustrated by two hugely talented folks: Victoria Tyler & Mads Horwath
outofnetworknetwork.substack.com/p/my-ostomy-...
they had my dear Dr. Kelson quoting PARADISE LOST (as Satan! just after being called “old Nick,” no less!) and they cut it out.
i will never recover from this 💀
I'd rather eat glass.
long-married men, take notes
![Book page held open: text not included above reads: “James Reid to Ann Reid [Wife], 3 June 1845. Stromness:
Loving Wife,
I received hours of the 29 & 30 — happy to here [sic] that you and my Dear young ones is well as this leaves me the same, we are now under way. The Steam Boats is to tow both Ships clear of the Land.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o5v75qtbrzgh655iunxrqzuy/bafkreihycf6mstdxbu52kryu5rgsmokbsct36rmidjcpoylnsdsrlhwely)
Book page held open: text not included above reads: “James Reid to Ann Reid [Wife], 3 June 1845. Stromness: Loving Wife, I received hours of the 29 & 30 — happy to here [sic] that you and my Dear young ones is well as this leaves me the same, we are now under way. The Steam Boats is to tow both Ships clear of the Land.”
exquisite moment from the Franklin Expedition letters, James Reid to wife, Ann:
“You mention that your old Gray Hare wase not worth the sending to me. I cane only tell you that your old gray Hare is as good to me as ever, and I would [have] been very Happy if you hade inclosed one Locke of it.”
"Did you really think I would not be angry just because you confessed? Truth, George, is a lovely quality in a youth. But do you know what is even lovelier? The capacity not to hack up your parents’ cherry tree for no goddamn reason."
oh man — that’s going in my vocab permanently, and i thank you
her line deliveries live in my
head rent free
Mmmfff. That’s the sizzle! That’s the sauce, babe. That’s MARGIN CALL. I don’t understand what your problem is here! This cast is a murderer’s row of panty-droppers. Tucci. Badgely. Bettany. Aasif Fucking Mandvi. That smug guy from THE MENTALIST. You know, the one who looks like an expensive lion? Simon Baker! Thank you.
nostalgic shoutout to the most romantic movie of all time
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"Surely, thou canst sate thy lusts upon mine person without turning every garment I own into confetti? I look upon my shredded silks and weep, Lathaniel! My bosom heaves with anguish. And what shall support it? Not my bodices!" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ple...
happy v-day from me and @mcsweeneys.net — and good luck to all attempting to wear or remove complicated lingerie 🫡
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Edward Rochester: "It’s a surprise, my dove! Come up to the attic and see..."
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“60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls… 43% of the recalls occurred less than a year after the devices were greenlighted. That’s about twice the recall rate of all devices authorized under similar FDA rules.”findings form: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...