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Wednesday, October 21 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, the Iowa City Book Festival presents Mark Leidner, reading from his new book, 'Elegy for Pangaea' events.uiowa.edu/event/39704
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Let me tell you about another brewer (of God’s love) who (spiritually) swept the dodgers (of social justice) in ancient Palestine. His name was Jesus Christ.
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At my Digger screening today there were some teenage boys and I heard this great exchange between them “Where’s Tom Cruise?” “That is Tom Cruise you fucking idiot” “Where?” “He’s DIGGER!”
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Cones are used as reminders. Traffic cones remind you to be cautious. A cone around your neck reminds you not to lick or bite at your stitches. Cones in your eyes remind you what color things are.
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what trochaic pentameter was built for
“Kelly Clarkson has put us all in danger” is the exact same cadence as the opening line from a text I’d get from a congressional candidate asking me for money
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Babe take a look at this. There came into a certain shop a famed chanteuse desirous of purchasing a mechanical Bird, yet the shopkeep, deeming her of graceless bearing and humble station, would not suffer the clockwork creature to pass into her possession
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Carson winning the Nobel after writing 85 beautiful books about antiquity: I suppose that's fine. thank you. people who have read 3 poems in the past decade: I've always despised the prose of her verse. Also our culture has rejected Beauty.
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Anne Carson! 🖤
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I posted this poem in my journal decades ago, and I can't even remember where I found it. It began my love affair with Gerald Stern.
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i have a new short short short story (that’s triple short) up at the lovely soft union
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New fiction from Sebastian Castillo (@bartlebytaco). softunion.online/library/mid…
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Iñárritu should look into emulators. you should be able to play Digger as a character in 16-bit
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Digger should change depending on how the film is doing at the box office. The more it flops the more outrageous he should become
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my brother in law is trying to get “boat” going as a competing acronym to “goat” (“best of all time” vs “greatest of all time”). this began when he said the lasagna my wife made for my kid’s bday was objectively boated
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Rodrigo Nunes @Equatormag provides one the best, broadly applicable descriptions of the rise of far right politics (in Brazil) that you will read. equator.org/articles/brazil-…
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thinking about this always
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My dog is speaking to me telepathically and telling me to love everybody in the world.
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I’ve been thinking recently how my communication style often emulates this post: dressed in absurd lingo and verbosity, but revealing a truth so simple that it may even seem trivial at first. It’s sentimentally honest but rhetorically disingenuous. It’s just, well… me.💖
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Last day of summer. No more beach selfies, no more spritzes, no more nonsense about how much you love your friends. This is the season of hard liquor and hard nights
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My wife and I queued up Fargo bc we hadn’t seen it. For some reason, Jeff Bridges was a retired hitman, and it wasn’t good. I thought holy shit– the Coen Bros are really mocking everything about bad TV, and breaking every rule of cinema! Turns out it was ep 1 of The Old Man on FX
Does anyone have any more examples
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