Feeling delirious after seeing 10 movies over the last 3 days, but if/when you get a chance to see THE FURIOUS (Hong Kong action with non-stop wild fight sequences) and LEVITICUS (horror take on conversion therapy), do it!!! OBSESSION, TUNER, NINO, also so so good
Red Sign that reads “25% of blood donations go to cancer patients.” Hanging on white brick wall
Selfie at the blood center with the blood pressure cuff on and wearing a mask.
My arm with tube connected collecting blood.
Very happy to hear I inspired one of you to make a plan to give blood this week. Does anyone else want to join me? Apple juice, Lorna Doones, & helping someone who really needs it? The best. 🙌
Platelet donation next weekend! Donating blood has become a really surprising way to make myself feel a little more hopeful about the world. I wasn’t allowed to donate for most of my life and am trying to make up now that rules have changed
"Studies show that overreliance on these digital tools causes cognitive decline, but if current events are any indication, nobody’s making much of a contribution anyway. Go ahead and use A.I. however you like."
This is so great.
A black and white cat who has just been exploring his yard, perches on a windowsill and waits to be let back inside his house
My cat is 15 and has just learned windows can be like doors, and now he demands that I run inside through the door to admit him through the window.
Love @biblioracle.bsky.social's piece today. AI cannot read, and AI does not write.
Support writers who DO write.
biblioracle.substack.com/p/writers-wr...
You spend your whole life hearing that English majors can't get jobs, and that you should stay away from drugs, only to reach middle age and find out "large language model that occasionally hallucinates" is worth billions of dollars
Oh and this reminds me! If you have time to make them at home, look up Lukas Volger’s book Veggie burgers every which way. He has so many great recipes
Besides what you can find in the grocery store, I hate how many restaurants just started doing an impossible patty instead of the house made black bean burgers they all used to make. The impossible burger freaks me out (too meaty) and maaaan does it mess up my stomach
I’ve been working through a jar from Rancho Gordo which is super smoky and nice. But also excited to try penzey’s next…I’ve started buying from them more because I can’t resist the owner’s politicking emails
I have such a ridiculous number of spices but I think the MVP is smoked paprika just based on the fact that I currently have 5 jars of it (I panic that I'm out, buy a jar, add it to the line up)
Proof that if we all just ignore shitty technology that nobody wants, no matter how much money these dinguses throw into it, it will eventually go away. Next up: AI!
This is really wise and candid. It’s not often that people are willing to be like “I wanted to do this, it hasn’t gone as I hoped, I’m putting my focus elsewhere.” Jen’s a smarty.
Brought home one more priceless gift from AWP (am so sick)
The Split Lip Magazine Fiction Team sits at the Split Lip booth. Tote backs, stickers, and pins sit on the table, including a Library Kids Club tote bag.
The fiction team is here! 🤩 Have you stopped by for a tote bag yet?? @whatll-i-do.bsky.social @tinazhu.bsky.social @ellenrhudy.bsky.social
My AWP adventure is that my hotel has been without hot water or a working shower (of any temperature) since I arrived yesterday afternoon, and I am a person who cannot move an inch without sweating 🙃
It's been so bad lately. I feel like wherever I go online, I'm trailed by photos of women who are honestly so thin they are on the verge of death :(
Seriously considering buying an aquarium membership instead of a single pass so I can just spend all of AWP, every day, in the jellyfish room
Our fancy new Library Kids Club tote bag and an assortment of postcards and books, including TINY VESSELS, BLOB, DECOMPOSE and TERMINAL SURREAL. Not featured: Monica Brashear’s novel.
Exciting news, FAM ✨ At our reading next Thursday, we'll be raffling 2 LIBRARY KIDS tote bags with goodies inside, including postcards, pens, & books from contributors @sfeycreates.bsky.social, @litmagreject.bsky.social, @jrfenn.bsky.social, Monica Brashears & the late Martha Silano 😘
Voiding documents that make it legal for people to move through the world normally—especially but not exclusively when you give them no practical opportunity to get new ones even if they wanted to—is (still) not about bathrooms or sports. It’s about erasure.
I’ve had this on my shelf for months! Thanks for the nudge to get to reading it :)
hrm
A Philadelphia fire hydrant topped with snow
My new measurement system is “how big is fire hydrant’s hat” (big!)
his form on the rowing machine is also incredible (shit). the man has no bodily awareness
My current AWP plan is one volunteer shift, visit the aquarium, visit the Visionary Art Museum, panel on university presses, Laura Lippman interview, a daily run around the harbor...so basically pretend I am not at AWP for 90% of my time in Baltimore. Am I doing this right?
Writer Robert Olen Butler described his rejection from AWP’s writer-to-agent program
YES. My friend shared with me so I wouldn’t feel so bad. He posted about it on Facebook
(I recognize that I’m doing a lot of extrapolation here, but come on. just bonkers that he couldn’t get a meeting either.)
Got zero bites on my AWP writer-to-agent query, then saw that Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler also got rejected. So at least it’s not just me who’s fucked, but the whole literary ecosystem!
Today’s a great day to start masking again