Our Longing for Inconvenience People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience?

Hanif is appointment reading.

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Designing my own scorebook for baseball games.

That tells you all you need to know about me.

terminal mediocrity! LOL.

I feel like that's where I've been since 2010! That's the title of a novel I'd buy five copies of.

Pete Croatto: 'You Can't Be Afraid' Pitch: 391 words; Story paid: $1,700

Pitch Club will always be free, even if that means the 'stack algorithm buries the club.

I don't want an algorithm spreading the word. I want the people it serves spreading the word. New one coming in May.

The latest from @petecroatto.bsky.social.

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The real question is do I read this now, or save it for the print edition?

Justin Heckert: 'This one hurt' Getting, oh, so, close ...

The reality when pitching is they get rejected. Another reality is they get accepted by one editor, they leave, then it gets rejected by the new editor. This issue of Pitch Club speaks to that uncertainty and resilience.
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Joseph Mitchell did a thing or two, right?

Lidia Yuknavitch in conversation w/ Brendan O'Meara @ Gratitude Brewing Author Lidia Yuknavitch comes to Eugene to talk about her latest books and what it's like to have a book adapted for a movie.

I don't think a soul sees my posts here. No bigs.

But if you're in Eugene on Saturday April 18, you're going to want to catch the next live recording of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast.

Lidia Yuknavitch!

RSVP with a free ticket!

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Eight songs, 46 minutes, name it "Metal Up Your Ass," tour for one year, retire.

I'll cosine this graph.

Well, shit ...

Where the white boats run Shaking off the stink of Tuna Town

Cool essay from Sam Jefferies.

The Podcast is a Teenager 7:12 p.m. PST, Pink Moon; Two April Events; Books by Lidia Yuknavitch, Christopher McDougall, Lauren Simkin Berke, and Ramona Ausubel

Pink Moon edition of The Rage Against the Algorithm newsletter about my podcast turning 13.
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"You have to hate how the world goes on."

This sentence by Bill Finnegan in "Barbarian Days," for some reason, is my favorite sentence of all time.

It's surrounded — top and bottom — by page breaks. His mother had just passed away.

Maybe one day I'll write one as good.

"I almost always know the last line of my pieces of writing, even very, very long ones before I write the first line," says John McPhee on Ep. 500 of the podcast.

And here I am on a show I've listened to and learned so much from over the years. Writing can be lonely. Through The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, @brendanomeara.bsky.social has built a community.

brendanomeara.com/episode-513-...

During @brendanomeara.bsky.social's CNF podcast, co-editor Laura LeBleu of Geezer Magazine had this banger: "When you broadcast on your own frequency, on your unique unrecreatable energy, then the people who want to be attuned to that sort of thing will find you."

Agent Orange Kills!

About to head out to my local #nokings protest. Our fourth one, dang.

Pop a Timothy Snyder pill and get after it.

Be loud, be safe!

I'm getting into the life hack biz.

Loved good ol' Dewey's stance ... I think I had this card at one point growing up.

They are quite great :)

Pitchin' from the Hip B.O.'s 476 word-pitch for Geezer Magazine ; pay $300

The new issue of Geezer Magazine is coming out soon. I have an essay in there about cast iron skillets. Trust me, it's a real humdinger.

Here's my pitch for it: welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/pitchin-fr...

My Parents Were Both Dying. Then I Found Out I Had Cancer Amanda Peet writes, “I admire people who can sit with uncertainty in matters of life and death. I’m not one of them. I suck at mindfulness.”

This is an excellent essay by the actor Amanda Peet. Well worth your time.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This writer wants to prevent freelancers from floundering on story pitches - Poynter Brendan O’Meara speaks about Pitch Club, a Substack channel aimed at helping writers break down story pitches.

Big thanks to Amaris Castillo of @poynterinstitute.bsky.social for featuring Pitch Club. Mentions of Kim H. Cross, Justin Heckert, Tony Rehagen, and @petecroatto.bsky.social in this story.
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Test Your Memory of Great Lines From Classic Irish Poems Try this short quiz on some of Ireland’s most memorable verses from its celebrated poets.

As a proud Irishman, I got 0% of this quiz correct, which is another kind of 100%. It's a score worthy of my people.

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Great chat with a magazine legend in Tom Junod for Ep. 516 of the podcast. I hope you'll check it out:

brendanomeara.com/episode-516-...

100% of the time when my guests ask if this is being videoed, they smile in relief. Every. Time. We all just wanna be our grossest selves.

You gonna succumb to video?

Changing hosts is a pain in the ass ... I started with Pod-o-Matic, then Libsyn, then Zencastr. As long as they reliably get the episodes out, then it doesn't matter a lick. I guess Libsyn has better data, but it's largely useless.

I did a side-by-side and Zencastr's call quality is better than Riverside, much warmer, as popular as Riverside has become.

I still master things on my own and give it that special treatment on my end, and I record myself separately in my DAW. I love Zen for calls.