Nobody does character descriptions like Garielle Lutz: "She had hair the color of cigars. She was wheyfaced, short-winded, whittled away by some sort of procedure. She said her husband was a man nowhere else in life other than in the marriage itself." BACKWARDNESS (2024)

MS Paint portrait 7-9-24

This was a year ago!

"You can't have it all... but you can have August." I love this poem so much: themarginalian.org/2019/02/07/you…

LEGO Taylor Swift Eras Tour Lover House (Paul's version). This Eras Tour Stage was commissioned by Buffalo Phil's Pizza & Grille in Wisconsin Dells, WI. It's on display in their upstairs dining room. The model has 500 minifigures & is 5 feet x 3 feet. #TaylorSwift #ErasTour

this is genuinely how my novella is shaping up

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She took a page from another winning DNC look

"Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons

last night my friend poured us a mike’s hard lemonade in a shot glass and when i closed my eyes it tasted exactly like—limoncello. we drank to the future

Is there concensus on how to pronounce Tim Walz? Like walls or waltz? Seeing as he's just a VP candidate the answer seems to be: no one is asking.

The chilling delivery of the line “sexy, confident” — no idea what comes before or after — has been playing in my head on a loop for three full weeks.

Reading Intermezzo in Yoda voice

"Writers in time transfer the mendacity of their craft to the other areas of their lives. In that trivial area of barroom biographical anecdotage, it is so much easier to shape, reorder, impose climax and denouement, augment here, diminish there..."— Anthony Burgess

"urgently do more”: if only we could figure out what exactly! oh well, i’m sure a hazy injunction (simply to “do”—what doesn’t matter) is just the thing netanyahu should be left to interpret. it’s not as if a global antiwar public’s been issuing precise demands for the past year

new short fiction by david c. porter (read NTTN) . .

Normalization

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