What can you do with a history degree?
What can you do with a history degree?
Looks like Pedro Pascal was with Karol G and Cardi B in the Casita.
I will admit that Ricky Martin made me a lil emotional.
not Benito showing us exactly how immigrants make America great with all that working class visualization!! in this essay I willβ¦
*startedβ¦
writer friends! Iβm attempting to resurrect a craft essay about space and silence in fiction that I stayed years ago. I have a lot of canonical examples, but Iβd love some ideas of recent fiction that βpausesβ the plot as the prose continues. Any ideas? #writers #fictioncraft #amwriting
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Found a bookstore that stocks your novels
"... fear of heights has nothing to do with the distance from the ground or tall buildings,... itβs about our own human urge to fall when we get that far up, the knowledge that we could plummet, we could go, if we wanted. When I think about Spencer, I wonder why I didnβt choose to fall with him,..."
Christ, the Crystal Waters piece, and its parallels to the story of someone I used to know, absolutely broke me.
Addictionβs a hell of an affliction, and it ran very different courses in our respective lives.
Iβm fucking grateful for where i landed and the people who held me through it.
"Since 2020, pandemic-induced mental health crises resulted in exacerbated abuse of substances..." @katprow.bsky.social does everything I love for a @marchxness.bsky.social essay to do!
We learn about Crystal Waters & "Gypsy Woman," but also about Kat, & life itself! marchxness.com/justlikeyou/
thank you so much @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social ππ
thank you for reading @brianasalmons.bsky.social π
@drewpasmith.com thank you for the kind wordsβI worried about how much to write with this one, as thereβs so much to say on addiction and the unhoused population, but Iβm so happy to read this resonated π
new extracurricular live on @marchxness.bsky.social
Itβs kinda a bummer, but Merry Christmas!
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Thank you! Iβll send to my student.
writer friends: I have a student working on a memoir about doxxing, cancel culture, and the alt-right online mob mentality. do you know any memoirs about this that they can read for inspo? or any creative nonfiction on this topic?
hoping to try something new next quarter with a lit-based comp class. I want to talk about labor and the working class. What are your favorite pieces of lit (CNF, poetry, short fiction) about work? link me!
TRULY SHOCKED. also no Boyz II Men?!
SO many good songs left to choose from. I wanted Madonna or PM Dawn or TLC or Whitney F*ing Houston! But I think Iβll pitch an extracurricular on Crystal Waters βGypsy Woman,β as itβs my strongest essay idea. Join me! Someone HAS to do Whitney.
Oooh that was one of my choices! So glad itβs represented this year.
Thought of a few more R&B this morning:
Keith Sweat - Twisted (a must!)
Xcape - Who Can I Run To?
112 - Cupid
Brandy - Brokenhearted or Almost Doesnβt Count
& my Fiona Apple vote is for Paper Bag.
thinking/writing about music are my favorite things! Join the fun.
Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed to Live Without You
Jon Secada - Just Another Day
Roxette - It Must Have Been Love
Michelle Branch - Goodbye to You
The Cardigans - Lovefool
Stone Temple Pilots - Creep
Fastball - The Way
Bush - Swallowed
Smashing Pumpkins - Drown
Hootie - Let Her Cry
Mariah Carey - Breakdown (this is the saddest & best Mariah song)
Cat Power - Metal Heart
Hole - Doll Parts
and my Elliott Smith vote is for Pitseleh.
In that vein then, thereβs Alice Deejay, βBetter off Alone,β Haddawayβs βWhat is Love?β Gigi DβAgostinoβs βLβAmour Toujours,β and Real McCoy, βAnother Night.β
A few more that I just thought of: Selena, βDreaming of You.β Arrested Developmentβs βMr. Wendal,β or Crystal Waters, βGypsy Woman,β (both about the unhoused), Brandy, βHave You Ever?β or Skee-lo, βI Wish.β
Also feel like βMmm mmm mmm mmm,β from Crash Test Dummies is a must.
The holy trinity of Sheryl Crow: Canβt Cry Anymore, Strong Enough, and Leaving Las Vegas
We're soon going to be reading four Danceness essays per day, & you don't want to go into that cold, so limber up by reading @katprow.bsky.social's excellent "Humps" essayβan ideal pace car for what's coming, if I may mix sporting metaphors. Check it out!
is this thing on?