My @marchxness.bsky.social essay was not easy to write, but I’m hoping there’s some beauty to be found in it, along with the sadness. Chris was generally terrible at selfies. Here are some failed attempts that still make me laugh.
There is so much beauty. Thank you so much for this.
I was older than I care to admit when I realized the devastating part!!
the last paragraph of @kjmoulton.bsky.social's essay on "Let Her Cry" is heart-in-someone-fist perfection
hell yes to this @brianoliu.bsky.social on No Doubt and "Don't Speak"
it is...something, as an adult, to look back at hearing this song for the first time when it came out and not getting how the guys who did "Mr. Jones" could do something so sad
"When music gave me the space to feel what I couldn’t feel elsewhere, by which I mean it made me feel less alone."
I have "Round Here" going all the way in @marchxness.bsky.social, because the sadness factor and also the @mlfaliveno.bsky.social factor.
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thank you!! I just hate that song so much!!
just under 90 minutes to go in the voting! can we pull off the upset??
Oooh, thank you ❤️
thank you so much and also yours will stick with me for a long time ❤️
YOURS IS SO GOOD
wow, thank you!!!
thank you for this ❤️
thank you so much!
Oh, I'm looking forward to it!!
Not a huge Foo guy but Everlong is one of my fave songs in this tournament (& Kay Keegan reps its "simultaneously aching & rapturous" mood perfectly) but holy crap: @mossyair.bsky.social's gorgeous essay is gonna make me vote against my bracket and [shudders] vote for a country song...
ahhh thank you so much!! it has been SUCH a joy to read your work over these years!
the 12-5 seed matchup is usually the most exciting in basketball. maybe it will be in @marchxness.bsky.social too!
for the night crowd and for anyone missing their dad -- or feeling any other kind of grief this month.
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I'm so glad @erindorney.bsky.social dug into what I hadn't been able to put my finger on FOR YEARS about that Paula Cole song--it's performing heteronormativity and THE SADNESS FOR THE LIFE SHE SINGS ABOUT "WANTING" is also performative, therefore, which is so damn brilliant
been excited for @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social's @marchxness.bsky.social essay since we chatted about it months ago and it was WORTH IT. "the best sad songs...make us feel them so fully that they threaten to drown us, only to lift us up, still dripping, into the light"
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Such a wonderful hammer from @mossyair.bsky.social...
"A phrase I came across once that keeps coming back: grief is the price we pay for love."
thank YOU. and sending you all the best during this month
Thank you so much for this. (And if there’s one thing I learned from my dad, it’s to laugh at myself)
thank you so much! ❤️ this choked me up
I admire Kay Keegan's love of Foo Fighters: "Maybe it’s because the future seems a lot sadder and scarier than it used to" but I gotta hand this round to @mossyair.bsky.social and Vince Gill's really fucking sad funeral song. Raising one for her dad, an Xness fan. marchxness.com/1stround-foo...
I wrote about my dad and grief and Vince Gill for @marchxness.bsky.social
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It's such a beautiful essay ❤️
ALSO if you are new to @marchxness.bsky.social we have a brand spanking new collection of essays from our first 10 years, available from @splitlippress.com
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