Kate Carmody

Chef’s kiss to your essay! Really enjoyed it.

MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 5 HALFTIME(ISH) SCORES

Belle & Sebastian 51, Lauryn Hill 50
Des’ree 99, Goo Goo Dolls 79
Ben Folds Five 77, Skid Row 29
Lisa Loeb 65, Lee Ann Womack 27

Vote by 9am AZ time 3/6 at marchxness.com

Lovely meditation on the particular sadness of adolescence. Well done!

“When I was young, I swam in the deep end of sadness. I luxuriated in those murky waters, and whatever might dwell in their depths. I let my body go limp, liked the weight of the water as I sank.” I feel this from @mlfaliveno.bsky.social

March Sadness 90s Edition A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

Gonna read the @marchxness.bsky.social essays after my Hugo House class tonight & I can’t think of a better way to wind down. marchxness.com

MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 3 FINAL SCORES:

REM 139, Liz Phair 116
VINCE GILL 101, Foo Fighters 79
COLLECTIVE SOUL 157, Michael McDonald 24
PAULA COLE 114, Magnetic Fields 72

Congrats to the winners & condolences to the defeated. Today’s games are live at marchxness.com, so go vote!

MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION HALFTIME SCORES

Bonnie Raitt 80, Portishead 38
Sade 101, Third Eye Blind 41
Tom Waits 103, Backstreet Boys 58
Billie Myers 84, Bob Dylan 72

Read, listen, vote by 9am 3/3 at marchxness.com

Hell yeah! Finally here!!!!!

Sharing because I'm hiking around Patagonia for a month and I need to remember which books to put on library e-reader--

A Road Trip With Your Father In Honor of His 74th Birthday, In Playlist Form A road trip which happens to coincide with the occasion of Prince’s death and the release of "Lemonade."

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Excerpt from We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. | Penguin Random House Canada From the author of Meaty and creator of the blog Bitches Gotta Eat comes a smart, edgy, hilarious, and unabashedly raunchy collection of essays about navigating new relationships, growing older, and j...

My Bachelorette Application by Samantha Irby

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Here’s a few favs: thediagram.com/20_2/ortiz.h...

Asking for a thing: what are your favorite hermit-crab stories? (Can be "that you've written" or "by somebody else")

Also I bet she would have had a really witty comeback if, you know, this wasn’t her job & she wasn’t talking to the president. If only people could respond the way they normally would when some asshole says something like that.

Same and I think it’s because it’s not only incredibly misogynistic and mean, it’s also so deeply embarrassing and horrifying that the person who is the president of the United States is a cruel child

Need a dose of humor to kick off the week? Contributor @ambersparks.bsky.social published an article in @writersdigest.bsky.social on her love of dark humor! buff.ly/N4yiQuO

Protect Our Neighbors: The Journey of a Sign When word went out that border patrol agents had been sent to the Coast Guard island off Alameda near Oakland on the eve of October 23, Bay Area residents sprang into action. Before dawn the next morn...

I wrote another essay, just out at my newsletter site.

One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not.

—Fanny Howe, RIP

There’s still time to sign up for my Art of the Personal Essay 6-week @hugohouse.bsky.social class! We start May 5! Hope to see you there! hugohouse.org/product/the-...

It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....

President Trump, Vice President Vance and their wives sit in the front row at a church service. Headline reads: "Bishop Asks Trump to ‘Have Mercy’ on Immigrants and Gay Children." Photo credit: Doug Mills/The New York Times.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde was nearing the end of her sermon for the inaugural prayer service on Tuesday when she took a breath and looked directly at President Trump.

“I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” said Bishop Budde. nyti.ms/4jtuyHA

Hi besties my new chap is out: www.abodepress.com/product-page...

so here we go—like a sales force into the night!

3/22, ELITE 8: (8) Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Heads Will Roll vs (10) LCD Soundsystem, All My Friends — March Danceness

Choices get painful in the @marchxness.bsky.social Elite 8, y'all. @erinkeane.bsky.social & @katecarmody8.bsky.social have written evenly-matched banger essays, & these are both great songs, swimming at the same confluence of dancer & hipster. Tough call!

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I've often wondered (& @marchxness.bsky.social & @katecarmody8.bsky.social's essay reminded me to check) whether the 1975 has acknowledged that "Sex" clearly began as an attempt to cover "Friends"—which led me to Matty Healy calling "Friends" "the cool guys' 'Mr. Brightside.'" IT'S ALL CONNECTED.

3/19, SWEET 16: (3) Christina Aguilera vs (10) LCD Soundsystem — March Danceness

Looks like LCD is pulling away—& that's the right outcome, but don't miss @ashiepants.bsky.social's @marchxness.bsky.social essay on "Dirrty" & growth via doing bad things, which gets better the more I think about it. @katecarmody8.bsky.social's on LCD & blooming late is also fantastic!

3/19, SWEET 16: (3) Christina Aguilera vs (10) LCD Soundsystem — March Danceness

I’m a big fan of @ashiepants.bsky.social’s “Dirrty” essay (“under the influence of vodka, theft, and X-Tina”) but since my bracket is trashed I can follow my heart & get wistful with @katecarmody8.bsky.social ’s ode to “All My Friends,” LCD Soundsystem & late blooming. marchxness.com/sweet16-xtin...

3/14, 2nd Round: (2) Madonna vs (10) LCD Soundsystem — March Danceness

Okay, so this is the one to watch: neck and neck, running up some big numbers. I'm totally Team LCD w/ @katecarmody8.bsky.social, but these are two great essays by writers w/ (it appears) very strong @marchxness.bsky.social ground games. Whoever wins could go all the way?

3/14, 2nd Round: (2) Madonna vs (10) LCD Soundsystem — March Danceness

LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends" would have been my first choice to write about in the #Danceness draft, so I must throw my support behind this song I love with all my sincere heart, and @katecarmody8.bsky.social's lovely essay, in this round: marchxness.com/2ndround-mad...