Yes! Also? I wish people would give up on the take that "this thing you enjoy is Bad, Actually, and you should feel bad for enjoying it."
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Yes! Also? I wish people would give up on the take that "this thing you enjoy is Bad, Actually, and you should feel bad for enjoying it."
The best reason to get a liberal arts education is to be able to laugh out loud at jokes like this
I put that album on at work a couple weeks ago and had to stop it after 30 seconds because I didn't have time to sob at my desk that day.
This is @joshfeit.bsky.social 's bat signal
To be clear, it seems correct that working as a journalist with a good mentor/editor for two years is better and certainly more economical than J school. But it's not because journalism schools spend too much time teaching you how to write well.
Found the @joeposnanski.com middle reader section at Loganberry Books
One extra-fun part of this "don't go to journalism school, they'll only teach you that journalism is good" piece is that the author's shining example of an AI-adoring reporter ... went to journalism school: www.cleveland.com/staff/hdrown/
(raising arizona voice) I LOVE HIM SO MUCH
When he played Climate Pledge this fall, I swear he told a five-minute story about how much he loves the Mariners and Cal Raleigh.
museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go
Better things was sooooo good! And got better and better the farther it got from LCK.
ST quoted him today saying he had no idea what was going on, and that he was always taught to pick up any loose ball, so it was just habit.
Just remember that Three Days of the Condor is a Christmas movie.
For whatever it's worth, I saw him here in Seattle this past year and it was super fun. There's still more than a little Elvis impersonator in there.
You deserve a break! But if you've a mind to write some more, here are a few good ones that I don't know if you wrote about this year:
- Drake Milligan, Tumbleweed
- Julianna Riolino, Echo In The Dust
- Adam Wright, Nature of Necessity
- May Erlewine, What It Takes
Strongly recommend Judge McKeown's book on Douglas from a couple years ago, focusing on his conservation advocacy (and its complications): www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
To cheer you up, here's a photo of T Mobile Park last night. JN 4life
I'd love to see an Air Sled! Super useful for moving refrigerators, washing machines, etc. airsled.com
Gamelan envy isn't pretty. Go Wes!
It was the hardest citecheck and edit I had any part of (check out some of the sources cited - for one I relied on my own personal cassette of a pre-stardom Dixie Chicks album) but I assure you everything MLR published got checked from stem to stern.
(raises hand) Sigh. I was there when we published it. It had been accepted two volumes earlier, and the editing and citechecking took so long that it didn't get published until 1998.
YES re: Bill Withers. Watch him start "Use Me" on acoustic guitar, and tell me that's not a folk-soul song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luzl...
This is such a lovely conversation. Thanks so much for sharing it with us (the world).
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I love how, every game, Naylor untucks his shirt almost immediately after the last out. He is my favorite muppet on the M's.
Loved Angie's reaction too
At Newport this summer, people were over the moon about him. Folks raving about his set the next day, every act bringing him up on stage. I just don't get it.
Really enjoyed this essay.
Want to hear some smart talk about environmental protection in the Attorney General's Office? Check out @nickbrownnow.bsky.social on the State Energy & Enviro Impact Center's podcast. I talk a bit too, but you can FF through those parts. open.spotify.com/episode/0pbW...
Love the new album. But I think she means what she's saying in "need a ride." When I saw her last year, she had a lot to say about how COVID restrictions did in her coffeeshop. At the end of the story, she said "so, f*** the government." And it was not in a Woody Guthrie way.