Elena Passarello
@elenavox.bsky.social
Multi-hyperventilate.
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So @essaydaily.bsky.social is doing our yearly Advent calendar this year and we have a few more spots if you'd like to write about visual media (games, movies, shows, anything visual is ok). Drop me/us a line.
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
So @essaydaily.bsky.social is doing our yearly Advent calendar this year and we have a few more spots if you'd like to write about visual media (games, movies, shows, anything visual is ok). Drop me/us a line.
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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Hatton, a sentient aerial view of a spilled bowl of soup, is the mascot for Tome City. The ingredients in the soup are local produce, and the spillage is in the shape of the city.
September 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hatton, a sentient aerial view of a spilled bowl of soup, is the mascot for Tome City. The ingredients in the soup are local produce, and the spillage is in the shape of the city.
!!!GO BEAVS!!!
hello it's me 😭 literary-arts.org/2025/08/meet...
Meet Katherine Cusumano, 2025 Oregon Literary Fellow
We’re thrilled to introduce the 2025 Oregon Literary Fellowship Recipients with individual features on our blog. Out-of-state judges spent several months evaluating the 400+ applications we received, ...
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August 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
!!!GO BEAVS!!!
We're finally watching The Righteous Gemstones and it is the most South Carolina show I've ever seen...specifically Low Country AF Just caught a reference to PLUFF MUD, for godssake!
August 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
We're finally watching The Righteous Gemstones and it is the most South Carolina show I've ever seen...specifically Low Country AF Just caught a reference to PLUFF MUD, for godssake!
You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops...
With the 39th pick David Turkel selects Tom Waits's "Hold On" (1999): www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P5j...
Tom Waits - "Hold On"
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
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July 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops...
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when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
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SPRING forward into your writing goals and FALL in love with PDX during your stay at the 2025 Tin House General Fall Residency. The vibrant arts scene and dedicated writing time will give your manuscript just the boost it needs!
Apply by April 7th: tinhouse.com/workshop/res...
Apply by April 7th: tinhouse.com/workshop/res...
April 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
SPRING forward into your writing goals and FALL in love with PDX during your stay at the 2025 Tin House General Fall Residency. The vibrant arts scene and dedicated writing time will give your manuscript just the boost it needs!
Apply by April 7th: tinhouse.com/workshop/res...
Apply by April 7th: tinhouse.com/workshop/res...
I just sent the most Den Mother email to the grad students in my program who are heading to LA, expressing the same thing. Then I went to the store and bought myself protein bars and trail mix and tuna snack packs. #dontAWPhangry
I’m not at AWP in LA this year but here is my unsolicited advice: no there will not be food available at that reading later so you should just stop now and eat something.
March 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I just sent the most Den Mother email to the grad students in my program who are heading to LA, expressing the same thing. Then I went to the store and bought myself protein bars and trail mix and tuna snack packs. #dontAWPhangry
Come experiment with me (and some AMAZING guests) this May! I promise to look much older than I do in the photo below!
NEW OA COURSE!
"Writing the Experimental Essay," led by @elenavox.bsky.social w guest authors Lawrence Lenhart, Hanif Abdurraqib, @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social & Sarah Minor will help your bring non-traditional projects to life.
Learn more and sign up at buff.ly/qweuO2D
"Writing the Experimental Essay," led by @elenavox.bsky.social w guest authors Lawrence Lenhart, Hanif Abdurraqib, @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social & Sarah Minor will help your bring non-traditional projects to life.
Learn more and sign up at buff.ly/qweuO2D
March 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Come experiment with me (and some AMAZING guests) this May! I promise to look much older than I do in the photo below!
FRIDAY UPDATE:
1) They were playing "the Humpty Dance" at the convenience store and nobody wanted to do the dance with me.
2) My MarchXness essay from 2019's Goth tournament gets the Second Chanceness treatment today! I've been loving reading everyone's work so far this March.
1) They were playing "the Humpty Dance" at the convenience store and nobody wanted to do the dance with me.
2) My MarchXness essay from 2019's Goth tournament gets the Second Chanceness treatment today! I've been loving reading everyone's work so far this March.
"Nick Cave is still someone worth writing about."
On 3/7 we bring back @elenavox.bsky.social's essay on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand": marchxness.com/2xness-cave/
On 3/7 we bring back @elenavox.bsky.social's essay on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand": marchxness.com/2xness-cave/
March 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
FRIDAY UPDATE:
1) They were playing "the Humpty Dance" at the convenience store and nobody wanted to do the dance with me.
2) My MarchXness essay from 2019's Goth tournament gets the Second Chanceness treatment today! I've been loving reading everyone's work so far this March.
1) They were playing "the Humpty Dance" at the convenience store and nobody wanted to do the dance with me.
2) My MarchXness essay from 2019's Goth tournament gets the Second Chanceness treatment today! I've been loving reading everyone's work so far this March.
Good morning; time to cry...
Dolly Parton has released a new song called If You Hadn’t Been There as a tribute to her late husband, Carl Dean. “If you hadn’t been there / Well, who would I be?” [youtube.com]
Dolly Parton - If You Hadn’t Been There (Official Audio)
“If You Hadn’t Been There” by Dolly Parton http://dolly.lnk.to/IYHBT
Lyrics:
(Verse 1)
If you hadn’t been there
Where would I be?
Without your trust
Love and belief
The ups and downs
We’ve always shared
And I wouldn’t be here
If you hadn’t been there
(Verse 2)
If you hadn’t been you
Well who would
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March 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Good morning; time to cry...
Nuthin' says March 1 like the kickoff of an Xness enterprise! And this is the best anthology title ever.
Give @marchxness.bsky.social a follow to join in on all the music writing chatter!
Give @marchxness.bsky.social a follow to join in on all the music writing chatter!
This is the longest we've kept a secret project secret: SLP is proud to be the home for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, collated by the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee (@angermonsoon.bsky.social + @meganc.bsky.social) and forthcoming on 3/31/26!
February 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Nuthin' says March 1 like the kickoff of an Xness enterprise! And this is the best anthology title ever.
Give @marchxness.bsky.social a follow to join in on all the music writing chatter!
Give @marchxness.bsky.social a follow to join in on all the music writing chatter!
"Renata Adler wrote, 'It’s perfect, you, Lorne, a legacy for Lillian,' a cryptic reference possibly to longtime New Yorker writer Lillian Ross." Oh, to be in such company on a runaway reply-all train.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
The Lorne Michaels Book-Event Thread Is the Reply-All Disaster We Need
Susan Morrison’s invitation quickly went haywire, thanks to some boomer journalists and Tina Fey.
nymag.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"Renata Adler wrote, 'It’s perfect, you, Lorne, a legacy for Lillian,' a cryptic reference possibly to longtime New Yorker writer Lillian Ross." Oh, to be in such company on a runaway reply-all train.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
We're talking about these Bohemian wonders on this week's LiveWire...you know who doesn't have to wait around for zone permits? BEAVERS.
The viral Czech beaver story is terrific because it’s a perfect distillation of the grand beaver narrative: the world’s most ingenious rodents, acting without our awareness or authorization, engineering wetlands whose ecological value far exceeds anything humans could dream up. We don’t deserve ‘em.
February 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We're talking about these Bohemian wonders on this week's LiveWire...you know who doesn't have to wait around for zone permits? BEAVERS.
Sorry to Elvis-splain on Superbowl Sabbath, but...
americansongwriter.com/the-meaning-...
americansongwriter.com/the-meaning-...
The Meaning Behind “Personal Jesus” by Depeche Mode—Inspired by Priscilla Presley
What is the meaning of Depeche Mode's song "Personal Jesus"? Let's take a deep dive into the Priscilla Presley inspired track.
americansongwriter.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Sorry to Elvis-splain on Superbowl Sabbath, but...
americansongwriter.com/the-meaning-...
americansongwriter.com/the-meaning-...
David and I went through a car wash while a Disco song played on the radio, which is, I believe, the middle aged version of clubbing.
January 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
David and I went through a car wash while a Disco song played on the radio, which is, I believe, the middle aged version of clubbing.
I read this one immediately after blacking out on ebay looking for calendars from 1986 to hang on my wall in 2025 (the dates match up)...needless to say, it hit home.
I wrote an essay on becoming nostalgia, dressing funny, and buying old shit on eBay to make me feel better. Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for the chance to share!
www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
Dec 19: Jason Sepac, Becoming Nostalgia
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and prev...
www.essaydaily.org
December 20, 2024 at 5:42 PM
I read this one immediately after blacking out on ebay looking for calendars from 1986 to hang on my wall in 2025 (the dates match up)...needless to say, it hit home.
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for the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar, I wrote about our greatest living Santa Claus impersonator: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
Dec 15: Katherine Cusumano, Please Welcome Hardcore Santa to the Ring
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and pr...
www.essaydaily.org
December 15, 2024 at 4:59 PM
for the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar, I wrote about our greatest living Santa Claus impersonator: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
So happy to have an essay on (purportedly) bad Elvis movie songs in this year's Oxford American Music issue! I'll link a few of my fave awesome/awful tunes below.
Alongside fresh perspectives on Memphis legends—including @elenavox.bsky.social’s deep dive into the “very best of the very worst” of Elvis’s discography, and beyond!
December 12, 2024 at 1:24 AM
So happy to have an essay on (purportedly) bad Elvis movie songs in this year's Oxford American Music issue! I'll link a few of my fave awesome/awful tunes below.
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Icelandic dogs be like bjark
November 29, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Icelandic dogs be like bjark