Erin Keane
@erinkeane.bsky.social
Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @Salon.com | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
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Erin Keane
@erinkeane.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Welcome, new friends! My book is pop culture criticism woven around my family's origin story: my mom ran away from her military officer family's home at 13, hitchhiked around the country, lived as an adult in 1970s NYC, then married an ex-con her own father's age. bookshop.org/p/books/runa...
Nobody told me the future would be so deeply stupid.
Waymo, Google’s autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash have launched a pilot program that pays delivery workers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that a previous passenger left open, according to a joint statement from the company given to 404 Media.
Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars
The companies have launched a pilot program in Atlanta, where “during the rare event a vehicle door is left ajar, preventing the car from departing, nearby Dashers are notified, allowing Waymo to get ...
www.404media.co
February 12, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Nobody told me the future would be so deeply stupid.
A good book mail day for me! 🙌 cc @aaronburch.bsky.social @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
A good book mail day for me! 🙌 cc @aaronburch.bsky.social @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
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If you've ever wanted to get into treasure hunting at estate sales but felt intimidated by the unwritten rules and codes or wondered how people find such gems, Bring Cash is for you!
Cover design by @downpourdw.bsky.social
Releasing March 31st! Preorder here: beltpublishing.com/products/bri...
Cover design by @downpourdw.bsky.social
Releasing March 31st! Preorder here: beltpublishing.com/products/bri...
February 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
If you've ever wanted to get into treasure hunting at estate sales but felt intimidated by the unwritten rules and codes or wondered how people find such gems, Bring Cash is for you!
Cover design by @downpourdw.bsky.social
Releasing March 31st! Preorder here: beltpublishing.com/products/bri...
Cover design by @downpourdw.bsky.social
Releasing March 31st! Preorder here: beltpublishing.com/products/bri...
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One of the all-time Josie Masterpieces, this oral history
Yes — Mark Hamill getting cast as The Joker because he was begging to be on the show RIGHT when Tim Curry got fired is a classic example, as documented in my 2017 oral history of Batman: The Animated Series:
archive.is/uFoOU
archive.is/uFoOU
![BT: Everybody who came in to audition for the Joker was doing, basically, [Adam West–era Joker actor] Cesar Romero. They weren’t treating the character seriously. All of the actors that we tested were all doing these really silly and bizarre voices. None of it had any serious threat to it at all. Tim Curry actually came in and gave us something really close to what we wanted. It was funny and weird but also definitely had some menace to it. So we hired Tim. He did about three episodes for us. And then Alan Burnett came to me after we did the third one, and we listened to the assembled tracks, and he said, “I think we have to replace Tim.”
AR: He just couldn’t wrap his head around Tim’s performance. And the truth of it is, I never would have recast Tim.
BT: I didn’t want to do it because we had already recorded a bunch of episodes with him and I knew we would have to rerecord them in post, which I knew was going to be a nightmare. But it didn’t take much for him to convince me, because I was kind of leaning that way myself. It’s not that Tim was doing anything bad, it just wasn’t quite what we wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreicp7nlfegzs6i2hjxdk5qwnt7wcnszrm4ojuo7o7sghjenzgrn724@jpeg)
![MH: I got a call saying, “They want you to come in and audition for the Joker.” And I said, “Oh, gosh, that’s a little too high-profile for my liking. Not only has it been done with Cesar Romero, but it’s been done by Jack Nicholson. What can I bring to the table that hasn’t been done before?” I said, “I’d rather play Two-Face or Clayface or someone who hasn’t been done.” The reason I went in was because I was absolutely certain that they would be unable to cast me as the Joker simply because, public-relations-wise, the idea of the guy who played Luke Skywalker — this icon of heroism, this virtuous character — playing this icon of villainy? Comic-book fans are notoriously demanding. They’re very opinionated and not shy about letting you know how they feel. I thought it would be a PR disaster that they would not be able to withstand. It gave me a great confidence, since I didn’t think there was any shot at all of me getting the part, so I had that performance anxiety removed.
PD: I remember listening to his audition, and when he did the laugh, I said, “That’s it. That’s just it.” The laugh was cruel, it was funny, there was an undercurrent of terrible sadness to it. It was a laugh from a destroyed soul.
MH: I had done Mozart in Amadeus in the first national tour, and then they transferred me over to Broadway, and one of the things that is relevant to my audition [for the Joker] is that Mozart had this sort of ghastly laugh that threw everybody. I played with that laugh a lot. I’d do a little Dwight Frye, I’d do a little Sydney Greenstreet. I love all those old Warner Bros. movies, so I was just slipping people in. Sometimes I’d get notes like, “It was a little too ‘Jerry Lewis at the matinee’. Reel it back.” I’m telling you this because, in retrospect, after getting the part, I asked Andrea Romano, “How did I get it? What was the process? How did you know that you wanted me?” And she said, “The laugh.” I didn’t want to get pigeonholed into a specific laugh. With the…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreihpixqca4m27sihmd2hfhimpnfxajk43vpzhozrncbjllbwofuzxa@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM
One of the all-time Josie Masterpieces, this oral history
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Several months back, I wrote about ADHD and menopause, and among the people who contacted me was @aliciajrose.bsky.social. She told me two alarming things: one, that my brain was eating itself, and two, that women have been lied to about HRT for two decades. She’s making a movie/a movement about it
How the FDA fueled a menopause panic
Decades ago, women were told hormone replacement therapy would kill them. Now, there's a movement to demand justice.
www.salon.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Several months back, I wrote about ADHD and menopause, and among the people who contacted me was @aliciajrose.bsky.social. She told me two alarming things: one, that my brain was eating itself, and two, that women have been lied to about HRT for two decades. She’s making a movie/a movement about it
Jesus, Andrew Ranken died, too? www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Pogues drummer Andrew Ranken dead at 72
In a statement published online the band said Ranken was the "heartbeat of The Pogues".
www.bbc.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Jesus, Andrew Ranken died, too? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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This is me!
Had a super fun chat with Sophie Newman on zoom and now here it is in Electric Lit. In her intro, she calls me "the Rick Rubin of online literary publishing," which seems really funny but also I'm kinda into it.
Had a super fun chat with Sophie Newman on zoom and now here it is in Electric Lit. In her intro, she calls me "the Rick Rubin of online literary publishing," which seems really funny but also I'm kinda into it.
Read Sophie Newman’s interview with “Tacoma” author Aaron Burch. They talk about the last 20 years of the literary scene, writerly obsession, autofiction, and more.
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February 12, 2026 at 12:23 AM
This is me!
Had a super fun chat with Sophie Newman on zoom and now here it is in Electric Lit. In her intro, she calls me "the Rick Rubin of online literary publishing," which seems really funny but also I'm kinda into it.
Had a super fun chat with Sophie Newman on zoom and now here it is in Electric Lit. In her intro, she calls me "the Rick Rubin of online literary publishing," which seems really funny but also I'm kinda into it.
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OKD Newsletter Editor, Christine Salek @cms.bsky.social, and Fiction Reader Eleanor Ball eleanorball.bsky.social are among several amazing editors who worked on MONARCH 2026, a queer awards anthology from fifth wheel press! Pre-order it at asterismbooks.com/product/mona.... Out on March 3rd.
February 11, 2026 at 11:01 PM
OKD Newsletter Editor, Christine Salek @cms.bsky.social, and Fiction Reader Eleanor Ball eleanorball.bsky.social are among several amazing editors who worked on MONARCH 2026, a queer awards anthology from fifth wheel press! Pre-order it at asterismbooks.com/product/mona.... Out on March 3rd.
OK so did everyone but me know there was an American Girl doll who shared a name with a woman wanted by the FBI for eco terrorism at the time of her debut? Because I just learned this yesterday and feel like the Instagram meme accounts failed us abcnews.com/Business/sto...
Rebecca Rubin: American Girl and Eco-Terrorist
American Girl's newest Jewish doll, Rebecca Rubin, has same name as FBI wanted poster for eco-terrorist indicted in fire-bombings of Oregon energy plant.
abcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:26 PM
OK so did everyone but me know there was an American Girl doll who shared a name with a woman wanted by the FBI for eco terrorism at the time of her debut? Because I just learned this yesterday and feel like the Instagram meme accounts failed us abcnews.com/Business/sto...
If you're mainlining Olympic ice dancing and takes on "Wuthering Heights" this week, might I suggest reading "The Favorites" by Layne Fargo next www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747088...
The Favorites by Layne Fargo: 9780593732069 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An epic love story set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating, starring a woman determined to...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:20 PM
If you're mainlining Olympic ice dancing and takes on "Wuthering Heights" this week, might I suggest reading "The Favorites" by Layne Fargo next www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747088...
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It looks like the Blake Lively case is headed for trial and I’m steeling myself to have to relive another version of Depp v. Heard. Like Final Destination for viral smear campaigns against celebrity women
February 11, 2026 at 10:15 PM
It looks like the Blake Lively case is headed for trial and I’m steeling myself to have to relive another version of Depp v. Heard. Like Final Destination for viral smear campaigns against celebrity women
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Absolutely outrageous that women are still being gaslit by poorly-trained doctors about perimenopause and its available and safe treatments. www.salon.com/2026/02/11/h...
How the FDA fueled a menopause panic
Decades ago, women were told hormone replacement therapy would kill them. Now, there's a movement to demand justice.
www.salon.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Absolutely outrageous that women are still being gaslit by poorly-trained doctors about perimenopause and its available and safe treatments. www.salon.com/2026/02/11/h...
I remember a time, not too long ago — a year ago, even! — when something as simple as having the mail held, then delivered on the day after the hold expired, simply worked.
February 11, 2026 at 8:29 PM
I remember a time, not too long ago — a year ago, even! — when something as simple as having the mail held, then delivered on the day after the hold expired, simply worked.
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They are dismissed as hysterical or non-expert or irrationally cautious.
Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.
Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.
Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.
Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.
February 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
They are dismissed as hysterical or non-expert or irrationally cautious.
Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.
Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.
Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.
Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.
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For @marchxness.bsky.social, so I wrote an extracurricular about Mimi Parker, Low, love, sadness, and Minneapolis. Side note: Minnesota gave us Prince, Low, Bob Dylan and Husker Du. We owe those people.
marchxness.com/the-essays?u...
marchxness.com/the-essays?u...
Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition
marchxness.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:02 PM
For @marchxness.bsky.social, so I wrote an extracurricular about Mimi Parker, Low, love, sadness, and Minneapolis. Side note: Minnesota gave us Prince, Low, Bob Dylan and Husker Du. We owe those people.
marchxness.com/the-essays?u...
marchxness.com/the-essays?u...
I was gonna have "Crossroads" to take it all, but the author had to drop. (I never bet on my own essay to win, and especially not this year with "November Rain" being a #1 seed!)
March Sadness 90s Edition Bracket is Live: marchxness.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:07 PM
I was gonna have "Crossroads" to take it all, but the author had to drop. (I never bet on my own essay to win, and especially not this year with "November Rain" being a #1 seed!)
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That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.
February 9, 2026 at 1:30 AM
That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.
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This is the Super Bowl for people who hate AI and cannot escape it no matter how hard they try
February 9, 2026 at 1:10 AM
This is the Super Bowl for people who hate AI and cannot escape it no matter how hard they try
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Ok so in the pantheon of “amazing signage,” I don’t know that anything quite compares to the former strip club in Portland, OR, Dancin’ Bare.
Which, you should note, despite its name, does not feature dancing bears. As the sign helpfully indicates.
Which, you should note, despite its name, does not feature dancing bears. As the sign helpfully indicates.
February 8, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Ok so in the pantheon of “amazing signage,” I don’t know that anything quite compares to the former strip club in Portland, OR, Dancin’ Bare.
Which, you should note, despite its name, does not feature dancing bears. As the sign helpfully indicates.
Which, you should note, despite its name, does not feature dancing bears. As the sign helpfully indicates.
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fundraising emails are now just full on "U up?"
February 8, 2026 at 1:31 AM
fundraising emails are now just full on "U up?"
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How could anyone
February 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM
How could anyone
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essay i mentioned previously on how independent music gives you the basic tools for organizing even if you didn’t realize you were building those skills, and how great it’s been to watch people hit the ground running
TODAY: @supremenothing.myatproto.social shares the good news from indie music: "People from all over, regardless of scene or genre, are really showing up. This isn’t just a punk thing; this isn’t about protest songs, or music that’s always been explicitly political." flaminghydra.com/issue-497/?a...
Wisdom of the crowd / Star power
jj skolnik on underground organizing; Laurie Woolever talks with culinary superstars in Mexico City
flaminghydra.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:31 PM
essay i mentioned previously on how independent music gives you the basic tools for organizing even if you didn’t realize you were building those skills, and how great it’s been to watch people hit the ground running
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The Winter Olympics are so metal that they looked at skiing and were like, “This isn’t hard enough. Let’s add guns.”
the winter olympics are five times cooler than summer’s because death lurks around every goddamn corner. you fuck up one inch the wrong way and at best you are hobbled for life. hell yeah this is what sport is all about
February 7, 2026 at 3:12 PM
The Winter Olympics are so metal that they looked at skiing and were like, “This isn’t hard enough. Let’s add guns.”
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February 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM