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Daniel J. Cecil
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Writer of short stories. Teacher of travel writing at Emerson and fiction at Honing House.

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www.writerdanieljcecil.com

www.honinghouse.com

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Cleaning out a leaking barn, so giving the bike a quick service before putting it into storage.
A grey Canyon Grizl bike on a stand, ready for cleaning and maintenance. Mainly, a bike flex.
October 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Going to Cleveland tomorrow for the bucket hats alone. Might shave my beard into a mustache too. Fucking love trends.
August 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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This gal loves to camp.
A beautiful, white rescue dog covered in black spotting named Dilla, sitting a field outside the entrance to a tent. She is enjoying sheer bliss.
August 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Got my lux Japanese tent set up on lock. No flight summer 2026.
A beautiful Snow Peak Amenity Dome tent made for the camper who likes to drop too much money on aesthetics, like moi.
August 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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I just visited a pro basketball player’s house and this is how I look in his bathroom mirror.
Self portrait in a bathroom mirror at a pro basketball player’s houw. The mirror is hung so high you can only see my hat. I’m a Short King and no one can tell me otherwise.
August 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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My boy Dilla, eating anything not tied down … including my sandals, my bike pump, highlighters, records, etc.
A beautiful, speckled street dog called Dilla, named after the artist known for Donuts.
August 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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I'm currently re-reading Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism and was struck by how this quote about Kurt Cobain so beautifully encapsulates art made with AI. Taking a wild swing (I didn't know the man) but I think Mark would have really hated Grok.
A text from Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher in which he says, quote: "Cobain found himself in 'a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, [where] all that is left is to imitate dead styles, to speak through the masks and with the voices of the styles in the imaginary museum'. Here, even success means failure, since to succeed would only mean that you were the new meat on which the system could feed."
July 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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The modern fact is that we no longer believe in this world. We do not even believe in the events which happen to us, love, death, as if they only half concerned us ... The link between man and the world is broken. —Gilles Deleuze
A picture of a young woman wearing the Apple Pro augmented reality glasses, which look themselves like a ski mask.
February 11, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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Found a WWII fort in the forest near our rental in Terschelling. Can’t help but imagine being posted in a forest in winter, waiting out a long war.
February 9, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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In the car, on my way to Terschelling for a mini-holiday. It's a good day to uitwaaien (the Dutch tradition of walking in the wind).
James Franco is shirtless saying “Blow me away, my god!”
February 9, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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One thing I particularly like about my long commute back from #Limburg is the luxury of sitting on a train and working on hard copy #writing drafts with absolutely zero distractions.
A picture of a pen held before a manuscript entitled Sleeping on the Wing.
January 18, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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Pulling out Things Seen by #AnnieErnaux for my #Emerson students. Classes are just a week away and it's time to finalize the syllabus! Has anyone else read this book?
The gray cover of Things Seem by Annie Ernaux.
January 9, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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Read Good Old Neon last night for the first time in forever (since I'd given it to a student as an example of first-person obsessive rambling) and for all of DFWs faults, that meta-ending really devastates, especially when one is experiencing existential insomnia.
A photo of the gold green cover of David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion collection.
January 3, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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I see my bones in these buildings.
November 6, 2023 at 1:19 PM
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The fantastic mushrooms of the Dutch Veluwe. I’m especially curious about the one that’s broken open and hollow inside. #mushrooms #veluwe
A cluster of white capped mushrooms with drooping caps. A mushroom with a broken open cap and something mysterious inside. A red capped mushroom with white, tactile dots. Dirty grey mushrooms that could very well be mistaken sickly penises.
October 28, 2023 at 3:11 PM
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Learning some thelemic magick. Might be research for something.
October 26, 2023 at 10:17 PM
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Recently saw the Hilma af Klint exhibit in Den Haag and was really inspired by her work, as well as Mondriaan’s. Everyone in the Netherland’s should go see this exhibit of a brilliant pairing.

www.kunstmuseum.nl/nl/tentoonst...
Hilma’s watercolor of a morel mushroom. A circle with a bunch of esoteric writing on it. A watercolor of a universe. Mondriaan painting of a red tree on a blue background.
October 15, 2023 at 9:17 PM
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Reading this banger right now. Love the rambling tone.
October 13, 2023 at 9:26 PM