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Elizabeth Gonzalez James
@egjames.bsky.social
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Screenwriter and author of The Bullet Swallower, Mona at Sea.

“Middling” — The Michigan Daily
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Couldn’t bear to put Sir Skellington away so we’re just gonna go with this.
Friendly skeleton in a Santa hat saying hello from some porch steps
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Can’t believe my husband let me talk him into this
Author and reluctant husband dressed as Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Dress for the job you want, especially if the job you want is 600 year old beauty guru.
Isabella Rossellini’s character Lisl Von Rhuman in Death Becomes Her.
October 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.
October 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.
The mind flayer from Stranger Things, a big scary thing with a bunch of arms and can shoot fire lightning out of its … somewhere.
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Good morning Chicago! Going to speak to Harper College in a few minutes!
Elizabeth wearing a red blazer and black pants
October 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I’m also supposed to go to a “dress as your favorite villain” party and I wanted to go as Anton Chigurh. Do you think I can make Chigurh sexy??
Javier Bardem as the character Anton Chigurh in the movie No Country For Old Men. He’s wearing a jean jacket, white socks, and is carrying an oxygen tank.
September 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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I was mostly kidding but of course it fucking exists 😂
September 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Have entered my DGAF 40s and am thinking of finally wearing a “sexy” costume for Halloween. What do we think about sexy plague doctor?
Medieval plague doctor wearing long black cloak and a mask with a long bird beak
September 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Thanks to the Provincetown Book Festival for a wonderful weekend! Love you #ptown 🌈🌈🌈🌈
Cleyvis Natera, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, bookseller, and Xochitl Gonzalez. Authors all hold copies of their books. Cleyvis Natera, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, and Xochitl Gonzalez on stage looking like three fabulous bitches. Beach sunset
September 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Boz Scaggs Hits! definitely lived in our Mercury Topaz for a looong time.
September 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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My rapture outfit
Madonna from early 2000d wearing a shirt that says Snatch coming soon
September 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Caught the sunset tonight at Race Beach in Provincetown
September 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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I’m going to Michigan tomorrow to say goodbye to my Aunt Eleanor, who was always having the best time at any party.

In the last year I’ve lost 3 aunts, 1 cousin, and my father in law. I’m glad I made the time to see them when I could, even if it was difficult. We all have so few hours together.
September 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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You’re telling me this Parker Posey is shilling for cars now??
September 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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I’m learning Finnish right now so this is very funny to me.
September 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
Picture by one of Andrew Wyeth’s kids of a man with a pumpkin for a head sitting in some cold looking Maine landscape and he’s gesticulating because he’s about to say something smart.
August 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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This is most - but not all - of what was available to pick in my garden yesterday and today
Two mega bowls of assorted cherry tomatoes, big bowl of Concord grapes, a bunch of yellow squashes, and a bowl of green beans.
August 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Finished!
August 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Update: I finished the mofo #knitting
What hand knit mock neck sweater with puff shoulders and lace detail at the sleeves
August 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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1.5 years of #Pilates and look at this fucking form 🫡🫡🫡

First time at paddle board yoga and I only fell in twice!
Elizabeth doing a really good variation of the Pilates 100 on a paddle board at sunset
July 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I feel like an old man screaming at a cloud but here’s the letter I sent to the editors of House Beautiful Magazine over an AI generated feature they ran in this month’s issue. I’m so over this shit.

(Editors have not yet responded)
I've been a reader of House Beautiful for many, many years, going back to leafing through my mother's issues when I was a small child. It's my favorite decorating magazine, as the feature spreads are usually stylish yet achievable, highlight a diversity of perspectives, and adhere to editorial standards that are consistently high. I was saddened, then, to open the July/August issue and discover "Pick Your Potion," a three-page spread of AI-generated concepts for in-home bars. As a writer myself, I have many, many qualms about the use of AI, and I will not get into them here. But suffice it to say that using AI in any capacity is problematic as many generative AI models were trained on pirated copyrighted works (including my own novels). But my biggest gripe with a magazine featuring AI-generated content is: If you can't be bothered to write it (or illustrate it), why should I be bothered to read it? What possible benefit could I derive from something no one thought was worth the time to compose themselves? Furthermore, I find it baffling that House Beautiful would put together a spread recommending possible design configurations, when the recommendations are entirely fictive. Can I purchase these cupboards somewhere? This color of paint? These tiles? I understand that much of the magazine's purpose is to get me, the consumer, to buy things. And I accept the terms of this relationship because I am invested in improving the appearance of my house. Hence, why I read the magazine in the first place. But if you are going to show me things I cannot buy because they don't exist... You can see why I am thoroughly confused as to the point of this exercise. You haven't upheld your side of this relationship. What benefit am I deriving from this? And finally, the execution of the pictures is sloppy to put it mildly (as is standard, it seems, with AI generated images.) Did no one look at the photos before the magazine went to print? In the first image there is a faucet that empties into nothing, and the two outer halves of the cabinet do not line up. In the second image there is a sink with no plumbing, nor even any space in which to put plumbing. And none of the pictures show outlets which, I assume, do not exist in the streamlined world of the AI generated home. Again I come back to my previous point - if you cannot be bothered to create your own concepts (nor, apparently, even check the images to make sure they make conceptual sense before they are printed and disseminated), why should I bother to look at what you've produced? Sloppy, insulting, baffling, pointless - these are the words I would use to describe this feature. And this is to say nothing of the dubious ethical implications of eschewing paying trained, professional photographers and stylists in favor of cheap, AI-generated content. I sincerely hope this is not the direction in which this magazine is moving.
July 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

What are you doing for self-care right now?
July 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Ew gross no thanks Wordle Bot
Screen cap of a dirty ass Wordle bot telling me I should have guessed Pubic
July 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Doing yoga at MassMoCa with Sol LeWitt.
Elizabeth balancing on one foot with arms extended in front of primary color wall drawing of squares by Sol LeWitt.
July 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM