Do not fuck w/ JCO, is what I'm saying.

She asked what journals I'd been published in & when I mentioned Conjunctions she said she just had a story in there, and how nice it was to get your start as a writer. "That's when you start making your first enemies," she said, with the most wonderful, most delighted smile.

Their final assignment, a paper entitled What’s Wrong With Our Professor, must cite at least 4 scholarly sources, including two peer-reviewed medical journals

There’s no fixed amount of immigrant torture that will make these people say, okay that’s enough, they will always feel that the country is broken and that the most vulnerable people are to blame and they will perpetually hunt them for what essentially amounts to anxiety and boredom. There’s no end.

ooo! getting!

a little bit auspicious, yes

A new recent fave, super autumnal: @emmaswiftsings.bsky.social ‘s “The Resurrection Game”:

youtu.be/kt-ChFT2mUM?...

and i was late to the party--too many long car trips w/ Rocio Durcal & Juan Gabriel on the cassette deck--and it took this Aterciopelados cover of Juan Gabriel's "He Venido a Pedirte Perdon" to realize everything I'd been missing.

youtu.be/RYr5uEVB7OI?...

not kidding about that bridge. you can prompt any random South American w/ "dime cuando tu" & they'll be atavistically forced to keep going w/ the song. impossible not to.