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horsdoeuvre.bsky.social
Ludicrously capacious bag
@horsdoeuvre.bsky.social
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parent, spouse, rhetoric prof, essayist. Nonfic at The Rumpus, CRAFT, Archetype, etc. Interviews & Craft Essays Editor at CRAFT. Pushcart nom & BAE notable 2021. One handed backhander. she/her/dr
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Boop! The rice was like halfway to tahdig on accident but it was a happy accident
Close up of grilled salmon atop a bed of charred cherry tomatoes and jalapeños on a white plate. Grilled corn and rice pilaf in background.
August 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
horsdoeuvre.bsky.social
Look how they massacred my boy dot gif
A promo picture of the 2026 Subaru Outback which has a new body design featuring a raised front and boxier shape. It now looks much more like a truck than a sedan/wagon which has really been the whole appeal of the Outback for the last 6 body designs: a raised suspension roomy car with sedan handling, visibility, and fuel economy. This thing sucks. It is blue.
July 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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aaaaaand, nuking my academia account that i haven't logged into for a decade
screen shot of email from academic dot edu saying that an AI has written a review of my paper In Support of Failure
July 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
horsdoeuvre.bsky.social
Real ones know where this is
A bar with gold leaf wallpaper. A tv in the corner plays field of dreams. A sign below the tv reads "save the earth, it's the only planet with beer."
June 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Finished my work bench. If you like Baking Stuff you might love Building Stuff
One side of a workbench being built on a garage. It is a mess of 2x4. The bottom is a rectangular frame, from which multiple studs rise vertically. A second frame approx 1/3 of the size of the whole workbench is clamped to the vertical studs, awaiting permanent fixture with screws. The whole workbench is approximately 8ft long, 3.5 ft deep, and about 40 inches tall. A nearly finished skeleton for a work bench in a garage. Now it has wheels. One side has a shelf framed in halfway between the bottom deck and the top; the other side does not have that shelf. There is a wide empty space in the middle where a platform for a miter saw will be installed. The whole piece is in a garage. In the background is a driveway and a sunny day. A finished, rolling workbench in a garage. The whole workbench is approximately 8ft long, 3.5 ft deep, and about 40 inches tall. The middle section of the workbench is slightly lower than the tabletops on either side to accommodate a miter saw. There is saw dust everywhere, and some tools in the foreground. There is a cold seltzer on the workbench. The finished workbench now snug in its corner in the garage. There are tools and equipment on all the shelves.
May 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Nobody will care but here is the bottom frame for a rolling workbench I'm building so we can transition away from the 3/4" ply on sawhorses setup we have rn. Have to build this so that I can get to work on a tall garage "mudroom" install (cubbies, boot tray, bench, hooks, overhead storage, pegboard)
An 8x3 frame for a mobile workbench stands on its side. Behind and around it, a messy garage.
May 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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April 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
horsdoeuvre.bsky.social
Yep 🤬
Screen shot of LibGen, a tool developed by The Atlantic to trace whether your work has been stolen by META for its bullshit anti-human robot copyright theft tool, showing my edited collection Failure Pedagogies: Learning and Unlearning What It Means To Fail is one such book
March 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
horsdoeuvre.bsky.social
It's still the Gulf of Mexico on Delta Airlines inflight tracker
Picture of a screen in an airplane showing the Gulf of Mexico, properly labeled as such
February 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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@salilb.bsky.social it really is the best falafel, thank you so much for the rec
A picture of two falafel in tahini with pickled red cabbage at SHAYA, an amazing middle eastern restaurant in the garden district of New Orleans. The third falafel has already been eaten.
February 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
horsdoeuvre.bsky.social
would anyone like to give me feedback on a course description for a FA25 first year seminar (pending) that I have titled READING FOR PLEASURE?
course description titled Reading for Pleasure. The description reads: Reading for Pleasure "I never have time to read for fun anymore." "I used to love reading." "I wish I could read more." Does this sound like you? As we grow toward adulthood and responsibilities increase, it can be difficult to make space for those activities that ask us to slow down and take time for ourselves. This course aims to carve out that space for you to revisit treasured books from your past and to discover new titles that keep you up all night (or that you read slowly because you never want them to end). As a class, we will talk about favorite books, important memories associated with reading, and what makes us fall in love with a book or a writer. We will write about these subjects as well, and learn about the ways both professional and casual readers write about books for public audiences (on book blogs, Goodreads and other social sites, and in the pages of major newspapers and magazines). Most importantly, we will read. In addition to some titles we will read as a group, the course will require (and hold time for) self-directed reading with the goal of renewing (or introducing for the first time) a habit of reading for pleasure that will carry you through the rest of your life.
February 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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my last tweet. member since 2010. nuking the history now, deactivating account after.
screen shot of the final tweet from @hors_doeuvre on elon's site. the username is "walking into the sea." the tweet reads, "exit, followed by bear."
November 14, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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update on REVISING MOVES, we are IN PRESS, hope to have copies by 4C24, here is a peek into the editor group chat while we were proofing the index. If this won't sell you on our book idk what will 😂
screen shot of text window. blue bubble reads: favorite entries: behavior, dickish Big Feelings, about revision crap draft Daffy Duck dick, term Dick, Phillip dickishness Harold and the Purple Crayon Looney Tunes lumpy bird slippages and swells writing, questioning Gray bubble identified as Christina LaVecchia replies, "This is how we should market the book"
February 9, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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Favorite essays for the "Steven Hot Dog" unit of my CNF Essay class? (you remember this tweet...?)
tweet from Jake Wolff on Nov 10 2020 that reads "Creative nonfiction writers be like: I first ate a hotdog when I was six years old. I remember the taste, the scent, the summer. SECTION BREAK Hot dogs were invented in 1693 by Steven Hotdog. According to Scientific American, the hotdog is"
January 10, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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PROOOOOFS
Screen shot of black text on white field, title page of the forthcoming REVISING MOVES: WRITING STORIES OF (RE)MAKING, edited by Christina M LaVecchia, Allison D. Carr, Laura R. Micciche, Hannah J. Rule, and Jayne E.O. Stone
December 7, 2023 at 7:27 PM
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February 2024, one of the most beautiful projects I've ever been part of. So many awesome stories in this book, can't wait for folks to dig in. If you'd be interested in a review copy drop me a line here, I'll reach out to pub and see if we can get some comped
Book cover for Revising Moves: Writing Stories of (Re)Making, edited by LaVecchia, Carr, Micciche, Rule, and Stone. Cover depicts pencil-style comic sketch of a funny bird repeatedly trying and failing to write the word “perfect.” He gets increasingly exasperated and determined with each mistake. Title in center of book, white on dusty turquoise.
September 16, 2023 at 9:26 PM
horsdoeuvre.bsky.social
reskeet with a banger pic of your dog(s)
a border collie and a beagle-pit mix leaning out a 3rd story window over a fire escape. the beagle pit has his tongue partially out and is wearing a green bandana; the border collie is wearing neon yellow sunglasses and a red bandana. a miller light tallboy is between them. the building is turqoise
July 29, 2023 at 2:01 PM