If you're famous for something other than writing (or if you are well-known for writing something other than fiction), I think one of the most annoying things you can do is publish a novel with a major publisher.
But one of the funniest things you can do is publish a collection of poetry.
October 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If you're famous for something other than writing (or if you are well-known for writing something other than fiction), I think one of the most annoying things you can do is publish a novel with a major publisher.
But one of the funniest things you can do is publish a collection of poetry.
#Arsenal post: Thought this was really excellent. Clarified a lot of what I've seen watching LFC and AFC this year. Key difference in attack, for me, is in the screen shot. Thanks for the great work @billycarpy.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
#Arsenal post: Thought this was really excellent. Clarified a lot of what I've seen watching LFC and AFC this year. Key difference in attack, for me, is in the screen shot. Thanks for the great work @billycarpy.bsky.social
This is an exceptional piece about the history, present, and future of Netflix. I think it's worth thinking about the way the streaming companies have tried to "disrupt" film by devaluing quality. The only way this works is if the viewers go along with it.
This is an exceptional piece about the history, present, and future of Netflix. I think it's worth thinking about the way the streaming companies have tried to "disrupt" film by devaluing quality. The only way this works is if the viewers go along with it.
A small window into Eastern Idaho culture: This movie is playing at every theater in the area right now (we've got a nice little network of discount movie theaters, some of which have a pretty cool local history). The Bob Dylan biopic is only playing at the megaplex.
December 27, 2024 at 11:08 PM
A small window into Eastern Idaho culture: This movie is playing at every theater in the area right now (we've got a nice little network of discount movie theaters, some of which have a pretty cool local history). The Bob Dylan biopic is only playing at the megaplex.
Book 12 of my 12 books of Christmas. The Founding Fish by John McPhee. A very cool book that covers the American shad, an oceangoing fish whose history is tied up in the history of North America (and a bunch of other stuff).
December 23, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Book 12 of my 12 books of Christmas. The Founding Fish by John McPhee. A very cool book that covers the American shad, an oceangoing fish whose history is tied up in the history of North America (and a bunch of other stuff).
Book 11. The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry. This is a selection of Berry's non-fiction. He is a figure whom I was familiar with but hadn't read very much of prior to this book.
December 22, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Book 11. The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry. This is a selection of Berry's non-fiction. He is a figure whom I was familiar with but hadn't read very much of prior to this book.
Book 9 of my 12 books of Christmas. Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson. This is a meaty novel that came out in 2014 to pretty strong reviews but has slipped off the radar (as books do). Its a kind of twin narrative set in the early 1980s centered on a Montana social worker trying ...
December 20, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Book 9 of my 12 books of Christmas. Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson. This is a meaty novel that came out in 2014 to pretty strong reviews but has slipped off the radar (as books do). Its a kind of twin narrative set in the early 1980s centered on a Montana social worker trying ...