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there's an entire club named after me and i'm simply honored but then again totally makes sense there would be
literally somebody in my family does what's called—to the best of my translative powers—medieval fencing

he medium-strength broadsided me on the head with that sword to see what it's like

first v asthma-claustrophobic, then the hit

UN-pleasant
December 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
he just keeps renaming shit, doesn't he
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
joke's on them, the ripple effects are pro drag
December 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM

IMDB has a top shelf, a middle brow, and a bottom drawer

and then there are the things stuffed under that
December 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM

milei put a team jersey on the arg equivalent of the resolute desk

signalling he's anti chiqui tapia

the prez of arg soccer

who happens to run a team that keeps mysteriously winning

but this is about chiqui's sanction against a team that protested

chiqui's crowning a 3rd team champs by decree
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
he always wants his name or whatever text as big as physically possible in sacrifice of good spacing or proportion

just hitting the margins of the canvas they sit in to feel crowded and—plainly speaking—look bad
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM

oh come on, everybody's heard that word before
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM

and along with NYT news that get cross-pollinated to la nación,
this got translated too

thing is, the average argentine news reader isn't fully versed in bret and they might take this as valid
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM

god i think too much about word order

my novel idea

wait

my idea for a novel

wait wait

my novel idea for a novel, it's all written in diagrammed sentences, each one an instantaneous splotch of meaning stripped of its sequential component
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
ps. revisionist memory on her cheating wasn't necessary

she might still say she didn't bc he was in another city but

secretly DM'ing some dude every night for a year is clearly ~a cheating~

only thing i'd revise there is go back in time and roll my eyes the first time she said at least she hadn't
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM

"blue as the flame"

you only say that if you've been totally gaslighted
November 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
if you're gonna quote natalie verbatim you gotta give her credit!
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
natalie called it and counted it down
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM

ha ha

typo!
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
but i'm not leaving them without offramp, here's the offwramp i'm writing in
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
writing it up for today's curric meeting...

i'm putting it down that i don't think it meets all our stated tenets

does it seem bitchy? but like... how much?

(i'm going for roughly 3–5% bitchy, to make myself seem more reasonable than i am)
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
digging one stratum below the V reference
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
welp

they enshittified getting paid

this app is middle-personing my money from me

—money my client says they already paid to the app,
so what are they doing with it?

unless i pay what looks like a ransom
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM

of course i'm trying to break this thing

(meaning, have fun with its formal limitations, gently tho)
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
meet vice-presidential candidate

—sorry, correction, ahem—

*vice principal* nero of the austere academy in a series of (wow the name keeps hurting as it becomes more and more prescient) unfortunate events:

a character no longer looking for someone to parody as he fiddles away while things burn
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
a research librarian solved it for me

(i asked how to, he just went and did)

the book is based on goethe (surprise #1) who wrote his own color theory book (#2)

it was set not as poetry exactly but as short bursts

& albers tweaked it by breaking lines according to his speech pattern

iow: poetry
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM