@dusti
Dusti RW Levy. Disabled GenX PanQueer Southern poet, essayist, dramaturg, & playwright. Former CATF. Jewish Plays Project. delicate emissions/Thirteen Bridges/McNeese Review. Poetry & new plays forever.
Much like realtors and insurance agents putting their faces on business cards, and eyes and teeth having separate insurance, I find it puzzling and outdated. I *am* grateful that Louisiana Medicaid offers annual eye exams to adults, which many states do not. But I could have saved BOT of us money.
It feels so sales-pressure heavy to me. I would NEVER have gone into a retails eyewear place and agreed to pay $400 for a pair of glasses. I don't understand why we do this.
All this to say 1. I could've gotten TWO pairs of sexy bifocals from Zenni for the same price, deluxe with protection and non-glare and everything and 2. I don't think optometrists should be allowed to sell glasses and contacts in their offices.
Starting in 2016, I ordered all my glasses through Zenni and even after SITTING on them never had a frame crack. I still have an old pair from 2019 that I kept because the frames are sooooo cute and I wear them for pictures sometimes, and they have been through literal hell with NO CRACKS.
I really like my new (well, at the end of December new) glasses! But let me say that they were $400 ( my insurance paid $150 and I kinda got scammed by my eye doc's sales office) and the bottoms of the frames are already cracked.
my son's fiance shared a post about her 509 days of sobriety so far <3
I'm only 5'2" and this is still a huge problem. I need my counters and sink to be a good 2' higher than they are to prevent my elbows from further devolution.
A little update on @delicatezine.bsky.social
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a white person with messy hair holds a large coffee cup with a white bunny in a yellow dress riding a bicycle, surrounded by tulips
The giant Miffy cup certainly helps!
Damn my coffee is GOOD-GOOD today.
that second one always gives me the ick
Y’all, this week’s “Anxiety Shark” by @nikostratis.com really delivers. Also, the header graphic features one of my favorite songs! Subscribe if you like good writing about the braiding of music and life.
I have a super-smeller nose — sandalwood has been my favorite since I was a child. (I do buy the Zum Bar Frankincense & Myrrh soap, though — the fragrance is lighter and works across seasons.)
Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...
What a nightmare — I hope the Council takes the advice and makes a better choice. And I hate that you’re experiencing this.
I loved this movie but agree with your premise. Even for high school that’s slow.
The thing about being in a poetry workshop is that every week we are either talking about our poems or submitting our poems to be talked about the next time, for sixteen weeks at a time. Incredible. I have to keep just writing poems to keep this ✨poet ruse✨ up for the next 37 years.
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We're proud to announce that we are now a member of @clmporg.bsky.social . Over the next several months we will be focusing on building a unified web presence while still focusing on creating the compelling little piece of PHYSICAL MEDIA! our readers and poets have come to love over the years.
The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.
A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.
Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.
Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.
Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.
THE OMEN remains a favorite of any year.
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I didn’t mean to post the live one — but it’s a great opening track nonetheless.
i ordered food delivery so the depressions are definitely knocking on the door, not realizing that I love the new Harry Styles album and I have friends and family I love that love me back. Maybe the depressions are just trying to check on me. I’m fine, guys. you can go on with yr other plans now.
the depressions are trying to come back
I’m a MURDER, SHE WROTE grrl, preferring the episodes from 1984 to 1989 (but will still watch even the inferior mid-90s episodes because a crappy episode still brings me joy). Second is FATHER BROWN.
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I started the migration of all my personal work from GoogleDocs to @ellipsus.com today. Still have a long way to go, and am not sure what to so about my @delicatezine.bsky.social stuff yet. Or my spreadsheets. But change takes time.
you both deserve ear time
