C. McGuinn Freeman

That's why I moved to MT when it was cheap. I wanted a house I could pay off (and I did). I spent decades trying to keep my indigent mother housed. That I had to do it this way is not ideal. And that everyone younger than me is locked out is a crime.

It's so weird? And distressing (and, of course utterly wrong).

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here's the thing that pisses me off about that noma story: those people are still blacklisted among the many powerful *men* in the culinary industry who still, even after all this evidence, support rene redzepi

a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her ALT: a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her

Ha! Good job internets, the Crying American MAGA lady in Ireland has taken her TikTok private. Small victories.

I mean, ours has been in the family since the 1860s, and only supports itself, but not my Aunt/cousins because we built a riding arena, grow our own hay and sell it to the boarders. We are all deeply invested in it, but off-farm jobs are required.

I mean? It's kind of his MO.

Our families knew one another tangentially in Chicago in the 70s. Yup.

Oh god I'd forgotten about that one.
Ugh.

Pretty sure my tiny little vodka mom went up like a blue flame at the end ...

Oh god. Putting all the agents I've contacted over the years in a spreadsheet and losing my will to live.

Lookin' at you Jackson Browne.

I feel this in the deepest part of my grew-up-BROKE-among-the-wealthy soul.

Catholic here. Left the Church but not the beliefs if that makes sense. Molesting kids, and being dicks about funerals did it for me. Do miss my lovely lefty parish in SLC though.

From what was formerly a funky, run-down artsy town in Montana that's now fucking AWASH in rich dickheads, nope. Not good at all.

Yes, me too. I spent YEARS being like "oh yeah, that Phd? that was a mistake. I mean if *I* could do it, then what's it worth anyway."
All these years later I'm glad it's been on the wall to remind me.

There's a French theorist Baptiste Morizot, who describes people like her for whom: “Being at home is being able to live without paying attention … to be able to operate everywhere, in any place, despite one’s ignorance, quite carelessly, i.e. without knowing a place and its inhabitants.”

DO! It's a difficult accomplishment and you did it. 🎉

Getting mine nearly killed me, which is why it's always on my wall. Even though I left academia right after.

A) We got roasted in my 20s when Reagan won, in a country bar in Wexford & it was instructive, and B) living in what's become a US "tourist destination" the way she kept bleating about how "cute" the town was, like it had betrayed her tourist experience, is really what made me want to stab her.

These Times have me wearing my late mother's holy medals again. I mean, I'm pretty lapsed, but also terrified.

Closing blinds in the sunny windows in the morning, and I also put a lot of new insulation in a couple of summers ago, which helped. If it cools down at night, make sure to open up (unless smoke, which is likely). I'm in MT and the change over the last 10 years is so noticeable.

I have had great luck with window units from the hardware store. Look for the smallest unit with the highest BTUs? They're cheap to run -- even before I got solar, my summer cooling bill with 2 units running was about 1/3 of my winter heat bill. (Make sure to close the blinds etc too).

Big part of why I just quit trying a few years back. But I have a book manuscript I'm closing in on, and while yes, I totally understand that agents are overwhelmed, and the whole industry is coming apart at the seams, how hard is it to set some auto replies?
Anyhow, I find it deeply upsetting.

I cannot, CAN NOT emphasize how much I hate that ghosting has become normal in lit agent/editor circles.

Glad to see the idiot Trumper who went to NI and got made fun of is still being absolutely ROASTED on TIkTok.
Sorry Eire. If it helps, we hate them too?

Is it the gas prices that have everyone driving like maniacs here today? Ours haven't even gone up that much yet. Some dude just screamed up my very residential street, and he's not the first one this morning.

I had a student write a short story that began, "In the land of wind, there lived a young potato farmer," and I think about that beginning nearly every day.

Hey, friends. My incarcerated friend, Jeremiah, would like some help getting Bibles into the hands of some of his peers. I ask you to put aside any negative feelings about religion you might have to help folks in the way they have asked to be helped. /1

Where Cathy becomes a lady and a slave-holder in her three years without Heathcliff, he returns from his absence as a gentleman and a tyrant. We don’t need to assume that the soul bond between Cathy and Heathcliff is a mystical connection that, like Jane hearing Rochester’s voice from afar, means that his work on a slave ship is mirrored in her development into a plantation owner. The novel only uses the word slave twice, in discussing the two of them, so the parallel development and grammar of its use exists even without further explanation. This does however complicate Spillers’s assertion that “the notorious bastard…Heathcliff…has no official female equivalent” (443); his official female equivalent is Cathy.

Wildin' out tbh.