@erinkeane
Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @Salon.com | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
“I keep being confronted by a choice: learn to re-parent myself or let my pain hurt everyone around me, like my mother and her mother before her.” Oof, this one is a gut-punch from @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social
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Very excited that @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social turned me on to marchxness.com.
#music #writing
“Thirty years on, after countless listens, I still don’t know how I feel about it.” I like the ambivalence in Cheryl Graham’s @marchxness.bsky.social essay on Kate Bush’s “Moments of Pleasure”
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MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 6 HALFTIME SCORES:
Kristin Hersh 107, Black Crowes 90
Kate Bush 77, Brooks & Dunn 43
Mazzy Star 105, Gin Blossoms 35
Elliott Smith 68, Alanis Morrisette 58
13 hours to go! Read, listen, vote by 9am AZ time 3/7 at marchxness.com
I was already aware that plump humpers existed but I had not heard about hump plumpers.
Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Camelline
✌️ business ✌️
“It does hum. It does have this visual and auditory drone. Like blood through a body, in a sense, the hum.” I like how Cooper Dart’s @marchxness.bsky.social essay is as much about neon itself as the song “Neon Moon” (which I almost picked to write about myself)
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Headline: Camel pageant thrown into chaos after hump-plumping scandal
Pardon
Something about this @marchxness.bsky.social match makes me want the Girl Talk-style mash-up of these two songs
“What makes a song sad is that you can’t vanish into it, while it promises you that you can.”
“It’s said that in US culture men aren’t allowed to express sadness, only anger. Music, country and blues especially, is one of the vanishingly rare places where men are celebrated for doing both.” Always fun to see @marchxness.bsky.social stalwart @levin.bsky.social
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I love how Annie Zaleski’s @marchxness.bsky.social essay on “Your Ghost” lets Hersh have the last word “My life experience plays a huge part in these songs, but I don’t think they’re stories about me. Everybody I’ve ever lost is in that song.” So sad!
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My @marchxness.bsky.social essay was not easy to write, but I’m hoping there’s some beauty to be found in it, along with the sadness. Chris was generally terrible at selfies. Here are some failed attempts that still make me laugh.
if you want to read one of the most heartcrushingly beautiful tearjerking things you've ever read, this essay by Chelsea Biondolillo re: Mazzy Star's "Flowers in December" will do the trick marchxness.com/1stround-gin...
Despite my best intentions, I've fallen behind on @marchxness.bsky.social essays. So I will be skeeting (?) about them all day. Megan Campbell cracked me up with: "Then one day in 1991 my friend April asked me, “Have you heard of this band Nirvana?” Exeunt the 1980s."
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My home state of Georgia does sad songs like no other. You’d be hard pressed to find another location quite like it in March Sadness
Love a matchup — here, @levin.bsky.social and @anniezaleski.bsky.social — where I learn several liner notes’ worth of detail. Read and vote!
An absolute heartbreaker. Read it!!
MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 5 FINAL SCORES:
BELLE & SEBASTIAN 89, Lauryn Hill 82
DES'REE 147, Goo Goo Dolls 127
BEN FOLDS FIVE 123, Skid Row 64
LISA LOEB 111, Lee Ann Womack 49
New games just went up at marchxness.com. Read, listen, vote by 9am AZ time 3/7.
want to add: this also applies to journalism -- where you will hear editors and story crafters call people "characters" and talk about needing narratives that move in one way or another for tension and cutting away messy humanity in order to fit people within their idea of "story"
Right, like, we were alive and fully adult and remember their faces!
Ryan Murphy 🤝 Clint Eastwood
Dramatizing by assigning non-existent villainy to female characters based on actual women
Innocent
I read that as “their skeletons have skeletons who know where more bodies are buried” but I am not one to swoon over that lot
“A real living person is not a narrative device” gonna embroider that on a pillow for my CNF workshops (although my students are loads more ethical than RM Enterprises)
Moderators should be equipped with a taser.
Screaming
live shot of what's happening to Skid Row over at @marchxness.bsky.social
Just an FYI that today's matches should be live on the website at the usual time but the bsky links might be an hour or two late; one of us is at AWP & one of us has a busy morning!