some nights I get full of myself and play Elton John songs on the piano
Aarik Danielsen (he/him)
@aarikdanielsen.bsky.social
Debut essay collection PIECES OF THE NIGHT forthcoming (Cornerstone Press, 2027) Recovering newspaperman “Realist of a larger reality” Promised to Holly Wants to be with you alone and talk about the weather SF Giants fan https://aarikdanielsen.com
in the south they call it showing out. whatever it is, my baby’s doing it.
Holly Pelesky@hollypelesky.bsky.social · 5h agoi can’t believe aarik hasn’t bragged about my vehicle maneuvering skills on main bc i have been SHOWING OFF
Look, I've only been with the company for a couple of weeks.
forever wishing i didn't understand half the things I do / that I did understand half the things I don't (at least)
having lived and reported (though not on sports) in Columbia, MO during her come-up, it's a real trip—and yet not a shock—to see S-phie Cunningh-m commandeer a whole news cycle.
The mayor wants to rap with me about some things.
“Was Alice Cooper in Alice In Chains?”
dire straits on the radio outside clear lake, iowa which means somewhere @toddpetersen.bsky.social is smiling
waiting for people at the end of the Nordstrom escalator but acting as though they just came home on a plane
one of these kids is not like the other
“It’s like couch to New York Times bestseller” — Holly and I coming up with a writing plan
“awww that’s us,” she says of two sleeping pumas in an enclosure
nothing says dominion like a little girl eating dippin dots six inches from a sleeping leopard, separated only by zoo glass
the 12 yo decided there’s a music genre called “basketball girlfriend.” After he described it to me, I said “wait, like drake songs?” Him: “like Drake songs!”
uh guys watching the giants for the first time since they traded half the team and I can’t tell the difference and is that good or bad
visiting the twin cities for the first time in like a decade. god I love this place. fuck ice. Minnesota forever.
Character idea: guy who insists on pronouncing all the words at IKEA in proper Swedish
A Long December, itself a liminal space, echoing in the caverns of America’s great malls
the amount of birthdays happening at this rainforest cafe is turning me into a Tim Robinson character
As we pull up to the corner of Avon and Holly in St Paul, Minnesota: @hollypelesky.bsky.social: “Look, it’s my whole childhood”
two words that don’t belong together: adventure golf
all I got (today) at the mall of America is this powder blue twins hat (positive)
I heard the voice of god (Prince) in this Minneapolis Bubba Gump’s
13 yo: I love Nebraska! 12 yo: eh it’s ok. I’ve seen better states (proceeds to remind us he’s been to Jamaica).
“The guest room at grandma’s is horrifying,” the 12-yo began