Mark Olmsted
@markolmsted.bsky.social
Gay Writer, Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir, https://www.amazon.com/Ink-Pen-Prison-Mark-Olmsted/dp/0692784144 My insane story: Everything is Stories podcast/The disorientation of survival
Oh it's Bastille Day! I sorta wish I was still the kind of person that would go day-drinking in some ex-pat bar to cheer on my ma nation maternelle, but hopefully if they win, I can get someone to join me somewhere for the final. Meanwhile, enjoy my annual mistranslation of La Marseillaise
This will probably only make laugh the 65 or older set, but what the shirtless #Waymo destroyer finally reminded me of just popped in my head.
I've been trying to think of the perfect meme for this all day. Someone beat me to it. Hat's off to Sande.
Sande@sande0724.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Republican Party of Kakistocracy. On steroids.
The narrative of the conniving woman can be traced all the way back to Adam and Eve. As if she would even been the one the snake successfully tempted. You know damn well it would have been Adam #GrahamPlatner #MeToo
Reading the letter from my Dad to his kids written on #July4, 1969, I am reminded of all the ways he was the ultimate decent American man, the opposite of the ogre in the WH. open.substack.com/pub/markolms...
July 4, 1969
A letter from my remarkable Dad
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His image in the current reflecting pool is very Picture of Dorian Gray. #Trumpmemes #reflectingpool #algaepool
It's no Eiffel Tower, Donald. It's more like the Hiroshima Dome.
Wondering if a pitch is legit? AI makes it harder to discern. My experience might help you figure it out. open.substack.com/pub/markolms... #writingcommunity #booksky #marketingscam #Authorpromotion #Scams
“Former Grifter Almost Grifted Three Times”
How my experience might help you avoid AI scams
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I may have been underusing Hashtags. www.amazon.com/Ink-Pen-Pris... #AuthorCommunity #BookLaunch #BooksWorthReading #IndieReads #ReadingCommunity #ShamelessSelfPromo #WritingCommunity #BookSky #ReaderSky #MustRead #memoir
Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir
Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir [Olmsted, Mark, Moreano, Sandra] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir
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Arguably, Obama was the most gobbledy-gook of recent Democrats, who I find universally have gotten the memo about simplifying their language. It's not why they hate us. markolmsted.substack.com/p/why-exactl...
Why Exactly Do They Hate Democrats
The myth of "gobbledygook"
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It's like he's getting his life force from the camera trained on him, and whenever he's away from it, he feels it draining. He hates sleep, because he's not on camera and that feels like death.
I wonder if gas prices have to go this high before we have a mass uprising that results in the Mussolini-like ending deserved by this fascist clown.
Pete Hegseth, insisting there were extensive war games played before starting the war with Iran.
If you really did not like Nuremberg, but wasn't sure why, read me. open.substack.com/pub/markolms...
Nuremberg
Why this film really bugged me
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HISTORY ACCORDING TO TRUMP. (How much do you want to bet if I tweeted this to him he would post it?) #TrumpBallroom
He disappointed because Cole failed. It would have been a glorious way to go out - best ratings ever. All sins forgotten, monuments built. Anything better that going out like his father or via impeachment. He wants to go out a winner. He coulda been a Kennedy. Damn Secret Service.
When considering how to compose his next speech, I think Pete Hegseth might be inspired by a different scene in Pulp Fiction.
I can't help but notice that he's calling it "The Triumphal Arch." Notice what letters you can't spell "Triumphal" without? How much you wanna bet this is his design?
Though a lapsed Catholic, I still won't go full photoshop in a depiction of the orange one in Mount Gethesmane agony. But it is the seminal event in Christ's life that I would happily see the Orange one actual suffer through. An evocation will have to do.
