Erik Hane

@erikhane.bsky.social

Founder and Agent, Headwater Literary Management Co-host of Print Run Podcast www.headwaterliterary.com www.printrunpodcast.com fiction and essays in Triangle House / Welcome To Hell World / Typebar Magazine / Mount Hope / elsewhere

BOURDAIN (voiceover): I found myself surrounded by discarded objects. An empty soda can, a dead battery. Life becomes death. But death can become life. The simmering pot with its spicy aroma in front of me is proof. BOURDAIN: What's in this dish? ME: Pikmin BOURDAIN: Pikmin. Oh man that's good.

I'm basically an idiot and i have never intentionally used AI (I know it's in google now etc etc). Like it's not some erudite, snobby thing. It just has never once occurred to me to ask it something. I have not once encountered a way it would readily make something go better for me.

I’ve been reflexively hard on her because of the whole money thing, but Jess Pegula really does seem to be using her resources and clout to push for better pro tennis. I’m handing it to her. Recanting

cop: did he send any texts around the time of the crash? cop 2: he sent a post that reads "padding my three track album with 26 skits and interludes" cop: not bad but it ain't going viral cop 2: posting isn't just about going viral cop: (sighs) not this shit again

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

image of a gold record superimposed on part of Vaughan Oliver's iconic cover for the Mountain Goats' "Tallahassee" album, with a banner beneath it showing the entire album cover, an RIAA seal, and the text: Presented to THE MOUNTAIN GOATS to commemorate the RIAA Gold certification of more than 500,000 copies of the 4AD single "No Children"