Erin Keane
@erinkeane.bsky.social
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 | March Xness Die-hard https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
Before we get to the next set of lottery picks, here are some more of the writers' song selections: 32. Sara Wainscott selects Anne Murray's Snowbird (1970) www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0oc...
Anne Murray ~ Snowbird (1970)
YouTube video by TheOldrecordclub
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So excited to write on this song for the @marchxness.bsky.social Xmas Edition!
Kermit the Frog Dancing on Stage
Alt: Kermit the Frog flailing his arms around on stage
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March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 3h ago40. @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social, Kermit the Frog / The Muppets, One More Sleep Til Christmas (1992): www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfws...
So excited about this; I kept thinking Erin (and my own research) were wrong that there hadn't been a book on this before..?!
Erin Keane@erinkeane.bsky.social · 6h agoSome professional news ... I've been spending some time in the archives and am looking forward to having cake at all the events for this book.
Some professional news ... I've been spending some time in the archives and am looking forward to having cake at all the events for this book.
22. @stereolad.bsky.social selects @lowtheband.bsky.social's Just Like Christmas (2009), returning them to the March Xness tournament for the first time in a minute (this is also an @angermonsoon.bsky.social favorite!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iipp...
Low - Just Like Christmas
YouTube video by rtenewsontwo
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The lack of focus on the president’s deportations on the campaign trail is a strategic and moral error.
Democrats’ missed opportunity on Trump’s immigration cruelty
The lack of focus on the president’s deportations on the campaign trail is a strategic and moral error
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Fast fashion didn’t nearly kill American fashion retail because people thought Forever 21 and Gap were equivalent quality, or they couldn’t be sure how big the difference was. That happened because people wanted to buy more clothes for less money and wear them fewer times and then get more new stuff
The Inherited Platform (Nepotus lecturus) HABITAT: Fourth-generation family-owned newspaper editorial board. CALL: “I once met [NAME OF A SCOTUS NOMINEE] at a fancy cocktail party, and he is perfectly lovely and rational. No need to be hysterical about your rights, ladies.”
A Field Guide to Legacy Media Pundits in the United States
The Family Values Pundit (Divorcio moralisticus) HABITAT: New York Times bestseller list and a weekly column. DISTINCTIVE CALL: “As a man with a deeply unhap...
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It's Aug. 4, a sad day for BlueAnon folks who believed in an imaginary Aug. 3 deadline for Gov. Andy Beshear to somehow "appoint a Democrat" to replace a "dead" Mitch McConnell or something along those lines.
yes, the Tiresome Literature Boy could be exhausting at parties when he tried book mogging you while looking down his nose at you over his bottle of Vermont craft beer but you could feel reasonably confident he wasn’t going to unhinge his jaw and attempt to devour you in the name of proteinmaxxing
Have updated the posting rules for the @marchxness.bsky.social feed to include March Xmas and MarchXmas ... waiting for the changes to take. 🫡🎁 bsky.app/profile/did:...
A video of every sample from the Beastie Boys' "Paul's Boutique" (and the legal/business reasons the album would be impossible to make today). [kottke.org]
Every Sample from Paul’s Boutique by the Beastie Boys
This video catalogs every borrowed sample from Paul’s Boutique by the Beastie Boys, from the soundtrack to Car Wash to the Sugarhill Gang to the Eagles to the Ramones to the Beatles. They play the original first an
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Yup. Matt Damon as Odysseus is one Christopher Nolan's choices that made sense to me right away.
Erin Keane@erinkeane.bsky.social · 2d ago"Damon’s Odysseus captures all the heroic arrogance, bravery and selfish stupidity of an action-flick brawler who would shoot a giant cyclops in the eye as he’s making his escape, just because." — @mctelevision.bsky.social on why it had to be Matt Damon www.salon.com/2026/08/02/t...
in which @wolfievibes.bsky.social answers the argument, “They’re just men when they’re not saving the world, they should be allowed to date” with an emphatic: No they shouldn’t! www.salon.com/2026/08/03/s...
Spider-Man should give up romance and focus on his job
When it comes to saving the world, maybe Peter Parker's love life should be his last priority.
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"Damon’s Odysseus captures all the heroic arrogance, bravery and selfish stupidity of an action-flick brawler who would shoot a giant cyclops in the eye as he’s making his escape, just because." — @mctelevision.bsky.social on why it had to be Matt Damon www.salon.com/2026/08/02/t...
The casting of "The Odyssey" proves Nolan's muse was star power
The recruitment of Matt Damon and other A-listers to sell a Greek myth makes sense
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Last call to jump into the March Xmas (the holiday-song-themed tourney running THIS DECEMBER) lottery for this year's @marchxness.bsky.social. We will begin drawing #s tomorrow: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
March XMAS (December 2026) lottery entry form
Hey there, writers! March Xness is happy to announce the next year's tournament theme which is...a bit of a twist. Welcome to March XMAS, the tournament of Xmas and other winter seasonal songs (yes,...
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Help I just explained the show Wishbone to an incredulous 14 year old.
This just in … extended to August 10!
Erin Keane@erinkeane.bsky.social · 5d agoWriters with a manuscript! Today is the last day of @sarabandebooks.bsky.social 's Open Submission Period. Poetry, short fiction, hybrid, and nonfiction manuscripts; translation proposals, get them in before midnight! sarabandebooks.submittable.com/submit
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