average california meal: strange, that that divine ambrosia of which homer spoke should be found only in the new world... average new england meal: you've never had a scrubblemuck? you should try one! they don't taste good and if you eat a really wet one you might have to go to the hospital
A lot of people think she means "Odysseus should be nicer" and not "the theme of modern Christian guilt Nolan has introduced makes the final scene illegible"
Eric 👨🏻💻@eman41.bsky.social · yesterdayThis passage makes me want to just log off and throw my phone in the river. The discourse on this has officially reached its end
This is the final paragraph (incomplete!) of a long article that does, in fact, analyse the film as a whole. In particular, Wilson is making a point about what Nolan prioritises in his visual choices - which fatally undermine the lofty banality of his script.
Eric 👨🏻💻@eman41.bsky.social · yesterdayThis passage makes me want to just log off and throw my phone in the river. The discourse on this has officially reached its end
Book #74 of 2026: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi. With the addition of Iraq, my "Countries Read" list is up to 122. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/fran...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · 6d agoBook #73 of 2026: The Last Ride of the Pony Express by Will Grant. It took Will Grant over 100 days to ride the Pony Express trail on a horse; it took the original riders ten. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve
Got into a debate about this a while back--I think people just don't have a real sense of the statistics here. You are likely to have met someone from a group that makes up 1 out of every 50 ppl
merritt@merrittk.com · 3d agothis is a wild thing to make up lol
Book #73 of 2026: The Last Ride of the Pony Express by Will Grant. It took Will Grant over 100 days to ride the Pony Express trail on a horse; it took the original riders ten. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
The Last Ride of the Pony Express by Will Grant
The more I learned, the surer I became that I was bound to ride the trail. How else could I attain an encompassing grasp of the Pony Express...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · 7d agoBook #72 of 2026: South Riding by Winifred Holtby. A love letter to local politics in the North of England. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/sout...
Book #72 of 2026: South Riding by Winifred Holtby. A love letter to local politics in the North of England. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/sout...
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Far into the night she sat writing letters, drafting memoranda. She dragged any member of the Higher Education Committee whom she could lure...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · last wk.Book #71 of 2026: Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth. I was surprised to find this very stale. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/lost...
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Book #71 of 2026: Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth. I was surprised to find this very stale. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/lost...
Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
On the other hand perhaps it was that he drew her to him in the dark, held her close, and gave her to know that while he could never feel ju...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · last wk.Book #70 of 2026: Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion. Great, obviously, but one of my hottest opinions is that Didion was best as a fiction writer fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/slou...
Book #70 of 2026: Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion. Great, obviously, but one of my hottest opinions is that Didion was best as a fiction writer fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/slou...
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Later, when I was living in New York, I would make the trip back to Sacramento four and five times a year (the more comfortable the flight, ...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · 2w agoBook #69 of 2026: The Gales of November by John U. Bacon, about the Edmund Fitzgerald. I am going to k*ll Lake Superior fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
This cyclospora debacle is how I found out Travis's last name is Farms.
Book #69 of 2026: The Gales of November by John U. Bacon, about the Edmund Fitzgerald. I am going to k*ll Lake Superior fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
This is when the Fitzgerald's unique characteristics--the modular construction, the use of welds over rivets, the extraordinary flexibility ...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · 3w agoBook #68 of 2026: State of Grace by Joy Williams. A debut salvo that doesn't really work on its own but shows the kind of writer Williams would quickly become. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/stat...
Book #68 of 2026: State of Grace by Joy Williams. A debut salvo that doesn't really work on its own but shows the kind of writer Williams would quickly become. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/stat...
State of Grace by Joy Williams
Omit, omit and one day you will be down to a funny, white and quite lifeless seed. I see it as a sort of heart of palm myself. In the grocer...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · 3w agoBook #66 of 2026: A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird. Really fun and captivating 19th c account of an Englishwoman exploring Colorado. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-la...
Book #66 of 2026: A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird. Really fun and captivating 19th c account of an Englishwoman exploring Colorado. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-la...
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird
We forded the river, whose course is marked the whole way by a fringe of cotton-woods and aspens, and traveled hour after hour with nothing ...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · 3w agoBook #66 of 2026: House of Rain by Craig Childs. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/hous...
Book #66 of 2026: House of Rain by Craig Childs. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/07/hous...
House of Rain by Craig Childs
I turned off my light in the back of the cave. I closed my eyes. It felt as if all these centuries, these thousands of years, were contained...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · 3w agoBook #65 of 2026: Americana by Don DeLillo. Falls apart in the final section IMO, but otherwise a debut like a cannon blast. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/amer...
Book #65 of 2026: Americana by Don DeLillo. Falls apart in the final section IMO, but otherwise a debut like a cannon blast. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/amer...
Americana by Don DeLillo
"What we really want to do, he said, deep in the secret recesses of our heart, all of us, is to destroy the forests, white saltbox houses, c...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · 3w agoBook #64 of 2026: Catherine the Great and Small by Olja Knezevic. With the addition of Montenegro, my "Countries Read" list is 121. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/cath...
Book #64 of 2026: Catherine the Great and Small by Olja Knezevic. With the addition of Montenegro, my "Countries Read" list is 121. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/cath...
Catherine the Great and Small by Olja Knezevic
The year was 1988. July in Belgrade was intolerably hot; the city smelled of dead dogs and cats, strays killed by the heat, and of dried-up ...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · 4w agoBook #63 of 2026: A World of Strangers by Nadine Gordimer. Good, but she was still finding her way. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-wo...
"...objects have a way of possessing you..." Pegah Ouji interviews Christopher Lee Chilton, our featured author this week and finalist in The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Christopher Lee Chilton - SmokeLong Quarterly
In several instances in the story, for example when Oscar tumbles out of his urn or when the lamps smoke, we are thrust into the surreal with such swiftness and smoothness that the reader is never jar...
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Book #63 of 2026: A World of Strangers by Nadine Gordimer. Good, but she was still finding her way. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-wo...
A World of Strangers by Nadine Gordimer
In their different ways, and in their one country where they pursued them, both Cecil and Steven were people who had not found commitment. T...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · last mo.Book #62 of 2026: Language City by Ross Perlin. I love my country, New York City. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/lang...
Check out my story in the new Pithead Chapel! Please!?
Pithead Chapel@pitheadchapel.bsky.social · last mo.Our July issue is here! pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is... Cover art: CHRISTOPHER GARLAND Words: DEIRDRE DANKLIN @grnpointer.bsky.social JAMES KEITH SMITH @kplumhoff.bsky.social GARTH ROBINSON SAMANTHA VARGAS
Our July issue is here! pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is... Cover art: CHRISTOPHER GARLAND Words: DEIRDRE DANKLIN @grnpointer.bsky.social JAMES KEITH SMITH @kplumhoff.bsky.social GARTH ROBINSON SAMANTHA VARGAS
Volume 15, Issue 7
COVER ART BY CHRISTOPHER GARLAND FICTION The Sex Appeal of the Blues by Deirdre Danklin In the Wind by Christopher Lee Chilton Zachary by James Keith Smith Lost and Found by Katherine Plumho…
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Book #62 of 2026: Language City by Ross Perlin. I love my country, New York City. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/lang...
Language City by Ross Perlin
This book is about the most linguistically diverse city in the history of the world: its past, present, and future. Now home to over seven h...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · last mo.Book #61 of 2026: The Magic Kingdom by Stanley Elkin. A delightful romp about Make-a-Wish kids at Disney World. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...
"The cylinder that is my brother was made for him—for me—at great cost. On such an overcast day as this, it seems made out of the same shining gray stuff as the sea." "Graveyard of the Atlantic" by @grnpointer.bsky.social 📸: @tylermalone.bsky.social
Graveyard of the Atlantic — Susurrus
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Book #61 of 2026: The Magic Kingdom by Stanley Elkin. A delightful romp about Make-a-Wish kids at Disney World. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...
The Magic Kingdom by Stanley Elkin
"Alone at last," said the Mouse. "Let's see, where were we? Right, we were discussing what's to be come of you. Or I was. You all seem a lit...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · last mo.Book #60 of 2026: Lives of the Saints by Nancy Lemann. I've got the vapors!! fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/live...
Book #60 of 2026: Lives of the Saints by Nancy Lemann. I've got the vapors!! fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/live...
Lives of the Saints by Nancy Lemann
Summer whites, green gardens, Mississippi, white summer suits and seersucker suits, those were the sights. In the Garden District, Claude st...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · 2mo agoBook #59 of 2026: Butterfly Stories by William T. Vollmann tha goat: fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/butt...
Book #59 of 2026: Butterfly Stories by William T. Vollmann tha goat: fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/butt...
Butterfly Stories by William T. Vollmann
...Now he became in truth a crazed and greedy butterfly, no longer pretending to know who he was or what he was looking for, dreading the we...
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Christopher@grnpointer.bsky.social · 2mo agoBook #58 of 2026: All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/05/all-...
My story "Swell" is up at SmokeLong Quarterly now. It's about being a bad guest. Thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social for choosing it as a finalist for their Quarterly Flash Fiction Award: www.smokelong.com/stories/swell/
