In Memento when Guy Pearce says "I don't think they'd let someone like me carry a gun" and Joe Pantoliano says "I fuckin hope not."
tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · last mo.what are peoples' favorite big laughs in nolan movies
tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · last mo.
Pleased to say my piece, Its Powerful Parking Lot, has been nominated for Best of the Net by @flightlit.bsky.social ! I’m grateful to Frances and Will! flight-literary.ghost.io/sean-ennis-f...
Sean Ennis- Fiction
Its Powerful Parking Lot I did not sleep like a winner. Yes, I had watched Vivian turn one hundred dollars into almost three hundred thousand dollars at the craps table. And yes, we had made love i...
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It's Best of the Net Season! The Flight Crew is psyched to nominate two essays:
Honored to have my story "The Ace of Teeth" on the @wigleaf.bsky.social long list. Thanks to the judges and the Wigleaf Team. And thanks to @lostballoon.bsky.social for publishing this. lost-balloon.com/2025/06/18/t...
The Ace of Teeth by Claudia Monpere
My brother and I attempt awkward conversation at a Chinese restaurant near the dive motel where he lives. I try not to stare at his teeth: gray, chipped, missing. Dark, square caves in his mouth. H…
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Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · 2mo agoClang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷
Check out all the great pieces in the new @flightlit.bsky.social including my little essay about death, @deathcabforcutie.bsky.social, and why music makes me cry. Thanks to editors Frances and Will for including me.
Flight: A Literary Sampler@flightlit.bsky.social · 2mo agoFlight 5 lands today! We have work from @djvorreyer.bsky.social @willmusgrove.bsky.social @selizabeth.bsky.social and @mattjakubowski.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-5/
I'm not generally a spiritual person, but I believe that if you have x gonna give it to ya on your playlist and you put it on shuffle it will come on at the time you need it most
I worked retail all through lockdown while getting up at 4 am to work on my first novel before work. I remember driving to my shift, listening to news reports about people quarantined on cruise ships in San Francisco. I'd fantasize about how much writing I could be getting done if that were me.
Everyone's all "but I need AI for little jobs artists won't do." As though I don't want a hundred music videos of 00s hip hop songs featuring my cat with his name in the chorus. As though I wouldn't rip up my Grandma's hook rugs in front of her to get that.
Whenever my wife leaves I'm always like "now I can do all the fun stuff she won't let me do!" and then I always learn that there's nothing she keeps me from doing except leaving sharp knives in the sink.
im reading bleak house and they just got to the house and guess what. its really nice. so what the fuck
PROSE POETRY IS POETRY BUT REGULAR POETRY ISNT
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 4mo agoWE NEED BAD IRRELEVANT TAKES IMMEDIATELY FLOOD THE TIMELINE
pineapple is an unacceptable fruit. It doesn't want to be eaten, and we shouldn't force it. Bananas want to be unwrapped and eaten. Pineapples hate you, and I'm not eating an angry fruit
we have got to get it together, in like twenty-four hours the astronauts are back
When I told him about The New Yorker's very human fact-checking process, he crowed that "a lot of that is going to go away." To which I said, NO, AI means we need MORE fact-checking, because AI has flooded the web with bullshit. It certainly can't be trusted to fact-check itself, or anything. /
Lately I've been tired of stories about hyper competent people whose plots are never troubled by mundane greed or stupidity. The truth of the world is more like a Cohen brothers comedy than a grand tragedy.
Nute@nutedawn.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis whole concept in LOTR is one of my favourite parts of the whole book. “Evil fucks up because evil people fundamentally cannot imagine that others are not motivated by the same things as them” is another theme that feels relevant right now
The many advantages to using AI: -You have to use it. -If you don't use it, you'll get left behind. -We'll force you to use it or trick you.
There is a construction crew working on either side of my house that keeps short-cutting through my yard and a whole-ass fox hunt of hounds baying and horses clopping down my street ex-urban Philadelphia Wednesday morning WHAT IS UP
So in a completely terrifying and vulnerable shift from my normal flash, I wrote a very personal essay, up at Herstry today. Hope it resonates. herstryblg.com/true/2026/3/...
Pieces — HerStry
Just after the pandemic, I went to New York City with my aunt Mimi. We had planned the trip as a way for me to learn everything I could about my mother, who died thirty-five years ago from an aggressi...
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My chapbook—5 weeks before its official release—is NOW IN ITS SECOND PRINTING! Eternal thanks to everyone who bought a book, came to a reading, shared a post, etc, etc, etc. I’m so grateful.
My new dentist keeps texting me reminders about my upcoming appointment...in three days. I hope they have money to pay for my multiple heart attacks.
My cat gets into everywhere she's not wanted and is always trying to help with things even though she just makes them harder. She's basically AI.
one time i was playing frolf in alaska and i hit a moose
Sexual orientation: ▪️Straight ▪️gay ✅ the cast of The Mummy (1999)
Fun fact: after you come back from AWP, everything sounds like a poem. My wife opened the curtains and said "There's something like sunshine outside."
My get rich quick scheme is to move to Asia and sell "Ancient European Secret" quackery, and it will be all leaches and no bathing.
Getting ready for AWP. If you're on a panel, please do not spend your time saying you don't know anything about the topic. No one came to hear that. We all know human's are fallible, just take your best shot.
Writing retreats always ask why you want to go there. My honest answers are "Because I crave institutional validation, and because I want to crawl back into my MFA the way some children want to go back into the womb." Please rate this response in terms of its likelihood to land me a residency.
I disagree that AI "artists" are naturally stupid or uncreative. What AI artists are missing is that creativity takes practice, and producing interesting art isn't a matter of rote skill, but of learning how to think. That can't be skipped, not for moral reasons, but for practical ones.