Wagged my finger at someone who was driving dangerously, I guess it’s true that we all turn into our mothers
Mike Ingram
@mikeingram.bsky.social
Editor at Barrelhouse. Professor at Temple University. Union rep. Author of Notes from the Road (Awst Press). World’s #1 Cat Dad.
Guy on twitter who can't run a mile without dying: I could win a tug of war against a car if it was a girl car.
Someone should make a spinoff Wonder Boys streaming series about Katie Holmes' character (two stories in the Paris Review as an undergrad!) and her sensitive-poet boyfriend, who almost certainly sucks
I'm leaving the country for four months, I expect this place to be cleaned up when I get back!
Having a real “only in New York” afternoon (buying undershirts and socks at Century21, since they closed the one in Philly a few years ago)
meeting with a financial planner to see if I can afford to have a midlife crisis
Went to campus so I could water my plants and do a little work in my office and of course I got stuck for half an hour in an elevator
I don’t go to church very often these days, but one habit I’ve retained from my Lutheran upbringing is making numbered lists of my grievances
It's me! I wrote an essay for @barrelhouse.bsky.social about my Gma's unconditional love and how Peppermint Patty and Maria Callas made me gay 🌈📚
Dave Housley@housleydave.bsky.social · last wk.Hello and reminder that the free @barrelhouse.bsky.social newsletter has a new, original, newsletter-only essay on pop culture obsessions every month, like this most recent essay by SF Layzell about Peppermint Patty (so great). You can sign up here: www.barrelhousemag.com/contact-barr...
We all have different concepts of what “freedom” looks like, but increasingly I think my own ideal of freedom is one where I can spend my time thinking about the things I want to think about
Why is Teddy in a power stance? Why does he look like a guy who’s taking flag football too seriously?
If I agree to wear the patch while I teach my classes, will they promise not to fire my colleagues
Matt Fortuna@mattfortuna.bsky.social · last wk.Temple has joined the jersey patch game, partnering with personal injury firm Grungo Law on a multi-year football deal. Grungo Law is the first law firm to appear on a D1 jersey, per the school.
Boats beating on against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past? Not on my watch!
Channeling my mother while showing the cats the scene in Meet the Parents where Jinx uses the toilet: "Do you think that cat's smarter than you? That cat's not any smarter than you."
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Channeling my mother while showing the cats the scene in Meet the Parents where Jinx uses the toilet: "Do you think that cat's smarter than you? That cat's not any smarter than you."
Frank Conroy, in workshops, used to say the reader is climbing a mountain (the story) and the writer puts things (details, backstory, etc) in their backpack that will prove useful later. At the top (end), if the reader realizes you've made them carry heavy stuff they didn't need, they'll be pissed
Sometimes I think you could explain nearly everything about me--both good and bad--by how much I earnestly loved Dan Fogelberg's music as a tween
The only legitimate use of a trillion dollars is to construct an insane, over-the-top candy factory and use it to punish irritating children
Do you think Jim Davis also hated Mondays and loved lasagna or is he just that good of a writer?
A persistent problem in my life is that my face/facial hair always seem to want me to have a goatee, but it's hard to have a goatee and not look like a cop or a guy who gets mad on podcasts
ORSON WELLES (dismissively): Well, they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night.
Probably a cool part about being a famous musician would be riding around in those golf carts at the venues.
Kinda pissed my guidance counselors never told me about the career plan where you work in finance for a few years, marry someone with lots of generational wealth, and by 50 you’ve left “the rat race” to open an art gallery with a second outpost (mostly for tax purposes) in Santorini