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Mike O’Connell

@moconnell.bsky.social

Author of Startling Figures: Encounters with American Catholic Fiction/ editor of Conversations with George Saunders/ co-editor of The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies. Fellow at the Jesuit Media Lab.

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Mike O’Connell@moconnell.bsky.social · 2w ago

🎶 “Turn around, bright eyes. Every now and then I fall apart” 🎶 Here’s me, unpacking some high school youth ministry memories/ trauma. (There are some real Hell is a World Without You vibes @jasonkirk.fyi )

‘Turn Around’: The Bonnie Tyler-inspired youth ministry skit that formed—and scarred—a generation

For many young American Christians, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” wasn’t the soundtrack to a painful breakup, but to a spiritual and in some cases traumatic experience.

americamagazine.org

Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · last mo.

Soccer is my favorite sport and always will be, but Jesus Christ they've got to do something about this VAR issue. Every exciting moment devolves into legalistic nitpicking and standing around. For a match like this to end with Zapruder analysis and trigonometry is simply not fun!!!

Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · last mo.

Holding my breath, transfixed with terror and hope, barely able to look at the screen, all for Cape Verde, a nation I had definitely, definitely heard of three weeks ago

Mike O’Connell@moconnell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gonna need to update today’s substack:

Reflecting Pool Reflections

For thousands of years humans have been telling the story of a man so obsessed with self-love that he ignored the world around him, causing pain to others and ultimately dooming himself.

open.substack.com

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.