Scott Wilson
@scottwilsonkc.bsky.social
Editor, writer. Views mine. I know who needs to hear this. Kansas City, Missouri
Many favorites, but the one that comes first to my mind is from Joe Henry’s “Great Lake”: “Anymore I hear somebody laughing, I just figure I been took.”
Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago
Don DeLillo Thomas Pynchon John McPhee Richard Russo Anne Tyler Plus: Lorrie Moore and Ann Beattie
Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 4w agofive living writers that you've read five books by each Rita Dove Tasha Suri Courtney Milan Grant Morrison Tom Perrotta
Chin-stroking yourself to death is rare. Will it happen to the New York Times?
Each appears to be plotting the other’s murder, also a day ahead.
This kind of unrelieved-at-night heat wave always reminds me of David Simon’s Homicide, the part about the murder rate always going up.
Happy Father's Day 1986 to then-precancerous dads not yet worried about how much time may be left.
Begging the local paper to stop referring to restaurants and festivals in headlines as “beloved.”
Ted Turner’s ghost asked for this telepathically.
onion person@junlper.beer · 3mo agofunniest thing i’ve ever seen
Good luck to the young scofflaw who took my daughter’s balky umbrella, featuring jolly lemurs and incipient tetanus.
I can only add my admiration not only for the post but also for Steves’ correct spelling of minuscule, which is almost gilding the hero lily.
Steve Mullis@stevemullis.net · 4mo agoTravel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax"
Who needs battle ropes when you can just launder and refit your duvet cover.
Me: I smell the grape silly putty, but where is it? Willa (age 6): It’s in the bed. Me: Your bed? Willa: No! Their bed. [points at living room floor] Their bed:
I didn’t understand how prolific I was with “nevertheless” as a retort to my 6-year-old daughter until she countered with “nevertheNOTless.” Checkmated.
This is like being in a concert hall and hearing all of Born to Run play as the preshow music and you know the curtain is about to go up on Gallagher and 16 watermelons alone onstage, somehow in a good way.
Standing up to take a break from writing and regain sensation like...
Begging Costco to resume stocking Thomas English muffins. You don’t have to stop selling Farm to Market’s flavorless, weirdly spongy version, but people need another option.
Some businessmen in my community might see a lesson here.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 6mo agoStrong work from those who pressured them!!
How are these guys supposed to get big, grotesque crowdfunded dollars from white nationalists if no one tells us who they are?