My new book of short stories is available for pre-order today! Check it out here: orbooks.com/catalog/a-crea
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Family Guy has gone woke! is like the lowest effort level joke someone would do on here just desperate for a molecule of serotonin. What if it were sincere though?
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Mister City policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row
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The British man who threw several eggs at King Charles III last year said police detained him again during the coronation ceremony “on suspicion of carrying eggs" huffpost.com/entry/patrick-
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It's Orson Welles' birthday. Here's one of his finest moments.
"I’m very interested in riots. I’m very interested in avoiding them. And so I call for action against the cause of riots." hellworld.ghost.io/they-woke-up-t
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I do remember the exact day and time of our final few text exchanges though because they’re still on my phone and at least as long as the cloud exists and I stay current on my bill they’ll live there forever.
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“two of the most pressing issues of this dark and darkening period: hair trigger violence among americans and the constant drumbeat of propaganda against the homeless and here we are today at the perfect intersection of the two.” welcometohellworld.com/i-dont-know-ho
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This paragraph could be written for every major town and city in Ireland.
It was also my own reaction when I first moved to Dublin from Belfast.
An indictment of How Things Actually Work.
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Hangover not coming on until a few hours after you've been awake like a cartoon guy who just got cut smoothly in half by a sword but hasn't registered it yet.
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Say what you will about the English but they’ve made great strides in synonyms for pervert. Nonce, sex pest, so on. Then again they would have had to.
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2.3 million New Yorkers have a criminal record of some kind so odds are some of the people on the subway were criminals who, I guess, actually deserve to be harassed.
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EPISODE 80: Today I'm joined by , author of A Creature Wanting Form, to talk about THE BIG LEBOWSKI (and the soundtrack). In accordance with what we think Donny's dying wishes might well have been, you should give it a listen at the link below
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Haven’t been in Central Square in a couple years and the defenses against encroaching Kendall Square completely eroded. I should’ve done more.
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“Anyone who destroys a life is considered to have destroyed an entire world.”
Our former opinion editor is an enduring stain on the Forward. Those who enabled her rise through our newspaper should condemn what they helped create.
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I ride the subway a lot. Not a week goes by that a mentally ill person doesn't get on and terrorize the entire car—especially women, especially Asians. Usually the men just sit there and pretend it's not happening. It's a disgrace that working New Yorkers have to live like this.
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NAACP sued to challenge South Carolina redistricting changes, contending they dilute the Black vote.
They had a strong case. But judges threw out parts because... it turns out Jim Clyburn secretly asked for the changes.
Great story from
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My debut! When Harry Met Sally, the Upper West Side and, most importantly, how Café Luxembourg has stayed mostly the same for 40 years and why that's a beautiful thing.
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"Media doesn't just apply the exonerative to cops. It also shows up in bicyclist vs driver stories & in the common use of 'homeowner' as an honorific in a crime story & most especially in any 'normal citizen' vs homeless person story."
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The most jarring class divide? In America? More jarring than homeless people and the subway riders who brutalize them for example? More jarring than the shop floor workers and their bosses? More jarring than millionaire legislators allowing 14 year olds to work?
If u say so lee!
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I had a blast talking about Lebowski with Eric for two damn hours for his very fun pod.
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EPISODE 80: Today I'm joined by @lukeoneil47, author of A Creature Wanting Form, to talk about THE BIG LEBOWSKI (and the soundtrack). In accordance with what we think Donny's dying wishes might well have been, you should give it a listen at the link below
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Luke always kills it, but i found it particularly therapeutic to read his words on the subway murder because it seems to externalise at least some of what i'm feeling
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"I’m going to give you a prescription that’s worked for me for lessening unproductive and self consuming surplus anger and you’re probably going to hate it." welcometohellworld.com/i-dont-know-ho
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A new book to recommend: A Creature Wanting Form by .
It’s not quite poems, not quite short stories, not quite nonfiction. I read it slower than I read most things because it seems like Luke’s goal here is to make us think about things (1/5)
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Again, there are explanations for some outlets to play ball and defer to cop-adjacent stuff, there aren't any good explanations for all of them to do so at the same time.
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A cop relative can buy you time in a smallish local story in the local paper for a story a couple reporters are half poking at.
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There are plenty of explanations for why certain outlets would try to protect him or whatever, and especially for similar local stories, but not for why every single one would for the main national story of the week.
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Has anyone proffered a reasonable explanation for why the media didn't report the stranglers name? Please assume I am aware of how media is subservient to power and love the cops and hate the homeless and so forth.
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This is so well said
“These humans – and they are humans in case you need reminding – aren't a threat so much as they are an indictment.
Look at what we allow.”
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Plus more from me on Jordan Neely.
He threw his jacket on the floor they said. Kept saying. I don't know what that means. Try throwing your jacket right now. What have you done? Nothing.
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