My short story "Zeno's Library" is now an episode of the podcast Imaginary Advice.
It's George Saunders meets Jorge Luis Borges.
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/ross-sutherlan
iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/96-
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Let's not mince hairs. Author of "A Sharp Knife Is Safer" and co-creator of the audio sitcom "Roommate From Hell"
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I did it again, I read this site for five minutes and started arguing with strangers about strangers. This place is so fucking dumb
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I feel I owe you an explanation as to why I am not attending the Taylor Swift concert
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Girls notes app be like:
- grocery lists
- childhood trauma
- travel plans
- draft breakup text
- baby names
- situationships
- appointment reminders
- gut-wrenching paragraphs about worst life experiences
- deepest darkest fears
- passwords
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Why have our mass movements failed? Why has America become soft and compliant? It was the lead paint. Bring back the lead paint
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i will never forget the commercial for this that featured hotel guests cheerfully pointing at chewbacca to rat him out to stormtroopers, who promptly arrest him
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People love pointing to something happening under the current regime and saying that this is what would damningly actually happen under whatever alternative regime they have a problem with
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it will only cost $8 and a camrip of The Marvels to put this site out of its misery for good
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“lol i can’t believe you guys are still on this site” Yeah dude every time i open twitter 2 it’s the most online people from this website (who also still post here) saying shit like “A man cave is just a tool shed except for human tools.” and their lame friend replying “omg dave”
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apparently my avatar makes noise for some people????
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When I'm Velma Kelly and Matron "Mama" Morton
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Most people don't know how to behave, and it's exhausting and depressing. They don't have basic manners. They're not considerate. They have no empathy. They're not bad people but still, they suck.
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PLEASE take 30 seconds and checkout this Borges-inspired read about a guy who works at, and is fired from, an infinite library
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My short story "Zeno's Library" is now an episode of the @rossgsutherland podcast Imaginary Advice.
It's George Saunders meets Jorge Luis Borges.
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/ross-sutherlan
iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/96-
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4xuCSh
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So "The Good Doctor" premise isn't that he's super young? Is this what middle age feels like
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COVER REVEAL as they say. Available to preorder wherever you buy your books.
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A mother must be everywhere and nowhere, the roar of thunder and a whisper in the wind. She must never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception. In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity
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There’s this weird parenting advice trend that somehow combines “you should be like Scandinavian moms who leave their babies to nap in lüfgaards, big holes in the snow, but also if you don’t bedshare, babywear, and stop working your children will be traumatized”
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Have you guys heard Peter thiel speak. It’s shocking. I thought he would be some cool supervillain guy but he just fumbles and “Uhh”s over jumbled historical facts like a pervert scientist in a movie. Why do all our oligarchs suck at making themselves look cool at all
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Austrians fumbled the bag so bad when it came to transforming their dynastic empire into a modern multicultural nation-state that they assume you can just list your fourteen points and any great power will immediately collapse into dozens of irrelevant statelets.
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I put China to notice - if you do not break with Russia - #ExRussia you will be dismantled into #ExChina
Do you want this? @ChinaDaily
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no it just means being good at art doesn’t necessarily carry any special understanding of politics or insight into them, which is something that artists and the artist-adjacent are constantly in denial about
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nothing exemplifies the vapid posturing of a lot of “creative” types during the trump era better than childish gambino dropping this and then joining the andrew yang campaign the following year twitter.com/oscos/status/1…
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Memento but it’s a guy who keeps getting fooled by Who’s on First
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I'm so online that I kept waiting for the deep dive into a CIA war crime
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been looking forward to this one for a while: james beard's onion sandwich
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did old people really think that "hello muddah hello faddah" song was funny or was that a test by them to see which kids weren't critical thinkers
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one of the most Thomas Friedman ideas ever. he's still got the juice! nytimes.com/2023/04/25/opi
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My trick is that I'm uncomfortable being *anywhere*
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"Legacy pubs realized ... there was no particular secret sauce to Buzzfeed or Gawker besides being made by & for people who were comfortable being online at a moment when existing pubs (& their execs) weren’t"
maxread.substack.com/p/buzzfeed-gaw
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I'm starting to hope the historians actually won't have to understand Twitter at all
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Sometimes when I'm bored I go check out the latest unhinged replies to this old tweet & I'm never disappointed
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sometimes you see a dinosaur reconstruction and you just know in 10 years they are gonna be like yeah we got that one wrong
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Quetzalcoatlus northropi model next to a 1.8m man. The largest known flying animal to ever exist.
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they are grossly impractical. for one, what could they possibly be eating
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Timothée Chalamet says the sand worm he rides in ‘DUNE 2’ is completely practical. #CinemaCon
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I wrote about Chubby Checker, who held onto his 15 minutes of fame and refused to let go, for stillalivemag.com/articles/chubb
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If you watch one thing today, it should be this
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This entire story is so wild (dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1) but this is the funniest god damn thing I've ever seen.
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Every viral tweet now has like 9 followups from the author like:
My husband got me flowers!
I wanted to clarify my husband and I do equal housework
I did not know tulip farms were so bad for the environment, sorry
I apologize that this was insensitive to people with allergies
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