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Senior Poetry Editor at The Rumpus (Ret.), author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011) and Another Poem to Love https://brian-spears.com I also crochet stuff.
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Also, a surprisingly large number of people 1) don’t know how to find a ripe watermelon and 2) eat watermelon that’s already been cut up probably by someone who didn’t care if it was fully ripe or not.
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I think it’s that while public support is high in general, it’s not a dealbreaker issue for a bloc of voters the way, for example, abortion restrictions are for a number of Republicans. It’s not a pet issue in the same way.
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It would have hurt my feelings if it hadn’t been true, but, well…
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I imagine the cartels and the military and the police would all put aside their differences in the event of a US ground invasion.
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I think it’s also good to remember that Miller wants those jobs that undocumented people won’t be in anymore to be filled by non-white people, pushing them back down the economic ladder.
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Here’s mine: technical communication is 90% translation.
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I for one welcome our new bird overlords.
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On a hot day, hot coffee brings my temperature more in line with the climate around me. It’s like eating ice cream in winter.
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There was a whole movie! I saw it when I was like 12. (It was not good.)
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Being shameless is their superpower. It was before I was born, but I can’t help thinking how the question “have you no decency?” wrecked McCarthy. It would bounce off these people like a Nerf dart.
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I was mourning action movies
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I know this isn’t the point, but isn’t Chicago in the heartland?
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Especially since one of the motivations for integrating this into the classroom is to eventually replace the people who teach lower level classes with AI driven courses. At a lot of schools, English departments only really exist because their contingent faculty and grad students teach those classes.
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And I understand why they’re doing it. My department got new tenure-eligible lines for the first time in a while in order to do research in these areas. And I’m not completely opposed to the research, but I think integration has happened way too fast.
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As I recall, my dad mostly read JW literature and not much else, but my mom read A Confederacy of Dunces after she saw a co-worker laughing out loud while reading it at work and then gave it to me, and it’s still one of my favorite novels.
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I want to look at this more closely but if it proves out, then every English/Writing department that’s given into the “we need to teach our students how to use these tools” has been committing malfeasance.
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Just sending that baby to church via air mail.
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Like, do they have the GM’s kids hostage?
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The words “the virgin Connie Swale” just popped into my brain unbidden.
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Okay but what if you add Yakety Sax as the soundtrack?
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Also:
She checks out Mozart while she does Tae-Bo
Reminds me that there’s room to grow eh eh
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She takes no shit from the other hens in the yard, that’s for sure
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Not here.
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Never heard of them
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There’s a reason we saw Han Solo as a hero from the jump.
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Crocheted. Shell stitches with a worsted weight yarn and a 4mm hook.