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ICMYI: We are ranking ALL of U2's songs from worst to best. Here is the most recent installment. #u2

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i love this song so much, looking forward to reading the essay!

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And uh also marchxness.com/shredness-ko...

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"We run around looking like something you’d see in a post-apocalyptic aftermath, which is sometimes what it feels like to grow up in the town we’re from." The people asked for @coriwinrock.bsky.social on Hole's "Gold Dust Woman" again, and that's what you get today: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...

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me showing my kid clips of the Kool-Aid Man exploding through walls

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Missed this one in its first outing and I’m so glad I got a second chance(ness) to read it.

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We started rewatching Twin Peaks: The Return when Lynch passed and 18 hours of weirdness about America's empty soul is the absolute perfect winter 2025 watch.

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Before the song ended I encountered 2 giant wooden hands, on poles like the legs of billboards, thirty feet high. Both hands flipped giant middle fingers. 3/10 flashback to @jdfish9.bsky.social on Ini Kamoze's "Here comes the Hotstepper" in March Fadness 90s (2017): marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...

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Saw two David Lynch movies on the big screen over the weekend and noodling over a short essay about why it's really important to embrace weird art right now. TLDR: Authoritarians always come for weird art.

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Tomorrow at the American Writers Museum's Get Lit after hours event from 5:30 to 7:30! Come get a hot fresh Poem While You Wait! americanwritersmuseum.org/program-cale...

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OMG everyone go read the “Rock DJ” essay by @katiedarbymullins.bsky.social for March Second Chanceness and not just because I’m mentioned in the intro!! 🥲 It’s so good!! And newly topical!

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Thank you to @marchxness.bsky.social for always championing my dorky essays and for introducing me to a whole community of writers who love out loud. And if you ALSO love things like “Rock DJ,” please check out The Apologist…! Until then, here I am dressed in my 2000s throwback.

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governments should spend money, literally all their fucking money. on taking care of the people from whom they got the money. on building cool shit for the people from whom they got the money to use, like highways and public works. this is real easy how can these people be so bad at this

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once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!

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I have been enjoying the reminder to visit one of these fantastic March Xness essays every day so far this month. Sometimes we just need a little reminder to breathe.

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"Approaching things in new ways is scary: I think it’s worth the risk. " 3/9 it's @katiedarbymullins.bsky.social's ode to Robbie Williams's "Rock DJ" from March Danceness 00s: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...

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Happy International Women's Day to this classic banger

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Any March Xness folks in Tucson this coming week for the Tucson Festival of Books?

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"What matters to me about art is not how popular it is but whether it resonates."

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oh it's so good

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Years ago a commenter on Jezebel wrote a long post arguing that if you looked at how much women had improved in nearly every sport over the past 100 years it was reasonable to conclude that they would "catch up" with men in most sports over the next 50 years or so, especially (1/2)

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"We are beleaguered by these years we’ve lived through…and it is because of this, not in spite of it, that I’m doubling down on “Walking in Memphis”." Let's go Walking in Memphis (again) and in earnestness in 2017 and 2025 with @lisaoneill.bsky.social: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...

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FRIDAY UPDATE: 1) They were playing "the Humpty Dance" at the convenience store and nobody wanted to do the dance with me. 2) My MarchXness essay from 2019's Goth tournament gets the Second Chanceness treatment today! I've been loving reading everyone's work so far this March.

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Orange 'CAT'SBY wanted to share a favorite line from my and @allisonwrites.bsky.social's forthcoming chapbook with you today:

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10/10 bitchy headline

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"sometimes I wish I didn’t make things so arduous. It’s just a game, after all. It’s just that sometimes I get IDEAS."

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"Nick Cave is still someone worth writing about." On 3/7 we bring back @elenavox.bsky.social's essay on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand": marchxness.com/2xness-cave/

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Pretty darn thrilled to have my (tournament-winning! I couldn't believe it!) March Danceness essay from last year about Amerie's "1 Thing" in this forthcoming @marchxness.bsky.social edited @splitlippress.com anthology!

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the kind folks at @marchxness.bsky.social lend me their homepage once more to revisit my old essay, Notes On camp: on David Lee Roth’s “California Girls” along with an update on what's happened since

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I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.

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DO IT

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Me On Reading David Lee Roth as Camp.

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ICYMI over at @marchxness.bsky.social this year we are revisiting essays that lost in the first round of previous tournaments, outside of the competition format, to give some favs some more time and attention. Today's is @twonnet.bsky.social.

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"Yes, David Lee Roth is best understood as camp." It strikes me that one might spend a lifetime categorizing 80s hard rock artists by the degree to which they are best understood as camp.

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Really loved this one the first time around, give it a read!

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On 3/6 we rewind to @levin.bsky.social's great essay on David Lee Roth and camp from March Badness. Let's read and talk about and celebrate this one again today (we love DLR here fwiw): marchxness.com/2xness-roth/

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My book's copy editor, Ryan Perks, has a shiny new website. If you are looking for someone to do detail-oriented academic editing, he was fantastic to work with: ryanperks.com/main#about

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"my essay’s methodical plodding did lead me to a place that caught me off-guard": On 3/5 we bring back @twonnet.bsky.social's Faxness essay on Bronski Beat: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...

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Beautiful Things, daughter magazine of River Teeth, features micro-essays that are 250 words or fewer. Within these essays, readers can find beauty and meaning in everyday things. Beautiful Things is accepting submissions from Jan. 1 to April 1! #BeautifulThings #FlashNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter

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Do Concrete Blondes have more fun? Revisit the alternative alternative rock band's first album and find out! spectrumculture.com/2025/03/03/r...

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