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Cookbook author. Pod: Cooking With Bruce & Mark. Former lit prof. Pod: Walking With Dante. Lots of lit seminars, book discussions, & poetry discussions at New England libraries. Recovering evangelical. Married to the best guy. Owned by a collie.
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Can't believe I'd never noticed Minos as hell's sentencer lurking at the bottom of Michaelangelo's Last Judgement. Many thanks to @markscarbrough.bsky.social's wonderful Walking With Dante podcast for that detail.

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I grew up in Texas, where they had cowboys, who liked to smoke, and I don’t remember anyone who had lung cancer.

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Dear Leader Schumer: Kindly fuck off.

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W. T. F.

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May I live to see Doogie Himmler before the court in The Hague.

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Never wanted to live to see it, yet here we are.

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Yep. Now do thalidomide.

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Beyond imagination, not the immorality of these fools, but their rank amorality.

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I mean, fer corn’s sake. Sir, how are you so orange and vibrant?

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Not exactly a condemnation. Just a narcissistic whine.

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This is the end goal: global belligerence. This is why they’re intent on reshoring manufacturing. Global trade has kept war to regional (if horrific) conflicts. Without global trade, let the bombs fall.

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Like talking to a helium balloon. Floats away on inert gas.

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Yes, that “other power.” I wonder what he means.

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I can’t believe we got here. But then I think about teaching Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich in college intro lit in 1990 and the raving mad undergrads I faced … and I can believe we got here.

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Not immoral. Amoral. Without a moral compass. Lacking even the will to discover that compass that makes us profoundly human.

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The beginning of perhaps my two favorite cantos in Dante’s COMEDY. More than halfway up Mount Purgatory, a most astonishing thing happens: the borders of what’s good and bad change. Because love always moves the fence. player.captivate.fm/episode/f50d...

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Lincoln Center. Ibsen. Ghosts. A comedy, right?

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Heroin and brain worms are a dangerous mix.

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Truly excessive.

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Call me crazy—and I only work in publishing—but I want editors, publishers, marketers, and others around me who don’t agree with me. I’d think I’d want the same as, oh, the commander in chief.

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April is the cruelest month in New England … because the canned and preserved things are running very thin. Come on, summer.

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This can stop … anytime.

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Okay, sure, a little virtue signaling: so very glad I trashed my thirty-year sub to this rag after the fake email-lady story. Never looked back. And don’t need to. $40K gym memberships, my ass.

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100 years. And a murderous, fun-loving, still exists.

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There is no end to the idiocy.

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April 9, 1865. One hundred and sixty years ago today, the traitor Lee surrendered. I’m sure glad we put that behind us.

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