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In Wisconsin, sausage vending machines.

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Hello, Bluesky. How's it going today?

Winter is coming. Bring back the masks.

So how’s your NEA grant proposal coming along?

In Milwaukee, Mr. Paul Cebar on @wmse917fm.bsky.social sings the weather forecast daily. That is all.

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Next writerly question is adjective, adjective noun construct. Do you do it, pick one, add an ‘and,’ omit the comma, or figure something else out? e.g., She glared at her clever, unkind husband. She glared at her clever and unkind husband. She glared at her clever unkind husband.

Is "utterly" one of those words, like "suddenly" that you should avoid? e.g., "The ache of her gaze from across the smoky bar utterly broke him."

Also - still at the restaurant - how everything is in future tense. The beer you ordered is ‘going to come in a bottle,’ the fig salad today ‘will come with figs’, and the restrooms ‘are going to be’ on your left. As if someone moved the toilets from where they were located yesterday.

I like when you order something like a spinach salad at a restaurant and the server asks if you’d like to ‘add protein to that.’

Han shot first.

Working through some dialog. Do you have a style preference for said vs. asked and punctuation? e.g., What time is it, Bob asked. or What time is it? Bob said. or What time is it? Bob asked.

I hope Bad Bunny does next year's halftime.

Hey, yeah. Good news is cool.

Anyone?

What's your dream journal? I think @orionmagazine.bsky.social or @nplusonemag.com would be cool. @newyorker.com would be nice, I guess.

Growing up in Wisconsin, I took the prediction of "Six more weeks of winter" as good news. A winter that ends in the middle of March would indeed mean an early spring. And the groundhog not seeing his shadow would mean winter would play out as usual—snowy weather, and ice on lakes until mid-April.

No words. Literally.

Reading @amystuber.com’s Sad Grownups while grabbing pizza. Check it out!

Tudo bom.

Everything I've learned about that weirdo billionaire who is afraid of dying I've learned against my will

Rolls off the tongue: the snowy Gulf of America shores.

See how that gesture goes over at work.

Coping.

Just picked up this gem by @sneezingcow.bsky.social “… humanity has found enough ways to cause itself pain, so let love abound.”

Oh no! Decades of memories. I'd rather hear Uke call a game than watch it on TV.

This billboard says it all.