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Your art is more important than your audience
[Originally Posted: 2021.11.25]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.19]
Your art is more important than your audience.
– so says my A.I. / algorithmically generated horoscope today, the notification popping up while I was mid-contemplating just how to curate collections and microthoughts such as these on this website, and whether to continue to do it just for myself or reconnect somehow with a social media network for the possible benefit or irritation of unknown others.
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Yay Thanksgiving!
[Originally Posted: 2021.11.25]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
Yay holidays! Yay traditions! Yay America! Yay humans! We’re the best! We’re smarter than turkeys!
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Reading Link: Facebook Sent Me Down a Centrist Rabbit Hole
[Originally Posted: 2021.11.19]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.19]
I Made the World’s Blandest Facebook Profile, Just to See What Happens
by Kaitlyn Tiffany in The Atlantic
It seems like not many people are talking about this aspect of why Facebook is so horrible because it is also horrible in so many other ways. This is actually one of the main reasons I finally deleted my Facebook account, though.
I didn’t have a ton of “friends” (230ish, which I’m sure is below average for someone on Facebook for over a decade) and most of them didn’t share much that was real (or if they did, the algorithm didn’t see fit to share it with me), so my feed was filled with so much inanity and corporate stuff, and I still just scrolled through it compulsively, hoping something interesting would happen.
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New Longer Thing: Writing the Great American Email
[Originally Posted: 2021.11.18]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.19]
Writing the Great American Email
(Published this new ‘longer thing’ in the Features / Longer Things area of this website.)
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Writing the Great American Email
[Originally Posted: 2021.11.18]
[Last Updated: 2022.08.11]
The last rays of the sun transfigured the water tower, the freeway overpasses, and the tops of the pins on the bowling alley sign, as I sat at my computer in an emptied office. I hadn’t noticed the sky darkening as I tapped away on my keyboard, compulsively shift-tabbing the cursor, re-reading, revising, substituting words, deleting phrases, and reorganizing paragraphs.
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Reading Link: Teen Librarians Are Not Pornographers
[Originally Posted: 2021.11.17]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.19]
Teen Librarians are not Pornographers and Other Things You Should Know About the People Who Have Dedicated Their Lives to Serving Youth in Your Community
by Karen Jensen of Teen Librian Toolbox
Loved this blog post that I happened upon today – being on School Library Journal’s network she’s kind of preaching to the choir, so I don’t know if this will convince or speak to anyone outside of libraries, but it’s honest and heartfelt and made me personally feel just a little bit better about my life.
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topographicbark
[Originally Posted: 2021.11.16]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.21]
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Book Review - The Last Cuentista
[Originally Posted: 2021.11.16]
[Last Updated: 2021.11.15]
I wrote and had published on Granite Media a review of The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera. Might as well reshare it here for a record.
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Reading: All Boys Aren't Blue
[Originally Posted: 2021.11.14]
[Last Updated: 2022.07.16]
Yesterday morning I finished reading All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson. This morning I wrote six to seven pages of thoughts and notes about it, that I’m likely not safe to share anywhere right now, including here in unsyndicated nowhereland.
It’s a powerful book, though, if you’re willing to spend the time with it. And I’m afraid that fear of that power might be the true root and rot of the issue that seemingly requires me not to talk about it.
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potatobroccolicheesesoup
[Originally Posted: 2021.11.14]
[Last Updated: 2022.02.21]
I ended my cooking drought by making some potato-broccoli-cheese soup this afternoon, and now I’m ending my daily posting drought by sharing it here.
