2020-07-05 (Sunday)
Writing
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w/e 2020-07-05
Untenable by BAD MOVES, The Shepherdess, Quotebacks, macOS Catalina, and Gary Lutz.
Photos
Links
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RS Archer: The Fictional Fiction Writer Who Took Remainers for a Ride (Logically)
On that weird Twitter thread, now deleted. (via Laura James)
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The Sentence is a Lonely Place - Believer Magazine
Text of a lecture by Gary Lutz. So many examples and explanations of amazing sentences from American fiction.
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Ange Mlinko · Just a Diphthong Away: Gary Lutz · LRB 7 May 2020
Lots of great lines quoted from Lutz’s short stories here.
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The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | The Many Faces Of Housekeeping: How Wealth & Privilege Are Distorting Underground Music
The fourth DJ “… appears positively relatable by comparison, having merely been a director at Citibank for 13 years before launching his own investment fund.”
Tweets
@rebeccabrenna @samuelpepys @MissGreefTweets In case you weren’t aware, that’s from a parody Twitter account pepysdiary.com/news/2020/03/2…
@OhByJove @samuelpepys In case you weren’t aware, that’s from a parody Twitter account pepysdiary.com/news/2020/03/2…
@suegyford @newsmary I’d forgotten those. I had to google - did we call them Mother of Thousands? It’s a great sci-fi/fantasy name for a plant.
@Zoonie Ugh, such a pain. I’d be less annoyed if the tweets actually sounded like Pepys.
@RebeccaRideal As the person who runs the “real” @samuelpepys this is a recurring annoyance. This week I’ve had a lot of traffic to the page I put up in March about these parody tweets pepysdiary.com/news/2020/03/2…
Liked tweets
British Recipe:
2 eggs
300g flour
300g sugar
200g butter
American recipe:
Well the first time I ever ate a cake was on a crisp fall day, when the temperatures were getting cooler. It was a Tuesday, and I was wearing my plaid shirt. On the radio, Bob Dylan was playing, it was a
@dannykellywords @Islington Is this the one on the corner that gives you a few chips with everything?