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Andrew Ervin

@andrewervin.bsky.social

Husband. Golden retriever’s human. Novelist. Critic. Ally. Grognard. Yunker. Philly sports fan. Adjunct educator.

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This one isn’t over but if any team shows up in Philly and takes the first two games you have to give them credit

07.10.2025 00:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have a Kinks record playing and it’s so much better than listening to the game.

05.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Game night pizza

04.10.2025 23:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ha!

04.10.2025 22:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My Nobel prize prediction: Andrey Kurkov or Helen Garner

04.10.2025 21:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Dodgers are a bunch of jabronis and crumb bums.

04.10.2025 21:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you for reading it

04.10.2025 20:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tending to the Garden of American Democracy is Hard and Thankless Work In Jerzy Kosinski’s 1971 novel Being There, a simple gardener named Chance is mistaken for a political guru and quickly wows the Washington D.C. power brokers and kingmakers. It’s a marvelous study…

@andrewervin.bsky.social looks for answers to (impossible) questions about American democracy in recent books by Luke Kemp and Richard Mabey.

03.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Tending to the Garden of American Democracy is Hard and Thankless Work In Jerzy Kosinski’s 1971 novel Being There, a simple gardener named Chance is mistaken for a political guru and quickly wows the Washington D.C. power brokers and kingmakers. It’s a marvelous study…

“Personally, I believe that anxiety and dread are perfectly natural responses to the times.”

My latest for LitHub:

lithub.com/tending-to-t...

03.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

The end of the Cubs-Padres game was an utter travesty. Wow.

03.10.2025 01:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m disappointed in Bill Burr

29.09.2025 00:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Honestly, I don’t like badmouthing other sports franchises, only my own, but the Mets were such absolute dicks last fall.

28.09.2025 23:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And now we’re talking about Portland instead of Epstein.

28.09.2025 16:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As inept and useless as the Dems are, they wouldn’t wait until the end of the weekly news cycle to drop this. I bet it’s coming from inside the (white) house.

27.09.2025 00:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My spidey senses are tingling about this leak. Do we know where it originates?

27.09.2025 00:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Something odd about releasing this vague Epstein info on a Friday afternoon?

26.09.2025 21:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And now we’re talking about an American rendition of the Ba’ath Party Purge instead of Epstein.

26.09.2025 00:37 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Who are you calling old?

25.09.2025 23:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh heck yes

25.09.2025 22:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This is going to be in my head all day. IYKYK

23.09.2025 17:06 — 👍 6251    🔁 1135    💬 185    📌 28

Mailing labels. Which side is the paper and which side is the label? And why won’t they separate? I’ve bent the corner and the other corner and the

24.09.2025 00:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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No one hates Star Wars as much as Star Wars fans. It’s weird.

23.09.2025 22:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And now we’re talking about Tylenol instead of Epstein.

23.09.2025 13:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anyone else a tiny bit excited about this pending rapture?

22.09.2025 14:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😎

21.09.2025 20:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We’re going to win this game 🦅

21.09.2025 18:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Maybe they should change at halftime

21.09.2025 18:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There are fighter jets circling because there’s a football game soon go birds 🦅

21.09.2025 16:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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