Earl Carrender

Looking forward to that Stevie Nicks/Bad Bunny collab since people out here on that other social media (FB) lying on Queen Stevie

Me too.

The Hunter episode, the subplots and small details are great.

The main story is cliche and terrible (it is based on a Harlequin novel after all).

Here’s a novel idea: instead of a heteronormative, woman’s porn inspired romantasy, how about we let gay men speak for themselves?

HEATED RIVALRY:
Heterosexuals earning all of the praise and profit by telling their version of our stories

Are we still that despite for mere representation?

Not one single mention of that tedious HBOMax show.

God bless you Bluesky

Remembering the groundbreaking bisexual activist and author Loraine Hutchins Hutchins, who died this week, was coeditor of the anthology Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, among her many accomplishments.

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Gloria by Patti Smith on Apple Music Song · 1975 · Duration 5:55

Happy 50th to HORSES

“Jesus
died
for somebody’s sins

But not mine”

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To be clear , excerpts from my novels have been published

Just not the complete novels

I dunno

Why write another novel (my third) that won’t be published?

I might finish it (I’m 130 pages in)

I might not

This might be it

I’m trying to finish this novel (I’m 120 ages on why not).

It’s been a year

Why bother

No one would dare publish it even if I finished it

40 years ago today, INXS released 'Listen Like Thieves.' Their global breakthrough hit #1 in Australia and gave us “What You Need.” Four decades later, it’s back, remixed and remastered for a new generation.

Banned & Challenged Books ALA compiles data on book challenges from reports filed by library professionals in the field and from news stories published throughout the United States.

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Poster for the Desert Grit Reading Series, which takes place October 4 at 3pm at Rift Wine Bar and Taphouse

If you're in Phoenix/Tempe today, come out to the Rift for the first Desert Grit Reading Series, with me, @shipraagarwal.bsky.social, @jonathanin2k.bsky.social, @sabrinahicks.bsky.social, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, and @stephanieaustin.bsky.social!

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Banned Book Week
October 5-11, 2025

WIP: in progress

This one would definitely get banned

Gay teens
Teen pregnancy
Illegal Abortion ((it’s the 60’s)
Suicide
Adultery

Trigger warning: “It’s a book not a crime”

At least not yet.

Thank you

Banned Book Week
October 5-11, 2025

Donald Trump announces “100% tariff” on all non-US films A major change to the film industry. The post Donald Trump announces “100% tariff” on all non-US films first appeared on Far Out Magazine.

Donald Trump announces “100% tariff” on all non-US films

I can’t seem to get beyond the surface of the end of my WIP. It feels like I’m just moving actors around on the stage , blocking the scene

Shanah Tovah to our Jewish friends and community! 🍎🍯

Happy Birthday to Ani DiFranco! The American-Canadian singer-songwriter started the amazing Righteous Babe Records, has released over 20 albums and, in 2006, became one of the first musicians to receive NOW’s Woman of Courage Award.

I haven't read this book yet, but I would like to nominate it for best title ever. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Moby-D...

Jimmy Kimmel Is Back: ABC Returning Late-Night Show On Tuesday Jimmy Kimmel is coming back to the airwaves. ABC just revealed that Jimmy Kimmel Live! is returning on Tuesday night after “thoughtful conversations” with parent company Disney. A spokesman said, “Las...

Jimmy’s back.

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Just trying to keep going

Plus, I write by hand so…I guess typing up the 20 or so pages in my notebook lol

The Mirror Stage by Ravi Shankar - Rattle: Poetry I in sin sing sting string staring

I
in
sin
sing

—Ravi Shankar

WIP: still

LOL. Not Disney releasing a Star Wars trailer hoping that will appease the masses. They are desperate.

Vocation .. I was saying I am terrified of swallowing an avocado pit, of having this big world growing inside me, of giving birth to a vocalization that would eat me, of choking on my own words that, once uttered, would commend me to the compost, hence my silence, even as I speak, so nothing grows.

Mary Ruefle

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;"

-Keats, from "To Autumn"