Elena Passarello

Amen!

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

“If the car’s gone,”

“I’ll give you another cookie anyway”

“because I love you.”

Happy Columbo’s Day

A white blob with big eyes and a beak is standing on a red carpet and wearing green boots and a red soup bowl hat.

Hatton, a sentient aerial view of a spilled bowl of soup, is the mascot for Tome City. The ingredients in the soup are local produce, and the spillage is in the shape of the city.

!!!GO BEAVS!!!

We're finally watching The Righteous Gemstones and it is the most South Carolina show I've ever seen...specifically Low Country AF Just caught a reference to PLUFF MUD, for godssake!

You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops...

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

True evangelism! Thank you for your service.

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

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(also now I'm sad that the great WTK won't be there!)

I just sent the most Den Mother email to the grad students in my program who are heading to LA, expressing the same thing. Then I went to the store and bought myself protein bars and trail mix and tuna snack packs. #dontAWPhangry

Come experiment with me (and some AMAZING guests) this May! I promise to look much older than I do in the photo below!

Shakin' and twitchin like I was smokin'

FRIDAY UPDATE:
1) They were playing "the Humpty Dance" at the convenience store and nobody wanted to do the dance with me.

2) My MarchXness essay from 2019's Goth tournament gets the Second Chanceness treatment today! I've been loving reading everyone's work so far this March.

Good morning; time to cry...

This video is AWESOME.
And that's to say nothing of Scarlet Joe Handsome! 😍

Nuthin' says March 1 like the kickoff of an Xness enterprise! And this is the best anthology title ever.

Give @marchxness.bsky.social a follow to join in on all the music writing chatter!

"SPEEDWAY...stars Nancy Sinatra, as a blonde, and Mr. Presley with hair dyed black, and it has to do with stock car racing....The movie has some high lunatic moments —[including] when a waitress at a drive-in hamburger stand begins to sob over a side order of tomatoes."

Should add that Renata Adler is:
1) a cranky goddess

2) not a Boomer

3) the writer of the Times' review for Elvis's 27th movie, 1968's SPEEDWAY (then she wrote a book called SPEEDBOAT...coincidence?!?!)

The Lorne Michaels Book-Event Thread Is the Reply-All Disaster We Need Susan Morrison’s invitation quickly went haywire, thanks to some boomer journalists and Tina Fey.

"Renata Adler wrote, 'It’s perfect, you, Lorne, a legacy for Lillian,' a cryptic reference possibly to longtime New Yorker writer Lillian Ross." Oh, to be in such company on a runaway reply-all train.

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We're talking about these Bohemian wonders on this week's LiveWire...you know who doesn't have to wait around for zone permits? BEAVERS.

The Meaning Behind “Personal Jesus” by Depeche Mode—Inspired by Priscilla Presley What is the meaning of Depeche Mode's song "Personal Jesus"? Let's take a deep dive into the Priscilla Presley inspired track.

Sorry to Elvis-splain on Superbowl Sabbath, but...
americansongwriter.com/the-meaning-...

!!!!!!!!!!

We didn't want to put that fine a point on it, so we went with Earth, Wind and Fire

David and I went through a car wash while a Disco song played on the radio, which is, I believe, the middle aged version of clubbing.

I read this one immediately after blacking out on ebay looking for calendars from 1986 to hang on my wall in 2025 (the dates match up)...needless to say, it hit home.

"He spends most of the match with a punched-out incisor in his nostril." Egads!