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Justin Carroll-Allan

@jcarrollallan.bsky.social

Father to all. Writing in Cutbank, Gulf Coast, Still Alive!, Oregonian, and more.

90 Followers  |  206 Following  |  79 Posts  |  Joined: 18.10.2023
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He deserves a star for his role in Busta Rhymes music videos alone.

27.02.2026 18:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This post is why I could never run for congress:

06.02.2026 20:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Such a jam

04.02.2026 04:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Pancake's soooooo good.

14.01.2026 17:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Give her the Nobel.

10.11.2025 20:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Processing: How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair The author on comic writing, reading drafts aloud, and being "lower than a worm" while writing

"My agent in particular was like, There must be sex in this novel. Please put sex in this novel!'"

I talked to @somers.bsky.social about comic novels, writing "like a worm," and her new novel THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR (out today!) countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...

21.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 5

Every time I hear "burrata" I'll think of this.
Incredible story.

07.10.2025 20:34 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

For Brad’s very cool and fun PTA series I wrote a little appreciation of—what else—INHERENT VICE

18.09.2025 18:04 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

GO GIANTS

13.09.2025 04:59 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

[Patriotically] Go Mets.

11.09.2025 22:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

we should all build these and sell our 'smartphones' for scrap

05.09.2025 18:06 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks so much for your kind words, Nitish! That song remains one of my favorites in the world.

17.08.2025 01:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm getting increasingly tickled by a colleague who insists on saying "what occurred" instead of "what happened" on a zoom call. Great choice, pal.

31.07.2025 16:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Everything about this is just incredible: the face bleeding off the right side of the cover when the title is "Dead Center," the intro by Saban, etc. It's...wow.

29.07.2025 15:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OH NO

28.07.2025 17:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The orcs burst into the writer's office before he could finish.

24.07.2025 15:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I want to read the Mary Robison Giants novel so badly

23.07.2025 22:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think it is our duty to egg his house.

14.07.2025 17:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On this day, I find myself pondering an important question: which American writer will be the first to do the Griddy on the way to podium after winning a major award?

14.07.2025 17:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Wait a minute, is baseball...back?

09.07.2025 04:47 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I woke up everyone in the house. Just unbelievable.

09.07.2025 04:43 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We must've been standing next to each other with our arms crossed.

27.06.2025 17:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wish they had a "Louie Louie" cover.

27.06.2025 04:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Still open to getting matching tats of that weird saxophone plane from Barry Hannah's Airships with literally anyone.

18.06.2025 22:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How many glasses are we at now, Tom? Give us the count.

17.06.2025 17:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Cracking myself up by texting, "How about that Sabrina Carpenter?" to everyone in my contacts.

16.06.2025 22:57 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Awful time to be alive but truly an amazing time to be a hater

16.06.2025 19:20 — 👍 4113    🔁 852    💬 34    📌 32

Jesus ,Willie, it should be "oi me mate..." WTF man.

16.06.2025 17:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Why would you open yourself up to Awolnation like this

12.06.2025 23:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0