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As long as I’ve got my laptop and summer breaks, no urban legend is safe.
06.11.2025 20:05 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Kansas too!
05.11.2025 21:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I gotta say it was a good day
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‘Selfie’, a poem by Eric McHenry, from our October / November issue.
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He doesn’t realize that his is a non-speaking role.
03.11.2025 14:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whenever I see Mary Ruefle’s “Madness, Rack, and Honey” my brain sings it to “Lawyers, Guns, and Money.”
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Sonnet in The London Magazine!
12.10.2025 21:33 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Waywiser Press did a wonderful anthology of them a few years back, “Jiggery Pokery Semicentennial.” Recommended!
09.10.2025 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Attention versiverse: Gretchen McCulloch writes double dactyls.
09.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you!
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News!
30.09.2025 15:54 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Not at all surprising that the notoriously nimble Democratic political machine planned ahead 23 years to plant a fake Trump drawing in Epstein's birthday book. That Chuck Schumer sees around corners!
10.09.2025 01:45 — 👍 282 🔁 27 💬 8 📌 2This is a good joke and also my son wrote it
01.09.2025 19:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Talking levee-camp hollers on the Smarty Pants podcast. When the work is peonage, the work songs become protests.
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Who killed the Mercy Man? If levee bosses were just a bunch of interchangeable Mr. Charlies, then they all did.
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#Music #History by Eric McHenry via The American Scholar
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25.08.2025 14:08 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1So people are using AI to dump people in order to pursue relationships with AI.
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Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.
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Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to
@henrymceric.bsky.social & @theamscho.bsky.social!
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Thanks for sharing this!
20.08.2025 15:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And the world’s richest man giddily posted about feeding this program “into a wood chipper.” What have we become?
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Here’s my latest piece for The American Scholar, about a 1909 murder and the song tradition that refused to forget it. Gratitude to Mike Mattison of the Tedeschi Trucks Band for all the help and inspiration.
14.08.2025 17:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The final word on prescriptivism.
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Moment Of Silence Followed By Hot Dog Race
Moment Of Silence Followed By Hot Dog Race
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Evan McHenry has a headline in the Onion!
29.07.2025 23:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Four Loko Folklore
14.07.2025 04:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
05.06.2025 20:15 — 👍 35450 🔁 8177 💬 620 📌 256Good lord I’ve outlived Jerry Garcia. I need to stop looking these up.
18.05.2025 05:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He should have spoken up sooner. I’m sure Trump would have pardoned him.
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