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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 23h

Dr. Dog and I are coming to the “Christmas Party!”

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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

she's a killa

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Now me and @awolfson.bsky.social are on a writing retreat in India together commiserating about how we’ve both been slain by @erinkeane.bsky.social

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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

No rest for the dismal! Round 2 games are tipped off! We have Celine vs REM, Gill vs Loeb, Belle vs Hersh, and Sade vs No Doubt on today's slate. Read, listen, vote by 9am AZ time 3/12 at marchxness.com (and get in your votes on today's games in the next 83')

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 11/03/2026

The Literary World's Prestigious Taco Bell Quarterly has surpassed 24,000 followers in the sky. I can't even use the Paris Review over here as my villain because I'm crushing them. We are about to surpass Lit Hub. Taco Bell is your Literary Hub now.

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Dang. I have now read all 64 essays for this year's @marchxness.bsky.social tournament for the saddest song of the 90s & I am sad & impressed in the most excellent way & grateful that this annual event gives us some of the best writing, reading, & community available on this godforsaken internet.

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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 8 HALFTIME SCORES Soul Asylum 80, Patty Loveless 70 Blink-182 88, Nick Cave 67 GnR 111, Kershaw 54 Mariah 52, Crash Test Dummies 43 Last day of the first round games finishes up at 9am AZ time 3/11 at marchxness.com

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"anything where you can hear the artist breathe is sad. Like Glenn Gould, I said. Nora said, Glenn was a mumbler..." Extremely neat how @lateration.bsky.social's @marchxness.bsky.social essay on Nick Cave's "Nobody's Baby Now" is only very glancingly about that song: marchxness.com#/1stround-bl...

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March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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Erin Langner @erinlangner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

My essay on all of the SERIOUS sadness bound up in Mariah Carey’s “Without You,” now live! Vote vote! Special thanks to the #lambs who put together a truly impressive magazine archive (covers included w. essay!)

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Come for the Patty Loveless, stay for the Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Larry Brown! Read my @marchxness.bsky.social essay on "You Don't Even Know Who I Am" and then vote for it (if you agree with me that it really is the saddest): marchxness.com#/1stround-so...

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March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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Jen Borkowski @jenmaicha.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Oh, this essay from @emryal91.bsky.social: "If I’m too messy to die, then I have to clean, and if I’ve got it in me to clean, I don’t want to die anymore. If I think about it for too long I start to feel like a Roomba who sometimes sits at the charging deck for an inappropriate amount of time."

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"Dang. The problem is not what we presumed." having grown up on Patty Loveless, I knew I was going to be here for @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social's @marchxness.bsky.social essay (though I didn't expect it to be quite so relatable!) marchxness.com/1stround-sou...

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3/10, 1st Round: (2) Soul Asylum vs (15) Patty Loveless — March Sadness 90s Edition

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Don Incognito @shuadc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Me, reading about the impact of the Soul Asylum video in an innocent sad song contest

Hey, this isn’t faux dive
This is a dive

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Cheryl Graham @cherylgraham.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Didn’t expect a Shakespearean take on Guns ‘n’ Roses, but that’s @marchxness.bsky.social for you. “Hamlet a tortured rock star, Axl a prince wrestling with his demons. Both of them making their problems everyone’s.” @erinkeane.bsky.social marchxness.com#/1stround-gn...

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March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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Martin Seay @martinseay.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

If you harbor dark suspicions about the Child & the Family as overloaded symbols exerting malign coercive force, have I got a couple of @marchxness.bsky.social essays for YOU!

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

My son’s essay about why he doesn’t want to be on a farm.

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Today’s 8 @marchxness.bsky.social essays have me seated and sad as hell with TWO asterisk power-pivots by BRITTNEY UECKER (“Max and I had a tumultuous, isolated relationship”) and KATIE MOULTON (“I wrote all this before.”) Katie’s “before” in italics!

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

*soft knocking* Hi, BlueSky. It's me, Caro. Can I come in? I want to discuss March Sadness @marchxness.bsky.social

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I’m sorry, but I’m the woman who writes “Knock it off!” with an exclamation point, in serious emails, when my feathers get ruffled.

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Afternoon shift poeming while people wait at Chicago Artisan Market!

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

i love pnc lmao... they're onto something... why does banking and everything have to be all gussied up nowadays

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

the ultimatum… scotty??? Yikes

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

asking for blurbs = sending handwritten notes to my favorite playwrights and authors and playwright-authors @clashbooks.bsky.social

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

He’s placing the Parmesan rind into simmering sauce like Nara Smith and I’m stepping out for a cigarette like Lucky Blue

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

no worries just utterly fucking SLAYING Xmas shopping while my car is in the repair shop

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Update: I am sitting at it. How could I not

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

a single two seat bistro table at the Starbucks in jewel osco is killing meeeeeeeeeeee overlooking the produce pretending to be a European aperol bar OMG it’s so earnest

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I have to get drug tested regularly for my medication and I’m happy to report I’ve been given a secret password from the lab supervisor to be seen immediately whenever I go. Feels like a promotion!!! The password includes the word banana which makes it even better

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I know I’m missing The Point but the romantic chemistry between Lilly Phillips and Josh Pieters is insane

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Merriam Webster this is SMUT

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

My son makes / films a LOT of puppet shows. then when he’s at school and I watch them, i feel myself looking straight into his soul

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I would argue there are cases in which spaghetti is better cold

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I went to a stationery store and was nice to myself

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micah @nemerevermore.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I'm not here to judge people for their thirst posting decisions, but some people are posting truly wild things under their actual government names

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

bestie has my location and I love when she shows up at my house and vapes over my shoulder and talks shit passively while I diddle on the computer

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Former grinch reporting back with full-chest Christmas spirit — reader, it is true: softening with age

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Conspiracists think aliens exist… but real conspiracists know it’s a staged alien invasion that’s been in the works for many decades to unite people in slowly conditioned fear to make them malleable

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Seriously. no one on my feed is talking about dumping old bananas into their rose bushes and I’m pissed

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I get it I get it the writing community is here and it’s nostalgic but can anyone point me toward : is gardener twitter also here ? Find me

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

How do you guys all get followers on stuff? Like I don’t understand lmao

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Signing a book for someone I don’t know who likes boxing: Dear Eric, Merry Christmas ❤️ I heard you like boxing… there is no boxing in this book… ❤️❤️❤️

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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

My son and his friends blowing down the door on a Friday and setting up UNO like it’s poker night

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