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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

&: "If you want to make art, then you are interested in the human spirit, not just your own, but other people’s... Doing a review or a podcast or a TikTok video about a book you want to talk about is not cynical, but a natural offshoot of your affection for literature and the humans who create it."

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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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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

the AIM away message was where humans could be the most honest

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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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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Never apologize for writing about hamlet (somehow this relates to chalamet firing at opera and ballet) and never apologize for writing anything at all! This is so good

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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

Ryan Murphy fatigue should be recognized by WHO

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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

I’m doing one in July!!! So excited. Also hi Aaron! Good to “see” you here

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

I think accidentally unfollowed you last night when I was trying to figure out how to tag you in a post on Bluesky 😂🫠 I LOVED your essay

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

I agree! Moving there seems like the most appealing death wish. I cried when I left lol

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

My hand was over my mouth during that entire segment with the geography teacher and her silver blue spectacles. I feel like she’d totally get what you meant

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

I got to visit LA for the first time last year and was transfixed by the gritty-glam. I felt like… this is real American history. Your portrait of the West Hollywood girls girls girls club and the death of the Marlboro Man is aesthetic malaise!

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

So you’re reading this dispatch thinking, Well who did you vote for? I’m still reflecting. @marchxness.bsky.social

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

& nodding with grave confirmation at BRIAN OLIU’s theory on the power ballad “as some sort of Cartesian concept where we are inherently drawn to quiet sounds followed by massive bombast.”

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

Bunch of unforgettable scenes in M. L. KRISHNAN’s piece, including a painful crush on the mustache-donning actress in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Plus, impossibly good costume descriptions: “fevered sci-fi pastiche with translucent tubing cocooned around her vest in a pale ribcage.”

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

Wanting this MELISSA FALIVENO quote embroidered on a pillow: “When I was a teenager, I was sad.”

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

And I’m looking into a mirror at JENNY STAFF JOHNSON’s “melancholic temperament, one that didn’t look for solace in its opposite but instead in more melancholy.”

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

…ABIGAIL E. MYERS sharing my fascination with Thomas, who “we call a Saint, but also the Doubter, the one with the audacity to demand what we, two thousand years later, would still call proof.” Skeptics do get written off as the sad guys.

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

& as a sober gal I feel cosmically connected to TIMOTHY GAGER: “Under the Bridge articulated a condition so many people inhabit without language: the loneliness that survives even after one becomes clean.”

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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 · 03/03/2026

Yes, the dang thing lured me into BlueSky!

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

Lol. It's our own collective unconscious.

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

I pregamed with shots of sadness.

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

Thanks. I brought some lukewarm LaCroix and a Little Caesars Hot-N-Ready. Should I just... set them over here...

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

Omg, hi! Since I last "saw" you, I went down a RUN DMC rabbit hole and remembered your stacked Aerosmith T-Shirt collection.

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