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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of the guiding songs for the novel I’m (interminably) working on is one I’ve loved since my parents bought the record in my childhood: “Two Doors Down” by Dolly Parton. Gonna listen to it all day long, in honor of the loss of one of the very best of us.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I swear I'm going to start making a list

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Breaking a long Bluesky silence to offer some friendly advice: if you're a potential MFA applicant, writing a program director with questions, how about not using ChatGPT to draft that email?

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I am back in the womb. I hear nothing but the rush of blood and distant shouting

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I wasn't even sure, in my panic, if wired mice ever existed or if I'd just dreamed them

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

When Dr. Manhattan explained thermodynamic miracles to Laurie, he possibly meant my wife inexplicably owning a wired mouse, which let me rescue the unsaved 2000 words I'd written, in peril because my computer's Bluetooth decided to give all my peripherals the silent treatment

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Any authors out there getting emails purporting to be from famous-ish writers "just looking to connect"? So far I've heard from "Peter Ackroyd," "Steve Martini," "Chris Hedges," and "Pat Barker." All are clearly AI chatbots. "Pat Barker" used a waving emoji. The darkest timeline keeps sucking on.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Haven’t posted here in a while. The world’s a dumpster and social media posts are either a wail of grief/rage or someone reporting a publication, (or robots) and right now all of those options feel like they’re not great for my mental health. But I do miss you, friends.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

SIX HOURS OF MUD SLINGING MAYHEM AT THE HOOSIERDOME

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It’s just been stunning, over and over again. They had a few similar games in the back half of the regular season, too. They’re likely going to need some more magic, but I wouldn’t bet against it at this point. Also I am going to be in Indy anyway next week and have a ticket to a potential Game 6.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

You can’t really rule anything out at this point

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I am on the stage in this scene, and I rush the court at the end. My mother is in red plaid in the stands above Hackman and the bench at the beginning. Everyone in the stands was either a teacher or student at my high school... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gEt...

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Hoosiers (9/12) Movie CLIP - Ollie Sinks His Free Throws (1986) HD

YouTube video by Movieclips

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I was an extra in Hoosiers when I was in high school. I was on set for three days. Hackman was supposedly a terror to the director and crew, but he was so kind to me and the hundreds of other starstruck rural folk who asked him for pictures.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I was an extra in Hoosiers (I got to rush the court after Ollie's underhand free-throws). Hackman was supposedly a terror to the director, but he was a kind gentleman to the hundreds of starstruck Indianafolk who asked him for photos over the few days I was on set.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Reno is a complicated and sometimes troubled place, but I love it here, not least for the weapons-grade rainbows

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Everyone, my colleague, the brilliant poet Steve Gehrke, has a book arriving next month--please preorder it! He's an astonishing artist. mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/visi...

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Visitation / Steve Gehrke | Main Street Rag

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I'm a Costco fan; might have been a thing at my local store, I dunno. Not trying to knock the whole enterprise.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you’re wondering whether my wife had left me alone with the dogs for the weekend, well, you’re not wrong

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I can’t make the world better in any major ways today but here’s my dog, Inspector Bucket, who is not as well read as he might seem.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I bought tires there too, but when they put them on they told me they didn’t do alignment, so I had to shell out for that elsewhere.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

One time I left Costco with only the following: a pair of jeans, a bottle of whiskey, and a flat screen television.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The dad was wrangling the girl and her sister and sighed heavily and talked to her very patiently about her behavior, and the look he gave me suggested he’d have preferred I’d have done nothing.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

At Sierra Trading Post I saw a five-year-old girl look theatrically both ways and then shove several rainbow-colored gift cards into her overalls. I ratted her out to her dad. Take that, lawlessness and chaos. I'm Batman.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

One of the icons on the left of the screen is Lists. You have the option there to create one. Do that, and then when you click on someone's profile, you'll see an option to add them to a List. On the List itself you'll see an option to pin it to your page, and it can be the primary feed you see.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Go to Lists under the menu options (which you open on the top left of a phone screen). You can make a new List, and then by clicking anyone’s profile you can see an option to add them to a List. Within the list itself you should see an option to pin it to your home page.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

...sounds like maybe you're drinking already

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Catherine Pierce @catherinepierce.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Seems like a good day to share this poem, originally published in About Place journal. Here's to turning over the mussel shells.

Catherine Pierce

This Is How We Keep Going

By the surf, a mussel shell
wedged into wet sand, edge-up.
Someone could cut their foot on that,
I thought, and turned it flat,
while behind me the entire beach
rippled with mussel shells.

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Patrick Freivald @pfreivald.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Absolute assclownery.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I found this place a lot easier to get along with when I put people I know personally in a List, and then pinned it to my home page. Easy enough to do, and you can always switch over to the firehose of cats and AI landscapes whenever that might be required.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

David Lynch has died. You wouldn't read my work and think of him, necessarily, but he's one of those artists who shaped the world for me, telling me more about what was possible. A true great. Also he did this to us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uozh...

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Mulholland Drive - Diner Scene

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

It did all read like some administrator’s pet bad idea.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I will not name the university with the most annoying recommendation-submission portal, but I can let you know they wanted me to check any boxes from a long list that might describe the student. Like “Go-getter” and “natural leader.” Where’s the box for “fuck you, read my letter”?

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Many of you surely know how to do this, but in case you don't: I just learned how to populate a List with all of my friends and pin it to my home page. Makes getting rid of FB a little easier. Now this place feels a little more familiar.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Bad Hand, obviously. I want an edit button.

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Hey friends. A favor. @joshruben.bsky.social was one of the first people to put his name behind Bad Hand and he needs our help. The fire took his home. Let’s surround him with love and support. www.gofundme.com/f/show-love-...

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Donate to Help Lauren and Josh Recover After Fire, organized by Amber Schaefer

Lauren and Josh just recently bought their dream home in Altadena this December… Amber Schaefer needs your support for Help Lauren and Josh Recover After Fire

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Thanks! No shenanigans-apology will ever be sufficient, but then it has always been thus.

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Doug Murano at Bad Hand Books is one of the best people and editors in the biz, and his success with an indie press he willed and sweated into existence is incredibly cool and heartening. Buy Band Hand titles!

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

We're on track to hit 40K total books sold by March of this year. We launched in mid-2022. Distribution to bookstores and libraries starts this year. Giddy up.

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Reminder: Big news will drop this Tuesday.

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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

My kingdom for an edit button!

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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I archived my Facebook account and scheduled it for deletion. I feel surprisingly emotional about it? But maybe like an addict who just dumped all his booze down the sink? I don't know. It was a hellscape but I put in a lot of time there. RIP, I guess.

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