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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Shout out to the 2018 version of me who kept slightly neurotic notes about which Bloomsbury group books I was pulling quotes from including page numbers and copyright expiry dates. Really coming in handy as I make a spreadsheet of text permissions.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My desire to watch George of the Jungle (1997) was what started this whole idea.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

An attempt was made to improve our day with Glory Daze (1995). Probably the worst movie of the project so far saved only by Brendan Fraser’s line, “You’re lucky I don’t know karate!” We both agree on a 2/10 rating.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

A solo watch of Mrs Winterbourne (1996) while Corey goes to a choir performance and I stay at home to keep an eye on our vomiting dog. A fun filled evening for all.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Tonight we watched Now and Then (1995) and were delighted. Excellent dose of nostalgia for a Sunday night and a solid amount of screen time for Brendan Fraser despite his role being “uncredited Vietnam veteran.” 7/10

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Next up we’ve got The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995). A former cultist takes refuge at the home of a woman whose husband is away. 👀

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I have work in the new issue of The Cortland Review. Alternate title: "An Attempt to Say Something Positive About Portales." Click through for the full piece and an audio accompaniment. www.cortlandreview.com/issue-94/meg...

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Brendan Fraser’s 13th movie was The Scout which, I’m reliably told, is the best comedy-fantasy about baseball ever made.

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Unnamed Press @unnamedpress.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Back to the Pauly Shore universe with In the Army (1994). When I told Corey it had a 12% on Rotten Tomatoes he said he didn’t remember it being *that* bad. I suspect he wasn’t the most astute film critic as a child.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

How dare you suggest that I forgot about my Brendan Fraser journey. Tonight we’re watching With Honors (1994).

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I might not be at AWP this year but I DID finish a first draft of a full-length play today 💃🏻💃🏻 Next task: more activities that don’t count towards tenure.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

School Ties (1992). A star quarterback receives a scholarship to a prestigious prep school and feels pressured to hide the fact that he is Jewish. I love a Ben Affleck meme template so we will see if I get any out of this watch.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Getting ahead on week 3 by watching Encino Man (1992) tonight.

Poster for Encino Man (1992) with the tagline “A chillin’ new comedy in full neandervision.”

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Tonight’s Fraser movie is Guilty Until Proven Innocent (1991), based on a true story of a wrongful conviction. Moving on up with a 58% on Rotten Tomatoes and more than one line for Brendan Fraser.

Movie poster for Guilty Until Proven Innocent (1991). Brendan Fraser and Martin Sheen look serious.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Fraserverse movie #2 tonight with the television film Child of Darkness Child of Light (1991). A Catholic priest who goes to investigate two reported cases of virgin birth; one of God, and the other of the devil. Brendan Fraser plays "John's friend."

Movie poster for Child of Darkness Child of Light with the tagline "A holy miricle (sic). An unholy terror."

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

My journey through the filmography of Brendan Fraser starts next week. This is my Julie & Julia era.

The Brendan Fraser Watch List broken down week by week in chronological order.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Want to throw some sand in some gears? Stall the dismantling of the Department of Education:

What do I do?
Call the senators on the HELP committee to vote NO on McMahon.
These 4 Republicans are most likely to flip:
Susan Collins 202-224-2523
Lisa Murkowski 202-224-6665
Jon Husted 202-224-3353 has worked for disability issues in the past
Rand Paul 202-224-4343 has a deaf nephew

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This Tuesday, the ASU Worldbuilding Initiative is presenting "Among the Robots: Our Relationship with the Nonhuman" as a free event, in-person in Tempe and online wherever you are. Join me and fiction writer Tarah Knaresboro for a fun night of talking about the robots in our stories and our lives!

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Among the Robots: Our Relationship With the Nonhuman | ASU Events

Among the Robots: Our Relationship with the NonhumanWhat comes to mind when you hear the word "robot"? Perhaps it’s C-3PO and R2-D2, or The Iron Giant, or Wall-E, or any number of other famous friendl...

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Another manuscript ready to start wracking up submission fees.

Title page of “Every Bell Rings” by Megan Arlett

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Two weeks ago I texted Caitlin saying, “Maybe you won??” So I’ll be freelancing psychic predictions from now on.

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Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I REALLY wish that more rural Americans understood that so-called DEI grants are often used to do things like bring clean drinking water to rural towns.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

What’s living in rural New Mexico like? Last night someone drove into a pole and the majority of the town lost power

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Book of the day for graduate creative nonfiction students

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Moms will see this and be like, “So when am I going to have grandchildren?”

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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Made this in November. Gets more relevant by the day.

There’s not going to be cheap eggs you stupid slut

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Face of a creature who doesn’t have to experience push alert news notifications.

Sylvie, a black and white pitbull mix and one of the worst behaved dogs in the world, holds a large stick.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I’ve been working on a manuscript partially about the disappearance of Amy Fitzpatrick since my very first days in Poetryland. It might, finally, be ready to send out soon.

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

i am one news alert away from spontaneous combustion

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Every grant and funding application I submit is a version of me saying, "Pwease pay for me to go back to Louisiana." 🥺

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

A poem from @vqr.bsky.social I never shared when it came out.

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John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Poetry Super Highway has just announced their annual Great Poetry Exchange. Sign up to send a book, receive a book: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/great_po...

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Poetry Super Highway Great Poetry Exchange

Send a book and get a book in the annual Poetry Super Highway Great Poetry Exchange.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Finally got in with a "locally grown" vegetable co-cop. Spent all week speculating with Corey where the bananas actually came from since it's mid-winter on the high plains of New Mexico.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Turning all this screaming into the void energy into screaming at putting together my first NEA fellowship application.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Once again busy not doing my job.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Reading this week: Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden in my graduate class and CJ Hauser's short story "Bangana" in undergraduate Fiction Writing.

The front cover of T Kira Madden's Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, a turquoise blue fading into peach pink.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Two sessions in to this work in-progress. Listening to If Beale Street Could Talk. Wearing my warmest socks.

In progress painting of a brown cat asleep in the sun.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Nothing like making even your pleasure reading stressful by trying to finish a 980-page library book before it’s due.

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Megan J. Arlett @mjarlett.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Had this Muriel Rukeyser line rattling around my head the last two weeks so I downloaded it onto paper.

Most morning I would be more or less insane printed in light pink on an abstract watercolor background.

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