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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Happy 5th anniversary of Bad Art Friend to all who celebrate.

Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not that I want you to spend money at A-zon, but EPIC AND LOVELY on Kindle is 50% off right now. If you partake of the Kindle, please consider reading my little bookie-book.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A guy jerked off next to me on a Southwest flight from OAK to SAN when I was 17. I told the FA, who wouldn't let me move because the flight was full. I told my mom when I got home, and she did nothing. Maybe that was another Gen X neglect moment. Or maybe this shit happens a lot.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My mom made me watch all of Louie when I was blitzed out with a fresh PTSD diagnosis and a bottle of pills. In retrospect, not great.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today the bookstore was haunted by dour-looking teens holding Penguin Classics in their hands. At 4pm, the panicked mom calls began: "My child needs ______ for school by tomorrow." I guess PPS high schools are reading Portrait of the Artist right now.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

He and I were married for nine years, but let's go with no, LinkedIn.

LinkedIn email: Do you know Bob? With round photo of a white 50-something man in glasses.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mullet guy ate raw chicken! This might be it!

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

hire me for #illustration, #lettering, #design... and murder?! ↳ nobodyssweetheart.com

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I hate spare writing. I hate clipped sentences. I hate white space on the page. I want to read a grand ballroom of a novel, please.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I often wonder what I missed out on being a gangly, deformed, conventionally unattractive person. But then I read shit like that and I'm like, maybe some professional opportunities but that's it.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You could always attend a women's college and find yourself at age 50 talking to fellow alums online about discontinued china patterns, as I just did. But you don't want that. Okay.

"People say college is what you make it," one student told Angelina. "But college is what people see when they look at you." (highlighted in yellow)

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Northampton struggle is real.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's fall and that means my brain tells me I should walk downtown to Thorne's Marketplace and get a Mad River cream soda at Cornucopia. I'm 3000 miles away but the heart wants what it wants. And there hasn't been Mad River soda in 20+ years.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I drove on I-5 and it was fine. Sunday is still Sunday.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just saw an ad for a menopause supplement that was words over a photo of a moldy onion. AI is out of control and must be stopped.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy 30th anniversary of friendship! I hope we get a 40th.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Don’t you think “pay us not to kill you” is the natural endpoint of capitalism?

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I can't believe this level of genius isn't rewarded with massive amounts of money.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The algo is pushing old people smell soap and fiber gummies on me today. Last week it was that vibrator that's shaped like a lemon. I don't have old people smell and I don't need fiber gummies and I don't want a lemon on my private parts.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm Mo Daviau, an author and bookseller in Portland, Ore. At the beginning of Mary's Song by The Aislers Set (on the album Terrible Things Happen), you can hear someone's jangly bracelet making a noise. I got to see them play last month for the first time since '03 and <3 I love them.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The new Strout is pretty fucking dark. I was not expecting this!

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As a Smith alum, I feel like I should say something about Gloria, but I have nothing original to say. I do want to say that the wink-wink in the new Elizabeth Strout novel, wherein her character reads Olive Kitteridge, is chef's kiss. Love her. That is all.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Swimming to "You Spin Me Right Round" by Dead of Alive in the rain as a rainbow appeared in the sky was an A+ experience. No notes. Thank you, Portland Parks & Rec.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We sold half of our first shipment of THE DISAPPEARERS in the first four hours of being open today!

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a fantastic essay. Read it!

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ugh, Miriam. "You've always been unlucky" really means "you're someone people feel free to treat poorly." I know it well. What a fantastic essay! Thank you!

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If anyone is looking for a drag name: Una Vailable.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Welp, ain't that just a kick in the tits.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Being alive when this was aired on television makes me feel fortunate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMuE...

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90s Cringe-Worthy “Punk” Album Commercial

YouTube video by TheAshtrayFloors

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Mario Lopez was there. That's it. He went to my high school. In Z. Cavaricci jeans.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

When one of my octogenarian regulars pays for books with a check, and I accept the check and say "see you next time, Joan," I know I'm doing God's work.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Let me just say: Al Green is the FINEST, most PERFECT bookstore music. He checks all the boxes: smooth lyrics, upbeat, recognizable, appeals to all generations, puts folks in a good mood.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

OMG...I don't know! Who is the #1 indie bookstore chain?

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I think that means they deeply respect and are deferential to Barnes and Noble. Bow down before the Daunt you serve.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

LOL I put on an Al Green album at the store a few times a week and call it good. And if you want to hear an author talk about their books, we've got three on staff. You can talk to us in person.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 10/08/2026