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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's been more than two weeks since my last ILL request arrived at the library and of course my RSD is explaining this break in my steady flow as the library staff hating me because I order too much.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I no longer think these are all there are, but it's still down to 26 copies, which stresses me out. It was such a delight for Record Record Label to suggest doing this for the 20th anniversary of the album and I want to make sure everyone who missed out 20 years ago gets their copy!

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Are We Not Horses, by Rock Plaza Central

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every time I read the word “efficiency” (or worse, hear it in a meeting), I think of Wendell Berry: “The standard of the exploiter is efficiency; the standard of the nurturer is care.”

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, The Parlor have always been and always will be (since they let us stay at their place on tour on our first night in the US) one of my favourite bands. Their new double album represents another huge shift in style and remains 100% The Parlor. open.spotify.com/album/6vGLgq...

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Sun by Day Moon by Night - Album by The Parlor | Spotify

The Parlor · album · 2026 · 20 songs

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sorry! Apparently they announced the 20th anniversary vinyl reissue of Horses yesterday and there are less than 100 remaining of the 500 pressed! I wouldn't want any of you to miss it! recordrecordlabel.bandcamp.com/album/are-we...

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Are We Not Horses, by Rock Plaza Central

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Starting to realize that my aversion to the label of experimental fiction was because of how normal it felt to me, and that it's likely just ADHD realism.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Today I am apparently putting-down-your-glasses-and-several-minutes-later-realizing-you-never-picked-them-up-again-even-though-you-are-essentialy-blind-and-definitely-can't-see-well-enough-to-find-them-again-without-help-years-old.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

TIL a friend of mine I've known for over 25 years named Lilith Fair

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What's the current state of print-in-demand? My first two books sold out and then the publisher went under, and I've reclaimed the rights of my most recent and maybe should get the other, and then people ask for them and I'm not sure what to do.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Really excited to speak with a brilliant music critic yesterday about liner notes for a 20th anniversary vinyl reissue of Are We Not Horses. Coming soon.

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Flowers on a grave can't nourish the hands that made the work. Praise artists while they're still creating. Read them. Support them. Tell them what their work has given you. The finest tribute is not a eulogy; it's helping artists to keep making art.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

INtention is the act of paying ATTention.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

There are two kinds of “writer,” the one who says “I always wanted to try writing a book” and the one who says “what’s wrong with me”

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Why are all the books for adults with ADHD purposefully laid out so they're impossible to read?

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Such a great cover. So much of it is identical to the original, but then in the builds they break it so beautifully. open.spotify.com/track/67O7yT...

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Something's on Your Mind - Live

The Staves · Pine Hollow (Live) · Song · 2018

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Sometimes you have to realize that, in trying not to take others down with you, you are taking others down with you.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If the academic study of english literature has become (or always was?) the study of history, or culture, through written texts, then why don't we similarly have a BA in pottery sherds?

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

So in love with this snarky first line of Arthur Waley's Secret History of the Mongols (1963): "When it had barely run half its course the eighteenth century grew tired of itself. "

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Greatest rhyme of all time, in songs or poetry, is smidge and orphanage.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"Scale is not about relative size. Scale is about what relationships matter within a particular context." - Max Liboiron

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

"They did not want a philosophy that should be a scientific toy guaranteed to amuse professional thinking safe behind their college gates. They wanted a philosophy that should be a weapon." Collingwood's Autobiography

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Any of y'all know anything about tai chi and can answer a question for me for a story? Thanks.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Unfamiliar as I am with Chinese and pinyin/various other spellings, can someone help me with a potential connection between terms that might not actually be a connection between terms? Knowledge of tai chi would be a bonus.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

If there is no mind, only the reactive concretions, then what is the force that makes me question the truth of this statement.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It's fun to read history about several thousand years ago that contains a serious mention of the great wizard disaster.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A sentence is a building, with an entry or not, access to the garden or not, welcoming to live in or not.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

We don't need to also apply austerity to language; sentence can use *all* the words.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Information is a position while knowledge is its velocity.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I keep coming back to this paragraph from my enormous manuscript. To remind myself.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

How do I always sit down to clean up a few pages of what I think is a finished section on the Dieulafoy exhibit at the Louvre and end up writing five pages on the contrasting opinion on the European nightjar by rival parson-naturalists in the late 1700s?

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

OMG! It took nearly a year for her to trust me at all and today, after nearly four years, she's decided to hang out with me on my office chair!

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Years ago, when we lived in Toronto, I walked my children to daycare every morning and would pass by Marshall McLuhan's house at exactly the halfway point. I knew it was his house solely because of a plaque out front. In fact, one might have said: At the median is the message.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I am remarkably good at finding new obsessions that are equally unlikely to heal any financial precarity.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Maybe Sisyphus had a grant? To be able to push that rock up every day? Like, it couldn't have paid much per hour.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Is knowing how Sisyphus felt, and being happy, the final stage of enlightenment? I think I am only really at peace when I'm reading writing writing reading and perfectly fine with the pointlessness of the pointlessness of it all.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I feel like I'm having a reverse mid-life crisis, where since I've been diagnosed with inattentive ADHD, I'm looking back at my life of touring with a band and weird random jobs that I quit because I HAD to write fiction, and suddenly thinking I should find myself a respectable desk job.

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

le style c'est l'homme même - Buffon

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

nothing capable of being learnt by heart, nothing capable of being memorized, is history - RG Collingwood

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Is beauty a quality or a judgment?

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

All history is the history of thought." - RG Collingwood

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Is the great problem with the philosophy of art that we continue to think of art as an object?

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Over a decade ago, I established several accounts using the first name Dude, and it still makes me giggle to hear from Dropbox in an email that starts "Dude, your storage is almost full!"

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Chris Eaton @rockplazacentral.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Does aesthetics discuss art or the properties of art or the properties of things adjacent to art?

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