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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 23h

It is so NYC that someone who probably lives in a studio has a camel

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 23h

they had four interceptions--three of which were called back on penalties.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 23h

The worst call in this game was: "Most games come down to the fourth quarter and who can make the plays." That is just how linear time and games work.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 23h

The secret to watching NFL games is to DVR them, then skip ahead 2:30 to miss every commercial and 14 minutes to miss halftime.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What if they just wanted an excuse to get rid of Romo, who is terrible at his job?

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was at the National Zoo when a squirrel got in the red panda enclosure and the chase was on! Viewers immediately dived into the Team Panda and Team Squirrel as the squirrel tried to get out. It was a near thing.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My job is developing ghosted books. Ghosts are rarely secret anymore, and if a ghost isn't listed as co-author (something ghosts don't always want) you can likely find them in the acknowledgments. Also why wouldn't people who can't write hire ghosts? I bet they hire plumbers and carpenters too.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why is he standing in front of a forest of flags? Are those all the flags in DC?

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please come to SOPAC in South Orange, NJ so I can see you life (Brooklyn's a haul from here.)

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a very good observation. Being good means doing good without any reward.

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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 28/09/2026

This wonderful book of Tolkien scholarship (available for free as PDF) is now available. I was honoured to be invited to write the foreword. www.livrosabertos.abcd.usp.br/portaldelivr...

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Down from the door where it began: 70 years of the Lord of the Rings | Portal de Livros Abertos da USP

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Either this is fake or those two have discovered the secret to not aging, which I suppose they'll share with their kids when they grow up. Good for them.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Baseball is better for things like this, which you'd never have seen even 20 years ago.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Re Rule 4, fortunately this rule didn't apply to the Bugs Bunny cartoon in which Wile says, "Wile Coyote, Supra Genius. I like the way that sounds. WY-LEE KI-YO-TAY, Suuuuupra Genius." [Train horn sounds...] I think about this once a month.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

His next book will be called THE SHIVERING KNEE: Stories of Real-Life Body Horror.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is fantastic. The actors are great.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I ask because I started at Tom Dunne Books right after it came out and brought a copy home for my daughter. Were I still there--and if it still existed--we'd have totally considered your new book for the US market. Good luck with it. It sounds very interesting.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Are you the same Tom Cox who wrote CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FURRED KIND?

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And, it should be noted, the NFL is legally a charity.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just played the board game version of Password from 1968. I was wearing cargo shorts, sneakers and a golf shirt. The couples playing on the game's wore jackets and ties, dresses and pearls.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Absolutely true. Just act like you belong there.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

it could not be more difficult to listen to the jet game online on my phone. i'm convinced every app and radio station is a scam at this point, including the jets own app.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

How far is that? Because the world record for a standing long jump in 12' 2.1," and that looks pretty close.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you haven't read it, you'd love Zola's THE LADIES' PARADISE about, essentially, Bon Marche. The guy who runs it first arranges the store logically like this article suggests, but then he mixes everything up so shoppers have to roam the whole store to find what they want--and hopefully find more.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My father was a lawyer in the city. One day in probably the '70s, a client paid his bill with a beautiful shotgun. My father didn't need it, so he walked over to A&F--remember: he's carrying a shotgun through Midtown at lunch--and they bought it from him. I don't think they would today.

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 22/09/2025

dudes rock

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Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

At this point, he'd already started planning his murderous, disastrous invasion of Iraq--which had nothing to do with 9/11 or nuclear weapons.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The fundamental fear of the enslaver.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

why does he head it instead just tossing it?

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Amazing in every way. One of the best books I read last year.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of the best moments in the Let It Be documentary is when Preston starts doodling on the keyboard and Paul McCartney's expression says, "So that's how the piano's played."

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

To close the loop, I revised to "strangely sharp teeth."

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Call me, AI, when you can replace her doing this.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And that my Roku remote doesn't have a headphone jack at all anymore so I have to use an app on my phone to listen with its proprietary headphones. Jeez.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Shoot. I thought I was clever using that first one in something recent.

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