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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Denis Johnson commissioned his friends to visit him and his third wife, Cindy, in Idaho. The point was to build a shed, which he had asked the journal McSweeney’s to do in exchange for his literary submissions 😅

Denis Johnson’s invitation to friends to help him build a shed, from Geltner’s DJ biography Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures (2025)

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Konkling: my word for hanging out with the queen of Marilyn Monroe studies @thekonk.bsky.social 🧡

two lady profs pose in front of a fountain in bangin accidentally color-coordinated conferencewear

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My grandmother was babysitting me and a friend and put on Cujo. I was five.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Two giant sandwiches from Ideal’s in Durham got my carry-on luggage flagged for inspection last night. Definitely feel like this should make it into the business’s ad copy. (Yes, I pleaded with TSA not to take them from me.) @joannaswan.bsky.social

Signage: “keep honking! I am eating a chopped cheese from Ideal’s Deli”

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t know if the 35+ crowd is ready for the Gen Z presentation slideshow. Got a taste today, and it’s like a series of seamless tik tok reels. By the 35+ crowd I mean me. I’m not ready.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wish I could give a single fuck about musicals or the scholarship written on them. As a sound studies person.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Texted my husband "Did you get your nap out?" this morning, and he was utterly confused. I love that you can be married to somebody from a different region of the country for nearly 20 years and still pull out regional expressions they've never heard.

screenshot from Simpsons episode w/ made-up sitcom "Ethnic Mismatch Comedy #644" and the "shut uppa your mouth" Italian man stereotype

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pretty much anything you could argue against AI in the work of thinking and writing, Saunders says it here. Worth putting on your endless list of readings to try to convince students not to use it. on.substack.com/p/model-beha...

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“He’s/she’s/they’re nice”: the compliment equivalent of lukewarm water

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What are the chances that, if a woman uses "the Velvets" as shorthand for "the Velvet Underground" in a conference paper, a male academic will later corner her and say "actually, they were called 'the Velvet Underground'"? I'm thinking it could go either way.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

been waiting a long time on this reissue! 🤓 I inherited my husband's after it was all soft and riddled with holes, but it's so huge on me it's more like a night shirt. Anyway, scooped mine--all mine. 😀 @aquariumdrunkard.com supply.aquariumdrunkard.com/supply/p/dea...

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can’t tell what a little jerk she is when she’s sleeping

Asshole dog curled into a neat little ball

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Scarrrrie 👻 🎃 🧙 @carrieat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s here! If you’re interested in the intersection of sports + music (and my TL suggests that you are), check out this new edited collection from NYU press: nyupress.org/978147984084...

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m not a prude but I’m not sure how to address (just mention) a sex scene in a movie. You definitely don’t say “lovemaking,” right? Jesus, it’d be like writing a song in 2026 that calls a lover “daddy” ugh no

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I really need tenure and promotion so I can *finally* write the definitive book on oughts American freak folk on Georgia taxpayers' dime. ✨ Manifesting....

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can I just keep calling Fuckhead 'Fuckhead' in this conference paper, or do I really need to just name him once and shift to "FH" the way people who publish on him do? I feel like repeating the word fuck will keep people awake.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Apparently a currently best selling niche fragrance is Sorce’s *English Major*. And a Diptyque that smells like a freshly inked page. And they say the Humanities are dead.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can’t stop thinking about the disturbing news out of Cornell and how we have to keep encouraging young women to look out for themselves because others (fraternity boys/ the people who raise them/ university title IX officers, etc.) fucking won’t.

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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a haunting, urgent piece. Please read it.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Things that you don’t remember overtly paying attention to that are nonetheless ingrained in your memory? (Just watched Alison Maclean’s music video for the Natalie Imbruglia song “Torn”)

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ever write what you think is a killer sentence and know that it's gonna look totally stupid to you in 24 hours? 😀

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can't imagine a more devastating line from Denis Johnson than "nothing I could think up, no matter how dramatic or completely horrible, ever made her repent or love me the way she had at first, before she really knew me."

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I do not think it’s a good sign when a restaurant seems to supply a single bottle of hot sauce for all their customers.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

omg y’all he is so stroked out

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thinking about Neil's new single "Day After Day" as a counterpart to "One of These Days" 😭

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I really need a new nickname

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Have just officially forfeited my right to talk trash about people who reheat fish in the office. I'm that bitch now.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

happy fall equinox, everyone please help me manifest cooler temperatures by wearing all your fall things

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah just reverse those two clauses in the opening sentence for everything you need to know: While Sean benefited from learning financial literacy at a young age, his mother helped him buy a co-op in Manhattan.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My writing group buddy just told me I'm the only academic she knows who doesn't use AI in my research. 💀💀💀

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy birthday in heaven to the king. We probably don’t talk enough about how devastating his breakup songs are. (“The Smokey Life” was the first song of his to pop up in my head this am.) 👑 👑 👑 m.youtube.com/watch?v=bknM...

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm trying to write a paper on Denis Johnson for a conference that's right around the corner (eek!), and I've been reading my colleague Ted Geltner's biography of Johnson. It's interesting to me which men get canceled for being abusers and which ones get a pass.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

upset myself watching the water buffalo scene in Apocalypse Now again 😭

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

First listen 😊 The front cover looks like one of those captcha code letters things

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One thing that strikes me about Drugstore Cowboy is its reverence for jazz. It’s the era of Chet Baker heroin chic, premiering a year after Bruce Weber’s monumental ‘Let’s Get Lost” and just over a year after Baker’s death. It gives the whole film a sort of pensive quality it wouldn’t otherwise have

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The brain fog is real, guys 😵‍💫

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tonight it was “I’m gonna change my name to ‘Ames Toth’ For the symmetry.” The classic that comes up regularly is “I’m going to write the novelization of ‘Grease 2.’” Sometimes I feel like I need backup here 😭

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gonna edit a collection of essays written by women who talked their spouses out of terrible ideas. I think there will be very many submissions.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I applaud people who regularly find the time to delete numbers from their phones. I have 459 contact cards on my phone. I probably talk to maybe 30 people on a regular basis.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Man, it never stops being breathtaking when someone uses the reply all function to be a total bitch to one person and make sure everybody sees it. I can't be totally sure about this, but I think this is exclusively a fire sign move. Well, fire signs and... Scorpios(?)

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My husband just gave me a CD of 10 new demos, and I was not at all surprised that the first one is literally about a window unit air conditioner.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

how do we know he's not taxidermied

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

[raises hand] I'm not in a bind about using AI to stay relevant.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wearing the most tobacco and leather-forward fragrance in my collection in an attempt to manifest fall and cooler temperatures. I'm so tired of the humidity and the bugs that seems to ride these hot, wet breezes 😭

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Men will straight up go to the ER with a heart attack before they will concede that they can't open a jar

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do y’all know this song? It rules. Anyway, have made friends with truck drivers and asked them how they felt about the way the song “romanticizes” trucking, and they were like “that song is about the unregulated trucking industry, ‘Smoky and the Bandit’ era.” No romanticizing for them!

m.youtube.com

Trucker Speed

YouTube video by Fred Eaglesmith - Topic

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

FYI Denis Johnson was a Cancer. 🦀

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