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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Stop writing to please the robots; write for yourself. Humans own the punctuation, and we’re not afraid to use it. open.substack.com/pub/tonysarr...

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The Robots Stole My Semicolon

Stop Letting AI Detectors Edit You

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In the summer of 1979, I was a rising high school senior trying to listen to something—anything—other than the Bee Gees. Half a country away, the Chicago White Sox were blowing up disco records. www.tonysarrecchia.com/p/the-night-...

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The Night the Sox Killed Disco

It started as a radio bit. Forty-seven years later, we're still arguing about what it meant.

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And the semicolon; parallelism; the Oxford comma; sentence fragments; parentheses; and starting sentences with “And” or “But.”

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

One last trip to the Bronx before I put this one to bed. The Yankees once gave 25,000 kids baseball bats. What could possibly go wrong? www.tonysarrecchia.com/p/free-baseb...

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Free Baseball Bats in the Bronx

For decades, the Yankees celebrated Bat Day by handing thousands of wooden bats to fans at Yankee Stadium. What could possibly go wrong?

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🎶 Take me out to the ball game. Give me some peanuts and a melee weapon— Wait. What? For years, Yankees fans entered the stadium and left carrying free wooden bats. Because someone thought 25,000 baseball bats in the Bronx was a good idea. www.tonysarrecchia.com/p/free-baseb...

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Free Baseball Bats in the Bronx

What could possibly go wrong?

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

For most of us, the first version of history we see comes from the movies. open.substack.com/pu...

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Pleased to announce I just crossed 200 subscribers on my Substack. Thank you to everyone who’s been reading, sharing, and cheering me on. I appreciate every one of you. If you’ve been enjoying the essays but haven’t subscribed yet, this seems like an excellent time to fix that. TonySarrecchia.com

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

open.substack.com/pub/tonysarr... Folks say they want historical accuracy, but do they? Do you really want King Arthur and the boys wearing leather armor and living in mud-and-wood castles? Or do you want shiny steel, war horses the size of Hummers, and fairy-tale castles? Let’s talk about it.

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We Want Historical Accuracy

Do We Though?

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Generation Jones is old enough to remember when every appliance came with a repair manual. Now my refrigerator wants to download a firmware update before it tells me why the ice maker is angry. Progress is a funny word.

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Please update your vocabulary accordingly.

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The trolls are wrong. The Odyssey is awesome. We just got out of the theater, and I highly recommend it—and would see it again. Anne Hathaway deserves an Oscar, and the spectacle is everything you expect from a Nolan film. 🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️/5

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I thought growing up around New York had made me street-smart. Then I moved to Florida and learned that none of those skills mattered against an insect the size of an em dash.

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Everything in Florida Wants to Kill You

That's Why I Live in Georgia

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Are you watching FROM on MGM+? Every season answers one question and introduces about 75 more. I have a theory (it’s not bunnies) on why we keep watching anyway. www.tonysarrecchia.com/p/the-monste...

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From From Series

ALT: From From Series

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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 17/07/2026

Tagging 👆 @tonythescribe.bsky.social @alasdairstuart.com @kibitzer.bsky.social Everything we do is funded by you. If you can, please go to pseudopod.org and click FEED THE POD PseudoPod is part of the Escape Artists Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit

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PseudoPod | The Sound of Horror

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Every season of FROM answers one question and introduces 74½ more. That shouldn’t work. But it absolutely does. I think I know why.

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The Monster in Your Head

The psychology behind mystery-box TV

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Home Run Derby reminds us that baseball is the only sport where batting practice can become prime-time television. ….I’m okay with that.

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Bugs Bunny's Epic Baseball Hit

ALT: Bugs Bunny's Epic Baseball Hit

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

There’s a parasite in the U.S. that causes explosive diarrhea. You can get it from fresh produce. Know what’s never given me explosive diarrhea? Whiskey.

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The problem with “life before cell phones was better” is that I remember life before cell phones. Here’s one from the archives. open.substack.com/pub/tonysarr...

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What Did We Do Before Cell Phones?

Probably something dangerous

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This 4th of July weekend, consider this: We stole the wrong idea from the British. Lawns? Really? We could’ve had moats. Not only would a moat be awesome, it would show those door-to-door peddlers who they’re dealing with. Wanna sell me something? Get past the alligators.

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Alligator Asks for Lunch

ALT: Alligator Asks for Lunch

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This week on Cold Cuts: Remember when we used to own stuff? Now, everything is a subscription—including you. open.substack.com/pub/tonysarr...

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Everything Is a Subscription, Including You

It’s just a couple of bucks

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’ll be a guest on This Week With Indies this Sunday (6/28). We’ll be talking about blogging, essays, articles, newsletters, and the writing authors do outside of books; and how it helps the larger writing life. Join me at noon eastern (4:00pm UTC/GMT) on 6/28 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBB2...

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Expressing Yourself Through Blogs and Articles on This Week In Indies for June 28th, 2026

YouTube video by GoIndieNow

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Why is it almost always a dude in a pick-up truck with a Punisher decal? www.tonysarrecchia.com/p/the-punish...

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The Punisher Called

He wants his logo back

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I was already going well above the speed limit. Apparently that wasn’t fast enough for the guy in the pickup truck gaining on me like he’d been shot out of a railgun. 1/3

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“I too, would like a BLT sandwich. And you appear to have two sandwiches, so…”

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I am writer: I spent 2 hrs researching the behavior of feral hogs for a single line in a story that got cut in the second revision.

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Happy Boar Yawning After a Brush

ALT: Happy Boar Yawning After a Brush

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Ya wanna know who’s to blame for yard work? The British aristocracy. Ya wanna know who’s making it worse? Nature. Because nature never signed the mortgage agreement. New Cold Cuts: Photosynthesis Is the Enemy. www.tonysarrecchia.com/p/the-enemy-...

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The Enemy is Photosynthesis

My Lawn Never Signed the Cease-Fire

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Back in March, I started Cold Cuts — a weekly humor column about culture, creativity, technology, and everyday absurdity. New essays drop every Wednesday. Subscribing is free, with a paid tier if you’d like to support it.

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Tony Sarrecchia's Cold Cuts | Substack

Humorous essays about culture, creativity, technology, and everyday absurdity. Click to read Tony Sarrecchia's Cold Cuts, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ya wanna know who’s to blame for yard work? The British aristocracy. Because one day a duke looked at a perfectly good meadow and said, “This would look better if it were shorter and completely useless.”

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The Enemy is Photosynthesis

My Lawn Never Signed the Cease-Fire

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Writers spend years learning how to create characters. Then we accidentally sit next to someone at lunch and discover the world is generating them for free. My latest essay. open.substack.com/pub/tonysarr...

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Please Stop Oversharing Near My Fountain Pen

I Can Only Write So Fast

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

And that’s a wrap on Doctor Who. Kinda saw this coming with the weak writing and agenda stories from the past few seasons. Not every episode should be a ‘very special episode’.

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My dog doesn’t care that I’ve been published, spoken at conventions, produced audio dramas, or stared too long at Substack analytics. He knows two things: I came home. I sat on the couch. In his mind, I’m crushing it. Be the person your dog thinks you are.

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Hollywood’s first cinematic universe.

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Sentences I never expected to hear before dinner: “Damn, I missed the masturbation panel this morning.” But life is about growth. Read on for other things I learned in this SFW essay about my first trip to an adults-only convention.

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Don't Make it Weird

My first trip to a kink convention

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Scientists found yeast in a 5,300-year-old corpse and immediately made sourdough. The fact that nobody involved said, “Absolutely not,” concerns me.

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Sourdough made from yeast inside Europe’s oldest mummy

Scientists spent three months creating bread from fungi found in the 5,300-year-old corpse

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Boom! Just finished my Southern Gothic Tale: "The Hog Men of Sweetwater Bottom". Off to the first readers with it.

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We didn’t all like the same things. But we knew the same things. You didn’t have to love Bullwinkle, Spock, Bugs Bunny, or The Three Stooges. But you probably understood enough to get the reference when someone dropped it into conversation. That was the difference.

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When Everybody Got the Joke

We Used to Speak the Same Language

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Awesome story, but at this pace “The Winds of Winter” will come out before we get any answers. #from

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

There should be a Spotify channel of 1950s scifi movie music. #svengoolie.

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A kink dungeon is what happens when someone walks into Home Depot with a credit card and a dream. And that wasn’t even the most memorable thing I saw that weekend. Next week, my Cold Cuts column is about my first trip to a kink convention. Get on the email list free at www.TonySarrecchia.com

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Tony Sarrecchia's Cold Cuts | Substack

Humorous essays about culture, creativity, technology, and everyday absurdity. Click to read Tony Sarrecchia's Cold Cuts, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Excited to announce I’ll be appearing at Multiverse this October.

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

We didn’t know we were living in the last days of the cultural town square. We thought we were just watching TV.

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When Everybody Got the Joke

We Used to Speak the Same Language

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

What program from your youth did you make your kids watch?

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If you’re of a certain age, you remember when television came in 3 channels… maybe 7 if you lived in a major market. The height of the monoculture. And yes, I made my kids watch Looney Tunes, the Three Stooges, and Bullwinkle. 1/2

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

“The worms go in and the worms go out…”

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Tony Sarrecchia @tonythescribe.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Writers are the only people who can spend three hours changing one sentence from “he sat down” to “he lowered himself into the chair” and then reward themselves with a snack for “making progress.”

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