“Oh yeah I am writing a book, too. Not like yours. A book people will read. An advice book.”
Makes total sense since you’re unemployed.
Love that advice.
And then one time a man cut and paste a bunch of text from like a nanowrimo discussion group, printed it and told me it was his book. That he had written that week.
Not making that up.
Then one time, at a bar, a man challenged me to a “write off”. I am not sure now — and was not sure then — what that means. So I did flash fiction about a talking small penis on the back of a napkin.
I’m remembering these in real time.
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I have met the man in this thread a million times. Some of the Black male discourse #onhere is blackfishing sock puppets. Some of it bears out as actual people & how they actually talk in real life.
There is something to a Black man with more than one degree but fewer than three, who has never been married by age 45, and who also smokes cigars that’s just a very specific socal location. That’s all I can tell you.
That man is absolutely going to talk *at* you for two straight hours, generally with his response to every Black twitter and Black Facebook “debate” he has ever seen. Thus the rundown that feels like one long Facebook comment about $100 dates.
The bartender is trying to convince everyone at the bar not to get vaccinated. She isn’t vaccinated her daughter because she got sick after her shot. And she has had COVID twice. Just reporting the news.
These are my people. And I ain’t gonna say jack nothing. All the ships have sailed. I got nothing to add.
“If it’s my time, take me Lord.” Everyone at the bar nods. “I am good with god.”
I am NOT good with god, which is why I get all the shots.
In the 1990s there was a store called 5-7-9 that only sold clothes in sizes 5, 7 & 9. I just randomly remembered this at 1 am but also this is why all the women of a certain age hate everybody.
You cannot be an adult and still be proud to say you shopped at 579, y’all. You have to have a new accomplishment.
Many of these tweets have blown my ever-loving mind. I’m turning the tweet off because it is Takesgiving and I don’t feel like hating a bunch of people.
I’m have said this before but I was a different person then. It’s worth repeating my belief that you cannot game theory every political choice. “You” being a voter or a small community. It doesn’t matter if this is what Sinema wants. That’s unknowable. And it’s not a poker game.
I don’t know if this is the conversation that Sen Sinema wants us to have. And I suspect that you don’t know that either. I know that it is a conversation that should be had, based on the available facts in front of me. That’s all any of us can do.