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Novelist/musician/lawyer/academic! He/him.🇨🇦 I'm sticking it out on Twitter, but hedging my bets over on #Mastodon. Join me there: @ lukemaynard @mstdn.ca !
Mar 23, 2023 22 tweets 11 min read
@itspatsworld 1/x
Here's what happened:

1.#Madonna went to college on a dance scholarship, but dropped out at age 20 to pursue a career in music. 2. She moved to New York, hooked up with her 31-year-old boyfriend Dan Gilroy, and briefly sidled into his rock band, "Breakfast Club," where she… @itspatsworld 2/x
…briefly tried actually playing real instruments (mainly drums... see picture).

She was... not great. But her boyfriend was the bandleader.

3. She eventually convinced her college boyfriend, drummer Stephen Bray, to move out to NYC. They rekindled their romance, and she…
Jan 7, 2018 5 tweets 2 min read
I throw the finest tantrums; I'm repetitive and furious
When CNN airs anything too screwy to be spurious,
My crooked doctor tells me I'm a paragon of sanity,
And if you don't believe him, you can always ask @SeanHannity... The scholars and historians will wrack their brains to fathom all
The ways to fact and knowledge I'm offensive and anathemal;
Believe me, I will lead you to a "new age of prosperity"—
And leave no page unburnt to be disproven by posterity...