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J. Marshall Freeman
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Women’s lives don’t matter to conservative ideologues. Only control of women’s bodies matters.
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Novelist, poet, musician, queer aesthete, Toronto biker, older and only marginally wiser.
jmarshallfreeman.com The audiobook of my YA fantasy novel, The Dubious Gift of Dragon Blood now available through Audible, Amazon, and Apple
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J. Marshall Freeman
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Women’s lives don’t matter to conservative ideologues. Only control of women’s bodies matters.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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Non-rhymes: The Dash Car Wash. Fromage Cottage. Corgi orgy.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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I have a holter monitor on my chest, blinking like I’m a Terminator. I just wrote poems at the kitchen table—one about my father’s last breaths, one about Pride penises. Love to my friends who I’ve leaned on to make grief bearable. Here’s a picture of me in an elevator wearing my dad’s suspenders.
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You wrote: "Ours was written by Al, Gerry and myself…" and I was thinking what a tough break for Mr. Ewing at this juncture in history that it reads like, "Ours was written by A.I.…"
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J. Marshall Freeman
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I just came up with a great name for a Hawaiian drag queen: Lana Huhu.
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Disney announces new animated versions of the live-action remakes of their animated classics.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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I just used the phrase “disingenuous orientalism” in a dream.
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Two feuding brothers running a medical supply store together, miss their golden opportunity when they don't name the store, "Cane and Able."
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J. Marshall Freeman
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Bussy-strussy
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PETA is appropriating gay culture.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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True, one of them was gay.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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But isn’t it kind of thrilling when you meet someone at a party, and you just viscerally hate them. They’re theoretically part of your “community,” and as the conversation starts, you try to find a way into their their mindset, and you realize it’s just… wrong. Icky, bad. And I kind of love it.
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U of Waterloo student figures out that 24 new vending machines were doing secret facial analysis. University claims, "We didn't know they did that!"
There is NO reason to believe claims the data wasn't stored and sold.
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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J. Marshall Freeman
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Or V'tam. Yum! Yum!
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J. Marshall Freeman
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5:30am. I just put my husband in a taxi for the airport. He’s off to Shanghai for work for two months. Time to remember who I am again without his rhythms around me. But first… back to bed for a bit.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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It’s going to take me a long time to fully process “True Detective: Night Country.” This show was incredibly integrated thematically, with the writing, acting, design, music, editing all telling a complex and fascinating story. So much to dig through. 2nd watching coming up.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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Likely where the person was!
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@dansavage.bsky.social On today’s “Lovecast,” you mentioned the term “cunt-struck” and gave its origin as the film “The Favourite.” I first heard it in Alan Bennett’s play and subsequent film, “The History Boys,” as spoken by the great Frances de La Tour to describe the derangement of the boys.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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The online-chat support person from the bank I just spoke to was named "Dimple." No further commentary.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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We can focus on all of those and work to stop all fascism.
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We somehow ended up watching the BluRay, and it had a bonus feature of almost 30 minutes of improvisation by the actors. That was the film they should have made. So funny. The actors were so natural and hilarious, and serving the stupid Hollywood plot actually hampered their brilliance.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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We just saw “American Fiction,” and it had the strangest tone that just didn’t serve the material. The satire was the most interesting and pertinent thread, but it was played down like the director/writer was embarrassed by it. You know you're in trouble when they have an easy-listening jazz score.
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I've been a Stoppard fan forever. Saw his most recent, “Leopoldstadt,” last year on Broadway. But I've never seen “R&G Are Dead,” his first play.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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I'm so excited!
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J. Marshall Freeman
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Seeing it for the first time in two weeks, with Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan.
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Police say the autopsy is finished, but they won’t release the results, just vague statements that the assault might not be responsible for Nex’s death. Gee, what a coincidence. Police spokesman also said they’re waiting on toxicology and he “expects something to turn up.”
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J. Marshall Freeman
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Also, we know that controls imposed on sexuality are mostly enforced against women and queers. The cishet men who create the rules get a pass. For instance, put global anti-nudity rules on social media, and soon you only have naked male-gaze women on the site.
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As conservatives rant against birth control and sex for pleasure, remember that the chances of getting pregnant from a single act of het unprotected sex is around 5%. Evolution hacked sex for our pleasure and deepening social ties. For humans, pregnancy is a sometimes byproduct, not the main point.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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Green light: “This is a sausage.” Red light: “You accidentally brought home a rottweiller turd.”
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J. Marshall Freeman
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Read up on the profound changes the pill had in giving women control of their lives.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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Oh, I’m sure he knows, but yes, more data points will be useful. I bet it’s not an easy problem for Wikipedia to address. It’s real barbarians at the gates stuff.
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Spoilers for “All of Us Strangers”… I felt ripped off by the end of Andrew Haigh’s lovely movie, even though the clues that the relationship Harry wasn’t real were there. I’m not sure the point of Adam’s cathartic reckoning with his past if he doesn’t get to practice real, human love at the end.
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Concert envy! She has no Toronto dates coming up, and I love the new music and the people she’s playing with. Haven’t seen her live since the “Bitter” tour.
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A poem I originally wrote during another warm February. I fear as time goes by, the anomaly of the title will become frighteningly common. 4 pages. #poetry
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J. Marshall Freeman
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We’re bailing on “For All Mankind,” Apple’s alternate history of the space program. After a season and a half, the show has become what my husband refers to as “just TV.” The writing is clunky, and there is no sense of vision or mission, just plot points and TV tropes.
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My right hand often slips to the right on the keyboard, and “ing” words become “omg” words, which probably has some metaphysical meaning.
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Maybe it’s all this publisher/agent advice that books should be shorter than 100k words, 80k, 70k, but now every long book I read just cries out to me for cuts. I’m really enjoying Kim Stanely Robinson’s “New York 2140,” but I also want to go at it with my red marker machete.
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@dansavage.bsky.social I’m not convinced by “tolyamorous”, your new word for “tolerant of polyamory.” Our ears expect “poly” to be up front in this word. So, “polytolerant” or for short, “polytoly,” works better IMO. “He’s polytoly, so I think their marriage can work despite his wife’s boyfriend.”
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I’ve been listening to this song by Meshell Ndegeocello for almost 17 years, and this morning, I heard the downbeat in a different place and it all made a new kind of sense. That ever happen to anyone?
youtu.be/ACUYfBdH5Po?...
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I don’t believe in New Year’s Resolutions, especially of the kind that begin with berating yourself. My only one is to submit more poetry to lit journals this year. I work hard on my poetry and perform it regularly. I need to fear rejection less and put my faith in the work. It deserves publication.
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I’m in 50s gay hell. Reading “My Policeman” and watching “Fellow Travelers.” It’s got me walking down the street checking my swish constantly.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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There should be a protest where 1000s of people a day walk up to subway cops and ask them librarian questions, like Dewey decimal sections or research suggestions.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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Stair-master.
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When people are listing Christmas movies, they should really include the late Jean-Marc Vallée’s wonderful 2005 “C.R.A.Z.Y.” The movie is bracketed by family Christmas Eves (which is also the protagonist’s birthday). Queer, spiritual, Quebec AF. Recommended.
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Just yesterday I learned that this was a Stephen Moffat show and… that makes sense.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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Fooling around in Adobe Illustrator for iPad. I like how intuitive it feels. Need to get my skills up for a bit of illustration on an upcoming book design job.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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For me, great comedy is not different from great drama. It’s about real humans going through real human problems, even if it’s ramped up into the extraordinarily silly. But this Coupling thing didn’t feel in any way real or illuminating.
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J. Marshall Freeman
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As a huge fan of British comedy, I confidently say that there are other much better shows. I mean, have you seen “Fleabag”?
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Seriously, that’s an ugly clip. Not even in the “It’s not my cup of tea but I see why it’s funny” category. Just, “Shut up, you fool and stop speaking for all men.”
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It doesn’t work for capitalism. Capitalism requires existential fear of not working under even the most heinous of conditions for the most ridiculous sub-par wages. Can’t afford to let people lose the least millilitre of that constant anxiety.
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