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Gregory Crosby
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Sam Shepard.
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Gregory Crosby@monostich.bsky.social |
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Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). buttondown.email/gregorycrosby
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Gregory Crosby
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Sam Shepard.
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Gregory Crosby
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Frederick Seidel
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Gregory Crosby
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Watched Chris Nash's In a Violent Nature (2024) last night; it's good but flawed, and the flaws (ham-fisted exposition, cartoonish gore, some longueurs) are such as to keep it from being *really* good. But I really dig the tone Nash establishes in much of it.
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Gregory Crosby
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I’m convinced that the reason so many Dems are like this is trauma; pure, unprocessed, unaddressed trauma from the election of Trump. They’re all terrified to the point of hysteria. It’s the only explanation that makes sense.
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Gregory Crosby
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I still capitalize Internet simply because it is now the main instrument of the Spectacle. Ha.
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Gregory Crosby
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Your honor, with all due respect: Nature is a language, can’t you read?
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Gregory Crosby
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Honestly wouldn’t mind being British today.
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Gregory Crosby
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House of Mirth is excellent, if you wish to track it down.
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Paul Crider
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This but unironically.
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Gregory Crosby
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Good.
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Gregory Crosby
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Even good news is irredeemably tainted. So it goes.
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Gregory Crosby
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Wallace Stevens
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Gregory Crosby
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Like a pit full of nothing but yikes.
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Gregory Crosby
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Spiraling up or spiraling down? lol
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Gregory Crosby
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Gregory Crosby
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It’s not so much doomerism—where there’s life there’s hope—as it is disgust, profound disgust. Even if American fascism fell apart tomorrow I’d never get over the fact it got to this point. So it goes; onwards, I guess.
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bobby (frociaggine)
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sometimes the most annoying people in politics can be right. the orange man is indeed bad. if you vote, you shouldn’t vote for republicans under any circumstances, which typically leaves one option
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Gregory Crosby
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Fun fact: John Brown's body still lies a-molderin' in his grave.
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Gregory Crosby
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Gregory Crosby
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And it’s obvious now that many a century ago didn’t fully get it—the “roaring 20s” looks like a great deal of repression of trauma. A lot of current “post-pandemic” culture now feels like the same sort of denial.
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Gregory Crosby
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Yes. One of the saddest endings, because so real.
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Gregory Crosby
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Yes. That was the whole point of Stein’s lost generation remark.
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Gregory Crosby
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I don’t know… maybe partying will help.
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Gregory Crosby
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My favorite double album of all time (which I still own on cassette).
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Gregory Crosby
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It’s not so much doomerism—where there’s life there’s hope—as it is disgust, profound disgust. Even if American fascism fell apart tomorrow I’d never get over the fact it got to this point. So it goes; onwards, I guess.
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Gregory Crosby
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I so wish I was there as well. Seriously.
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Gregory Crosby
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“It’s Chinatown, Jake… it’s Chinatown.”
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Gregory Crosby
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A little day drinking now and then.
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Gregory Crosby
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Guy on the Q train wearing a cap that reads ALL HUSTLE NO LUCK.
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Keith
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I regard "doomerism" as distinct from grief. It is, if anything, a means of processing grief. And not all such means are equally healthy. Grief has been earned; now is a time for mourning. But taking off the black veil after the prescribed period is just as important as initially donning it.
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Denali
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Yesterday I closed my news and social apps for a couple of hours, dragged my husband along on a food rescue, rested when I didn't feel great and you know what? Today feels better because of the limits I set and where I chose to put my energy. Writing this down bc I will IMMEDIATELY forget it.
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist
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Totes appropes
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Tom Snarsky
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Small poem~
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Stop Calling Me Frank
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A rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem to be born? In this economy?
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Gregory Crosby
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I've often wondered how different it might have been for her if she'd met just one person who "got" her; it seems as if nobody really did.
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Gregory Crosby
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Almost fifty years to the day when Richard Nixon was forced to resign for crimes that are now no longer crimes. So it goes; this is where America was headed the moment the civil rights movements of the Sixties challenged white supremacy.
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Gregory Crosby
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Fun fact: John Brown's body still lies a-molderin' in his grave.
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Jessica Smith
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Me, looking at the sky: “Look at the light of this hour” Child: who TALKS like that?
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Gregory Crosby
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Just finished. What a brilliant, sad, terrifying novel this is.
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Gregory Crosby
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And then there's this indelible shot.
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Gregory Crosby
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In January 2020, surveying the political landscape, I wrote a poem with the line "Only catastrophe can save us now." We all know what happened next; please believe me that I say this now with the greatest fear and trembling: "Only catastrophe can save us now."
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Gregory Crosby
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Sometimes I’m so sick of myself, a refreshing change from feeling so very sick of the times in which I live.
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Ro Salarian
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I know smut may seem like a frivolous thing to be upset about, but crushing it is part of fascism. Controlling all forms of sexual expression is fascism. Only allowing certain kinds is fascism. Smut peddlers are always canaries in the coal mines.
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Gregory Crosby
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I spent the afternoon in a double feature of The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers at the Museum of the Moving Image, a timeline cleanse in real time.
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Gregory Crosby
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Always and forever more of the same.
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Gregory Crosby
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Gregory Crosby
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Feels like time is running out.
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Gregory Crosby
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Funny how what, lately, I miss most about the 20C are the assassins.
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Paul Duane
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I think the reason Philip K Dick is still the predominant SF writer of the last century is, he was the only one who foresaw a future where everything would be boring, inconvenient and dehumanising, and where the only way you can win is to somehow refuse to give up your humanity.
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Kaitlin Ruiz
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in some ways, we just have to outlive the right people
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