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In the summer of 2012 (after I finished my first book of poems) I began a project called Your Life: 26 Questions for 13 Portraits of People I Don’t Know from the Internet. I wrote 26 questions. One for each letter of the alphabet. Posted them on the internet. And asked strangers to send me their answers. The goal was to write poems that were portraits of people I didn’t know.

Hello, clowns! As most of you know, a good part of my day job involves me hunting around for interesting food-related stuff on the internet. I’m fortunate enough to get to write about a mix of cool things, but you know I really thrive when I find the dumbest shit. That’s why when I discovered that Burger King Thailand was in the process of pulling off a silly food stunt, my eyes lit up, and I jumped on the chance to write about it.

For many runners, crossing the Boston Marathon finish line is the culmination of a long-term dream—one that, regardless of whether you got there with a qualifying time or because you raised thousands of dollars for charity, required a not-insignificant amount of discipline, sacrifice, and self-belief.  But crossing that iconic finish line ended in heartbreak for a number of runners this year. In the immediate aftermath of the race, Hector Espinal eloquently summed up his experience on Instagram: “Although I did not qualify I dreamt of being accepted to the small but mighty group of Boston Marathon finishers.

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I recently wrote that Jeffrey Sachs believes the world may be on the brink of World War III. Sachs offered a chilling view of what is driving the conflict in eastern Europe and preventing peace: “The US has an agenda. The agenda is hegemony.” The idea that the USA could be as responsible for the war in Ukraine as Putin—or even more responsible—is probably shocking to many people.

So someone wrote a piece on how no one sells any books and it went kinda viral. It was a…well, it lacked context, made some weird claims, and wasn’t as meticulously researched as you’d want it to be. That didn’t matter. Folks shared that thing everywhere. I read it. I knew anyone with access to BookScan—or anyone who has been involved in publishing for a while and paying attention—could see all its flaws.

Share Leave a Comment At this time of year, it is a season of goodwill. But, unfortunately, abusive men tend to get society’s goodwill all year round. People often attempt to “understand” the male abuser by looking for a sympathetic way to explain (or “reveal”) that he is not intentionally abusive. In such accounts, it is suggested that he: may be under the sway of a childhood trauma that haunts him;

If you work in the wildland fire industry you’ve probably heard of Big Ernie. You’ll hear things like “Big Ernie is mad today” or “we have to do something for Big Ernie”. When I first was hired on a Hotshot Crew I got invited to a preseason crew dinner that was just for returning crewmembers. However, I was lucky or fortunate enough that I was invited, … ncG1vNJzZmismJq1sMDSoaatr5Ggsra8jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX5e2qHnEq6WinV2ptaZ50Z6YrKeeYsawwdFmqp6Zo6S7

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