Colin McGowan
@csmcgowan.bsky.social
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Used to write for lots of places. Now mostly at Flaming Hydra, a co-op newsletter: https://flaminghydra.com/contributor/colin-mcgowan/ DMs are fine // colinsilasmcgowan at gmail
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Thinking about becoming one of those people who reviews fast food meals in their car. I seek the warm embrace of death and a professional obligation to get excited about Domino's garlic knots seems like it'll speed things along.
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Tuning in to my favorite program.
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Well, at least Cohen will continue to spend. The Ricketts will look at this promising Cubs season and go "I bet we can still squeak into the postseason while getting worse in right field..."

I am very sorry about your dog, though.
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They were a lot of fun. The June version of this squad takes the Dodgers to seven. But they cooled off, had a couple injuries. That's baseball. The other six, largely enjoyable months are also baseball.
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I wake up mornings having slept unevenly, beaten down by a million things. The day usually gets worse from there. Watching the Cubs—especially at Wrigley—has anchored me in time, given me (mostly) nice things to think about. It's kept me sane and made me happy. It's been a wonderful season.
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I think Cal just said "proud of our guys" five times in three answers. He does not have speech capabilities at this point in the evening.
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We're in that surreal late extras nether-zone where half-gassed starters are spinning pitch 85-quality breaking balls to batters who may no longer know their own names.
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I've noticed that too. Engaged, excited. Amin's dropping in a few interesting contextual facts here and there. This is really nicely done.
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I'm in a 3-1 count against Tarik Skubal. Got him right where I want him. I proceed to guess wrong, missing a changeup by two feet. The bat flies out my hands and my pants fall down and I tell the ump "I'm good, let's just call that a strikeout."
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Paid far too much to watch the Dodgers-Phils game on TV.
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I think circa now culture's refusal (is it trending toward inability?) to separate art from artist also hurts him pretty badly. But also this artist went like 1-for-12 in Biggest Game of His Life-type spots so that conflation is even easier to make than it otherwise might be.
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Fist-pumping in the alley, high-fiving the liquor store clerk, doing finger guns at a guy on the street in a Cubs hat who is clearly doing the same thing I am.
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Another great thing about baseball is that if you're de-upholstering your couch while watching it on TV, you can just go for a long walk and catch the last couple innings on the radio.
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I go to Yelp mostly to be mortified.
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I like how this ad describes Shota as a brand ambassador for his own cologne. Like, yeah, I'd assume that responsibility falls on him.
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Splashed this on my pulse points. Feeling powerful.
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As far as I'm concerned, using an em-dash properly means digressing so expansively that your reader forgets what you were talking about in the first place.
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Walter Cronkite gravely elucidating the concerns of swirly eyed PTA moms as if there's been a bombing at the Pentagon.
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I don't care about cars, but I care about America as an idea. What in the fucking fuck is a Mustang SUV? Sorry, you can't tote kids to cello practice in something called a Mustang. That's heretical. A Mustang is an impractical coupe and you must be a young or divorced nihilist in order to own one.
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I assume it's some kind of "blizzard" aesthetic. Which is a vaguely cool idea until you realize that you obviously can't use these unis in a blizzard.
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The tear gas is dry ice but the actors really sell that they're being brutalized. This just might work.
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Thanks, man. Most of this is Novel Material that'll probably just live in a Google Doc until the early morning they find me dead on the side of a country road. But I've got the verve back; I'll do some articles too.
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I hadn't written in a while, out of cowardice and due to a depression that's Mythic Aegean in force, but I have kept up reading, struggling the whole time, and I'm gratified that the process still works, that my sensibility is still intact and has been operating on everything I've been taking in.