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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

@deardara.bsky.social

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I'm a writer, a poet, a radio talker, I know it. I don't buy nonfiction, I grow it. Novelist. Magazines. 6 James Beard Awards, McKnight Fellow, FAWC teacher; NYC 4th gen, leading my best snowy, writing life in Mpls.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · Jul 17

Going into the weekend like:

Two extremely silly dogs, ready for the day

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 2h

honestly it should be buttered orzo because you can eat it with a spoon

a woman in a blue and white striped shirt is holding a spoon in her mouth .

ALT: a woman in a blue and white striped shirt is holding a spoon in her mouth .

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 5h

You make a good point. But I’ll add that a lot of the “good business case” was puffery or lies designed to get the money by any means imaginable, so it’s not such a leap.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. And I didn’t know it was going on at all! It seems like a dystopian novel.

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 1d

I was looking for something else, when I came upon this remarkable story.

“I am a victim of HIV because of engaging in sex for fish, and I have seen many families fall apart after husbands realized that their wives were engaged in this thing,’’ Dorothy says.

globalvoices.org/2024/07/30/w...

Women fishmongers in Kenya have had little choice in the widespread sex-for-fish culture, until now

“Our first fish cage gave us the empowerment we badly needed as women fishmongers. It moved us from being vulnerable sex objects to real businesswomen."

globalvoices.org

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 1d

Clio, life’s true princess, enjoys fall as well. Very squirrely.

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 2d

I will wait for further instructions, via bagged freezer items!

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 2d

In this household we refrain from cannibalism in a clear and supportive manner

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 2d

Lol. Is it drugs?

Also, this is why commas are so important.

Mysterious package in my freezer with a label reading: “Do not eat mom”

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 2d

Lol. Is it drugs?

Also, this is why commas are so important.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 2d

Fall dog walks are the best. And Mimi the puppy mill mama rescue is experiencing her first outdoor autumn! 🧡

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 2d

My essay on no kings yesterday goes out any minute now… I felt so hopeful. Sign up for the free weekly letter at deardara.com if you want it!

A blow up green Dino holding a sign reading “WE ❤️ AMERICA” at the Minneapolis No Kings March yesterday.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 2d

I’m really loving it, honestly. It’s so vivid and alive you can’t even see the joins, if you know what I mean. The necessary clockwork of it just vanishes. Incredible.

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 2d

I would really like to give a prize to Kate Bush's parents, that is one loved and cherished daughter, to just be that free in public. I mean it.

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 2d

reading Withering Heights for the first time since Junior High, and: Pretty spicy! that's one close set of siblings!

also I have had Kate Bush going through my head the whole time.

Crazy that anyone, in the history of time, has ever been this unselfconscious.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk-4...

Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights - Official Music Video - Version 2

YouTube video by KateBushMusic

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 2d

trump posts himself wearing a crown and dumping shit on Americans... please file this in your file cabinet under H for:

"Hillary said deplorables, an unforgivable sin which we must rend garments about, forever..."

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President Donald Trump Fires Back at 'No Kings Day' by Posting AI Video of Himself Bombing Protesters with Brown Liquid

President Trump posted the fake clip as the 'No Kings' protests returned in cities across the country over the weekend

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6d

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 14d

otoh, he looks EXACTLY like a wanna be teacher's pet kiss-ass, and so we can be happy that God rendered him obviously dangerous, like the way a rattlesnake is equpped with the obvious warning of the rattle.

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 14d

one could argue that the climax could be strengthened by putting it in the present, and not off screen, as it were, but on the other hand, one could argue that it's simply perfect, and that the sense of the hero's internal dislocation and loss is emphasized by things happening to him, distantly.

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 14d

The third act is rue, woe, regret, and ruin. He is Oedipus/King Lear of the London new wave pubs of the late 1970s:
And so it's my assumption/I'm really up the junction."

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk, etc.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 14d

The second act sees our tragic hero enjoying his Paradise, from which he will be ejected. It reaches a blissful summit with: "She looked just like her mother/If there could be another" But then, smash! Gone! Second act cliffhanger wreck: "And now she's two years older/Her mother's with a soldier."

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 14d

For the rest of the first act, it's domestic bliss: Railway arms we're missing... love had got us hooked up... I got a job with Stanley. But then! First act climax brings profound change. He left the house for 11 hours, "she said she'd seen a doctor/and nothing now could stop her"

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 14d

I hereby declare that Squeeze's Up the Junction is a perfect formally constructed miniature tragedy in three acts. It starts with precise scene-setting 'I never thought it would happen/with me and the girl from Clapham..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQci...

Squeeze - Up The Junction

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 14d

thank you Dan, you're very kind. There are also a lot of tables at Dario, Small Hours, and Oro... this is a pretty magical food town, I do say!

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 14d

when I started this little experiment in sending a weekly letter to my internet friends, I had no idea I'd be documenting my own ever unwilling, ever increasing exposure to other people's guns. it's honestly shocking, cumulatively.

www.deardara.com/so/7dPctGSma...

Dara's Guide to Handling Reality, Daily

Lake of the Isles, Minneapolis, where way too many things happen in a night:

www.deardara.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18d

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

From the New York Times: Breaking news: U.S. attacks Venezuelan boat for fourth time, challenging legal bounds

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 15d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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