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Lia Swope Mitchell

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reader, writer, translator. PhD French. I like running, gardening, baking, and outdoorsy stuff. I live in Minneapolis. liaswopemitchell.com

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · Oct 22

KREE by Manuela Draeger: out today from @uminnpress.bsky.social ! Here's some of my thoughts about this gnarly abyss of a book
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KREE by Manuela Draeger: out today!

Today is the official release day for Kree by Manuela Draeger, the second post-exotic novel (after Solo Viola) that I’ve had the pleasure and challenge of translating for University of Minnes…

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 10m

Hm, I suppose. The theory is that she is reacting to her feeling of hunger (since she can't read a clock) so if I fed her earlier, she would then get hungry again and wake me for her breakfast earlier. But who knows

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 20m

My dog knows her meal times and if I deviate from the schedule she lets me know

Which is probably why she's been staring at me for the last few minutes

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 2h

I know MN pro sports are sometimes disappointing, but a couple of our runners had a great day at the NYC Marathon today! www.instagram.com/minnesotadis...

Unfortunately, one of them suddenly grew to enormous size and laid waste to the city afterwards

A giant runner with long flowing hair looms over Manhattan, where a normal sized runner is fleeing the soon to be devastated streets

A muscular woman with red hair runs toward the finish line looking like a total bad ass

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 5h

Shit, that sounds awful (even if it could be worse)

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 20h

of course! I think it helps if you do a lot of the cooking yourself, but you do you

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 23h

that looks lovely!

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 23h

sometimes self-care takes the form of pizza

a really delicious looking pizza baking on a stone in an oven. Mostly made from scratch

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I'm over on River Road I think "Holy shit, this must be peak color, this is amazing" and then the next time it's even better

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 2d

Louis XIV also had a group of courtiers to watch him shit in the mornings

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 2d

you'd better eat that one so nobody knows

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 2d

if the off ramp from 94 still closed near Franklin?

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 2d

well, that does it, I'm voting for Jazz

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 2d

Nice! I went there on study abroad a hundred years ago. The castle looks the same

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 2d

But did any of the candidates live in Minneapolis at the time? I see Fateh was born in D.C. and Frey in Arlington, VA

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 2d

I’ll bet you never heard of an incredible weather event that happened 34 years ago on this very date, one so rarely mentioned yet so epic in scale, seemingly unknown to younger Minnesotas who lean forward with anticipation and excitement as survivors begin the tale of a Halloween blizzard that

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 2d

A bunch of people died in that one so it probably wasn’t as much fun to reminisce

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, but now that I've searched I see they hung out a bit and all that.

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 3d

did Chilton ever comment on this tribute?

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 3d

holy shit

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 3d

Newly posted on YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=reN6...

The Replacements live at Bogart's Cincinnati, 14th September 1987, covertly shot on a camcorder, which was not an easy mission back in 1987. Taken from archive D1611

The Replacements live Cincinnati 1987

YouTube video by ScottishTeeVee

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 3d

Neelix was pretty awful

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 3d

I saw this elsewhere and it seems like they're basing this on the number of Orkin calls. But how many of those calls were actually about rats? They could have been about squirrels. Or mice. We are the gopher state! Maybe people had troublesome gophers

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 3d

it was so cool

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · Sep 26

you can just bike up this highway ramp

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 3d

dang, I shoulda done it. A nice view!

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 3d

thank you!

Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 3d

sounds kind of like main character syndrome?

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