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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hatton, a sentient aerial view of a spilled bowl of soup, is the mascot for Tome City. The ingredients in the soup are local produce, and the spillage is in the shape of the city.

A white blob with big eyes and a beak is standing on a red carpet and wearing green boots and a red soup bowl hat.

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Aug 14

!!!GO BEAVS!!!

katie cusumano @k-e-c.bsky.social · Aug 13

hello it's me 😭 literary-arts.org/2025/08/meet...

Meet Katherine Cusumano, 2025 Oregon Literary Fellow

We’re thrilled to introduce the 2025 Oregon Literary Fellowship Recipients with individual features on our blog. Out-of-state judges spent several months evaluating the 400+ applications we received, ...

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Aug 9

We're finally watching The Righteous Gemstones and it is the most South Carolina show I've ever seen...specifically Low Country AF Just caught a reference to PLUFF MUD, for godssake!

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Jul 26

You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops...

March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Jul 26

With the 39th pick David Turkel selects Tom Waits's "Hold On" (1999): www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P5j...

Tom Waits - "Hold On"

YouTube video by ANTI- Records

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 24

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · May 30

True evangelism! Thank you for your service.

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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · Apr 23

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · Apr 3

SPRING forward into your writing goals and FALL in love with PDX during your stay at the 2025 Tin House General Fall Residency. The vibrant arts scene and dedicated writing time will give your manuscript just the boost it needs!

Apply by April 7th: tinhouse.com/workshop/res...

An advertisement for a writing residency. Text reads: 2025 Tin House Fall Residencies, General, Apply Today!

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Mar 26

(also now I'm sad that the great WTK won't be there!)

Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Mar 26

I just sent the most Den Mother email to the grad students in my program who are heading to LA, expressing the same thing. Then I went to the store and bought myself protein bars and trail mix and tuna snack packs. #dontAWPhangry

W. Todd Kaneko @toddkaneko.bsky.social · Mar 26

I’m not at AWP in LA this year but here is my unsolicited advice: no there will not be food available at that reading later so you should just stop now and eat something.

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Mar 12

Come experiment with me (and some AMAZING guests) this May! I promise to look much older than I do in the photo below!

Off Assignment @offassignment.bsky.social · Mar 9

NEW OA COURSE!

"Writing the Experimental Essay," led by @elenavox.bsky.social w guest authors Lawrence Lenhart, Hanif Abdurraqib, @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social & Sarah Minor will help your bring non-traditional projects to life.

Learn more and sign up at buff.ly/qweuO2D

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Mar 8

Shakin' and twitchin like I was smokin'

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Mar 7

FRIDAY UPDATE:
1) They were playing "the Humpty Dance" at the convenience store and nobody wanted to do the dance with me.

2) My MarchXness essay from 2019's Goth tournament gets the Second Chanceness treatment today! I've been loving reading everyone's work so far this March.

March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · Mar 7

"Nick Cave is still someone worth writing about."

On 3/7 we bring back @elenavox.bsky.social's essay on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand": marchxness.com/2xness-cave/

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Mar 7

Good morning; time to cry...

kottke.org @kottke.org · Mar 7

Dolly Parton has released a new song called If You Hadn’t Been There as a tribute to her late husband, Carl Dean. “If you hadn’t been there / Well, who would I be?” [youtube.com]

Dolly Parton - If You Hadn’t Been There (Official Audio)

“If You Hadn’t Been There” by Dolly Parton http://dolly.lnk.to/IYHBT Lyrics: (Verse 1) If you hadn’t been there Where would I be? Without your trust Love and belief The ups and downs We’ve always shared And I wouldn’t be here If you hadn’t been there (Verse 2) If you hadn’t been you Well who would

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Mar 6

This video is AWESOME.
And that's to say nothing of Scarlet Joe Handsome! 😍

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Feb 28

Nuthin' says March 1 like the kickoff of an Xness enterprise! And this is the best anthology title ever.

Give @marchxness.bsky.social a follow to join in on all the music writing chatter!

Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · Feb 28

This is the longest we've kept a secret project secret: SLP is proud to be the home for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, collated by the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee (@angermonsoon.bsky.social + @meganc.bsky.social) and forthcoming on 3/31/26!

WELCOME MARCH XNESS! This image is of the corny, old-style Publishers Marketplace announcement that "HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: The March Xness Anthology" by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell, cofounders of March Xness, will be published by Split/Lip Press in March 2026. A collection of essays spanning 8 tournaments from 40 contributors, the anthology includes writers Matt Bell, Danielle Evans, Elisa Gabbert, Raquel Gutierrez, and Elena Passarello, among others.

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Feb 14

"SPEEDWAY...stars Nancy Sinatra, as a blonde, and Mr. Presley with hair dyed black, and it has to do with stock car racing....The movie has some high lunatic moments —[including] when a waitress at a drive-in hamburger stand begins to sob over a side order of tomatoes."

Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Feb 14

Should add that Renata Adler is:
1) a cranky goddess

2) not a Boomer

3) the writer of the Times' review for Elvis's 27th movie, 1968's SPEEDWAY (then she wrote a book called SPEEDBOAT...coincidence?!?!)

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Feb 14

"Renata Adler wrote, 'It’s perfect, you, Lorne, a legacy for Lillian,' a cryptic reference possibly to longtime New Yorker writer Lillian Ross." Oh, to be in such company on a runaway reply-all train.

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The Lorne Michaels Book-Event Thread Is the Reply-All Disaster We Need

Susan Morrison’s invitation quickly went haywire, thanks to some boomer journalists and Tina Fey.

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Feb 13

We're talking about these Bohemian wonders on this week's LiveWire...you know who doesn't have to wait around for zone permits? BEAVERS.

Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · Feb 13

The viral Czech beaver story is terrific because it’s a perfect distillation of the grand beaver narrative: the world’s most ingenious rodents, acting without our awareness or authorization, engineering wetlands whose ecological value far exceeds anything humans could dream up. We don’t deserve ‘em.

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Feb 10

Sorry to Elvis-splain on Superbowl Sabbath, but...
americansongwriter.com/the-meaning-...

The Meaning Behind “Personal Jesus” by Depeche Mode—Inspired by Priscilla Presley

What is the meaning of Depeche Mode's song "Personal Jesus"? Let's take a deep dive into the Priscilla Presley inspired track.

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Feb 7

!!!!!!!!!!

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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Jan 24

We didn't want to put that fine a point on it, so we went with Earth, Wind and Fire

Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · Jan 24

David and I went through a car wash while a Disco song played on the radio, which is, I believe, the middle aged version of clubbing.

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