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Christopher @grnpointer.bsky.social · Sep 9
I have a new story out in @oysterriverpages.bsky.social. It's about Crown Vics and the Everglades and exotic finches and life as a ghost. You can also hear me read an excerpt, if you're into that sort of thing...

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Slough — Oyster River Pages
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dmsilverman.bsky.social
Fascinating to reread this NYT piece from ~3 months ago on how Maduro was willing to give Trump the oil and other economic goodies.

If so, I return to my basic question here: what was the point?
Venezuela’s Maduro Offered the U.S. His Nation’s Riches to Avoid Conflict
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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brentwaggoner.bsky.social
accidentally murdered a bunch of crows and now I can't figure out how to tell anyone about it
January 2, 2026 at 8:47 PM
grnpointer.bsky.social
Book #1 of 2025: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I am on track to read 365 books and 700,000 pages.

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
In captivity, in the shed, Pierre had learned, not with his mind, but with his whole being, his life, that man is created for happiness, tha...
fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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brentwaggoner.bsky.social
Discovered today that the book blog @grnpointer.bsky.social and I started, 50 Books Project, predates Goodreads by nearly a year.
December 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
grnpointer.bsky.social
Pleased to say my story "Touch Tank" is in the newest issue of @SmokeLong today. It's about getting married to a fish. www.smokelong.com/stories/touc...
Touch Tank - SmokeLong Quarterly
Do you have a favorite, Walter? You won’t believe me, but there used to be a sculpin in this tank that would suck the rings right off people’s fingers. They’d chase him down, but he’d always have his ...
www.smokelong.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Whew, this archival clipping about Greg Bovino’s father
From the Charlotte Observer, 1981: Drunken Driver's Lament Man Jailed For Killing Woman Offers Warning By MARION A. ELLIS Observer Staff Writer Mike Bovino has some advice for New Year's Eve partygoers -if you drink, don't drive. You could kill someone, as he did. Bovino, 37. is serving an 18-month prison sentence in the N.C. prison unit in Huntersville for killing a woman with his car last June near Blowing Rock. Bovino was drunk. "I wouldn't wish what has happened to me on anybody," a conscience-stricken Bovino said Wednesday. "Getting dead drunk just isn't worth it." The woman he killed, Jane Mitchell, 24, never knew what hit her. It was just after midnight last June 5 when Bovino started driving home from a friend's home, where he had been drinking beer since 7 p.m.. "I had two, maybe three six-packs of beer. I don't remember how many. I turned onto the highway and just drove down the wrong side," he said. "I saw the lights from another car, but I thought they were in the other lane. Then, it was over so fast." Bovino's 1978 Dodge four-wheel drive pickup hit Mitchell's Datsun sedan head-on about a mile north of Blowing Rock on U.S. 321. Mitchell, who had gone on a drive with her husband to get doughnuts, was killed instantly. Her husband was seriously injured. Bovino was thrown into the middle of the highway but received, he says, "only a few bumps and bruises." "I didn't think I was drunk, but I blew .18 (on a Breathalyzer test)," Bovino said, struggling awkwardly with his handcuffs to smoke a Marlboro cigarette. Under N.C. law, a .10 blood alcohol content reading is considered conclusive evidence of incapacitation. The N.C. Highway Patrol reports that the number of arrests for driving under the influence (DUI) is down slightly this year compared to 1980. Through Novem-ber, the patrol had arrested 44,330 persons for DUI, compared to 44,951 through November 1980. The rate of conviction to arrests has remained unchanged at about 50%, the patrol reports, with ab…
December 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
grnpointer.bsky.social
Book #121 of 2025: Olav Audunsson: Crossroads by Sigrid Undset. The third book in a tetralogy that's (almost) as good as Kristin Lavransdatter.

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December 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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dmihalopoulos.bsky.social
We went to Greg Bovino’s mountain hometown and his last posting along the Mexico-California border — and also traced his family tree.

Here’s the American story of an immigrant coal miner’s great-grandson turned scourge of foreigners chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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jamellebouie.net
this is like a capsule summary of the problems with a singular focus on quantifiable data
December 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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beetlemoses.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
grnpointer.bsky.social
Book #120 of 2025: Ice Palace by Edna Ferber. Edna's "Alaska Novel" mostly fails to do what she did for Texas in Giant and Oklahoma in Cimarron.

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December 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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andrewbertaina.bsky.social
Great story!
December 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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brentwaggoner.bsky.social
Read this story by my friend Chris if you want to feel some stuff!
December 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
grnpointer.bsky.social
My story "White Ibises" is out this week in storySouth. It's about sex, birds, and being a bad parent. Read it, if you want!

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White Ibises - storySouth
Ann was a widow, but I sometimes wished she were a divorcee. Divorcee was a provocative word, suggestive of pent-up and recently unshackled sexual longings. It was a word like negligee or risqué, whos...
storysouth.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
grnpointer.bsky.social
Book #119 of 2025: Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov. Maybe my least favorite of his--like a long joke you have to know three languages to get. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/ada-...
November 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
grnpointer.bsky.social
Book #118 of 2025: Knots by Nuruddin Farah. I found this stunningly poorly written, but with the addition of Somalia, my "Countries Read" list is up to 114.

fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/knot...
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.
After a frantic 48-hour search, her family received a call from her on Saturday from Honduras, a country she had not lived in since she was a child. The federal government had quickly deported her, the lawyers said, and Lopez Belloza had found her way to her grandparents’ house and called her father.
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
grnpointer.bsky.social
Book #117 of 2025: Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame. An almost Joycean novel from the New Zealand great. One of those books that makes you go "Oh, I have to read everything this person ever wrote" fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/owls...
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic
crab
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
grnpointer.bsky.social
Books #114, #115, and #116 of 2025: Three books I read in (and on the way to) Puerto Rico. Didn't think much of the history, but both Ferre and Lalo's novels gave me an interesting new perspective on the island. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/thre...
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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jamellebouie.net
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · Nov 18
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
grnpointer.bsky.social
Book #113 of 2025: Lili is Crying by Helene Bissette. Oulipo-y. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/lili...
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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andylevy.net
they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM