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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 2d

I turn to his Munch film several times a year for inspiration in my writing and research.

Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 10d

What a list. Never seen so many guys that didn’t make the playoffs or were bounced early.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 13d

Monday's not even over, but here's your Tuesday post for Degenerate Art! I wrote about going to the No Kings events in DC Saturday, why they're an important step (a beginning!), and what to do next, if you're trying still to figure it out. I also opine on why the NYPD et al. put out those releases.

What just happened?

The No Kings marches and what they mean.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 12d

I grew up 80s small town eastern N.C. 50/50 black-white. Local bar called The Rebel was a Klan joint, Confed flag out front. Mainstream white population made jokes about it. Rebel clientele were besmirched outcasts, sneered at. 40 years later people go there openly for lunch.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 15d

I wish Springsteen had kept this band together longer, like maybe 10 to 15 years, before he went to back to E Street Band.

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Bruce Springsteen: In Concert - MTV Plugged | Full Concert

YouTube video by Front Row Music

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 15d

I’m close to doing something like that now. What keeps me from doing it is idea that it’s another machine I have to carry around. But still close to doing it. Need to find right machine.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 15d

I read this slim potent book twice in one day this week. Next day I read it back to front. Some deep stuff in here. Tremendous thinking and writing. Gonna be one I keep close by on small shelf of inspiring mainstays.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 15d

My son is 10 now so I get that. I took a rental office earlier this year for first out-of-house writing space since he was a baby. A trick I never tried and still think about is a word processor for writing only, that’s apart from primary computer. Doesn’t solve space issue though. Good luck, man

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 15d

+1. I was working at home for 10 years. Library and coffee shops help. In some public libraries you can reserve a small room for 2 hours at a time for free. Finally, an hour glass at home helps me.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 23d

This is why the Rays have the 3rd most wins in MLB since 2008, in a metaphoric nutshell:

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Stu Sternberg awarded Rays employees with significant bonuses after selling the team: Sources

Sternberg sold the Rays in late September and issued significant bonuses to all full-time employees of the team.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 24d

In car in College Station TX this morning, listening to radio, a PSA for event at George H.W. Bush Presidential Library. 35th anniversary of Bush 41 signing Americans with Disabilities Act, led by GOP Sen. Bob Dole. Can you Imagine Trump/GOP today supporting a big bill to help handicapped people?

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 26d

My favorite bookstore in Houston this morning.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 27d

New letterpress edition of my 2018 Jason Molina essay being published in December by The Brother in Elysium of Holyoke, MA. This collaboration (first printing of 200 copies in 2019) is a favorite collaborations I've been lucky to have. Pre-sale available here

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Love and Work: Lyric Research on Jason Molina — The Brother In Elysium

Sam Stephenson 2019 / 2025 Love and Work is a meditation on the life and music of the Ohio-born musician Jason Molina (1973–2013). In this work, Stephenson uses his wandering, associative, perhap...

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · Oct 3

I hope you do a book of your photos one day

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · Oct 1

Nixon carried 49 states (!) in November 1972 with historically low voter turnout. Playboy magazine's November 1972 issue sold 7.2M copies, the peak monthly circulation in their history. (I love research).

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Our first and only was 10 days early. The biggest thing we hadn’t done was think about preparing our dog for incoming new being. It worked out, ultimately. Sending best well wishes to you and yours.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · Sep 29

I wonder what Jeff was doing in town. A month later he was put in the pen in Virginia.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · Sep 28

Yes. Red Sox did it with great sustained front office and field management with emphasis on pitching and catching and character and team chemistry. Mets and Clips aren’t doing that.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · Sep 28

Thank you for sharing this, Joanna. It’s so good.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · Sep 25

I want to put in a word for Bendowa Books, a wonderful online seller of carefully curated rare books based in Holyoke, MA. The owner of Bendowa, Jon Beacham, is also a world class letterpress printer.

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Bendowa Books

Bendowa Books is a bookstore specializing in used, out of print, and new books. Areas of focus include Poetry, Literature, Art, Architecture, Photography, Counterculture, Chinese and Japanese Art and ...

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · Sep 25

My wife is a biologist at Texas A&M and she loves her undergrad students and is impressed by them. The idiot A&M first year that recently got everyone fired is an anomaly.

Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · Sep 19

Fantastic photo. Congrats on the launch. Your book is so good.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · Sep 19

“I am not a partisan for any party, but I am a partisan for democracy. When something or someone threatens free and fair elections or fundamental rights, I will not shy away from coverage even if it means coming off as a partisan.”

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When identity politics Trumps the Constitution

The First Amendment is the latest casualty of the Republican Party's identity politics, and Trump's cult of personality. What can stop him?

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · Sep 18

My latest Interlibrary Loan caper. Free, I have this book for 6 weeks. One of the great services our culture provides. Book came from a library in Corpus Christi, 204 miles from my house. If MAGA new about this service, they would seek to do abolish it, and call it socialist.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · Sep 17

This is one of few books I still have from high school. Public school in town of 10K people in coastal N.C. My great English teacher assigned me this book to read before watching movie (book sadder, deeper). He next assigned me The Magic Barrel and was forever hooked on Malamud.

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