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Tommy Tomlinson

@tommytomlinson.bsky.social

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Author of DOGLAND (on the Westminster Dog Show) and THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (memoir on obesity in America). Newsletter: THE WRITING SHED. Georgia boy, Carolina man.

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 16h

Lord have mercy, Vols

Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 17h

Dawgvent pitchbot

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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 18h

Just a perfectly crafted sentence, from the AP no less apnews.com/article/no-k...

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 18h

The ghosts of Nakobi Dean showed up just in time

Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 18h

Part-time student, full-time Abercrombie model

Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 19h

I for one am enjoying the Arena League game of the week

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Gavin Edwards @mrgavinedwards.bsky.social · 2d

The one time I met Ace Frehley, he was in full Spaceman stage makeup and costume. Which, really, is how I'd want to remember him anyway. (It was backstage at MSG in 1996.) I wrote his obituary for the NY Times. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/a...

Ace Frehley, a Founding Member of Kiss, Is Dead at 74

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 21h

mike bobo ignoring cash jones redzone touches for more cash jones touches

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 21h

Another episode of the long-running series, Mike Bobo: Too Clever By Half

Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t care who wins the actual Heisman, Diego Pavia has already won the spiritual Heisman

Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 23h

I need one of those PAVIA MAFIA shirts

Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 23h

Diego + Dirty Dom = heaven

Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 1d

Still lobbying for Michael Stipe for the next Athens GameDay

Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 1d

The only notification I want on my phone is one that says SHOHEI’S UP

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 1d

I’m hearing that Carson Beck threw multiple soul-crushing INTs, that’s a new one

Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 2d

The alt-NFL league that would really work is one where all the QBs are over 40

Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 2d

The bootleg > the fan going “holy shit” > the zoom on Tomlin:

CINEMA

Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 2d

Every Joe Flacco deep ball looks like he’s releasing a homing pigeon

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melanie d.g. kaplan @melaniedgkaplan.bsky.social · 3d

Love @tommytomlinson.bsky.social's Pub Day Q+A about Lab Dog! If you don't already know Tommy's work, check out his terrific Dogland, Elephant in the Room, and, for smaller bites, his Substack. 💙📚

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 3d

I'm late to the D'Angelo tributes but just wanted to make sure everybody reads this incredible profile from 2014 by my friend Amy Wallace. The Chris Rock quotes got me all over again.

www.gq.com/story/dangel...

Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)

He was once hailed as the next Marvin Gaye—then he vanished into addiction. Amy Wallace witnessed D'Angelo's ecstatic return to the stage, and hung out as he finished his first album in a dozen years.

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 4d

It feels like we should celebrate a complete game in 2025 the way we celebrated a no-hitter in 1975

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 4d

Come out to @politicsprose.bsky.social at 7pm on Wednesday 10/22 to see @bethmacy.bsky.social and I talk about her knockout new book PAPER GIRL: A MEMOIR OF HOME AND FAMILY IN A FRACTURED AMERICA.

Beth Macy — Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America - with Andrea Pitzer — at Conn Ave

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 4d

Panthers fans will be so happy with this

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Michael vs. the Living Dead @thepmann.bsky.social · 5d

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but it sure is lucrative.

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 5d

Falcons gorged on Bojangles the night before, understandable