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Brian Jay Jones

@brianjayjones.com

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Bestselling biographer and big mouth, now coming to you from the wilds of New Mexico. Come for the Muppets, Star Wars, and Dr. Seuss; stay because I make a mean cocktail. Up next: the U.S. Capitol. He/him. Go Lobos 🐺

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 1h

In my case, it was a copy editor. In my biography of George Lucas, I had carelessly—because I do know better—misspelled Chewbacca’s home planet of Kashyyyk with only two Ys. The copy editor corrected the spelling and wrote in the margin in all caps “DO NOT GET STAR WARS WRONG.”

Indeed.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 12h

Really giving the K/S folks a run for the money.

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 13h

The fanfic for this one is gonna be LIT.

An 1865 reproduction of painting shows Lincoln ascending into heaven as George Washington meets him in an embrace and places a laurel wreath upon Lincoln's head. Yeah, baby!

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Reposted by Brian Jay Jones

Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 1d

“. . . the relationship between the biographer and his subject is the most intimate one in the world of letters, both affectionate and adversarial, as delicately strung with tensions as a long marriage.”
William Zinsser #biography

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 1d

Here’s the one terrible photo I snapped while at a standstill on an overpass. Sorry it doesn’t do it justice. At ALL.

Albuquerque blue sky dotted with balloons. Not a great photo alas

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 1d

I couldn’t take a picture because I was driving, but the hot air balloons hanging over Albuquerque in the early morning haze were particularly beautiful this morning. They had even slowed rush hour traffic down on a major thoroughfare where people were slowing down to look up through the valley.

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 2d

I am going to sleep with the nightstand light on in the bedroom because I heard weird noises in the house tonight after I first went to bed. I am a grown-ass man essentially sleeping with a nightlight.

Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 3d

So is “cosy,” “pyjamas” and “ageing.” But they’re also gonna get flagged by a U.S. copy editor.