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Jed Dawson
@therealjed.bsky.social
We defy augury.
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie
May 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
In the man’s own words:
January 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Shoutout to @sepinwall.bsky.social, the high priest of making episodic television on the terms of episodic television (rather than the “8/10/12-hour movie”): David Chase spells out his ideal vision of how scripted series should work.
November 9, 2024 at 3:54 PM
“He looked as though daylight would have killed him.”

James Baldwin, slinging heat.
March 7, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Irish humor ☘️
March 3, 2024 at 11:03 PM
This sentence plays like a crab shot from a Billy Wilder movie. Detective at the wheel ⬅️ detective in the passenger seat ➡️ prosecutor out of his element and uncomfortable about it.

From Bonfire of the Vanities.
March 3, 2024 at 10:45 PM
I thought that I had heard references to the Bronze Age collapse more often in the past 5 years than even before. I checked the publishing history of the term to see if my perception lined up with reality, and it astoundingly did.

Was there some kind of breakthrough on this topic? #History
December 20, 2023 at 12:59 AM
Just guess when these lines, by Muriel Rukeyser, were written.

1968! They are in the vernacular of this morning! How!

From “Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars).” #writing #poetry
December 15, 2023 at 4:19 PM