Daniel Galef

I write things. Sometimes people print them.

[Daniel Galef @DanielGalef]

Just signed the contract, so it's as official as it'll ever be until the issue is physically on the shelf*: My story "Chi Rho Lake Luau Album 1958" was just taken at Prairie Schooner!

Celebrating thematically by traveling the entirety of the Oregon Trail and dying of dysentery.

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@pnbphilosophy @jonathanbfine based

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@LMFHistorian @owenbroadcast A friend of my mother's who was a war correspondent once gave me a fake Rolex with his face on it, a fantastic and fascinating souvenir but also not exactly something you can wear about town

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@amjuster Can you DM me where it was? I would like to annoy them further

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@TheIshikawaRin @DiscussingFilm 🐎?

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@BWinchesterIV Who doesn't like being drunk

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@Firepeye @MerriamWebster And if one of the other sisters has a daughter herself, she would be Auntie Penultimate

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@justalexoki There was a little cafe I used to work in (not work at) that listed coffee, kava, and kratom all together on the menu with no indication of their effects like they were just different flavors

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@EthelMonticue @SuitSentient Thank you! I took 'em last month (and passed), but before that had been stressing about it all year

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@minikinetic @Adgarpo1 I love how Polyphemus's pose looks like a reference to the Odilon Redon painting of him in a different story!

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@iniemohk @Adgarpo1

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@BenjaminCrew1 P. G. Wodehouse was also writing well into the latter half of the century, but he keeps Jeeves and Wooster in a sort of suspended animation so that the world of the narrative never really feels modern. And Herge finally, in the last album he finished, let Tintin wear slacks

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@no_earthquake cratylus the cockblocker

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@Trash_Man84 Feels like a charming type of infrastructural problem-solving of a kind you don't see a lot anymore in the modern world, along with pneumatic cylinder messaging systems, moon towers, and functional public transit

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I published a sonnet about the chemist who did this in a journal for science-themed poetry a few years ago!

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

During World War II, Max von Laue and James Franck’s Nobel prize medals were dissolved in acid and hidden in plain sight on a shelf in a Danish lab to protect them from the Nazis. After the war, the gold was recovered and the medals were recast.

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@qikipedia I published a sonnet about the chemist who did this in a journal for science-themed poetry a few years ago!

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@Tata_1900 @SpencerAlthouse Found the video!
https://t.co/HyHNflax6G

[Daniel Galef @DanielGalef]

@Tata_1900 @SpencerAlthouse it looks like they took the video down from youtube but someone engaged in a literal car chase to tell the writer dario fo that he won the nobel prize, and it's captured on tape because he was in the middle of an interview at the time
https://t.co/W3WIYoFkgt

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Classic moment. Dario Fo learns he has won Nobel prize while driving on an Italian motorway after another driver holds up a sign as they draw level. Innocent times!

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@sadreturns No way, Victorian slang was full of this kind of thing. Plenty of fleeting trends and jokes that perfectly fit the modern mold of memes. And American speech, too! Just look at the origins of "OK"!

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@cowboy_postbop Obviously it means We Will Rock You

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@lost_nomad__ They outright dubbed the 20th century The Century of the Common Man! Aaron Copeland wrote a Fanfare for him. And the century before that Victorians were scandalized by the pudding scene in Ours showing normal people doing normal things and insisting it worthy of narrative focus

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@lost_nomad__ Artists and writers were making the "radical" choice to tell normal people's stories 50, 100, 150 years ago. Arthur Miller writes Death of a Salesman partly to show that a modern working-class loser's life can be as heightened and tragic as any noble in a Shakespearean drama