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.
One of three poems of mine in the new issue of The Lyric. This is a tiny comic poem with an epigraph and attribution almost as long as the poem itself, inspired by a joke by @EmoPhilips (who later deleted the tweet in a scurrilous attempt to silence me, but never will!)
@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
@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
@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
@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
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.
@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
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!