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Elizabeth Cantwell

@eccantwell

Teacher, poet, parent, person. She/her. Doing stuff @BWDR again! Books with @InlandiaInst and @BlackLawrence. Black lives matter.

 Los Angeles
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Joined June 2014
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hey do you want to be my wingman ... by reading my essay on TOP GUN: MAVERICK?
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SOMEONE out there has to have cracked the code of getting three kids out the door in the morning AND two parents ready for work without tears, right? Is it really just “hire a nanny even though everyone is in school/daycare because you can’t do it any other way”?
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Or “quit your job” hahahaha 🫠
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Loved this thread & it made me think of Mr. Natale (my 9th grade English teacher who provided the first really enjoyable space for me in public school) & hope that I’ve been this teacher for even just ONE of my students in the past 18 years.
Hanif Abdurraqib (@NifMuhammad) profile pictureHanif Abdurraqib@NifMuhammad25 Jul 2023
I was not a good high school student — my mother died the summer before my 9th grade year, and I really struggled. I got suspended often for fighting, for yelling at teachers. Not a lot of people in the building believed in me.
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I know we’re rapidly vacating this X place BUT if you’re searching for a good read today, I loved editing this very fun essay!
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Looks like I do have two invite codes on That Other App so if anyone wants them before this place X’s itself out, let me know!
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The proper response to having no internet for four days (and likely for three more after this) is to:
22%buy a bunch of blu rays
12%drink so much iced coffee
8%cry
57%all of the above
49 votes • Final results
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A) thank you for validating my choices; B) a long tech support call later, my internet is fixed SOONER THAN I EXPECTED and now I ALSO have new blu-rays!!
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I’m at home with a maybe sick maybe teething maybe both baby BUT Chris will be at SDCC tonight through Saturday with our middle son Leo & cool signed comics to give away so if you’re also going, please track him down (and say hi to Leo for me!!)
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p.s. we have arranged for someone else to watch our kid while he talks about the JFK assassination 😂
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AJ Howell@Howell48917 Jul 2023
Writing like this is why I subscribe to Bright Wall/Dark Room. As somebody who grew up in Southern California, I can attest that this is emotionally accurate! This is excerpted from Elizabeth Cantwell’s essay on Steven Spielberg’s DUEL.
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@Phil_Lewis_14 Jul 2023
Ron Perlman responds to the studio executive who said: “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their homes.”
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rewatched M:I3 and let’s bring back movies with big color palettes, ok? (Could NOT find an imagine without that dumb movie clips logo in it with the green light but oh well)
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Listen I know being on strike is terrible but I also couldn’t be more relieved that SAG is going to join the picket lines. Maybe once enough expensive productions are shut down these execs will start to begrudgingly understand that there IS value to human creative labor.
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@MorePerfectUS13 Jul 2023
Disney CEO Bob Iger, who makes $27 million a year, went to TV to say that writers and actors aren't being realistic with their demands. When asked why these workers are being unrealistic he says, "I can't, I can't answer that."
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president of the movies, sure, but also I would vote Tom Cruise 2024 in a heartbeat if he would just leave Scientology
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(which, look, I know he will never do and it is a fantasy of mine to think it would even be possible, BUT can you IMAGINE how good he'd be at dealing with Congress and with difficult leaders of foreign countries)
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I have two published books of poetry and I still feel like I have no idea what I am doing when I write a poem, maybe that's the point?
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I’m not posting here very much anymore but idk seems like the right place to say that I have never hated any fictional character as much as I hate Claire in The Bear
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five episodes in and every time she’s on screen I want to die, she truly represents the worst kind of white woman I can imagine
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Just Joyce@johnstonglenn2 Jul 2023
Vladimir Nabokov's annotated teaching copy of Ulysses (1934 Random House).
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