Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · Jul 22, 2023 · 6:56 PM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman22 Jul 2023

I once ate at Club 33, as a kid, because my friend's dad retired from the phone company (lineman) and he got park tickets and lunch there as a retirement gift. The only shady thing was a worm in my cookie, and we got front-of-the-line passes to Splash Mountain because of it.

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · Jul 22, 2023 · 6:56 PM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman22 Jul 2023

As we left, I saw a waiter in the kitchen opening up and throwing away all the cookies.

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · Jul 19, 2023 · 2:57 AM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman19 Jul 2023

The birds of prey have joined the orcas and otters, and I'm thrilled. " 'They're majestic, beautiful animals, but like, it sucks,' said Alfredo Del Barrio, who lives in the house behind the hawks' tree."

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · Jul 14, 2023 · 1:23 AM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman14 Jul 2023

When's the general strike?

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · Jul 7, 2023 · 5:34 AM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman7 Jul 2023

Who can front me a half-million dollars?

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · Jul 6, 2023 · 4:58 AM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman6 Jul 2023

A cry for help on a dying platform: I have listened to the new Jason Mraz. And I keep listening to it.

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · Jun 11, 2023 · 5:28 AM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman11 Jun 2023

Weird to reflect, again, on being able to say I received mail from Ted Kaczynski.

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · Jun 4, 2023 · 5:10 AM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman4 Jun 2023

Longform essay about the power of the 1985 Anne of Green Gables to compel me, a grown adult, to give money to some bizarro streamer by the name of GazeboTV—the only place you can watch it.

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · Jun 1, 2023 · 4:36 AM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman1 Jun 2023

I was just making a dessert pancake and thinking about how the biggest issue for us writers with day jobs is when the day job interrupts the rhythm (as it has to) for a couple days, a week, a month.

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · Jun 1, 2023 · 4:36 AM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman1 Jun 2023

That's the dream of full-time writing: not that you just luxuriate in a robe and ten-dollar words but that you can control your own time.

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · May 25, 2023 · 4:33 PM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman25 May 2023

We don't talk about Tom Waits enough, so here's a thought from the commute: the closest we have to a Tom Waits today is Donald Glover.

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · May 20, 2023 · 4:57 AM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman20 May 2023

Ok, yes, but: White Gladis. Perfect name.

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · May 18, 2023 · 4:47 PM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman18 May 2023

I, too, would like to diss the facial value of your ballyhoo.

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · May 16, 2023 · 4:16 AM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman16 May 2023

There goes my week.

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · May 12, 2023 · 1:16 AM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman12 May 2023

I'm embarrassed at how pleased I felt at my physical therapist being proud of me. Reader, I fist-bumped him. ☺️

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · May 10, 2023 · 3:47 PM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman10 May 2023

Omitting collected works sets, who are the top 5 authors in your library by # of books on your shelves? Including books by & abt. QT with your answer: 1. Ursula Le Guin 2. James Joyce 3. Gary Young 4. Sara Gran 5. maybe Timothy Zahn or Jean-Luc Nancy?

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · May 10, 2023 · 3:49 PM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman10 May 2023

I feel like my list is a version of "How do you say you were a nerd dropped into a theory heavy college experience without saying it?"

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · May 5, 2023 · 5:07 PM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman5 May 2023

Next project is going out on submission next week and I thought it would be less distressing than the last time. Wrong again, Pat! Pass the Xanax.

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · May 2, 2023 · 4:02 AM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman2 May 2023

Note for book/story writers, journalists -- hell, game creators (see: the Battleship movie): don't let your agents do film/tv adaptation rights deals right now, too. It's still scabby.

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Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone) · Apr 28, 2023 · 12:45 AM UTC

Patrick Coleman (gone, gone, gone)@patrickmcoleman28 Apr 2023

Today in time machines: took my eight year old to her second violin lesson in a dusty music shop, and in the front room a skinny kid was testing a bass amp in the time-tested way: playing the opening to Blink-182's "M&Ms."

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