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C. McGuinn Freeman

@cmf406.bsky.social

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She/Her. PhD. Author of Place Last Seen. Published in Montana Quarterly, Big Sky Journal, Dark Mountain, Best American Food Writing, Terrain. Newsletter: Getting Dirty: Material Entanglements in the Anthropocene (https://getting-dirty-anthropocene.com/)

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 6h

Oh he meant well -- sweet guy who seemed like he was hoping to work his way up in the rental car company, but also genuinely liked customer contact. He laughed when I told him I'd never hear the end of it and said "what about this Ford then?"

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 7h

I would feel a lot better about flying out of O'Hare this afternoon if the local news wasn't showing me stories about the air traffic controllers protesting because the fed shutdown means they're working without pay.
PAY THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS PLEASE!

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, great idea - beef is so expensive right now, even in Montana in the middle of the actual herds of steers, that we're eating a lot of pork chops and I'm getting bored.

C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 7h

If my mother hadn't died so suddenly, and I hadn't lived so far away, I'd have seen if some cancer researcher wanted her. She was 83, a lifelong chainsmoker who never got lung cancer.
But I had about 5 minutes to make decisions at 3am. 🤷‍♀️

C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 7h

It's hard to overstate the aura Lish carried all through the 90s when he was still running a very exclusive workshop in NYC. There's a really interesting book out there that has Carver's originals and Lish's edits. Was kind of a scandal for a minute, but I think it was a real collaboration.

C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 7h

Guy looked at me like "Why wouldn't you want to impress your family?"
Little did he know this was a horse show funeral, with a parking lot full of very expensive pickups (that actually tow horse trailers). They'd roll their eyes twice, excessive expense AND useless.

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 15h

An IG of a woman and her kid walking in the Marias today in flat sandals gave me internet sympathetic foot pain.

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 16h

Rental car guy tried to upgrade me to a BMW. "I'm not showing up at a family funeral in rural Illinois in a BMW!" I said. "I'd never hear the end of it."
I'm safely driving some small Ford SUV.

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the ghost of pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 17h

if bill murray wants some good PR he could pay for a lawyer or otherwise massively financially support the clarinet player who got snatched in the middle of playing the Ghostbusters theme music

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 17h

I feel so much less worried seeing how held he is. And we all told him, there's no turning into the wreck his father was after the divorce in the 70s. He promised her before she died, and she enlisted folks to keep an eye on him.

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 17h

We were raised more like siblings than cousins, and these two in particular have really stepped in since my brother died. In return, I triangulate their mother, who has become very difficult. Farm town where we've had a place since the 1860s. I'm so grateful we're all still close.

C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 17h

I don't often say "thank god for Walmart" but If you are stuck in a rural interstate hotel for a night and haven't had anything to eat in hours and do not want more fried food, you can find a heat-and-eat salmon and mashed potato meal and a bottle of cheap wine.

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 17h

In awe of my "baby" cousin who just lost his wife. Four hours he and his daughter and several of her family members hugged and talked to people during the visitation. That girl was so loved. And they raised a solid kid.
So glad I came. Terrible event, but sometimes you need to hug your people.

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 17h

My bereaved farm cousins' dad might have dementia, but apparently he remembers throwing my father into the Christmas tree one year for being an asshole. 😂

C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 20h

I think most of that was Gordon Lish

C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 1d

Blocked that person in honor of all my dyslexic relatives

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 1d

God, can you imagine the tech bros reaction to something so domestic? It'd be fun just to watch them lose their minds.

C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 1d

So far in this boarding area: old man in wheelchair bragging about killing people in the special forces, a girl applying deodorant, a dude snoring asleep w/eye mask, and a woman with a large bird dog pretending it's a service animal.

C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 1d

All the time

C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 1d

Pandemic really broke all social norms, didn't it? Even at six am people are goblins in this airport.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 1d

My go to travel option. The egg McMuffin has saved me on many an occasion.

C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 1d

Props to the Bozeman airport for amazing lighting in the ladies bathroom...

C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 1d

I admire both of them however as one who was in writing programs in the 90s, there was a lot of bad Carver imitation going down.

C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps I'm being American here, but what's the problem? And do we know that Faber wanted Transit?