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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 2m

Why won't Apple consider the possibility that I am sparkly now?

Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 3m

I spilled gold mica powder on my phone and now it refused to recognize my face. This is the thanks I get.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 1d

An exploratory pit near Vanderbilt?! Is it my birthday?!

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, people unfamiliar with human anatomy. The vagina is on the inside. The word you’re looking for is vulva. Or, if you’re specifically wanting to describe what neck folds resemble, you could use ‘labia.’ You’re welcome.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 1d

Annie! This is so beautifully written.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 1d

I'm curious how Musk vs. CSX is going to go.

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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 2d

Writes Betsy Phillips: I need one thing I can count on for amusement — so don't scare The Boring Company off with your facts and your logic.

Perhaps We Should Let The Boring Company's Music City Loop Fail

I need one thing I can count on for amusement — so don't scare The Boring Company off with your facts and your logic

www.nashvillescene.com

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 2d

I continue to support the Nazi River Rampage.

www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

Perhaps We Should Let The Boring Company's Music City Loop Fail

I need one thing I can count on for amusement — so don't scare The Boring Company off with your facts and your logic

www.nashvillescene.com

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 2d

Well work on having more or fewer locations before you get back.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump family better not let Barron Trump anywhere near 23&Me until after the old man is dead. I'll just say that. The older he gets, the more obvious it is.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 3d

Me and my nemesis.

Me and the scariest stairs in town, now that they don’t let you use the ones in Fisk Chapel.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s the thing. The pearls came down from my grandmas and I feel more like I have back-up for taking the opportunities that feel so unbelievable. But they are fancy in ways I am not.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 4d

@bradengall.bsky.social calls me yesterday to ask what I’m doing today and I’m all “I’m going to be in this documentary in the morning” and there’s this pause and he says, “That’s not an answer I was expecting.”

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 4d

I pray I never need him.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 4d

Are pearls a bit much for a Saturday morning?

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 4d

I’m kind of hoping he takes up dog troubles. Something relatively low stakes, but important. “My husband won’t let me get a lab. He says they’re dumb. I’m going to write a few songs with Post Malone.”

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 4d

I’m looking forward to seeing what niche Post Malone starts to fill in Nashville’s artisanal unlicensed mental health providing community.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 4d

in between those two sentences is three weeks of being blackout drunk, stealing a bunch of mailboxes, and moving in with a woodchuck in a culvert under someone’s driveway?

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 4d

You know how you hear that someone’s been hanging out with Todd Snider and you just know they’ve been going through some shit? Like Todd Snider is Nashville’s first rung on the ladder out of rock bottom?Like if the story goes “I got divorced. I spent some time writing songs with Todd Snider.” that

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 5d

Right?! An adult man told me he grew up reading me and I am still equal parts flattered and appalled.

Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 5d

Challenge them to a duel!

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 5d

Yes! Are you going to the Southern Festival of Books on the 18th or 19th? I could have it in the booth for you.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 5d

So, this is like Christmas for me! I am justified in holding on to them because a family member has emerged.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, no! This is at my actual job at Vanderbilt University Press. I found these copies years ago in the back of a closet and held onto them because it's either the first book or one of the first books the press published and, since they're in named boxes, I always hoped someone would come looking.

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 5d

See the middle name.

The copies of this old book set aside, but never delivered.