Eric McHenry
@henrymceric.bsky.social
Gutted to lose Todd Snider so early. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_CuE...
Working on a Song
YouTube video by Todd Snider - Topic
m.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Gutted to lose Todd Snider so early. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_CuE...
As long as I’ve got my laptop and summer breaks, no urban legend is safe.
Gone Fishin’ - The American Scholar
Could two famous rivermen really have met their end while grappling giant fish in a Kansas river?
theamericanscholar.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
As long as I’ve got my laptop and summer breaks, no urban legend is safe.
I gotta say it was a good day
November 5, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I gotta say it was a good day
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‘Selfie’, a poem by Eric McHenry, from our October / November issue.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
‘Selfie’, a poem by Eric McHenry, from our October / November issue.
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Sonnet in The London Magazine!
October 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Sonnet in The London Magazine!
Attention versiverse: Gretchen McCulloch writes double dactyls.
Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
October 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Attention versiverse: Gretchen McCulloch writes double dactyls.
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Not at all surprising that the notoriously nimble Democratic political machine planned ahead 23 years to plant a fake Trump drawing in Epstein's birthday book. That Chuck Schumer sees around corners!
September 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Not at all surprising that the notoriously nimble Democratic political machine planned ahead 23 years to plant a fake Trump drawing in Epstein's birthday book. That Chuck Schumer sees around corners!
This is a good joke and also my son wrote it
The U.S. Open By The Numbers https://theonion.com/the-u-s-open-by-the-numbers/
September 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is a good joke and also my son wrote it
Talking levee-camp hollers on the Smarty Pants podcast. When the work is peonage, the work songs become protests.
What Lies Beneath the Levee Camp Holler - The American Scholar
Eric McHenry investigates a century-old crime preserved in music
theamericanscholar.org
August 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Talking levee-camp hollers on the Smarty Pants podcast. When the work is peonage, the work songs become protests.
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Who killed the Mercy Man? If levee bosses were just a bunch of interchangeable Mr. Charlies, then they all did.
theamericanscholar.org/who-killed-t...
#Music #History by Eric McHenry via The American Scholar
theamericanscholar.org/who-killed-t...
#Music #History by Eric McHenry via The American Scholar
Who Killed the Mercy Man? - The American Scholar
An obscure murder keeps resurfacing in Black story and song
theamericanscholar.org
August 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Who killed the Mercy Man? If levee bosses were just a bunch of interchangeable Mr. Charlies, then they all did.
theamericanscholar.org/who-killed-t...
#Music #History by Eric McHenry via The American Scholar
theamericanscholar.org/who-killed-t...
#Music #History by Eric McHenry via The American Scholar
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Don't miss this week's SLR featuring @henrymceric.bsky.social, @harleyrustad.com, @kevinmaurer.bsky.social, @tomjunod.bsky.social & more! mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...
The Sunday Long Read: Football Tragedy, Crabs, Mercy Man
The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.
mailchi.mp
August 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Don't miss this week's SLR featuring @henrymceric.bsky.social, @harleyrustad.com, @kevinmaurer.bsky.social, @tomjunod.bsky.social & more! mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...
So people are using AI to dump people in order to pursue relationships with AI.
August 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
So people are using AI to dump people in order to pursue relationships with AI.
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In our Weekly Top 5:
* The legend of the levee boss @theamscho.bsky.social
* Identity in the age of AI @harpers.bsky.social
* The rules of Rave Club @thefence.bsky.social
* Studying philosophy in prison @aeon.co
* French fry why @torontolifemag.bsky.social
longreads.com/2025/08/22/t...
* The legend of the levee boss @theamscho.bsky.social
* Identity in the age of AI @harpers.bsky.social
* The rules of Rave Club @thefence.bsky.social
* Studying philosophy in prison @aeon.co
* French fry why @torontolifemag.bsky.social
longreads.com/2025/08/22/t...
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads
Showcasing stories from Eric McHenry, Michael W. Clune, Patrick Galbraith, Jay Miller, and Harley Rustad.
longreads.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In our Weekly Top 5:
* The legend of the levee boss @theamscho.bsky.social
* Identity in the age of AI @harpers.bsky.social
* The rules of Rave Club @thefence.bsky.social
* Studying philosophy in prison @aeon.co
* French fry why @torontolifemag.bsky.social
longreads.com/2025/08/22/t...
* The legend of the levee boss @theamscho.bsky.social
* Identity in the age of AI @harpers.bsky.social
* The rules of Rave Club @thefence.bsky.social
* Studying philosophy in prison @aeon.co
* French fry why @torontolifemag.bsky.social
longreads.com/2025/08/22/t...
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Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.
August 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.
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Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to
@henrymceric.bsky.social & @theamscho.bsky.social!
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@henrymceric.bsky.social & @theamscho.bsky.social!
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Who Killed the Mercy Man? - The American Scholar
An obscure murder keeps resurfacing in Black story and song
theamericanscholar.org
August 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to
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And the world’s richest man giddily posted about feeding this program “into a wood chipper.” What have we become?
USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
And the world’s richest man giddily posted about feeding this program “into a wood chipper.” What have we become?
Here’s my latest piece for The American Scholar, about a 1909 murder and the song tradition that refused to forget it. Gratitude to Mike Mattison of the Tedeschi Trucks Band for all the help and inspiration.
Who Killed the Mercy Man? - The American Scholar
An obscure murder keeps resurfacing in Black story and song
theamericanscholar.org
August 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Here’s my latest piece for The American Scholar, about a 1909 murder and the song tradition that refused to forget it. Gratitude to Mike Mattison of the Tedeschi Trucks Band for all the help and inspiration.
The final word on prescriptivism.
August 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The final word on prescriptivism.
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Moment Of Silence Followed By Hot Dog Race
July 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Moment Of Silence Followed By Hot Dog Race
Evan McHenry has a headline in the Onion!
July 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Evan McHenry has a headline in the Onion!
Four Loko Folklore
July 14, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Four Loko Folklore
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
Good lord I’ve outlived Jerry Garcia. I need to stop looking these up.
May 18, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Good lord I’ve outlived Jerry Garcia. I need to stop looking these up.
He should have spoken up sooner. I’m sure Trump would have pardoned him.
“President Trump, keep making America great. I’m ready to go,” Glen Rogers, 62, said moments before receiving a lethal injection."
Suspected serial killer shouts out Trump in last words before he's put to death: 'Keep making America great'
Glen Rogers once told police he had killed about 70 people. He was executed by lethal injection Thursday in Florida.
www.nbcnews.com
May 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
He should have spoken up sooner. I’m sure Trump would have pardoned him.