Also ludicrous: lowercase "Sharpie"?!

In college, I sent Mario Vargas Llosa a paper I wrote about one of his novels. (I think my dad suggested I do this ridiculous thing.) Months later I received a brief note from his secretary saying that when he read the paper Vargas Llosa said "This young man understood my book very well."

Lovely. @kellianderson.bsky.social is the first one perhaps the Futura-adjacent type you were asking after the other day?

Me: Yup. You should really listen to yourself sometimes, asshole.

I drove off. Friends later reported seeing him walking through town, wondering what he was doing so far from campus.

Iterations of "quiet, piggy" happen every day, in private, less egregious circumstances. But they're there.

/fin