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Update on Superopinionated today, a repost of something I wrote for my old newsletter in late 2016...also if you're a newsletter subscriber, sorry for wandering away from that, I'm just back to blogging again I think. https://write.as/superopinionated/repost-welcome-to-the-shoreline Good morning fellow #xoxofest attendees! If you woke up with a sore throat, feeling run down, etc etc and are assuming it's con drop or from talking non-stop, might I interest you in also taking a Covid test for the next 3-5 days? Not trying to be a doomer, just trying to keep us all informed and safe. Hope we can all get some rest and recover! New post, a career retrospective as I attend the last XOXO: https://write.as/mrcourtneystanton/we-used-to-clap-for-failure-now-we-dont-clap-at-all Back in Boston and it’s good to see the Green Line Extension is definitely real and being treated seriously by the city 😂  If you’re in Portland and a fan of Shakespeare and/or shows that are Full of Gender and/or my friend 🥺👉👈 Tickets are now live for The Canon Shakespeare Company’s production of As You Like It, in which I am (among other things) both Dukes Senior and Frederick. The run is April 13 - 30th! Boosts welcome ✨ Oh hey, it's another issue of my newsletter SUPEROPINIONATED POWER CLUB, and this time it is entirely preoccupied with a review of "Glass Onion" (full of spoilers, also spoilers aren't a thing): https://mailchi.mp/89d80f4366c0/disliking-popular-things-glass-onion This year I wrote, edited, designed, and self-published two chapbooks of poetry. They’re very different in inspiration and tone, but I’m pleased with how both turned out. You can buy both of them at Portland’s own queer-owned bookstore, Bishop & Wilde: https://www.shopbishopandwilde.com/used-books/genre/zines “Schatzi” is unapologetically romantic and what happens when I get a crush on someone who isn’t interested (apparently). Lines from this collection have been used successfully by others when chatting on dating apps — probably the finest outcome possible for modern love poetry. “Patience” is my perspective on being a front-line medical worker throughout 2020. I’ve been told by some other people in healthcare it accurately captures that feeling for them too, but I’m not speaking for anyone else. I wrote this blog post in October 2011, when Google announced it was forcing Google Reader into Google Plus. The more things change, etc etc. Some loose thoughts that I’m typing on my phone directly into the Post! box and letting hang next to each other, possibly only related in apophenia: - the mental conditioning that has resulted in many people who create social media platforms (including Mastodon) to value “engagement” over everything is a deep distortion of what healthy, human(e) communities need to survive let alone thrive - an instance is at its best when it feels like a good dinner party - remember Twitter canoes, those threads of discussion that would grow so long as people got added you eventually couldn’t talk because the characters of the usernames limited what could be said? A healthy platform limits itself. Also a good party knows when to end. I started writing this in late April and finished it over the weekend. One of those things I wish I didn’t feel the need to write. My Instagram is where my poetry generally shows up, hence the tag. Once again I have defied the gods and written another newsletter. The biggest news in this one is that my poetry zine, Schatzi, is now available for purchase online at Bishop & Wilde! https://www.shopbishopandwilde.com/used-books/schatzi-courtney-stanton https://mailchi.mp/647896388a98/public-bathrooms-prayer-and-revolvers After almost 8 years of writer’s block, I’m back writing again, only instead of essays about pop culture, I seem to have produced…a zine of love poetry. ❤️🔥 Just in time for Valentine’s, “Schatzi” is a short story in 20 poems about unanswered love. https://mrcourtneystanton.gumroad.com/ If you’re local to PDX it’s stocked at Floating World and Zuckercreme, otherwise the link above is the best way to buy! This is your regular reminder that Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable is coming to Netflix later this month. You have approximately 3 weeks to wrap up any remaining chores or projects and lay in supplies before having your shit rocked. ⚓️💜✋💚☮️ Someone made the nurses at one of the Covid-heavy hospitals custom stickers. This is the kind of thing that if they put it in a movie I’d be like “that seems a bit much” I’m volunteering today at one of the local vaccination mega sites aka the airport. It’s my understanding I’ll be one of the people actually drawing the vaccine and putting shots into arms, which is very exciting for me because I am 100% doing this for selfish reasons, namely: I need to do some community health services that are not “tend to people who are most likely going to die within 2-4 weeks”, which has been...the vibe for the last year. I got my first dose of the vaccine on 12/31 (it knocked me on my ass, it was like Baby Covid). PPE shortages continue and it’s starting to take a toll on everyone at work, as seen in the tone of the bathroom graffiti. Haven’t updated in a while because I at long last got Covid. (I’m fine now.) This gas station keeps their bathroom keys in a bucket of food grade sanitizer and fishes them out with tongs. I asked if they were going to keep using it after the pandemic. “Everyone asks that, and I’ve asked the boss if we can. I like it.” @courtney gas station bathroom keys are one of a very few objects that really do deserve this level of scorched-earth sanitation Decided with Darius just now that the sequel to We Bought a Zoo would be people trying to look up facts about the first movie using Alexa and Alexa misinterpreting and buying a zoo instead. My local jazz station (KMHD, they’re the best) just played this live Nat King Cole recording from 1960 and it is *incredible*. It was a late show in Vegas (2am start time) so the crowd is mostly other entertainers who are also working during normal performance times. If you are familiar with popular music in the late 50s, this is the equivalent to a very thorough diss track. Even if you just know who Elvis is...my god. 12
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