{"id":127019065,"date":"2023-06-16T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T12:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=127019065"},"modified":"2025-06-05T09:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:21:21","slug":"friday-links-i-am-in-the-best-mood-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=127019065","title":{"rendered":"Friday Links: I Am In The Best Mood Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
“…you will say, ‘Kris, I’m not dead, see? I’m right here, buying deodorant without antiperspirant again.'”- Mac Crane, ‘I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself’<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to the Denver Nuggets on winning their first NBA championship. Nikola Joki\u0107 and Jamal Murray are two very cool and creative players, people who play basketball in a fun way. Nice to see that style win. It does make the latest Line Break<\/a>\u2014where Bob, Jos\u00e9 Olivarez, and I predicted a Jimmy Butler Finals MVP\u2014look pretty bad. But did I mention that we were lucky enough to interview Jos\u00e9 Olivarez on The Line Break<\/a>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I\u2019ve Been Reading Lately: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like I said Wednesday, I\u2019m on vacation<\/a>. Very much thought I would have this book finished, but that was overly optimistic. That said<\/em>, this book has grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and thrown me around the room. It\u2019s one of the more lyric novels I can remember reading while maintaining a certain hardness to the prose, and it\u2019s got a narrator I relate to more than any I can remember in a while. I\u2019m talking, as the cover photo to this article suggests, about I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself<\/em> by Marisa Crane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Told in short bursts, this novel unfolds like a series of prose poems, each little segment of a cluster of ideas floating from Point A to Point B to Point C before arriving at some moment of devastation. Our narrator is Kris, widow and new mom who is\u2014along with her infant\u2014marked as members of a permanent underclass in a dystopian police state. Kris is a grieving mess but also insanely kick-ass, just makes herself become a good parent despite grieving the loss of her partner (who actually carried the kid). The way certain aspects of parenting are brilliantly rendered\u2014at one point Kris says she is \u201cappalled by [the kid\u2019s] wisdom\u201d in a scene where the kid realizes no one cares if you can play guitar\u2014really pulls at the Dad Of A Young Child in me. And really, it feels weird to say given the heavy subject matter, but Kris is just cool<\/em>, just a narrator I really like hanging out with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LINKS! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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