jesse jarnow on Nostr: a thing that i swear began as a jon wurster-as-marky ramone joke that i now see ...
a thing that i swear began as a jon wurster-as-marky ramone joke that i now see everywhere: referring to books as being "on" a publisher as opposed to "from" ("coming june 23rd on penguin"), as if they were albums. or maybe i just never noticed it before he used it.
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