𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 (@shagbark

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@shagbark_hick

"The Vagrant King of Upstate New York" Find my long-form writing at Hickman's Hinterlands at shagbark.substack.com

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Έγινε μέλος May 2021

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𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗
@shagbark_hick
16 Ιουλ 2025
Sometimes I wake up and I still can't believe my profoundly good fortune. Wasn't that long ago that I was a bachelor with no prospects, broke, miserable, quite certain I'd die a recluse. Twitter changed that. You people changed that. So please accept my heartfelt gratitude:
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗
@shagbark_hick
3h
Gents, do not get shaky hands when dealing with land. If you're a buyer -- do not hesitate. Shoot your shot TODAY. Because just the time your mind settles after so much hand-wringing, it'll have sold. I say this for a reason. Just lost out on a parcel, now I'm kicking myself.
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗
@shagbark_hick
3h
One of the happiest chapters of my life took place in a squatter settlement in the Sonoran Desert in California. Was incredibly tan, walked 10+ miles every day, bathed in a hot spring, lived off oranges, dates, hot dogs, salsa, and Tecate beer. Read a dozen books a month. Rose
Caveman
@caveman984
4h
Απάντηση στον χρήστη @JoshRainerGold
Honestly being a bum in California is probably better than working in pennsylvania
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗
@shagbark_hick
4h
Very bad idea for a writer to live somewhere that is too beautiful. A writer should move to a noisy motel room just off the Jersey Turnpike -- not the Adirondacks. Because up here words seem pointless. I'd prefer to write total silence, or isolation, or sublime emptiness. But in
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@shagbark_hick
30 Ιουλ
It's currently fashionable to hate winter, complain about the snow, etc, but I don't think it's going to last. Really, it wasn't that long ago that people weren't quite so precious about snow and overcast and all that. Automobiles and 9-to-5 jobs have certainly made winter