May 16th, 2024 May used to be my favorite month, and now it’s the hardest. It’s not fair, which is perfect because my dad spent my childhood preparing and then reminding me that life would never be. I was born on the first of May, she was born on the last, and her day —Continue reading “May”
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Announcement: You Can Do What You Want
May 10th, 2024 Big updates on Brushfire, Jojo, Maple Island, a new short story collection coming out later this month, the event this Saturday, and a little reminder that you can do whatever you want in this life.
Manual Transmission
May 6th, 2024 One of the best parts of sobriety (and there are so many good parts; for example, I remember what happened every day for the past six-and-a-half years for better or, occasionally, for worse) is that most of the lessons I’ve learned while recovering have nothing to do with sobriety at all. IContinue reading “Manual Transmission”
When we meet again in the dark
May 1st, 2024 It’s natural to reflect on your birthday. It’s natural to daydream about your earliest moments, lying on coarse carpet, following the sunlight as it sings through the tiny glass prism your mom hung in the window, leaving stains of every color in the palm of your hand; it’s natural to anxiously dwellContinue reading “When we meet again in the dark”
With Great Stupidity Comes No Responsibility
April 29th, 2024 Human beings are objectively both the most intelligent and stupidest species on the planet and, yes, that includes you. One of my favorite writers, Brian Klaas, wrote yet another phenomenal essay last week about this topic and, while you should read the whole thing, I just want to share the piece thatContinue reading “With Great Stupidity Comes No Responsibility”
Birthday Weekend
April 28th, 2024 To celebrate my upcoming birthday (it’s not today, it’s Wednesday, May 1st, but you already knew that) I went out not once, but twice this weekend. On Friday, I found myself at the Fine Line to see Landon Conrath & friends, holding my own front row all night. The young energy hadContinue reading “Birthday Weekend”
F#(% THE ALGORITHM: A Promise
April 22nd, 2024 A video today about a human being just trying to make it in a human being world. #algorithm
goosebumps
April 16th, 2024 What is scary for you? I’ve been First Ave- and Prince-obsessed the past several months, diving into library books and PBS documentaries and YouTube videos and resurfaced bootlegs. There’s a quote from Prince in an interview (his last) that I can’t stop thinking about; he was lamenting the current state of musicContinue reading “goosebumps”
soft
April 9th, 2024 It’s always curious to me when older people say that kids these days are soft. Isn’t that the point of modern society? Isn’t that the reason we evolve as a species? To let our children be softer, to encourage them to be kinder, to let them be a little gentler than theContinue reading “soft”
FOB!!
April 8th, 2024 I have actually lost count of how many times I’ve seen Fall Out Boy live, but I know when I became a diehard fan: 2005, the year that the album From Under The Cork Tree was released. Like I said in a previous post, FOB is one of the precious few thingsContinue reading “FOB!!”
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