guys, i'm re-reading "catcher in the rye" for the first time since i was like 22...............this book absolutely rips.

been shifting the baby from formula to whole milk and how come every damn 1/2 gallon i buy goes sour after like 2 days, is this some rfk jr shit, what's the deal????

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

the one bar in my neighborhood that has had israeli flags hanging outside since i moved here 1.5 years ago recently took them down and replaced them with new york knicks flags.

under-rated aspect of how slowly most literary journals operate: you can literally not write anything for 2.5 years and still have "new" work that's about to be published 😈

if you've never seen Possession (1981), take some time for it today. two hours of sam neill and isabelle adjani giving some of the best performances ever put to screen, going 100% psycho mode in one of the most tensely bizarre feel-bad movies of all time. RIP sam neill.

we took the baby out of daycare for this month to save a little money which means i am at home by myself with her for all of july. please come hang out with me it is day 6 and i am going insane.

if any of you psychos are coming to skullfest next month......my band is opening up for power-violence legends dropdead 😈

recent bangers that i have rented on dvd from my local library:

hmmmmmmmmmm yes i believe this will be the summer that i get really into japanese hardcore

a couple months ago, i got asked to be part of this interview series, "How I Make Money Writing"... spoiler: i don't really make any money from writing! mostly i talked about how unionizing my university is the only reason i've been able to survive in this world. open.substack.com/pub/howimake...

i'm 80 pages deep on this horror comic that i've been goofing around with for the past couple years and i need to figure out how to end it.

For months, a community of hundreds of Haitian immigrants living in Charleroi has been anxiously awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court decision on an immigration program affecting their ability to live and work legally in the U.S. On Thursday, that opinion was finally announced.

tonight tonight smashing pumpkins

i wonder what percentage of teenagers with misfits t-shirts know all of the lyrics to "bullet"

a few weeks ago, my 1yr-old baby noticed the giant gorilla mask that sits on the shelf in my closet. at first, she was nervous & scared when i put it on. now, first thing every morning, she demands that we hold her up to see it & screams with delight when she gets to pull it down and play with it.

this thursday night i will be playing music in the style of hardcore punk

How about this idea: They start using AI instead of storyboard artists in the movies but AI can't do the job so they start hiring storyboard artists again but change the job title to something like storyimage technician, pay them half as much, work them twice as hard, and then the AI makes a PDF

i'm now receiving AI book-marketing scam emails addressed to totally different people who are not me... ...about books that i did not write... ...books that are about a fictional race... ...of huge men... ...called... ...the Hugeman.

strongly recommend @eveninghouse.bsky.social for your book-purchasing needs!

weather is perfect and that first husker dü album is suiting me pretty good rn

Jackass is one of the last truly American expressions of art and it deserves all of its acclaim.

@aaronburch.bsky.social read an essay at this that is uhhhhh in the running for my favorite readings i've ever experienced? for the good of everyone, i hope it gets published soon.

we were cleaning out the book shelves at work the other day and i got to snag a bunch of stuff from the "get rid of it" pile 😈

hey pittsburgh—this is in an hour! aaron and dave are both legends of contemporary indie lit. come drink a beer!

catch-22 by joseph heller

i've seen sidney crosby play a handful of times, at least once against ovechkin. saw dominik hasek play at least once. saw bob burnquist win the vertical at the x-games in the early 2000s.

Tonight! Pittsburgh friends, hope to see you at Stay Gold Books where me and @aaronburch.bsky.social will be reading from our new books and talking indie publishing and lots of other stuff with Jake Maynard. Let's get weird!

My school year is wrapping up fast, so I had time for a slower breakfast, so I reread this breathtaking (troubling? beautiful?) John Jeremiah Sullivan essay about Michael Jackson--"Michael chose his true face. What is, is natural." www.gq.com/story/michae...

there's an episode of the muppet show with alan arkin as the special guest. at the start of the episode, he mistakenly drinks a "mr. hyde" potion. he grows fangs and big bushy eyebrows and spends the entire rest of the episode stomping around, destroying the sets and violently assaulting muppets.

glad to know that the sweet new baby prodigy of the horror world is a real one

Me and @housleydave.bsky.social in Morgantown, Pittsburgh, and Columbus next week! Come see us read, hang out, grab a beer before or after, chat about the west coast and aliens and bigfoot and all kinds of other fun, dumb stuff!

among the better changes in my life since having a baby is that i now spend like a minimum 45 minutes every day just walking around the neighborhood and pointing at dogs and trees and flowers.

Hello friends. As we wrap up work on our first issue we've started to look ahead towards issue 2. We've decided to open up submissions via this form:

this nonsense is really getting out of hand.

i'm playing a hardcore punk rock music concert this weekend

i've been mostly very offline the past couple weeks. it's great! fuckin, talking to your computer? this place sucks!

Doing a quick, short little Midwest tour next month with @housleydave.bsky.social! Here’s info for Pittsburgh. (We’ll be in Morgantown, WV the night before, and at Two Dollar Radio HQ in Columbus, OH the night after; flyers forthcoming.) Excited to hopefully see a bunch of you!

started re-reading "clock without hands" by carson mccullers. crazy how even her worst book is better than every other book.

when there's a construction site and they do the thing where they throw all the trash and rubble from the top floor down a big long waterslide tube and into a big dumpster on the ground...hell yeah

ive hired 4 of my clumsiest dumb ass followers to officiate tonights sabre game, just the worst bumbling fucking imbeciles

found out last night that my book is shortlisted for the saroyan prize 😈 library.stanford.edu/news/shortli...

i deleted this app from my phone so now i only look at it in the evenings on my computer. i'm logging in now to say that if i was weird al, i'd do a parody of jay-z's "big pimpin" but it'd be about diapers and the chorus would go "big poopin / poop and pee / we doin big poopin / with my b.u.t.t."

closing in on 70 pages and i just drew a very important guy

Lawrenceville. Stanton Ave. Caller said a guy in a trench coat is checking door handles. As about 3 or 4 units pull up, they discover it was a politician campaigning door to door.

coming up on 2 years of not really writing at all. kinda bummed, but it's kinda nice, mostly just wish i had any sort of idea for a story.

pittsburghers: the exhibition that's up at brew house on the south side right now has a piece by isabella schubert-jones that is worth making the trip for.

BEAKY BUZZARD