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

Peter Lorre youtu.be/zFC01Ipfo3g?...

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

You’ll never guess who is just an unbelievable master of using metaphor/simile to reinforce voice and character and setting even while showing off her incredible skill at phrasing and imagery. Thats right: it’s Toni Morrison

in 1979, the muppet show did an episode in which guest star dudley moore brings along a musical robot to play song with him. at first the robot is just annoying, but soon it starts replacing the jobs of the musicians in dr. teeth's band.

no war but class war and we’re on the warpath go sabs, happy international workers day, fuck 🧊, free palestine, seize the means of production, and win game 6

From the News Guild. Deep cuts over at the Post-Gazette yesterday, including some 80% of strikers:

thinking about the board game Guess Who. what an incredible game. you get a bunch of guys like Bill and Fred. you pick a guy and then you have to describe each other's guys. brilliant. incredible.

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

lots of shitty AI slop coming across my timeline this morning with the hashtag "synthart." the fuckers are trying to rebrand!

The Flyers had no business winning that game lol

If there is any sense at all in using the term “Great American Novel” then Beloved is the great American novel. I will die on this hill

Camo Penguins jersey is a tough look, just saying

"Novelette" is one of my least face descriptors of writing. I don't wanna read anything called that.

"Some of them fight, some of them run, at the end of the day they’re all illegal, and they’re still deportable." The Butler County Sheriff has arrested as many as 71 people under ICE's 287(g) program. He also applied for $194,500 from ICE. buff.ly/2GCK9SJ

find me meditating deep in my chambers, sending these vibes out into the cosmos: youtu.be/jvPLhYQYxK0?...

killer thrift store find

anyone wanna play me in blokus junior

help save an institution of pittsburgh punk

hands down one of the best things about having a book out in the world has been being able to form these sorts of mutually beneficial relationships with bookshops. @eveninghouse.bsky.social is such a good spot. fantastically curated. if you're in or near buffalo, ya simply gotta get there.

ICE is apparently in Wilkinsburg on Franklin Ave FYI

if you see this......post a monster

i know we're living in a pretty chaotic media climate, but it's insane that a mass hunger strike at a concentration camp that's violating civil and human rights on an enormous scale isn't bigger news.

tired: shower beer wired: shower fudgesicle

After ICE detention, Daphy Michel — a Haitian with a legal active asylum claim — was found unresponsive at a South Shore bus stop and declared dead. Other immigrants fear for their own lives. “It wasn’t fair for a human being to just be found like that.” buff.ly/euq141L

you're all lucky that we live in a technofascist police state that relies on surveillance & data harvesting to felonize all forms of dissent cause otherwise i'd be posting pictures of my baby on here nonstop & you'd all grow very jealous & spiteful of how adorable she is.

NEVER COUNT OUT THE SABRES FROM BUFFALO

the buffalo sabres are in the playoffs for the first time in 14 yrs and they made a playoffs promo video and my mom is one of the people interviewed in it!

feeling extremely lucky and grateful for my book having found its way to @mpershan.bsky.social. it's such a weird, delightful feeling knowing that someone connects with it like this. if you're reading this post.....you should take michael up on his "strongest possible recommendation"!

No, I actually don't need AI to summarize a paragraph... learn to read??

jfc like not even 10 minutes after my original post

ICE notified the Allegheny County Sheriff of 46 "targets" at Pittsburgh courts in 2025, per emails obtained by request. The Sheriff's Office maintains that it does not cooperate with ICE. One ICE email reads "Thank you all very much for your cooperation." buff.ly/aPddJB0

i remember once, yrs ago, before i knew any better, i was arguing with a conservative relative on facebook about gun control, & he said something to the effect of "well cars kill lots of people too, do you think we need to make a bunch of anti-car laws?" and you know what, yes, yes i do.

people should post more skate videos on here