this is good actually because i have plans to ride my skateboard with friends on sunday afternoon.

"the winner goes to new jersey"

Just send emails. If you're a literary journal, have a website. Your engagement numbers are a sham, man. Get off.

actively, flagrantly judging all of you who use substack.

asking the rattlesnake politely to please come back for this one particular mouse we keep hearing in the ceiling

the other day? wore my Rush shirt to walmart, bought some ant traps

Every stage of “I used to skate”

God bless every publisher who avoids Substack.

very weird to wake up (hours ago, jesus, i'm not a slob) and see people saying nice things and celebrating the good fortune of a st. louis cardinal.

i personally would like to see more novels where the whole thing is just a person living somewhere.

"A spokesman for the Port of San Francisco said the agency has not received complaints since skaters returned and is happy to let them remain." People want people, even / especially if some of those people are pushing around on wheels.

"A spokesman for the Port of San Francisco said the agency has not received complaints since skaters returned and is happy to let them remain." People want people, even / especially if some of those people are pushing around on wheels.

Chicago, Saturday night, Logan Square, let's get weird as hell

you guys ever build a shed in your yard? not hard. i built a carport and i'm at least 35% fem. building a shed is much easier than kickflipping.

forgot to tell you guys that i turned down a Pretty Lucrative contract with a piece of shit AI company and my soul really actually does feel cleaner for it

in this house we celebrate every win with an itty little bit of tequila. just enough to feel god smiling

It's Friday evening and I just sent out a letter I've been writing off and on today. If you'd like to receive this one and future letters, just send me your email addy. No promotions. No links to buy anything. Just letters.

Also, "witnesses" is One Letter longer than "migrants" and more effectively describes the position and role of the men

Just sent off a 15,000-word editorial letter to a client with a novel that's going to absolutely rule. Cannot stress how much I enjoy doing developmental edits for authors, how fortunate I feel to be trusted in this way and hurl myself into their projects.

i'm sorry but these dudes are, what, podcasters? these people whose names you all seem to know?

NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

i got into a bit of an argument last year with a Known Author for arguing that today's college profs absolutely must redefine "cheating" rather than slot LLM-aided essay writing into the same old categories and procedures. professors simply aren't paid for this shit.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Dan Beachy-Quick / @milkweededitions.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/07/12-o...

You have not discovered contemporary masculinity until you've hung out with a radically disparate and intergenerational group of dudes and women and trans skaters hugging and saying I love you after one of us switch heelflips a few steps.

There we go. Now we're talking.

not for nothing, but a good thing about skateboarding contests is everyone pretty much accepts that they're rigged rather than believing in a fantasy of fairness despite a constant deluge of evidence otherwise!

Still curious for any input from presses / authors re: how the small POD run does or doesn't reset the "out of print" title clocks.

another banner day for the first person plural

another banner day for the first person plural

Last night a really fine and generous fella provided me with a copy of my 2009 novel to sign, and the book felt strange in my hand. When I opened it up, the back cover said it was printed in Las Vegas in 2025. Were I someone whose agent always responds to my little questions, I'd ask her about this.

365 day exposure, one year in a pinhole camera, 7.4.25 to 7.5.26 #solargraphy #pinholephotography #altprocess

late friday night is a good time to share a genuine masterpiece of the form.

late friday night is a good time to share a genuine masterpiece of the form.

I meant to share the link to that zine. Here it is: millionexperiments.com/zines/50-way...

skateboarding!

An honor to be on the editorial board of SAUCE, "A DIY journal dedicated to the cultural, social, aesthetic, and athletic contributions of skateboarding." Submissions open now: www.saucejournal.org

Also, Skateboarding and Urban Cultural Ecologies (SAUCE), a new "DIY journal dedicated to the cultural, social, aesthetic, and athletic contributions of skateboarding," is now open for submissions. www.saucejournal.org

i am just coughing over and over again until "skateboarding" tumbles onto the table and you people give it a good, sustained look

sent out a letter. gleefully, i have no link to share for it. let me know if you'd like to read it along with letters to come.

sent out a letter. gleefully, i have no link to share for it. let me know if you'd like to read it along with letters to come.

man holzer is such a skater, it's so rad

fun recent game in our house starts when i pause the music or movie or whatever and turn to my wife to ask, "what part of the upcoming Rush concert are you MOST excited about?"

Children of the Sun (New Deal)

robbie williams ass nation

Once you have experienced the feeling of being able to publish whenever you want to, about whatever you want, for whoever you want, you may never want to do it any other way. I enjoy being published by other people too, but it usually has less direct benefit overall.

i do not appreciate when someone presumes to say how close i think i am to the abyss!

Sean Cliver on Jackass is perfect: "As friends, we found a loophole in reality and went on to traverse a chaotic cartoon landscape of absurdities in the pursuit of laughter that went, I think, well beyond any of our wildest dreams."

oh man, you know who else might recognize this playbook? the plant biologists who developed GMO crops only to face pure and totally unscientific roadblocks at every step of the way, thereby killing technology that would sure be helpful as drought and climate disaster take hold of the whole globe!

State Champ is a hell of a ride, man. Hilary is fearless.