some news! you guys can send out your emails to the people who want to read them. you don't need substack.

Ryan's been making these meditative and just extremely lovely videos about skateboarding and life in the desert, life in Eagle Rock, and this new one is really, really that (lovely)

when it snows in new york it snows on all of us

Sent one of these off just now after having a real fine time writing it. It should perhaps not be such a marvel to find ways of writing that are not arduous or taxing, and yet.

If you're yelling about hockey this morning AND planning to go to AWP next week, come to "Game Changer: Literary Queer Sports Writing!" Friday, March 6 at 10:35 a.m. at the Baltimore Convention Center.

writing your substack post while wearing meta glasses and polymarketing straight into cataclysm, nice.

This will be the fifth of the Anything at All readings, whereby skaters, many of whom do not write and would never consider attending much less giving a literary reading, engage in a literary reading for a room full of skaters. It's the best night of the year and this year's lineup is wonderful.

friends,

friends,

MD...he's a skater. These are great.

When in an interview long ago I mentioned Michael as a polestar, an inspiration for me, he called me out of the blue (I still have his message saved) & for hours shared stories, wisdom & advice with me. May your memory be a blessing Michael Silverblatt. It already is www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Bookworm's Rules | Reading advice from Michael Silverblatt biblioklept.org/2026/02/16/t...

Agree, but let's go ahead and cut "college professors," "students," and "seminar room," and say "anyone can give to anyone, including themselves" instead

friends...best options these days for submitting a short work of literary horror?

didn't sleep much, got a little twisted in the old noggin. went skateboarding. recalled the world beyond the noggin.

i started a business with my friend five years ago this month and we're still standing heaux! i'm coming to chicago this weekend to party about it we made a zine to give out and bought a bunch of coffee and snacks from our homie's palestinian bakery. you can come if you like ❤️

I do feel compelled to mention that there was a time when meaningless people uttered awful things and we simply were not alerted to it, that we've made "look at this asshole" into a regular fixture of our days, and that perhaps doing this to ourselves, to one another, is *super* within our control.

concerned some of you might have missed this. it's very good.

look i am not sorry

If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286

wow hey the rich people are sure failing us, huh

Thinking about literary “hype,” I shared some practical tips for writers publishing a first book. But the most important advice is this. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/some-thoug...

somewhat small and fairly massive poem on #smallpoemsunday

Currently querying agents about a new novel, so if you know or are one of those & want to read a book that includes powerpoint presentations, horrible geese-based accidents, Elizabethan dialog, formal proofs of the existence of fathers, and a rewritten version of Hamlet involving coyotes, hmu

Roosevelt Institute Fellow Jess Calarco really zooms right the hell away from skateboarding here and back to motherhood, but if anyone wants to discuss a 60-year experiment in unorganized play that equally centers the developing individual self and the group in which that self exists, holler.

great argument here for avoiding organized sports and buying a skateboard instead.

it has come to my attention that some of you are using AI for anything

What do we want? TRANS NEWS! When do we want it? 2026!! We're down to the last few days of our 2026 fundraiser, and we've got less than $5000 left to raise, but we still need your help to raise it.

i'm in the first writing group of my life. it's with two extremely lauded and award-winning women writers and one pretty lauded woman writer who is likely to win an award soon. i am terrified of these three women who are my writing group, it's so rad. 5,000 words they want. i'm actually shaking.

very cool and handsome of @burialmagazine.bsky.social to publish my tiny, furious poem

i'm a big @klooky.bsky.social fan. today on @burialmagazine.bsky.social burialmagazine.neocities.org

sent out a letter this morning and hell yeah, three or four typos at least

favorite poet strikes again burialmagazine.neocities.org/bluenomatter...

a whole lot of you out there owe skateboarding a giant wet & sloppy thank you for jackass.

Federal agents kill again; gunmen still at large: defector.com/federal-agen...

hey do you have any surplus money, any at all? are you living in any kind of comfort whatsoever, maybe safely at a distance from the city where our government is currently facing a heroic and beautiful opposition? please give what you can.

we are already inside the violence.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

this is not that, exactly, but i want to add that by having my casual, nonpromotional writing go directly to email addresses, by writing letters to people rather than "newsletters" to "followers," i'm finding myself suddenly part of a nourishing exchange of writing and feeling with actual strangers

data for pro skaters weirdly unavailable

look for the novelists.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

You can of course change the text here to alert your reps that you will no longer vote for anyone who is not actively working to dismantle and abolish ICE.

among my favorite writers for critical / emotional responses to art objects...

"as regards art, it is well known that some of its peaks by no means correspond to the general development of society; nor do they therefore to the material substructure, the skeleton as it were of its organization." Marx "works of art exist. how are they possible?" Lukacs

on sundays we post clips

The St. Louis Cardinals are pretty clearly going to pitch themselves as underdogs this season and already my lips are pulled back and I'm inhaling through my teeth, eyes very narrow, whole body sort of tight with uh-oh feeling.

“Whatever aesthetics we espouse, we are all closet traditionalists in our expectations—and these must be shelved.” (Sven Birkerts)

this is why i come to bluesky, this shit right here