One my fav places to write serious and rugged essays about the writing life and literature is the great @lithub.com.web.brid.gy and it's always a pleasure writing for @jonnydiamond.bsky.social and crew. Consider becoming a member! I know my mom did. lithub.memberful.com/join

I'm an ocean lifeguard. Anyone in the L.A. area have an event that would enjoyone of our iconic red trucks, a couple of lifeguards, a booth, and a few hours of us explaining junior guards, beach safety, and how to become a full-fledged ocean lifeguard for the best agency in the world? Let me know!

I am excited to share that the New York Times put my college radio story on page one of today’s style section!

I love college radio and I wrote about my favorite station for The New York Times... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...

What are people's favorite college radio stations? Emphasis on non-commercial, non-NPR, music-focused. cc: @whetmoser.com

Hey mom, I’m in the paper!

I wrote about the way I drive now, which is slow, for the New York Times Mag: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/m...

Oops forgot about this place again

A line I just re-encountered: "'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."

Sometimes I am confused by the people of Los Angeles. Then I remember that everyone is stoned, is something I first thought to myself in 2014

I forgot this place existed, ooops

Vibe

Alert! Roving mud puddle terrorizing a little corner of California via @themorningnews.org www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...

It used to be so depressing when really lazy students used Wikipedia. Now that seems so quaint

If you have any questions, call (334) 844-4244

Nations clash, rulers spied, a man ate a human heart. Everyone watched a bullfight. We, aghast, furiously tried to polish a beautiful stone

If "Smooth" by Santa feat Rob Thomas was the only song you could ever hear again would you give up on music entirely or listen forever to Smooth by Santa feat Rob Thomas???

A genuine thrill in midlife in Los Angeles is moving over for a motorcycle on the freeway and having that motorcyclist lower a hand and give you a cool acknowledgment for how cool you are

My favorite mag writer (Elif Batuman) profiling my favorite newish-to-me novelist (Murata) is fucking RADDDDD: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Check out how the 'LA Times' packages the 30 best novels of the last 30 years. (I wrote up their pick for Number One): www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I did a really hard thing

It's bad but it's gonna get so much worse

In 11 years of riding the bus in Los Angeles I’ve never seen someone read a paper copy of the New York Times. Today is that day.

Nuked our Amazon Prime and embracing the challenge of sourcing all the crap I always buy so easily

Wish I still worked at The Village Voice c. 2005

I just learned that there is a thing called a holistic dentist

Before these fuckers do something truly no turn back horrible isn’t it time for some sort of complete national strike?

The protest I was at yesterday made it onto KTLA! You can see me, bottom right, in the opening montage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTb2... #teslatakedown

Great protest at the Tesla dealer today! Bigger turnout and more consistent honks of support from passerby. On the way back I saw a dickhead woman with a Cybertruck parked in front of a hydrant, getting a ticket, and she was yelling at the meter maid, but everyone was cheering and it was delicious

Duterte lands at The Hague while @mariaressa.bsky.social lands the cover of @rollingstone.com. Justice is still possible in this world. #HoldTheLine

I keep thinking about The Jungle and The Octopus and the inevitable way we're on a course to go to the grocery store and all we'll have is green sausage and rat shit bread

Go to a protest at a Tesla dealership. You’ll feel better.

Sell your Tesla! I attended a protest last week and will go again tomorrow and I like yelling this at people driving them. I also have been flyering them when I spot one parked in my hood and it feels so good

TikTok Convinced Me To Vacuum My Mattress, What Came Next Was Disgusting

Big if true

Fuck armageddon, this is hell

Pretty grim

9. The entire myth of Musk’s genius and power is predicated on his “net worth” — which is NOT a net worth. It’s just a perception of the value of his companies. The cars already suck. Change the perception of Tesla and his market cap tanks—and eventually his “genius” and aura and power tank too.

If you’re a rich liberal who hates Elon Musk but still drive a Tesla: what are you doing? You can afford to sell at a loss and get another car. Take a fucking stand here, no matter how much you like the car.

Attended a raucous and super-satisfying anti-Tesla, anti-Musk protest in West L.A. today. So much supportive honking!!! I wore my Fuck Trump hat. Hell yeah

Tried to google the word count of On the Road.

Reminder: Email your heroes and maybe they'll write back. It's always nice to hear from someone. Don't be shy. (The guy in my case wrote back today and even said he liked my stuff, which is maybe him just being polite...)

And can you believe Brody threw his gum at that lady???

I can’t deal with all these monkeys -my teen on the Oscars

I am once again asking Willy Staley to join this website

All the Federal employees should send the dumbasses the same email that basically is nonsense. A unified response to a pointless exercise

i have invented a system that will allow you to send an email to your own ass

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

Just a coyote sitting on my patio, staring off looking majestic, all while it rains