"Roads" in the wild. Just a little too late for March Sadness! 🪦

Congratulations to the victors, and well-played all around! Excited to see Myers moving forward but disbelievingly disappointed that BSB is out the first round. GG @doritoshangover.bsky.social!

March Sadness Round 2 has been full of personal surprises and hard decisions, and I still don't know what to do about the Sade vs. Third Eye Blind match. 😭

"What is religious belief, if not a response to negative space?" This essay is going to be a hard one to beat. (Song too.)

First round 1 vote cast! "It’s too dark to make out such detail, so I nod when reminded that every leaf in a compact mirror hits a target that we can’t see—at least on those occasions, as the song loops over and over again..." Sorry, Celine.

This is one of the most beautiful videos I've ever seen: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/s...

The Malahat Review is accepting submissions for the Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling issue: malahatreview.ca/issues/233-i...

My next NEA project proposal:

This might be my new favorite hermit crab: "Let There Be More Spices," Carrie Gaffney: brevitymag.com/current-issu...

I have incomplete thoughts but am a fan of this essay in hngrmtn.org/issues/hunge...

I usually find deadlines helpful/motivational, but what stops me from writing sometimes is that I'm not working on what I 'should' or 'need' to be doing. I'm trying to set aside a time in my day I can pursue whatever tangent—I guess I'll see how it goes!

"Maybe the melancholic's problem is desire to / remember everything. When everything has / already been decided, the pictures already taken." Victoria Chang (BRICK no.114)