Tuesday vibe

Whelp.

Sunday night vibe.

Sunday evening vibe.

Sunday vibe.

REGIME CHANGE 🇺🇸

Three months on this novel. Some days I only wrote a handful of sentences, but I've been working steady. Still don't really know what it is, but it's growing. Eventually it will reveal itself. Right?

Rewatching to get ready for part 2

Just finished The Shock Doctrine, and I can’t recommend it enough. If you want to understand the last 50 years of US foreign and (now) domestic policy, this will shine a light.

what is "the beginning" of a story? it's the thing you work on the entire time

I came across this quote from Langston Hughes. His day was a long time ago & he's still saying the Black experience of America is fascism. I share to show fascism has been in discourse to refer to here a while. Trump is not its inventor. You will not be rid of it without doing right by Black people.

Friday vibe

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Might be a good time to remember the executions of George Floyd and Philando Castile.

Vibe, cont.

Thursday vibe

Finally catching this show based on a favorite @victorlavalle.bsky.social book.

Please remember that Obama helped build this. Biden helped build this. This is not a partisan issue.

60 k on the novel this morning.

“A perfect Day for Bananafish” still kills.

Today’s hymn: www.youtube.com/watch?v=obOr...

Being a Gen X American means watching your country’s illegal invasion of a foreign country and saying, “I’ve seen this before and before that and before that.”

Saturday vibe

Let people like what they like, sure, but watching people talk about Stranger Things and Welcome to Derry makes me feel like I’m actually insane.

55k on the novel.

Oof.

Elder Sign!

I spent the morning thinking about a lot of the indie bookstores that I love and wanted to ask you to possibly do the same. What are your favorite bookstores? Where can you preorder your 2026 books from? Here are some of mine: bit.ly/3L99iKM

You know who you are.

Helper.

Tuesday vibe

50k on the novel.

She helping.

Moss Garcia has negative body hygiene.

Star Trek Catan, with a naked Molerat standing in for the Klingon Battle Cruiser.

Tuesday vibe.

I like seeing @joshrountree.bsky.social's cover as that header image. and, honored to be included: