In his speech, Franklin argued that the Constitution would last unless—or until—“the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.” Via @thefp.com www.thefp.com/p/things-wor...

Lit mags are opening again. Mine is the essay in the dark coat! #litmags #writing #publishing

“I work in the West Wing, you Pepperidge Farm ad motherf*ckers.” —Jonah Ryan, Veep

PBS book show "Between the Covers" gives FLORIDA PALMS a nice little shout-out for their Summer Series. Thanks Oline Cogdill for the nice words! I so appreciate it! #pbs #joepan #floridapalms #debutauthor #crimebooks @pbs.org @simonbooks.bsky.social

We #GenX can't catch a break this week. Malcolm, Ozzy and Hulk? We get it--we're all do-nothing slackers. Just keep your damn hands off the cast of "Facts of Life," pls thx

Amen. I teach English Comp at a comm college. Why won’t universities at least draft position statements that both acknowledge AI’s utility & role in professional life and also state there may be classes in which critical thought is the point? @meghanor.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

I leave the tiniest of doors a little bit open for these. But not today, Pringles.

We will never not need Hanif. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/XC8Qyj

It's this week's "Memoir Monday" newsletter, featuring: Sofi Stambo, @tkdano.bsky.social, Catherine Hiller, Kristina Kasparian, Sheila Heti, Lilly Jay, Sayuri Ayers, @joshmccolough.bsky.social, @courtneykocak.bsky.social memoirland.substack.com/p/a-passel-o...

Really proud to have a new essay out in Witness about growing up amid child abduction panics of the 80s. How many of you #GenX got your fingerprints taken in case you were abducted & they had to ID your body? #GenerationX #litmags #authors witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/issues/winte...

Now is the exact time for nostalgia —back to a time when store managers could wield baseball bats at unruly customers. Let us never forget. #genx #80s youtu.be/mzfuo94KCe8

Celebrating two full days in normal sinus rhythm. #IYKYK

Been here for a while now @chrislhayes.bsky.social

I’m currently reading a book called “Anticipating Walks.”

Really captures the odd craft of writing when you have no "public" that is clamoring for your next...whatever. lithub.com/in-defense-o...

I cropped my family out of this picture b/c Guster whipping his ears around like a model flipping hair...

Three days, three rejections, three separate pieces. If it weren’t so compulsively satisfying, I’d be more upset. 333 | 333 | 333

This comes out tomorrow. !!!! !!!

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Guided by Voices 40th Anniversary concert in Dayton this past weekend. Herein lies GenX--perfectly discontented and always ready to rock.

My surprise that the months old Pepperidge Farms Cinnamon Raisin bread is still soft/good is only eclipsed by my horror about what I'm putting into my body. Still...tasty when toasted.

Dear god what happened to us? Did something happen to us? Am I the only one left???? Should I tell...Justin E.H. Smith I'm still here? https://harpers.org/archive/2023/09/

Sentinel... the birds are on notice

And probably best to heed this review of me/my class on RateMyProfessors: "[I]f you don't attend class or put in the work, you may struggle a little." No truer words...

Things are about to get real adjunct-y real quick. 🤓

Taking the Kid back to UMich tmro for their sophomore year. Every bit the “sophomore” as evidenced by what will now be called The Summer Of Perceived Parental Stupidity

This has been an exceptional summer for library writing. Have completed essays on child abduction epidemics (that didn't happen), moles (the diggy diggy kind), barbarism, lucid dreaming and a nearby bridge that has been struck +45 times. Now...what to do with these... (??!)