Just asked @bethydirty.bsky.social if she wanted to go for walk with the same tone and volume I use to ask our dog the same question. Now they both want to go for walks.

I am begging Nationals TV to stop running Vote No ads.

Thrilled that I made it to the big table this year after making my debut last year. My flash "Coffee Talk with Mr. Ackshually" will pop up on June 13 at 2:10 am BST (thankfully, 9:10 pm on June 12 for this East Coast 'Murican).

For those scoring at home, I wrote this micro in Beth’s writer boot camp class at the Writer’s Center. It’s the best.

Happy to see this micro memoir go up on Five Minutes today.

I’m happy to have this micro creative nonfiction piece crack the lineup of the new issue of Club Plum. clubplumliteraryjournal.com/jim-parisi/

I've got a flash story up today (in pink ink) in Pink Ochre, another stunning-looking new literary magazine. pinkochre.wixsite.com/pink-ochre-m...

I am extremely proud to have contributed 5 of those guest essays and to have played a small role in helping shepherd along a goodly number of Michele's essays, and to have gained a friend. I am walking around in a daze, mourning the news of her (totally understandable) decision to shut down IHTOV.

I just invented a new drink, the noppuccino. Directions: fill the reservoir of your coffee maker the night before, turn on coffee maker in the morning, watch the clear liquid fill the carafe, notice the filter sitting in the dish drainer, decide it’s too early for a noppuccino, make coffee.

Teenage waistband.

Just made an Italian flag pizza. The phone lines are open.

I've got like one one thousandth the followers that Michele has, so this is like pouring a Dixie cupful into a waterfall. But if every one of the people who follows me were to read this story, they will have read a great piece of micro fiction. tldr: another good one from Michele you should read.

I've got a new story out today in the inaugural issue of Wandering Lights, a really beautifully laid out magazine. My story is on p. 19 but check out the whole issue. wanderinglightsmag.com/archive

I managed to eke out 119 words for this wonderful collection, but I'm most excited about my friend Liam making his debut in the leadoff spot.

My first print publication, thanks to @ihavethatonvinyl.com

something a little different at IHTOV today: IHTOV editor @jpariseye.bsky.social writes about his year working with me for IHTOV. but it's more about a wonderful friendship that bloomed from working together. i feel honored by this piece ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/perfo...

Do yourself a favor and take five minutes away from the bad news to read this great story by Michele.

Just found out my first-ever published #microfiction won story of the week. fiftywordstories.com/2026/01/23/j...

The major flaw in my brilliant strategy of one story submission a day is the subsequent one rejection a day. I should have thought this through.

I have a micro story up today on 50-Word Stories. fiftywordstories.com/2026/01/23/j...

You know you’re at a protest in DC when you see signs pointing out the need for IGs.

I'll be there. But is it really walking out if you're unemployed. I am going to manage to have imposter syndrome at a protest.

Big crowd at an anti-ICE rally in DC.

Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations

For some reason MPD rolled up with sirens and lights for a peaceful protest of 50-60 people in Sherman Circle. They are parked around the circle, just hanging out with a few Park Police.

Al Michaels is a tough listen.

My secret plan for 2026, beyond abolishing ICE, is to get authors I otherwise respect to use “bemused” correctly. Neither plan is off to a good start, but I shall persist.

I just got a "You up?" spam text, and, as someone who has been married since 1992 and never got to participate in that particular social ritual, I have to say it made me feel special, even as I deleted and reported spam.

I am at defcon “just decided to give the dog a bath” level of writing procrastination.

My friend Michele had a story published, and it’s got a chance to win a contest! Check it out. It’s great.

Saw It’s a Wonderful Life in the theater this morning and noticed for the first time the atrocious punctuation in Clarence’s inscription in the copy of Tom Sawyer. A colon and an em-dash? No comma after “Love.” I want a recall on those wings.

today on IHTOV: today is the first anniversary of the day IHTOV launched. i wrote a little something about the experience, the joy, and the work. thanks a million for making IHTOV a success ihavethatonvinyl.com/liner-notes/...

exciting IHTOV news: i made a zine! in honor of the first anniversary of IHTOV (12/17), i put together ten stories from the site chosen by a small committee. they are stories that really bring home the idea of what our records mean to us 1/3

Very excited that my story cracked the stellar lineup of The Good Life Review Pushcart nominees. (Pro tip for other nominees: if your spouse tells the server at your favorite Italian restaurant that you are celebrating your nomination, you get free gelato. It's a rule or a bylaw or something.)

I am spending my morning trying to get a story about my dog constantly licking her ass to make sense in 100 words. Ask me anything.

@barbarals.bsky.social, an esteemed member of my writing group, had her first-ever submission published today. (I’m not the one who’s jealous. You are.) Check it out.

Marry the woman who blasts the Posies while she’s taking a shower. Those are my only words of wisdom for today.

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Thirty-four years and twelve days into our relationship, @bethydirty.bsky.social springs the news on me this morning that she had a cat when she was a kid. What other secrets has she been hiding from me?

Really happy to have this story find a place in The Bluebird Word after three-and-a-half years of (much-deserved) rejections and (much-needed, sometimes drastic) rewrites. thebluebirdword.com/the-original...

From me earlier today. I’m like ten likes or reposts from a free cheesesteak or whatever it says in my contract.

I've got an essay up on the incomparable I Have That On Vinyl, about an album that's been there for @bethydirty.bsky.social and me since the very beginning.

And then they came for the Nazi tattoos, and I said nothing, because I didn't have a goddamn Nazi tattoo.

IHTOV has published almost 400 essays, Q&As, and interviews in less than a year. i did that. me. i'm really fucking proud of myself for not just starting this project but actually sticking with it, and making it good

The 5- and 6-year-olds I coach told me at this morning’s softball practice that I need to watch K-Pop Demon Hunters before Halloween. I might be getting too old for this coaching thing.

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

Joe Davis subtly but firmly schooling John Smoltz on the importance of home runs gives me reason for hope in a world gone to hell.

I guess Aaron Judge is pretty good after all.

I wish I had the confidence to stride into situations in which I am fully capable and should be at ease that Bari Weiss displays in taking a job she is not remotely qualified for and in so far over her head they should lay a wreath to mark where she plunged into the water, never to be seen again.

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