"Xzibit has planted the smallest bomb inside of a bomb which rests under the floating 2001 Toyota Corolla painted candy red..." the weirdest episode of "Pimp My Ride" you've ever watched, new on hex today from Julián Martinez @martinezfjulian.bsky.social ! 👇

i heard you like bombs inside of bombs inside of cars inside of micros

what's it mean that two of my favorite recent artworks are about bombs in/under cars? Xzhibit #1, @martinezfjulian.bsky.social new today on @hexliterary.bsky.social

Lake Markham closed out the Lo Siento tour at Hammy Wammy. Chili, poems, Chicago weird warmth. Julián Martinez covered the night on Zona Motel 🐐 open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

Chicago legend @martinezfjulian.bsky.social wrote about our evening of ambient music, literature, and chili zonamotel.substack.com/p/dispatch-s...

this reminded me how much i liked gordon lish by @martinezfjulian.bsky.social hexliterary.com?p=2608

We are so honored and excited to present out nominations for Best of the Net this year. Good luck to all of these phenomenal writers, and thank you all for reading and submitting to hex literary!

& "The AUDACITY of the Young" by Sara Vernekar For Fiction: "Ask Me Something" by @mallorysmart.bsky.social "Eduardo" by @martinezfjulian.bsky.social

"I opened my week’s ration of AmericaPlus and swallowed the last tab of blotter paper." A stunner @martinezfjulian.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social

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New short short story out in @xraylitmag.bsky.social today! Shoutout to my friend Tex Gresham for shooting the shit about Forrest Gump with me and telling me to write about it xraylitmag.com/forrest-gump...

we have a terrific 80 word micro by Julián Martinez @martinezfjulian.bsky.social !! i love short pieces that give u a peek into a weirder world -- read this pronto xraylitmag.com/forrest-gump...

I scrolled past this tweet too fast and thought that book in Discipline all the way on the right was BACKSWING by @aaronburch.bsky.social

Julián stays Juliáning, thee 1 percenter atop the pile as far as HAD skull riches go! Julián Martinez “Am I not really me?” I squeezed her with all my might. “No! You’re… the realest you’ll ever be!” https://www.havehashad.com/j0pf1

I enter a fugue state when I MC an event so I loved reading @martinezfjulian.bsky.social’s dispatch from Taylor’s book launch! A wonderful essay in its own right too—the ending made me smile. open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

For Zona Motel, I wrote about my fridge’s meltdown, rough times blending with the good times and trying to stay present for your friends. Plus Chicago’s Logan Square lit scene! This started by covering Taylor’s excellent book launch and became real intimate quick open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

"Ben is a mad scientist, reading brief surreal magic tricks every time he’s on stage. They’re gut-busters, too. Another champion of the work of others, not infrequently handing out books for friends to borrow." @martinezfjulian.bsky.social for Zona Motel ❤️ zonamotel.substack.com/p/dispatch-a...

@martinezfjulian.bsky.social wrote about the reading in Chicago for Agathe, 6:30pm to 7:27 where me, @neonpajamas.bsky.social, Tori Rego and Taylor Thornburg all read, and he made it so much more, capturing a slice of life in all its chaos and tumult zonamotel.substack.com/p/dispatch-a...

Zona Motel ✅ @martinezfjulian.bsky.social ✅ @whistlerchicago.bsky.social ✅ This writing community ✅ Dispatch of our Chicago reading: zonamotel.substack.com/p/dispatch-a... feat. Taylor Thornburg, Tori Rego, @ljabouttown.bsky.social, & @zacharykocanda.bsky.social (who should have been in this pic)

Yooooo! Next call: this Tuesday! July 22. 9pm ET (8pm JMT (Julián Martinez Time). Open for 150 subs. "Tell @martinezfjulian.bsky.social a Bedtime Story" sub call language in alt text and replies.

the legend @martinezfjulian.bsky.social giving me a taste of my own medicine with this erasure bio 😍

this Julián Martinez poem is a little different, yet just as amazing, than I've come to expect from him "See, our lips bend: we are always moving warmthward through and beyond what we forgot we would say: I’m so about being buried together." https://www.havehashad.com/rx442

To celebrate our upcoming wedding, I’m self-publishing a chapbook of love poems for my fiancée, out now, called Another Day of Insane Thinking. She drew the beautiful artwork. $25, shipping included! DM me or reach out to [email protected] to buy a copy! Venmo below ⬇️

We read some poems on a fog-shrouded Lake Michigan. @neonpajamas.bsky.social @martinezfjulian.bsky.social

Dreaming of Greece and the Beatles with Julián Martinez’s dream story, “Be at Leso”. 🎶 🏝️ Only on Afterimages. open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...

New story in @thirtywestph.com today! Big week for dad rock. Yesterday, Springsteen. Now, the ghost of Paul McCartney open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...

just wait til you see their tunnel of love

got that new-new Julián Martinez with piece inspired by Letters to Wendy's & Springsteen, special just for all you sickos! https://www.havehashad.com/otz6d

New piece in @havehashad.com today— inspired by Letters to Wendy’s and Bruce Springsteen. It’s amusement park season, baby! Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for picking this weirdo up and to @prissybippus.bsky.social for brainstorming Springsteen rides with me www.havehashad.com/hadposts/let...

locked myself out of my Twitter account somehow. So, blue sky is my best friend now

Only 3 more (actually, 2? think there’s one forthcoming?) @havehashad.com pubs and you get one of these, @martinezfjulian.bsky.social!

*goes to homepage to post today's piece* *apparently embeddedDJ Khaled voice yells out at me, "ANOTHER ONE!"* Julián Martinez at it again!! "Two dozen evil goons tried to unionize earlier this year, now there are two dozen less evil goons." https://www.havehashad.com/nzz5r

Enjoyed hearing Julián read this last month. Enjoyed reading it myself this morning! Enjoy it yourself, today?

Banger of a flash piece!

New piece in @havehashad.com today! True story! My first lucha. Certainly not my last, but the funnest for sure. Thanks to Crow for picking up this shortie www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

your & all our new fave Julián Martinez back w/, *DJ Khaled voice*, ANOTHER ONE! "We were just taking a break. A commercial break, I said without thinking, but that just made her burst into tears. I realized we’d never watched the cartoons together..." https://www.havehashad.com/p6ki6

new piece in @havehashad.com today!!! I think it’s my favorite piece I’ve written in the last, like, year Honored to have it be in my favorite lit mag, skull Number 10 baby!!! 💀 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/car...

I wish I could write with the kind of joy and abandon @martinezfjulian.bsky.social has. So good! @hexliterary.bsky.social hexliterary.com?p=2608

“I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint… Carver gave me the face he makes on the back of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: an eyebrow-raised smirk that said, ‘give me your best shot.’” @martinezfjulian.bsky.social is back on hex with a wild tale about the student surpassing the teachers! ✍️😤

New story in @bruisermag.com today— it’s about big red buttons and pressin ‘em 🔴 👀🫣 www.bruisermag.com/martinez_noi...

My mother dumped his ashtray onto the conveyor belt he had invented for trash. NO INVENTES by Julián Martinez www.bruisermag.com/martinez_noi...

next week, on the first day of spring, we couldn’t be more excited to have this reading with the brilliant stylings of @sophieklahr.bsky.social, Corey Zeller, @martinezfjulian.bsky.social, & @theoriginalison.bsky.social! see below to sign up, it’s going to be terrific :)