Listening to Gillian Welch

I got on the waitlist for a writing residency in the spring . . . I'm excited!

Abolish ICE

My new book review is live @popmatters.com

My blog has been reposted @goodmenproject.bsky.social!!! Check it out!!!

AAAAND we are officially shut down!

anyway here’s @vivmccall.bsky.social with some extremely good and extremely fucking sobering reporting on the recent surge in random hate crimes directed at trans women in Seattle. Please be careful, everyone. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

New blog!!

Reviewing a vinyl folk music reissue, working on my first film essay ever, writing a blog on some African American Studies readings that changed my life, reworking a book review, looking at other projects on top of my job . . . it's a lot, but I am enjoying it!

Listening to "The Dutchman," Michael (P.) Smith, Chicago folk music great. youtu.be/JyMzAiLWapU?...

guys guys guys guys guys

You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

I'll do this

Anyone else see the irony in Obama complaining about political violence?

ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false. ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.

I have GIGANTIC NEWS: in a NATIONAL communications contest, I got FIRST PLACE in three categories, placing in seven total for published work from 2024 . . . AND tying for Second Place for the most points in the entire contest!!!!!!! I am ecstatic.

I have big news to reveal in about 7 hours . . .

Oppressors fetishize nothing so much as feeling oppressed.

Why does @joshfrmusic.bsky.social treasure this portrait of him by his friend Robert, who has Tourette’s syndrome? Find out in our latest Object-ives flash personal essay, about possessions that have made an impact on us, and learn how you can submit an essay: opensecretsmagazine.com/p/art-friend...

My new flash essay is live!!!

Three HBCUs have had to lock down their campuses today. What about THIS political violence? Where's the condemnation from the right and from the media?

Hey all, I got a flash essay (500-999 words) on an object that means a lot to me accepted for publication! I wrote about a piece of art from a friend . . . more will be revealed.

For all the deserved hate Republican lawmakers are getting for their white supremacy, cissexism, heterosexism, nativism, etc., etc., etc., can we please stop acting like Democrats are sufficiently better?

BBC: "Our study shows that suicide in autistic people is a public health crisis rooted in cracks in the system – gaps & inequalities in access to education, employment, health & social care – through which autistic people are at risk of falling & which contribute to suicide and excess mortality.”

Treating a genocidal fascist regime as representative of Jewish people writ large is patently antisemitic and it’s a world historical scandal that so many Jews have been successfully recruited into such an effort.

Dexter Gordon Quartet "Autumn in New York" youtu.be/ZEo7BK8ftTQ?... #Jazz #JazzSky #JazzMusic #Music #MusicSky #DexterGordon 🎧

What exactly is happening in baseball tonight

"Bluesky is boring." Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually. When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.

And in today's edition of '90s Music I Couldn't Stand Hearing Played to Death But I Love Now, Jewel is amazing!! "Foolish Games," "Hands," "You Were Meant for Me" . . . granted, I was a kid, scornful of a lot of popular music, but she's seriously good and deserves way more credit.

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.

Just to reiterate: GamesBeat has an opening for a writer! If anyone is interested, feel free to DM me! Must be: -Interested in the business of the industry (*very* interested; it's kind of our thing) -Willing to talk about games -Capable of writing good words Sound like anyone you know?

Chet Baker "September Song" youtu.be/wYBGewgVpbI?... #Jazz #JazzSky #JazzMusic #Music #MusicSky 🎧 #ChetBaker #September

20 months off coffee, reading three books and writing a book review of one of them, planning and reading for two other essays, re-memorizing a storytelling piece, and the semester is getting underway. Phew!

If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.

WELP! Looks like I'll be short on rent for September. Any help would be greatly appreciated! 💔💔💔 (Fun story: an editor has ghosted me...)

New blog, new song, all that good stuff joshfrmusic.substack.com/p/the-best-s...

Hey, here's a new one for me: I joined a disability satire news site called The Squeaky Wheel! Hopefully I will have at least one story up in the next couple weeks.

The Coast Guard works for ICE now. Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI. My exclusive for Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Well, I just wrote and submitted one of the most personally painful essays I've ever written. I knew it would be, but it didn't hurt as much as I expected, given that I'd been procrastinating writing something like it for years. I hope it gets accepted.

REVOKE HER AWARDS LIKE HER ASS WAS MILLI VANILLI

Fifteen. Years.

Just submitted a draft of an opinion piece on authenticity politics in country music to a publication . . .

Signal boosting for a family friend. The goal is modest, so if you can spare a bit from the kitty for the kitty …

Wordle 1,518 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

New original song about my grandmother #music #song #family