Sometimes you should just shut more of the fuck up.

Jazz writing whatever that means at any given point is allergic to long form.

Sharing some news: I have received a Macdowell and a VCCA fellowship for my new book Black Composition. I still find that writing is the balm. Even in this age. If you’d like to help defray some of the small travel expenses please DM me for my cashapp/Venmo info. Thank you!

Five years ago. Thomas Chatterbox:

The US’ obsession with true crime is about the US’ obsession with the police. This isn’t hard.

join us tonight!

⭐TOMORROW⭐ Joshua Myers, author of Of Black Study, speaks at Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books 🗓️Thurs, May 15 ⏰7 pm 📍Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books 🎟https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uncle-bobbies-x-joshua-myers-bedour-alagraa-of-black-study-tickets-1330577967519?aff=oddtdtcreator

Hi skeeters. Bye skeeters.

Amanopour just repeated Mariame’s “hope is a discipline” on air.

I be forgetting about the skeeters.

I’m in tears.

I mentioned this to a bookstagrammer and they responded that my algorithm shouldn’t be showing me their content since it’s for fiction writers. lol what

“Sir, we are banning you from every nfl stadium for life.” Me: thanks?

I am so glad I am of a generation who doesn’t feel the need to support whatever white supremacists hate. That burden must feel heavy.

None whatsoever.

You can’t reimagine no fuckin American flag. We’ve been through this.

Praying for the safety of every last New Orleans resident tomorrow in what is going to be an "unprecedented" police and military presence at the Super bowl. Particularly praying for everyone with the courage in the current climate to go to this demonstration. **Thank you.**

We are in a great age of music but people keep distracting me with pop.

Why does the Eaton hotel smell like vomit right now

I want everyone who experiences that gloom around publishing their book and seeing it out in the world for the first to trust their former selves. You did the work.

winter jazzfest was everything.

Putting cheese on broccoli as an adult. 😩

I’m sorry to announce that the bass solo talkers have not repented.

If the discourse of what the human is, is entirely usurped by Euro-American humanism appealing to it will not help your cause, pointing out hypocrisy, double speak and contradiction will not help either. And definitely neither will analogy nor desires to be included save you. Give it up.

I came on here to skeet about how scary it is that these machines are taking complexity and turning it into a code that people will read as a binary. Everything will be either right or wrong. I don’t think much intellectual growth happens this way.

If you don’t put a link to a book on the LMS you will get an email saying “I need a link to the book.” This just makes me sad.

All month I’ve been trying to push out a sample draft and I don’t hate it but I am a much better writer when I’m not stuck writing at home or in my neighborhood. If I actually had research funds I’d be in Vermont or something.

Maybe don’t put a tree in your house.

I haven’t skeeted in a lil min.

Who has a 2025 book and would like to come read at my house… I will cook.

I can’t be one of them writers that just pops up with a book out of nowhere. If you follow me on socials you gon see the whole process. 😭😭😭😭

Celebrity doesn’t work. For anyone.

My five year old just now, completely unprompted: “You don’t have a neck.”

It’s looking a lot of free flights.

They out Jay-Z on my Spotify wrapped. Just brazen. I don’t listen to that. Lol.

I spoke with Samora Pinderhughes about his new work and practice for CapitalBop. www.capitalbop.com/samora-pinde...

every day football gives me a new reason to hate it.

ChatGPT writes in a simple, accessible style. While being wrong as hell.

I want some sonic ice.

DANITA IT’S CHRISTMAS

super close to “I’m working on my book, 24/7” time. the emotional rollercoaster of grading and letter writing szn must first get thee behind me.

Nonstop for almost two weeks

2010.

I wrote about Tyshawn Sorey and Max Roach. www.capitalbop.com/tyshawn-sore...

Listen here.

every time @balagonline.bsky.social does anon questions men decide to men.

Amtrak’s Quiet Car. But for other parts of my life.

I hope I don’t end up in the part of heaven where people talk during bass solos.

Wow.

I hope Kendrick goes on sabbatical now. I’m tired of all this shit.