I really hate when a good actor is also a scientologist.

All my classes and my office are in WPA buildings. I’m a sucker for WPA and CCC anything.

I am BEGGING sports media covering Ausberry as the new AD at LSU to include this in their coverage. If you don’t, you are bad at your job and should be embarrassed.

Y’all, my kitty hates horror but I have no place to watch it without him. He just retreated to his little haunted house hidey-hole. The dude actually pays attention to the screen and the other day, I was watching an episode of EVIL and he witnessed a giant goat-demon being decapitated and meowed😭

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So my school only covers $500 towards lodging/meals/airfare to AWP and I’m trying to decide if it’s worth it for me personally. One big plus would be being able to meet some of my online writer and litmag folks in person.

There is no chestnut praline at Starbucks this year. My daughter and I are plotting a riot.

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Well! Our production of BURIED CHILD got us a bunch of KCACTF merit awards and Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship nominees! I’ll be headed to Abilene in February for the dramaturgy and stage management components (nominated in dramaturgy for this production, in stage mgt for a different one).

OMG Finally some respect on Billy Madison

NEW EPISODE! "At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought." In which @maryhoulie.bsky.social explains to Alex and @nikostratis.com what about Billy Madison warms her heart.

Lots of lessons from MURDAUGH: DEATH IN THE FAMILY series on Hulu, the first of which is Stop Protecting Toxic Men (people in general but men specifically). The second is Stop Enabling Toxic Behaviors. The third is that PTSD is real and even perpetrators should get treatment for it.

Shelving years of public input, the Trump administration proposes to amend the 3.6 million-acre Rock Springs Resource Management Plan to facilitate fossil fuel extraction. The latest public comment period has been extended.

California Attorney Captures the Absurdity of U.S. Immigration Policies in Play Turned Book. #ICYMI Ania Hull of the Santa Fe New Mexican discusses the publication of my play, Waiting for Godínez (University of New Mexico Press). www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/c... #playwriting #immigration

Welp. It’s a vertigo day! No school or work for me 🙃

The Ratings Economy is so exhausting. Yes, I want good books and music to sell. I even want middling-to-bad books and music to sell if it's my friends making it! But I miss blogs and paper newsletters!

$50/$250, anything that goes into my PayPal right now I could use to make an immediate order and would be very much appreciated.

It happened to me: I let AppleMusic play so long after Deep Forest’s BOHÈME album that it played “Sadeness” by Enigma.

My 150-mile round-trip to Aldi on Saturday to get affordable protein I will actually cook and eat worked out very well for me. I already had plenty of gas in my car because I hardly drive any more. My local choices are expensive and/or incredibly low quality.

experiencing side effects at school makes me uncomfortable as an instructor AND a student

Pleased to announce that @eunoiareview.bsky.social has accepted one of my poems; publication is expected by the year’s end. Thanks, Ian!

I love using italics in my poems, so if your feedback is that the italics don't fit, well GET READY FOR MORE ITALICS, BITCHES (this is an imagined scenario, I cannot imagine getting that feedback in my current workshop)

Headed to bed tonight with $1820 needed to cover November necessities. Thank you all for helping! Please share this if you see it - that's a big help 💜 Paypal: affirmationgin at gmail Cashapp/venmo: showupforthis

After my summer with Radiant Wilds tarot, which presents reversed cards as “shadow” cards, I’ve finally started reading reverse cards in my personal readings. This time of year, I’m reading with Crow Tarot and Animism Tarot. And I keep pulling King of Wands *and* 8 of Pentacles, both reversed 😳🧐

I had an Ahiru No Pekkle (Sanrio character) lunch set in high school. This was the early 90s when that was just not as common. At my school you had a BMW or a hoopty, you wore the Dead or Cross Colours, & you didn’t have a cartoon character that wasn’t Tweety, Bugs, or Marvin the Martian anywhere.

Just had a poem rejected by Voicemail Poems! Which I am taking very personally because you READ the poem into the phone! (But always happy to be submitting!)

Some great body horror fiction by another one of my classmates. The Perfect Present eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/t...

ohhhhh there’s the deep sadness. it found me. november.

On DHS’s unauthorized use of Norman Rockwell’s paintings across social media, an op-ed from our family today in @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

I once again have zero motivation. I’m splayed out on my bed (sheets in the dryer) listening to jazz, feeling overwhelmed, wishing I could get away with taking a nap — but night wil be here soon! And it’s gorgeous outside! I don’t even really want to go outside 🧐

New hairs. We went for the long layered curtain bangs and I’m quite pleased. @lionsroar.bsky.social your Pinterest board really came through for me. Thanks!

Hate when I have to go to the bathroom as the edible is kicking in

Seth is featured fiction this month at one of my journals. He’s one of my MFA classmates; I learn a lot by listening to him in our form and theory class, and in our side convos. Give it a read! I’m proud of what we do at Thirteen Bridges Review!

Noirvember has begun on my Letterboxd boxd.it/Rz3L

Support my Doctor Who Game Show on Zoom! Get Pay What You Can tickets at the link and join us for an hour of silly Whovian games!

my hair appointment got moved to tomorrow 😭

love for my migraine to fuck off long enough for me to go to work but come right back when it’s time for fun 😫

even if SNAP doesn't end, keep doing all that mutual aid, in fact increase it, make what you're doing into concrete places with others -- move beyond service aid to actual mutuality!!

Happy noon! $2320 secures everything for November. If you see this, will you please share it? It can really make a difference! Thank you all so much!

I need people to know that people are allowed to break up with you for any reason or no reason, and the clinging on to someone who is trying to end a relationship is a terrible thing to experience (from any standpoint) and witness (also from any standpoint).

Like many folks I work way too hard to be this broke, to struggle this much, but it is what it is and once. The first is nigh and not only need help with rent but to also make up the $150 I usually get with SNAP. I just added two new paintings to my shop at ko-fi.com/johnniejae/s...

still at $25 needed w/ 10hrs left and nothing additional for meds and food!

my kitty is talking in his sleep 😴

I always think I’m gonna spend four hours on research and two on writing, then end up taking a nap and ordering pizza and wings and watching TV instead. (always=once a month)

I’m searching for examples of long, sweeping bangs on long hair and all I see are images with MAGA face 😫 (Thinking about getting bangs on Saturday — no, I’m not in crisis)

This is my colleague pau gofund.me/f8cdf58be

Weird if they're the same police who once a year make a huge deal out of rounding up toys to give the same poor kids they're trying to keep from being fed. Les Mis back to haunt us.

I guessed one of my kids’ sexual & romantic orientations aloud to her and she laughed hysterically so I must have been wrong? I will never know. They never tell me. It’s so mysterious and fun because all three know, like, EVERYTHING about me but regarding my adult children I can only guess.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Submitted that ten-minute play to KCACTF’s national playwriting competition! (They are read at the regional level first.) Feeling proud of myself for doing a thing! A previous draft of the play was well-received and I’ve made it stronger 🫶🏻