every single place I’ve ever looked up on accuweather is under a severe thunderstorm warning right now

Paraguay is likely to take a defensive approach. Frustrate France before attacking on the counter. France, of course, will have attempted to recover the "Eye of Lafayette", the legendary masonic coin that the Marquis de Lafayette brought with him here to Philadelphia in 1777, to call on its power.

Server at the pool asked what the book I was reading was about. I told her it was about a nutty professor.

BAH! Enough talk! My <Beam Blast> shall make short work of you!

July 3 story: “Tributary” by @jonathanin2k.bsky.social Another book I nabbed at AWP and have been meaning to dig into since. Really enjoyed this leadoff story! Excited to read more.

the beautiful game

I love being old and getting mad at things like the DJ on the pop music station who refuses to enunciate turning the sentence “how many hot dogs could you eat in ten minutes” into “hominy ha da cuh u e eh teh minny”

July 2 story: “Up an’ Comers” by @johnwaddy.bsky.social Interesting reading this after yesterday’s David Simmons story. Both follow kids in schools, making me kinda doubledown in elementary school this week.

this man is an artist

On to 16 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Never in doubt go go USA

More Strange Visions coming 2027 from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social baby! Let’s go!

In case you haven’t heard

Really stoked to see that the Dodo Eraser reading I took part in is now uploaded to Youtube, along with 7 more readings from the series! Was thrilled to read alongside such great writers here!!! If interested, my pieces start at 1:17:00, and I was clearly not paying attention to how I was framed

Have you ordered your personal volcano yet? It’s the exciting new way to keep all the unpleasant emotions right where you can see them! Or better yet, read my new piece, “My Personal Volcano,” in the wonderful @hexliterary.bsky.social and see what a simple online purchase could do for you. 🔗 below!

Awesome to see my story, The Shape of Things, in the @Wigleaf top 50! The story originally appeared in the Heavy Feather Review. And so great to see so many other writer friends on this list :)

We are so book

Check out this cute bobblehead of Oak Cliff’s most famous resident that I found in Bishop Arts

Scrappy has seen some disturbing shit. CFB 27 got my boy looking stressed. #GMG

Just read a PDF of this and was really wowed by it! Can’t wait to try to urge you all to preorder it and read it and love it too!

Two more weeks! Missouri folks, come see me and this truly excellent collection of writers read to you in Columbia on July 10th. And to sweeten the pot, if you show up you get first dibs on copies of my new chapbook EXTENDED PLAY!

Sooooooo this is finally real now. PREORDERS ARE OPEN LET’S FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOOOO www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

They’re calling it the least comprehensible achievement of all time.

Toy Story 6: Bonnie Becomes a Sephora Kid

Toad get a GRIP

I love this kid vomiting up FIFA

GOT THOSE SOCCEROOS LOST AND IN A DAZE LIKE ITS A PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK

TIME TO WAKE IN FRIGHT, SOCCEROOS

Spotted @suzyeynon.bsky.social’s TERRESTRIAL at Recluse Books in Fort Worth!

No big deal, just Cowboy Jamboree and the amazing @sabrinahicks.bsky.social earning a Kirkus star and a full page editor’s pick feature. www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/coyote-girl....

Chekov's Sprinkler

Right as I turned on the Sidetalk livestream I saw a guy in a Knicks jersey running around with a live boa constrictor

I love it when the World Cup broadcast cuts to the oligarch suite

I have a book coming out! COZY will drop later this year from the awesome folks at @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Centered around the deaths of my parents, it’s an exploration of how grief and discomfort intertwine and push us forward. More soon. 🖤

I’ve got new li’l chap of poems available to order share.google/OD7Yw1iZdRkZ...

Imagine how sweet this would look if they still let people smoke in the garden

I have a new microfiction about grief & beauty & destruction in Bending Genres. read my story “Dishes” + all of Issue 51 🍽️ 🎨 grateful to @rgvaughan.bsky.social & the @bendinggenres.bsky.social editors ♡ bendinggenres.com/dishes/

Instant, no-brainer preorder

Last four reads Paradox by Kate Colby @EssayPress The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snider This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers by @johnwaddy.bsky.social @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social North Sun by Ethan Rutherford at @deepvellum.bsky.social

Made a very important pilgrimage today (to the movie theater in Garland that has only been playing the movie SPENCER since 2021)

Did you know that FIFA stands for “Fun in Fabulous Arlington”? Enjoy our extremely provincial World Cup preview, which will help you actually know *less* about the upcoming tournament than you did going in! open.spotify.com/episode/45Xa...

I don’t use AI at all for personal use and only sparingly at work, and even then it’s just to ask thoughtful, well-considered questions for strategic decision-making purposes, such as “are salmon good fathers”

Let’s not leave out @texashighways.bsky.social here either. Hell, let’s get the Daytripper out to Yonder to do an episode (yes I am aware that Yonder does not exist, but why should the Daytripper let that stop him)

Seriously, though. @texasmonthly.bsky.social really needs to do a profile on @kevingrauke.bsky.social’s story collection, WEST OF DESTRY from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social I had the chance to blurb it, and I’m rereading it right now, and my God if it isn’t one of the best collections I’ve ever read

it's going to be, as the kids say, a movie ! come through and let's celebrate THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS, out now on @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social

Missouri folks! I can’t make this, but you should!

I don’t get back to Missouri all that much any more, so I’m thrilled to stomp through my old stomping grounds (Columbia) and read with some of the best writers in the game next month!

My novel has been out for four months already. Crazy! Thanks to everyone who has read it, bought it, shared it. Small press books (well, ALL books) LOVE recommendations and shout outs. bookshop.org/p/books/burn...

My oldest daughter is locked in to this JFK assassination show on ABC and man oh man oh MAN have I been waiting for this moment. I can’t wait to introduce her to Babushka Lady, Umbrella Man, the Three Tramps…the whole gang!