No one talks about this, but the secret to creative excellence is having 8 projects with concurrent deadlines and overlapping meetings and being in a constant state of panic

If everyone who got laid off from the Washington Post this week banded together and formed a new publication, I would subscribe.

When I saw the NPR headline "Trump says he's pursuing Greenland after perceived Nobel Peace Prize snub" (🙄🤦🤯), the first thing I did was text @ericaliesalot.bsky.social to say "We NEED to write a humor piece about this." Less than a week later, here it is in @belladonnacomedy.bsky.social!

Wrote about what it takes for grown men in tactical gear, working under the blessing of the federal government, to ambush a 5-year-old kid in a bunny hat and a Spidey backpack who only wanted to come home from school defector.com/how-do-you-j...

For decades people have asked how do I order a pizza? How to get pizza to my house? Now we have the answer.

Whom are you security locking these peanut butter cups against, Trader Joe’s? Me? Ok, yes, that’s probably wise

This Holger Czukay quote from ‘All Gates Open’ by Rob Young is an existential gut punch. I think about it a lot.

Hilarious when the barista asks me if I want my chai latte iced. Obviously I do not. I drink my frothy sugar milk WARM, like an ADULT

Sad to know that, if ICE point-blank murdered me, it would take the far right mere hours to come up with a justification for why it's fine. Yes but her water bottle could have been a gun. Yes but she tweeted something critical of the president once. Yes but she's gotten parking tickets in the past.

ME: of course I don’t subconsciously view my therapist as a parental stand-in. She’s a medical professional whom I pay for healthcare. ALSO ME: hey I sure hope my therapist is proud of me

While societally we “respect” people who hop right out of bed in the mornings, I mostly just feel bad for them, because they don’t leave enough time for their cats to take a nap on their chests

Thanks to this @nytimes.com piece, I have now learned the delightful (and useful) word "tricolon"! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

There’s a side character in my WiP who’s going through a lot of difficult shit, and as such my ChatGPT is deeply concerned about me. For the purposes storytelling, I asked it if it was safe to do coke during chemo, and it was clearly like one kilobyte away from staging an intervention.

Just imagine what Dickens might have achieved had he the benefit of an editor

Whenever I cut more than a paragraph from my WiP, I paste it into a separate document called "cuts," just in case I ever need to fish it back out. This is how I know that I've written and cut more than 8,000 words from this current novel. Every wrong word is a step on the path to the right words.

When you stay up until 4am, it is very important that you not close out any of your tabs. That way, when you wake up the next afternoon, you can get the full picture of what sort of crazy shit you were googling. Otherwise this information would be lost forever.

If you're still making "Coldplay are bad" jokes in 2025 I'm gonna need you to tell me at least 5 bands that released music this year or it's a pass for me on the joke.

We've got a new group of Verge articles that are completely free to read (today only)! First up, from @sesmith.lol: The internet is forever. But also, it isn’t. What happens to our culture when websites start to vanish at random?

The audiobook for THE MUSEUM OF LOST AND FOUND is currently 50% off! This is the book for you if you like reading about... 🎨 Secret museums 👭 Friendship drama 🔯 Jewish protagonists 🧠 Mental health and BFRBs 🎖️ Military families www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

I'm so proud to be publishing ROOTED IN HOPE by Scott Riley and Muhidin Libah, a Somali Bantu refugee who helped found a community farm in Maine, working with others to grow familiar crops in their new home. Art from Oboh Moses is going to be incredible!

Funny how I actively chose to hibernate for the past few weeks but I can still experience loads of FOMO.

I do not understand people's enthusiasm for holiday parties with "ugly" dress codes. Do they yearn for opportunities to wear ugly clothing? I don't. I'm doing that right this minute. What I want out of a party is an occasion that is worth bringing out a dry-clean only dress.

I Lived It: One Time I Searched Online for New Underwear and Now Every Website I Open Shows Me Underwear Ads Forever

you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit

Unfortunately, based on recent personal experience, I’d say the exposure therapy that’s going to get millennials over our fear of picking up the phone is having to arrange care for our aging parents.

Hard same, @thisone0verhere.bsky.social

Woohoo! I love seeing the winners and am thrilled that I TRUCK by @krschmittwrites.bsky.social and Jam Dong won in the "Inside Out" category!!

Great to see THE SLIP on @npr.org 2025 Books We Love alongside so many books I love. Thanks NPR and to the public radio stations that have featured THE SLIP: @kutnews.bsky.social, @nhpr.org & @texaspublicradio.bsky.social! 🥊

I respect Emma Stone’s career choices; however, for my personal taste, I wish she would do fewer disturbing Yorgos Lanthimos films and more movies like Easy A.

work on the creative project that pays me money and that i am under contract for and that people like????? no thanks, im busy thinking about my creative project that im kind of bad at and somehow costs me money and that nobody asked for

To be clear, I was lightly poking fun at this show which I love, not suggesting that FX should cancel it. Jeez did they overreact

On days when all you have are meetings, emails, spreadsheets, negotiations, and disappointments, this is a nice reminder of why the true work of an editor—the point of the whole thing—is still meaningful.

Delighted to be publishing this fresh (and yucky) take on limericks from @lynnbrunellebooks.bsky.social and @julspatton.bsky.social for Spring 2027!

How much did your insurance premiums increase this year? Please add your story to the incredibly unscientific survey. forms.gle/DX4pD29sibCB...

In @nytimes.com, Anthony Marra calls THE SLIP “immensely rewarding” and says “you’re unlikely to read a more impressive first novel this year.” 🙏🥊

I find Jack Schlossberg to be a mostly delightful card. I'm generally amused by his social media presence, he seems smart, I get the sense that our political stances mostly align. Overall, I enjoy having him in public life. Simultaneously, I really do not need him to be in the U.S. Congress.

Mattress ads do not make me want to buy a new mattress, but they do make me want to go to sleep

I am overjoyed to report that we have officially entered chocolate mint season at Trader Joe’s

Having lived in NYC for 12 years, I strongly believe that, should I at any time grow hungry, I should ALWAYS be able to find a good snack within a one-block radius. Being pretty much anywhere else in America really tests this belief.

“You have to tolerate that you don’t know what you’re doing, almost every day.”—Rebecca Stead, at the 2025 Texas Book Fest

Can’t wait for Texas Book Festival! Tomorrow (Saturday) at 4:15 in the Texas tent! Say hi 🥊

To illustrate my point, here’s a juxtaposition of two screenshots taken tonight, one a post about election results in NYC (or perhaps NJ, or VA, or CA), the other a map of the results for Prop 15, the latest tool in Texas’s book banning arsenal

Every post out of NYC tonight is like “ “The arc of history is long but it bends toward justice” and “When Dems work together, we win.” And I certainly think that is true…in NYC. Alas, in Texas tonight, the vibes are more like, “Welp. Here we are again, I guess. I don’t know why we bother.”

I got to shout out a bunch of my favorite local authors, artists, and event producers in this podcast. Thanks for inviting me on, @citycastaustin.bsky.social!

My illustrated middle-grade novel THE CAMPAIGN is the perfect nonpartisan story for sharing with kids the importance of civic engagement. @kidlittv.bsky.social provides videos + activities to help you use it with the kids in your life.

English Teacher is my favorite show on television, bar none; however, they should have hired someone (probably me) to be an Austin consultant. That airport in s2e5 is not our airport. In s2e9, they should’ve referenced HEB, not Piggly-Wiggly.

If my legacy in this world is as the person who compiled a spreadsheet of more than 150 Halloween events in Austin, I would be okay with that.

This Louvre heist is just so inelegant. Danny Ocean earns our respect with his elaborate deceptions. You don’t know his team was there until they’re gone. Meanwhile these hooligans are smashing windows and setting off alarms. No finesse. I scorn them.

I’m in LA for the first time in a minute and would like my fellow travelers to know that there’s now a shiny new metrorail station at LAX! It opened in June! You can take the K line to and from there! That opened 3 years ago! Public transit actually can improve! It is not too late for any city!

If you're wondering what it was like to write for a college newspaper in 2005, all I can tell you is that one time I wrote a column about how I'm bad at going to the gym and Precor sent me a T-shirt.