Several Arizona writers—including ASU alum @dylanpark.com and professor @mdbell79.bsky.social—sound off about how the Valley of the Sun helps inspire & support their work. 🏜️ Get the scoop in PHOENIX magazine: ow.ly/CAvA50WPTZq #ASUHumanities

Hey, so has anybody else been thinking about 2028? Specifically the part where Trump refuses to leave office and the only way to remove him is through a military coup bringing us perilously close to a second civil war? Or is that just me?

ASU film alum & TV screenwriter ‪@dylanpark.com spoke w/ @samdingman.bsky.social @kjzz.org about his memoir "Roadside" which details his upbringing, service in the Iraq War & journey home again (BTW we're hosting him at ASU Book Group this fall—stay tuned). Listen‬: ow.ly/HJFl50Wwqkj #ASUHumanities

On the latest They Call Us Bruce, we welcome Dylan Park-Pettiford -- TV writer, combat veteran and author of the memoir Roadside: My Journey to Iraq and the Long Road Home. theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/they-call-us...

I stumbled upon @angryasianman.bsky.social + @originalsp.in when COVID hit over here and after the Atlanta spa shooting while I was searching for a better sense of community online as an Asian American. So I squealed w/glee when I suddenly saw a friendly face pop up on the podcast. 🖤 @dylanpark.com

Man, @dylanpark.com is a trip to talk to, and his book ROADSIDE is straight fire — as I said, my big complaint is that there isn’t more of it! Check out our convo here!

lol that’s the stylistic choice of the editor. And I think he chose to do it that way because that’s how the creators of Alien stylized it.

Took a few well-deserved days off from my corporate job and spent yesterday doing nothing but lazing in the blazing Phoenix sun by a pool with a cocktail and @dylanpark.com’s book… which I started and already finished. As I told him: I chuckled, I laughed, and then I cried. 10/10 recommend.

Perfect day across the river from St Paul

“Stunning power and poetry.” — Rick Cleveland, Emmy award-winning writer, ‘The West Wing’ “A funny, tortured, and heartbreaking journey.” — Elliot Ackerman, award-winning author “Vulgar. I’ve counted 6 dick jokes. Why do you curse so much? Are you trying to embarrass me?” — mom

My mom is staying with me for the next week and a half. This morning I woke up to her knocking on my door. “So, I have some thoughts about your book...”

Blocked and reported for hate speech.

It’s incredible what human beings are capable of, yet we’ve spent a majority of our history killing each other over arbitrary lines on maps, imaginary deities, shiny rocks buried in the ground, and skin pigmentation. End the wars. All of them.

Hey friends, if you haven’t snagged my book and still want to, do me a favor and support our friends at my local bookshop, Village Well Books & Coffee. You can grab a copy in store or online at villagewell.com.

Bay Area friends and family, I’m coming home.

My dead friend’s father is promoting my book to all his MAGA buddies like it’s gonna be some star-spangled red, white, and blue American war machine propaganda. He’s probably gonna hate the part where I said the war in Iraq was illegal and his son died for no reason.

Hell yeah

❤️❤️❤️

If you're in LA, it'd be worth catching this

LA, can’t wait to see your faces.

Unc: You know that feeling when you’re sound asleep and the garbage truck coming down your street wakes you up then you remember you haven’t taken the trash out? Me: The worst. Unc: That’s what Vietnam felt like 24/7/365. Except if you didn’t get the trash to the curb on time men died. Me: …

See ya in 2026.

My barber’s been on vacation in Hawaii for weeks and I’m unkempt, disheveled, lost.

I like that Bluesky let me switch my handle to my website.

I really really really have to quit the app fka Twitter.

I dated a Canadian during a portion of the writing of this book so it’s basically a Canadian book.

Good job, team. We did it.

Earthquake Bluesky assemble!

Instagram removed this. Still here on Bluesky!

My man.

A @dyllyp.bsky.social appreciation post as he has a new book coming out this summer which you can pre-order now. Let’s get him on the NYT bestseller list. thugtears.com

Guillotines. America needs more guillotines.

Today would’ve been my little brother’s birthday. I say “would’ve” because Rory was a victim of America’s gun violence epidemic. He wasn’t out committing crimes, he wasn’t trying to be a hero, it wasn’t even some unfortunate accident—he was killed by a stranger for no reason at all.

Erasure. At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social

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Whatever happened to windbreakers?

There’s a funny quote from the first Black 4-star General in the military who was also a Tuskegee airman about racism in the Corps

I’ve never experienced more racism than I did during my time in the Air Force, so this tracks.

My mom is getting all of her friends and co-workers to pre-order my book. Which I appreciate… Except now I’m really wishing I hadn’t included the line about jerking off with night vision goggles on.

This one?

This one?

I've pre-ordered this and everyone else should too!! The stories from his life that Dylan told on the bird app (back when it was good) were heartbreaking, hilarious, surreal, and gut-punching. He has a true gift for writing, and I can't wait to read this in the summer 🤩

Just from the parts of his life Dylan has told, this book will be very good.

This book is a love letter to my hometown, a memorial for my brother, a treatise for a better America, and a lot of things in between. The roads I've taken have had tragic endings, but some have led to auspicious new beginnings, and I wouldn’t be here with out you. www.amazon.com/Roadside-Jou...

Power’s out, so I’m over here working on this script by candle light like Edgar Allan Poe or some shit.

NOSFERATU: More like Yesferatu. I screamed, I cried, I threw up, I peed a little. 10/10.

You hear someone breaking into your house, so you investigate. You find a disheveled man in your pantry w cookie crumbs and dry milk in his unkempt beard mumbling about hoes. He’s wearing red velvet pajamas and combat boots. Usually you’d call 911, but it’s 12/24, so you smile and go back to bed.

One of the ancestry websites I use for research is advertising a new feature that brings photos to life with the use of AI. I hate it.

Ugh. It’s written and directed by Tyler Perry. Never mind.