every gardener i follow is going absolutely hogwild flexing that they eat lettuce from behind their house. i've never seen gardeners act like this in my life. this is our super bowl. this is our olympics. gold medal in shitting normally

If HORSE SHOW were a show, it’d attract odd sponsors. Brylcreem. Studebaker. Love’s Baby Soft. Some bleary-eyed viewers would wonder how and why defunct companies were buying airtime, then dismiss it as a stoned hallucination. monkeybicycle.net/if-my-book-h...

If HORSE SHOW were a horse, it would be the exact color your dream horse was, back when you were a kid with sticky Flav-Or-Ice hands and deeply felt opinions about stuff like “dream horses.” You’ve probably got a good name picked out already if you can remember. monkeybicycle.net/if-my-book-h...

As a person who does a lot of research online, I am irritated that Google now requires me to completely alter how I've used it for over a decade in order to avoid AI bullshit.

lil' flash acceptance and a reading in STL next month with the redoubtable Janelle Bassett...deets as I get 'em!

#1 summer jam www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6oq...

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

The second MORTAL KOMBAT movie killing the core cast of the first one is extremely funny.

It's time to listen to the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack like it's 1998 and you're in high school again

This book is deliriously batshit in the best possible way. Highly recommended. bookshop.org/p/books/you-...

Just making a my little list of writers who better never say shit again about craft after proudly admitting they started using AI to write

Question. Does Emily Dickinson's decision to name her dog Carlo indicate that she was a Jane Eyre/St. John Rivers shipper? A Riveyre?

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there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like

tax the rich but also make each of them walk down a runway where they get an extra tax if i think their outfit is ugly

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hellooooo new followers! i wrote a book. a critically acclaimed book! it's called HORSE SHOW, and it's for anyone who loves history, animals, americana, amusement parks, Nick at Nite, sideshows, photography, film, and short stories. if this sounds up your alley... www.sfwp.com/books/bowers

justice and obsession on the street of dreams! youtu.be/hRnS0Wf64Is?...

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

all these things, I say, had awakened much interest and curiosity at the time

Just Write Forever: The Taco Bell Quarterly Method

Just imagining Matt Bellamy's five year old daughter asking about the lyrics she sings on the new Muse album: "daddy, what's a 'nightshift superstar?'" Seriously, though, we'd all like to know

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

hellooooo new followers! i wrote a book. a critically acclaimed book! it's called HORSE SHOW, and it's for anyone who loves history, animals, americana, amusement parks, Nick at Nite, sideshows, photography, film, and short stories. if this sounds up your alley... www.sfwp.com/books/bowers

this is what the internet is for. Hello, big Pete!

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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I'd completely forgotten about these little scrolls!

Do you all know about Anguish, by August Friedrich Schenck? It's in Melbourne, and I couldn't stop staring at it, and I don't think that I've ever despised a painting more in my entire life.

Ten book recommendations for Juneteenth. Novels, poems, essays, all by Black authors.

In case you missed it, I wrote a whole story about the Brady Bunch and Greek drama and Wonder Woman and E.A. Poe just for you, you know, just to see if I could lastsyllablelit.com/canis-ex-mac...

the bleak postmodern hellscape of AI-generated anti-AI posts

just giving this new class by @ambersparks.bsky.social a shout-out because her similar sesh on domestic fabulism was excellent and you should take this one too writingworkshops.com/collections/...

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For far too long, this country has been governed by people who were either unable or simply unwilling to post brief videos of themselves being bitten multiple times by snakes that they had just picked up for some reason,

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how the most dangerous thing is to love

I think it's absolutely beautiful that people are booing AI cogsuckers at their college graduations. The kids are all right.

I wonder what the old man wants with this lump of foul lard

When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.

I keep internally singing "DEPRESSION!!!!! THE PAPA!" like that's how fiddler on the roof actually goes

In case you missed it, I wrote a whole story about the Brady Bunch and Greek drama and Wonder Woman and E.A. Poe just for you, you know, just to see if I could lastsyllablelit.com/canis-ex-mac...

Everybody's always trying to get me to do anything BUT write my effing book

WHY INDEED

Looking for evocative, title-like phrases about animals that @adamalsirgany.bsky.social can exuberantly shout at complete strangers several years from now. Got any ideas?

The fun thing about writing is you have to do it forever

I am in that strange limbo my employing institution likes to create between the end of final grading and the beginning of TOMATO GIRL SUMMER and I hate it