The reason there's no "we rate cats" is that they all get at least 10/10 and the ones who think they deserve a higher rating will either scratch you or run away and hide all day.

I get sad when I see one of my longtime fave journals has come to its end, but I also try to celebrate two things: 1. Someone-- or many someones-- gave us a boatload of their time and attention to make that beautiful thing, and we were lucky to receive that gift as long as we did. (1/2)

I still believe a better life is possible.

Automated services that make you speak your social security number or some other personal information, with no option to enter by keypad, suck. Some people have to make calls when they don't have privacy, dummies!

So, which of his friends/family shorted Tylenol stock?

Need something to do tonight? Come play my trivia night at 8 pm at Rougarou on Henderson St. in Chapel Hill. Brand new teams start the night with some bonus points!

Just ordered $321 worth of postage. I am definitely living my best life.

If I'm being raptured tomorrow, I'm not doing this university-mandated IT security training.

I love the implication that we're all made of stardust and the recycled bits of the universe, but that means we're probably also partially composed of alien poop too.

There's simply no way.

Make books. Make journals. Make chapbooks and zines and pretty letters. Make papercraft. Make beautiful things with words. Let no one take that from you. Make words.

Chapel Hill! Do you like trivia? Do you care at all about SpongeBob? Tonight is your night, people. Grab a team and come to Rougarou for 8 pm trivia.

Love when a two-line email from a student provokes an hourlong response.

A quick look at my vision board reveals that if you make artwork that places an astronaut in a surprising setting, I will add that artwork to my vision board.

Need something to do on a Tuesday night? Grab a team and come play!

This week’s trivia night in Chapel Hill should be fun…

They lost a lot of revenue by discontinuing Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi. I know this because I spent like half my paycheck on that sweet nectar.

If you need a trivia night in Chapel Hill, I have got you covered. Rougarou. Tonight.

Hey friends, my trivia night is tomorrow at 8 pm. Come thru!

Joyful books. I want joyful books to help me survive.

G--d--- I love artists

Not one story about this completely bizarre event has given even a hint of WHY SOMEONE WOULD PUT COKE AND MDMA IN THEIR GRANDDAUGHTERS' ICE CREAM. I am dying to know. Like, what must the thought process be?

You learn by doing, so do your thing.

Reasonable accommodations.

It's my first day of classes, so I'm saying my little prayer: may I meet these students with love and humility and joy.

This is the Democratic Party we need.

Theseus fandom goes crazy when you ask which is the right ship

This poor guy! (h/t to @alexanderchee.bsky.social for sharing it)

So happy that this incredible book is out in the world.

Took my email off my phone’s home screen. I am two decisions away from Inbox Zero in one of my main three accounts.

Woof, y'all. Design matters.

Cliché is the antithesis of poetry.

This should be pretty excellent. Of course, I'm biased. I always think these are excellent. Come on out, Durham/Chapel Hill literati!

Finally seeing a game in Knoxville! Next summer I need to spend a week seeing Appy League and minor league games here.

You can tell I am in my feelings tonight because I am answering one sentence questions with three-page emails and texts.

Every time I see a story about how Bluesky sucks…

This seems like a good to remind folks: if you have a literary project you want to start but need a little help and a little support, our incubator might be what you're looking for! bullcitypress.com/projects/inc...

It's cover design time. Working on several collections at the same time this week. By my count, I've tried 81 different pieces of art and font combinations this week. Fun.

Catch this, NYC. Emily is awesome.

Need a community opinion. Reigning trivia champs had a Whitesnake-themed team name, perfect for our BIG HAIR trivia round. When it came time to name the hair metal band by looking at a still from their most famous video, they missed the Whitesnake one! Did they deserve to have points docked?

I graduated college with decent mathematical skills but, in retrospect, poor numeracy. I wonder sometimes how education would change if information literacy, verifying facts/claims, and numeracy were more prominent parts of our curricula. (I’m not trying to claim that they’re not present… but 1/2

I'm reading this Saturday in Durham along with Eliza Benbow and Allison Kirkland at @bullcitypress.com Presents! // 7pm, Mettlesome Theater, w/a post-reading show by Golden Age Comedy

The saddest part is how many people are still there because they “tried Bluesky but just didn’t get the same engagement.” Yeah, okay, but here you can block the Nazis…

Crew-11 is safely aboard the International Space Station. I am so thrilled and relieved. Seeing the launch live, watching my brave friend (and the first Grind poet in space) face the excitement and fear with such poise and eloquence, knowing that she's fulfilled a life dream... it is wonderful.

I just think that if you’re gonna Mariah Carey-ify the National Anthem, you kinda have to get the words right.

We should call sending poems out to magazines “kneeling before Zod.”

Crew-11 launch was scrubbed in the final seconds due to weather. Reminding myself that the process for keeping my friend safe worked today. Sounds like we may try tomorrow.