I’ve got a new short story in the latest issue of the Paris Review. This one is called “Skyhawks”

must’ve been so weird to be around when hamlet came out. hey man have you seen hamlet yet. it’s supposed to be crazy haha

My next tattoo

Asked my three-year-old daughter if she knew how to count in French and she said: “French one, French two, French three…��

“See, the truck nobody else wanted had been my office. I’d built a portable desk inside it. My truck desk, I called it.” @Bud_Smith’s truck desk.

As my dream was winding down last night everyone started discussing how people were getting a ride home from the dream

“Cliff and Grace get married and have a baby, an accident, this spreadsheet man. Ending him is not in their values, plus they love him, so they need more money forever.” Read two new stories by Selen Ozturk (@writingenjoyer): https://t.co/YkNIosemMz

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“Lou rushed to the vet’s office ready to punch the thief between the eyes. But the thief turned out to be a sweet old lady with a walker, who said the cat had shown up on her porch one misty morning years before.” From “Skyhawks” by @Bud_Smith.

and they probably only did that because of beer

if you feel like you are procrastinating, just remember, cave people waited two million years to build the first straw hut

forgot to mention I was driving The Batmobile and this was The Joker who lives in 6Z

as I got out of my car, a neighbor from the building parked behind me, then hustled past, but at the light, instead of waiting w them at the crosswalk I cut a right and got twenty-two extra quicksteps before jaywalking (like a boss) to beat them into the building

This should revolutionize the world I’m thinking

hi everyone, I wanted to share a recipe with you 8 oz seasoned ground beef 1 cup cooked jasmine rice 1 tbsp minced ginger 1.5 cups raw broccoli 2 tbsp soy sauce I call it ginger beef and broccoli over rice. Cook the ingredients; put em in a bowl; eat em ★★★★☆

I wrote an essay called “Summer’s Over” for Zona Motel, on their Substack https://t.co/OpJxI6yW3e

Currently reading The Iliad for 1st time. Rules. Duh. Didn’t know it starts in media res, has no Trojan horse, and doesn’t get into Achilles heel/last stand. Emily Wilson translation. I’ll read pieces of Fagle’s Aeneid for Trojan horse and Ovid’s Metamorphoses for Achilles 💀

Re-watched Escape from New York Last Night. Then found out the novelization from 1981 has scenes of Snake Plisken fighting WWIII, losing his eye, robbing the federal reserve. Got the PDF from the internet archive. Thanks again, John Carpenter. I❤️U

Three little pigs. Well actually, they were quite big. I love this. Visiting England this weekend from London and seeing pigs wandering around everywhere in the New Forest. They’re Pannaging. Domestic pigs are released to eat acorns, chestnuts and beech mast. It protects ponies

I’m on my way to work. I’ll only be about 4 hours late if I don’t hit any traffic

Waldo doesn’t really want to hide. His iconic outfit is a cry for attention