Author of THE CHURCHGOER (novel, @harperperennial) and FIRE SEASON (prose poems, @tupelopress). Asst. Director @imagineucsd. He/him/his.
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I once ate at Club 33, as a kid, because my friend's dad retired from the phone company (lineman) and he got park tickets and lunch there as a retirement gift. The only shady thing was a worm in my cookie, and we got front-of-the-line passes to Splash Mountain because of it.
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As we left, I saw a waiter in the kitchen opening up and throwing away all the cookies.
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The birds of prey have joined the orcas and otters, and I'm thrilled.
" 'They're majestic, beautiful animals, but like, it sucks,' said Alfredo Del Barrio, who lives in the house behind the hawks' tree."
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Who can front me a half-million dollars?
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A cry for help on a dying platform: I have listened to the new Jason Mraz. And I keep listening to it.
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Weird to reflect, again, on being able to say I received mail from Ted Kaczynski.
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Longform essay about the power of the 1985 Anne of Green Gables to compel me, a grown adult, to give money to some bizarro streamer by the name of GazeboTV—the only place you can watch it.
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I was just making a dessert pancake and thinking about how the biggest issue for us writers with day jobs is when the day job interrupts the rhythm (as it has to) for a couple days, a week, a month.
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That's the dream of full-time writing: not that you just luxuriate in a robe and ten-dollar words but that you can control your own time.
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We don't talk about Tom Waits enough, so here's a thought from the commute: the closest we have to a Tom Waits today is Donald Glover.
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Ok, yes, but: White Gladis. Perfect name.
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I, too, would like to diss the facial value of your ballyhoo.
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I'm embarrassed at how pleased I felt at my physical therapist being proud of me.
Reader, I fist-bumped him. ☺️
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Omitting collected works sets, who are the top 5 authors in your library by # of books on your shelves? Including books by & abt. QT with your answer:
1. Ursula Le Guin
2. James Joyce
3. Gary Young
4. Sara Gran
5. maybe Timothy Zahn or Jean-Luc Nancy?
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I feel like my list is a version of "How do you say you were a nerd dropped into a theory heavy college experience without saying it?"
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Next project is going out on submission next week and I thought it would be less distressing than the last time. Wrong again, Pat! Pass the Xanax.
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Note for book/story writers, journalists -- hell, game creators (see: the Battleship movie): don't let your agents do film/tv adaptation rights deals right now, too. It's still scabby.
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Today in time machines: took my eight year old to her second violin lesson in a dusty music shop, and in the front room a skinny kid was testing a bass amp in the time-tested way: playing the opening to Blink-182's "M&Ms."
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