If the Tigers don't get good again soon I'm going to be forced to think about how my writing career is going

My nostalgia says yes

We talking about practice

(someone in the world would get this joke but I don't know if it's one of the 4 people who follow me)

All my homies hate Connor and Austin

I'm reading books in public as often as I can and looking as cool as I can doing it, dunno if it's moving the needle

Mamdani: I go into the Final Boss's lair

GM: We're in our first session, you want to just go ahead and...

Mamdani: I cast Charm Person

Honestly, this is what people in favor of genAI do not get!

The work is tough. The work is daunting. The work is humbling.

But the work is freeing, heart pounding, soul-mending, and character-building, too.

Bananas and there's no close second

I wanted to be a Literary Writer when I grew up. Do you know how fucked that is

With all respect to Marx, this opiate is hitting so good

So glad the kids are back in school so I can get back to my actual job: checking Class Dojo notifications from their school

Any two people will do many things differently (slice sandwiches, read stories, arrange pillows) When you have children together, the children will have preferences. If they prefer your way, you will hear "Can you do it dad's way?"

This means you win, and is the primary goal of parenting

Is this a good time to share that I don't really know which of the dashes is an em dash?

Is this a good time to share my playlist: "Music that sounds like Ethel Cain's aesthetic looks like she should sound like"

What makes the best Billy Joel songs great is they're Beatles songs: bloated franken-songs combining bitter longing with weird bouncy circus shit. But there's no John and Paul, there's only Billy, letting his inner John/Paul wolves at each other's throats

The farther you get into reading a book that feels perfect, the more it feels like watching a no-hitter in baseball. The tension builds. Can it continue like this? Is there anything I can do to avoid jinxing it? The unbroken thread feels too tenuous to continue to the end, but you hold your breath

Where else are you going to hear the really insightful takes about how punk rock AI-use is?

my ancestors had to kill to eat and survive. they endured subzero winters near the Arctic Circle. no, I am not "enrolled in your rewards program"

This could be about so many things and I'm with you on all of them

As I send out queries during this of all weeks, I flip-flop wildly between "it's so frivolous and selfish to ask for attention for my silly book right now" and "if this work has ever mattered, it matters now."

Would like to bring back toadies if you're looking for that as well

So I was roasting this article this morning, but it got me thinking: what if un-siloing the humanities is the real cure for male loneliness?

To be clear, this is hot

note from Claire Southwell: "Nope [laugh emoji] as I explained this is nonsensical"

Other writers: My partner isn't a very helpful critique partner because they're just so darn encouraging and not critical enough
My partner:

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

Immediately looking up recipes for this

Give your kids a disposable film camera and tell them to go nuts

If any of the roughly 8 people who follow me on here are creative freelancers, feel free to adapt for your own career-risking purposes