Wait til the rep from the Great State of Louisiana hears about what happens on Bourbon Street!

At least they coequally suck.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

Fiona Apple has OCD and you know what, so does Leslie Knope.

Dental care, health care, groceries, clothing, shelter... these things can all be very expensive.

But minding your own business is always free!

(This is a 25-year-old song, but the point still stands.)

The Chemical Brothers - Asleep From Day YouTube video by Luis Alejandro Perez

Hope Sandoval is one of those artists who is peak cool the first time you encounter her music, and then she just keeps getting cooler from there.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj7F...

The people who tell you that Chicago is the only city worth visiting in the Midwest are are the same people who, when they visit Chicago, never go south of Roosevelt or west of Ashland.

Me feeling all superior when Michiganders think Chi's North Side is better than the South, and Chicagoans think Indiana Dunes has anything in Sleeping Bear...

Roses are red,
And violets are grape.
The Republic's in crisis,
But my copywriting is great!

Protip for editors, publishers, and people running literary contests, anthologies, and whatnot:

Notify *all* valid applicants of your decisions. Send out a carefully-crafted mass email for rejected queries. It isn't time consuming. It builds bridges. You'll never find an easier win.

Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, dated June 7, 2026.

So I'm reading The Parable of the Sower...

Is that the Rubicon up ahead?

Dammit, me too! I'm going to eat TWO donuts today to atone for my negligence.

Jan Worth and I are teaching CREATIVE WRITING CLASSES at the Flint Institute of Arts this summer!

Check it out: flintarts.org/artschool/re...

#flint #flintmichigan #creativewriting #writingclasses

You know you've made it as an indie press when you start getting submissions from people who clearly have not read the submission guidelines AT ALL!

Books by Octavia Butler, Angela Davis, Junji Ito, Tony Kushner, Kathy Acker, John Scalzi

Some of my reading list for the novel I'm going to be redrafting this summer.

I love it when people tell jokes about Flint water because it saves me a whole lot of time figuring out if I want anything to do with them.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote a dissent. He was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.

You know the news ain't bad when...

U.S. Census Bureau estimate shows a population growth in Flint Flint is celebrating a population increase of 76 residents, according to the latest estimation from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Statistically, this was bound to happen at some point, but I was never 100% sure it was going to happen in my lifetime! #flint #michigan #flintmichigan

www.abc12.com/news/local/u...

What in the Hunger Games... ???

Pisces Iscariot is a Top 3 Smashing Pumpkins album, that is all. #smashingpumpkins

That new Fiona Apple is exactly what my day/week/month needed.

For the "but he's from Dolton!" crowd, I submit that Dolton is way more Chicago than Forest Glen. YMMV.

UPDATE: white smoke has *also* been spotted in the city center of Avignon,,, bad news folks!!!

I want to know Leo's position on dibs.

A pope from Chicago? They are definitely going to let this go to their heads. :)

A scrap of dialogue from the novel I'm drafting.

I've never been super into the idea of a "man cave," but I am definitely looking at one room of our basement with a vision of a "Hobbit hole" in mind.

In my youth it was Gonzo. In my 40s it is Rowlf. I feel like that trajectory says as much about me as the Muppets themselves.