Category: personal updates

I don’t want to get into a whole thing about best and worst and year-end lists, but OK some notes to self, off the top of my head about various things from this year: Seeing…

I’m back in therapy lately, did I tell you? After however many years away. It’s good, I need it, it’s helping, etc. For the longest time my mental health regiment was: writing. It worked for…

Frustrating, invisible. A summer basically reinventing the physics of time. Continual, perpetual, eternal lack of progress on my next book. In June I thought: July will be for breaking the story, understanding the arcs. And…

I had a really memorable hand-washing experience in Atlantic City a few weeks ago. Definitely want to mention it. For context I am somewhat of a germaphobe who washes his hands, idk, 30-40 times per…

My friend Matthew Connor released his new single last week and it’s so good I’m upset. I described it on IG as: and idk if that quite does it the justice it deserves but I…

Over the last year I got really into bike-riding. I know, so fucked up. Since I have yet to generate the energy sufficient to make a practice of deleting old tweets before they can be…

Tonight someone I follow on Instagram went Live because she was having trouble taking off one of her eyelashes and wanted advice. She sat there facing the camera/audience with one eyelash on and one eyelash…

Yes, it’s true, a whole zine about Trader Joe’s. Based on their newsletter, the Fearless Flyer, but soooo much more. Product reviews! Art! Recipes! Personal histories! Interactions with Cashiers! Fan fiction!!! Contributors include: Meghan Deans,…

Years I wrote a Tumblr post about how my music discovery processes had changed over the years. Hold on let me see if I can find it.  OK yeah here. Ah, 4 years ago, 32…

Before “being a adult who writes Kim Kardashian fanfic” became my claim to fame, I was a person who made zines. I would dump out sewing kits full of content onto the internet and pick…