Spantastic

Collect them! Be proud of them! They’re proof you tried, and the payoff will be that much sweeter when you break through.

This hit me hard.

Feel like I needed that. Thanks!

He said this …. on television? 🤦🏼

LOVE this idea

If I’m not into it after <5 pages, maybe it’s me, if the book is well-recommended, and I’ll stick with it, but if I’m still not feeling it after 20-30%, I feel like I gave it a decent look. Better things await. I’m no longer interested in proving to myself or anyone else I can get through Moby Dick.

Will the capitalist speech police be okay with it if I call myself buy+ ?

Milestone: I hired a remarkable developmental editor to help me get my manuscript ready for the big leagues. This collab is going to change my life and make me a better writer, I can feel it. #memoir #writingcommunity

Accepting my sexuality in my 40s and needing to work out a lot of thoughts in writing. Now it’s a memoir!

Chef’s kiss *mwah*

I read this as a new father and could barely discuss it without becoming emotional. Even 14 years later, I’m not sure I could handle a graphic novel of it!

2011

I never thought I’d take myself unseriously enough to enjoy a cover band, but here we are.

Mammalians nurturable? #severance

Verse 48 there is the one that messed with my head for a long time. I finally understood when I read it in Spanish that the meaning of “perfect” here is “complete,” in other words, love ALL of humanity, not just your own people.

If we count how many of these we still do on the regular, my sore would be pretty impressive.

Oh my god, Sam, I hope you’re ok.

Pete Hegseth reminds me of no one more than Jack, the white supremacist from Breaking Bad.

Starbucks Reverses Its Open-Door Policy for Bathroom Use and Lounging Starbucks said visitors to the coffee shops would be required to buy something in order to use the restroom or stay in the store, as the company’s new chief executive responded to a decline in sales.

Starbucks is getting ready for the new regime by welcoming racism back into the stores. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/b...