Jim Almo

I can’t stress this enough: F**K ice!

I could think of lots of things but this seems like a great starting point.

You all are adorable! ❤️

Congrats, Erin!!

Thanks for redacting that date!! 🤣

She looks almost as young as when I first met her!

Why are people so afraid of doing a little creative work?!

Important PSA: I hope you never see other artists as competition. Please take their success as proof that you can also succeed here.

I have a nice bottle of champagne set aside for just this thing.

It’s one of those pieces that opened new worlds and ideas for me.

Oh.... just no.

This is so good!

Just for those who may be a little confused: “Pro-life” would be 20 Sandy Hook students being college sophomores this year.

YouTube video by Balanescu Quartet - Topic Pocket Calculator

Totally made me think of this: youtu.be/92Ns8--KnPY?...

Cover of the Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary book, picturing the two characters making funny faces.

Never doubt the comforting power of creativity. We had two Brown students in our home for a while last night until their parents could get them. They played guitar and read Calvin and Hobbes. I know how upset they were, and it was also amazing to see how centering creativity can be. Also, F the nra.

Image of a white cartoon cat with claws out on a red background. The texts says "Respect the death blades."

Respect the deathblades.

Impressive!

The area around Brown University -- which is also where I grew up and now live -- is quaint and picturesque. A postcard version of a New England college town.

But I never thought "this can't happen here." Because there is nowhere in the U.S. where this can't happen.

multiple helicopters, sound of sirens, shooter still at large, but blocks away, the theater is still open for tonight’s philharmonic.

Mass shooting at one of the local universities

F****Ck

It's disheartening on so many levels, but if everything we definitely know about and have seen with our own eyes hasn't resulted in consequences, it's hard to imagine anything would come of this. I hope I'm wrong.

I was *a bit* older than most of my class when I went to school, and so many of them (myself included) had expenses that weren't even remotely covered by scholarships available at a state college. So many people "failed" out because they couldn't miss work or had to care for sick parents/siblings...

99% percentage of literary culture is a gift economy and some other percentage of the people who want in will never give gifts nor deserve any of their own.

🖤🖤🖤

Yes! I think my writing is to get to a similar spot, which I refer to as, ”What the eff WAS that?” But I really like “Damn, ain’t that some shit.”

Grace!!!!

What an insult to people who actually work.

One of the true pleasures in life!