YELLING MYTHS AT THE INTERNET
I ve been following Lincoln Michel s substack lately. Lincoln has a ton of great writing advice, elegantly stated. Recently I read a couple posts of his about TV-Brained Prose. The original post, titled Turning Off the TV In Your Mind is Continue reading
Last Friday I skipped work as part of the National Shutdown, in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis. As part of the shutdown, there were protests scheduled all over the country, and I figured if I didn t go to one Continue reading
I have this draft of a post I started writing when ICE began raiding Chicago. It was built around my stepmom s recipe for Puerto Rican rice and beans, which she taught me when I was a teen, and it cut Continue reading
I know I like swimming because it s a pain in the ass and I still do it. I need earplugs, because my sinuses are a Borgesian labyrinth optimized for harboring infection. I need goggles, which leave red rings around my Continue reading
I thought about writing something when Luigi Mangione shot that healthcare CEO, but by the time I figured out what I wanted to write, the media had moved on. So thoughtful, then, for another lone shooter to kill an asshole Continue reading
One of my favorite jokes goes like this: A guy gets sentenced to life in prison. His first night in lockup, after lights out, he hears someone way down the hall shout out Twenty-seven! And the whole cell block bursts Continue reading
I have not been feeling very good about America lately, so the Fourth of July was a weird holiday. I like to do things on holidays. When I spend a holiday just sitting at home playing video games, like I Continue reading
If you, like me, are a fan of the TV show Survivor, you may have noticed that many players self-sabotage in the mid-game. People get a few successful episodes under their belt and start thinking Man, I ought to do Continue reading
One of the categories that my book is sold under is LGBTQ Sci Fi. This is accurate the main character, Orr Vue, is a man who loves another man. But it also feels like stolen valor, in a way? Continue reading
So, huge news, I have a novel coming out March 4th. It s called Two Truths and a Lie, and you can preorder it here. I have been working with the good people at Pantheon Books to make this happen for Continue reading