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Today’s amazing, accidental band name, as heard on the Besties podcast: Monster Closets. Thank you, @plante.bsky.social, for your contribution.

“Soul poverty” is one of the most devastating things I’ve read in recent memory. Also would make a great band name.

We live in a world in which there’s a band called Flying Mojito Bros, and that fact is like a salve for the soul.

Guacamole is a fruit salad

Old man rant inbound: Back in the day, I would have KILLED for a push notification about a snow day. Today’s kids will never know the abject misery and eyeball pain of hopefully staring at a scroll on the bottom of the TV screen and waiting for it to “go back around” at 5:00 in the morning.

It says a lot about the power of nostalgia that I am currently more excited to play my new retro gaming handheld than I am my modern, high end console.

Enormous thanks to @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social for putting #2025pit together today.

How is it that winter—yes, cold, blustery winter—has climbed so zealously in the season rankings of my middle age?

What if the only way to rebuild a fractured family is to embrace the cracks? That’s the question Richard & his children Caleb and Sammy must face through loss and grief in my multi-POV manuscript A YEAR OF AWKWARD CONVERSATIONS. Comps: THE BEE STING & THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU. #2025pit #A #LF

A blank page never scared me. Now, too many *full* pages, on the other hand…