the children refused to stop & appreciate this particular majestic body of water bc (I’m quoting the 11yo) they had already seen 500 other majestic bodies of water

Juan Martinez@fulmerford.com · 11h ago

Colorado’s a single continuous majestic ad for Colorado

we’re almost home. there’s a lot of Iowa

Service Standard oil products

story prompt

Love this sign for the Maranatha Bible Camp in Nebraska (I-76 east)

this bunny did nothing wrong

Your drink order is ready

I drew me hiking the Rockies

on vacation & delirious from hikes and not enough water & so confused by everyone’s posts—I was so sure that there was an even more extended version of Wicked w weird added adult basket scenes

That’s a load-bearing “he says” for sure

AI-proofed my own writing by being so addicted to news & social media that my only way through drafts wo distraction is by handwriting on Mead composition notebooks at 4 in the morning

from farm to Sysco truck to table

our children discover the glory of the Rockies & of Terry Pratchett

Juan Martinez@fulmerford.com · 7d ago

our children discover the glory of the pancake machine in York, Nebraska.

Three essayists and a poet

our children discover the glory of the pancake machine in York, Nebraska.

"Thank you for writing. I am away from my email and not medically cleared to reply. If you need an urgent answer, please be sure to refer your request to my office. Rest assured that I (a 100% not-dead, totally alive person) look forward to replying to your email."

they welcomed it in as a curiosity and it destroyed them

Lydia Polgreen@polgreen.bsky.social · last wk.

Uh, did Emily Wilson's Odyssey takedown crash the @lrb.co.uk website?

Continually impressed that despite the pressures/layoffs imposed by ownership and management, the reporters and editors at the WaPo continue to do excellent work covering the Trump Administration.

Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · last wk.

67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult

Actual revision note for an actual thing I’m writing

I drew a dude on a hillside enjoying a protein-rich snack.

Easily one of the most beautiful and strangest collection of stories you’ll read in years, I promise. bookshop.org/p/books/ever...

Every Galaxy a Circle

An Intriguing Journey through the Cosmos of Human ExperienceIn Every Galaxy a Circle, Chloe N. Clark masterfully intertwines memories, ghosts, and the future, presenting a collection that spans folklo...

bookshop.org

Chloe N. Clark@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 3w ago

Here's the trailer I made which is all my own footage, my own terrible editing, and music I wrote and recorded despite not being a musician. Why? Because fuck you AI!

Here's the trailer I made which is all my own footage, my own terrible editing, and music I wrote and recorded despite not being a musician. Why? Because fuck you AI!

Every Galaxy A Circle Book Trailer

YouTube video by Chloe Clark

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Chloe N. Clark@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 3w ago

My book, Every Galaxy a Circle, came out six months ago. A week later my parents house burned down in a devastating fire. So I did not do as much promotion as I would have liked. I am so proud of this book! So I am going to take this half book birthday to fill your feed with promotion. Sorry!

I wrote this for Chicago magazine about the U.S. government's plans to close the National Archives branch in Chicago:

Chicago magazine@chicagomagazine.bsky.social · 2w ago

At a time when dubious information runs rampant, we need more — not less — access to our history.

I’m experiencing The Odyssey at Secret World Books in Highland Park like Christopher Nolan intended.

huge fan of Ti West but it’s super risky & presumptuous to tackle the work of an undisputed master* at the height of their powers * Gonzo, Rizzo the Rat, Michael Caine, other distinguished members of the Henson company

it is our 5yo’s last day at daycamp & she insisted on drawing a card for her new best friend & on signing her name w “sad letters” (frowny faces on every available oval & droopy despondent arms for every descender)

This...is wonderful! (Juan-derful? So, so sorry. 😆)

Juan Martinez@fulmerford.com · 2w ago

Today’s #postitdoodle is the winner of the @storystudiochicago.bsky.social fundraiser: a portrait of the winner’s brother as a barred owl.

Today’s #postitdoodle is the winner of the @storystudiochicago.bsky.social fundraiser: a portrait of the winner’s brother as a barred owl.

Big thanks to @jrobertlennon.com for the tip: Ann Leckie’s THE RAVEN TOWER is a hoot—lots of palace intrigue, marvelous worldbuilding, gorgeous writing, fickle gods including the narrator, an immortal sentient stone whose bestie is a cloud of mosquitoes