He looks like when they released that SONIC trailer a few years ago and everyone was like, "I will not see this movie if his teeth look like that."

One of my resolutions for 2025 is to send 1,000 letters to subscribers here, on Substack, or on the pod.

Want a handmade art-missive-doc thing in your mailbox/hand? Send your mailing address in a DM and it'll be out the door Jan 1.

Tryna work AI into some of the marketing for CUBAFRUIT and it's very much a work in progress

Faces made by creature when he doesn't want the walk to go that way.

I'm reluctant to mention it because the dude is so problematic and most of his work is bad but listen:

Charles Bukowski's final diaries, an anthology called THE CAPTAIN IS OUT TO LUNCH, is weirdly beautiful and the most human thing he ever wrote.

Some big displacement vibes, nearing the end of my first trip to Puerto Rico, but it's been centering to wake up early and spend an hour or so reading Elmore Leonard in a very Elmore Leonard dust jacket that declares him "a writer for the '80s"

Periodically when my dog does something petulant and very human/toddlerish I'm reminded that he is naked.

Joining Bluesky with something to sell: My debut novel, turns out, is gonna be an indie -- CUBAFRUIT is available for preorder! Thread TK about how it landed with a great agent, went through 6 months of editing, a year of submission, got avid responses and ended up not selling!
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