This is great (as always) from MZS.

Sometimes, when watching / reading / listening to something, I want the end to come ... right there—not because I'm tired of the art, but because it would be such an apt, interesting place to end.

rogerebert.com/mzs/its-ok-for…

I don't think this is my favorite cover song ever (to indulge that question would lead me down a hole I don't have time for today).

But it does everything a great cover song should do.

youtube.com/watch?v=1uKKfz…

TV On The Radio really was the best band we ever had

Today is perfect coffee on the back porch and staring off into the distance so your life isn’t a shame weather

Columbia! Tonight! I’ll trade you tears for fears.

Neutral Spaces blog sonnet? Neutral Spaces blog sonnet

Drinking some hard cider I brought back from Michigan and eating some Trader Joe's cinnamon graham crackers and I have apparently unlocked the adult version of my favorite childhood snack

A periodic reminder that I'm only ever trying to write the way Ben McLaughlin paints

tupeloquarterly.com/visual-art/ben…

ive seen brilliant writers never land an agent, I’ve seen the dumbest books in the world scoop up breathless praise, I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, etc.

'I live in the gulf between what I’ve been given and what I’ve received'

— Kaveh Akbar

Finished this tonight. More than a few of these stories will be working on me for the foreseeable future.

Evening cloud

I tend to swear more when I’m walking the dog. Hear me: not at the dog, or because of the dog. Just more in quiet incredulity at this life we live, because I like to think he understands.