01 · No house style
Sound like yourself, even when you're still auditioning voices. Weird commas welcome.
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How we treat writing here
(Not a handbook, more like sticky notes on the monitor.)
02 · Write before you're ready
No niche deck required. One honest thread in public beats a year of outlines in private.
03 · Build a voice, not an audience
Follower math isn't the point. Write for future-you; the right readers tend to drift over.
04 · Short is fine
Three paragraphs of thinking-out-loud still count. Not every post needs a bow on it.
05 · Nobody is performing here
The deal is simple: we're all mid-process. Try things without apology.
06 · Your worst post is still yours
Polish is cheap; live thought isn't. Messy drafts age better than empty pages.
07 · Write like nobody's grading you
Because here, they are not.
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THIS IS LOVE COMING CHRISTMAS DAY
Greetings, one and all. Some of you know I'm an independent filmmaker in addition to being an indie podcaster. This summer I made my first feature,...
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December 20th, 2025
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on being present in the car dropoff line
On most days, the drive to school is one of my favorite parts of being a parent. It’s this little pocket of time when things slow down. No Slack n...
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Merry Christmas you filthy animal
Every December, just about the time the plastic skeletons are consigned to the trash, and the Styrofoam snow is dragged from the attic, something f...
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Foley Is Go(o)d
Reposting this from my Facebook. Inspired by Mick Foley severing ties with WWE over their connection to President Trump, I will not be reviewing an...
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I Was Not Who I Was (Short Film)
This is my short film about the onset of psychosis, I Was Not Who I Was. I think this is the best film I've ever made. It was selected by the Urba...
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Freshman XC Season
It was a great season here at Norman High. At the beginning of the season I wouldn’t ever have seen the amount of success I’d have and how much I’d...
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My life is a mess
I have been rereading the Ryan Holiday stoicism books and am currently going through an extremely difficult time. I feel like these books are provi...
It’s Like Watching The Video Store Get Bought Out In Real Time
So Netflix is swallowing another giant, and everybody online is talking about stock prices and streaming bundles and whatever. I keep thinking abou...
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Do Other People (A Short Film)
In 2020 I was diagnosed bipolar 1 after suffering a psychotic breakdown. Before that event and subsequent diagnosis I always thought I was just a "...
And that's on ad fatigue
STOP ADVERTISING TO ME. No, but seriously, stop. The internet today is just one huge ad. It used to be that there were ads on the sidebar of social...
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Pro-Wrestling Is Sex, Sex Is Pro-Wrestling
I've had an idea for an episode of my pro-wrestling podcast, The Work Of Wrestling, for...basically...a decade. And yet I haven't even approached b...