Jason McCall

Montana basketball player Money Williams

Broke: dollar bills

Woke:

God, I'm sorry to hear that. Fingers crossed for good biopsies forever. Fingers crossed for a better tomorrow for all of us.

This means everything, man. I hated that I couldn't be at AWP this year, but thank you for taking a look at the book. Let me know what you think.

And thanks for supporting Autofocus. I'm beyond lucky to work with them.

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LeBron sitting out to observe International Women's Day? King behavior.

I love that "can it play Doom?" has become an official rung on the evolutionary ladder.

Man, if you were annoyed by the idea of Jayson Tatum before...

Hawks vs Bucks? I was going to say the NBA needs to start having flex games but the flex game tonight would be Pacers vs. Clippers. Cold world.

I got a marketing scam email about my book today, so that's as good as going to AWP, right?

It's not as good, I know. I hate missing it this year, but the writing deadline gods had other plans.

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My wife has turned into a wife who wants to watch Sunday NBA and ask questions about league revenue sharing and TV deals.

(I used the Jalen Hurts GIF instead of the MJ GIF because I have all the love for Jalen Hurts and no love for MJ.)

Shout-out to the guy driving down my block blasting "Real Compton City G's."

Spring is here.

Wednesday

Kawhi showed up for work today.

I would also be disgusted if a Scottie Barnes 3-pointer knocked me off the court.

We can't start hyping guys up just for hitting their dunks. I'm becoming a cranky old NBA fan in record time.

All-Star Saturday Night started in the daytime? This feels weird. I'm down voting all these dunks.

It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines.

'"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'

Just recommended some Taylor Byas and Lee Bains to my poetry students. Now we're having fun.

The best way to make sure we all forget to ask where the money came from.

I was looking for a file on my computer and came across my resignation letter from my last job.

I love it when the universe runs out of subtlety.

Poem for February.

From @joseolivarez.bsky.social's book, Promises of Gold: bookshop.org/a/862/9781250878496

#poem #books #writing

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

The only president to keep the Patriots out of the Super Bowl this century? Joe Biden

This is the AI class in a nutshell: "We want good enough."

"I assumed basic protective measures would be in place"

...

Every time someone in higher ed speaks even neutrally about AI, I want to gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon.

I'm going to be mad about the lazy blocking on that blocked punt for a minute.

It's going to be damn hard to replace a team with 2 top-10 D-linemen and a top-10 O-lineman, but the vibes are back. And The U is about vibes.

After all this clown shit, Miami has a chance to win this thing if they can play 6 minutes of clean ball.

oh so the refs aren’t gonna call ANYTHING

Better than I expected. I think that's why they cut the burger in half. The face of the burger that's on the skillet will obviously get cheesy, but the skillet gave the bun a bit of a toast/char that helped it hold up.