Did you know cockroaches can fly? Neither did I! Just saw one do it. Tis the season in LA, I guess. They’re out there. Not too many of them, one here, one there, but they are out there. I feel like LA has roaches, but in very reasonable quantities. I don’t think I’ve...

It’s bed time! Rapid fire one tonight. Watched the Hungarian Grand Prix. Exciting race! But not for Lewis. Hung out with Wolfie. We played corn hole and Spirit Farer after. Christina had COVID, so we did everything outside and I wore a mask when I was close to Wolfie....

Had a wonderful hang this evening with some friends. We sat out on the patio and watched Snacks and Joy run around together, ate sugar melon, all after a jaunt down the street for Leo’s Tacos which…my god…they were spectacular. I love the taco spots within walking...

Twas a week of burnout, I’m afraid. Inevitable. It wasn’t from lack of trying. I grinded. Still came up short. It’s okay. It happens. Especially because I’m so close to finishing. I’ll get up tomorrow and Sunday and write more pages…but the final push is now next...

Wrote a really intense scene today. Took it out of me. The most intense scene I’ve ever written, to be honest. The most horrifying. The most heartbreaking. I…didn’t expect it to be so intense. At least to write. I knew it would be pretty gut-wrenching from a...

Watching a Grand Designs right now about a family (a dad) building their own house with no money and it’s taking ages…and I remember this house. I believe it doesn’t get done in time for the first episode so they come back to it later…and I might be conflating it with...

A non-starter day. Blech. Didn’t have the focus. But I will tomorrow. The full day. That’s all I have to say about that. I started Portrait of a Lady on Fire and it is already fantastic. Moving. Doesn’t explain itself but crystal fucking clear. The *sound* is...

We watched a really cool episode of Grand Designs tonight that was about a lifeboat house—one of those ones built right on the beach with the launch ramp attached so the boat can be deployed at any time, like, from the Coast Guard—that this older couple was converting...

The My Chemical Romance show is pretty spectacular. Might be the most impressive concert I’ve ever been to, at least in terms of storytelling and theatricality. I was really, really impressed. And their music is also just so good for live performance. Very glad we...

Had an author hang today, and it was delightful. It was just four of us, but that made it so easy to have a nice long catch up. One author I knew decently already, but the other two I’d only ever met very briefly, so it was really cool to get to know them. Community...