I have a lot of grown up things to do in the next few days that may or may not be exciting, assuming I actually get them started/done and done well.
Someone hold me.
In other news, 27 days until Chicago. I’m shaking.
Just another day at work.
“Let’s say, thought experiment. Let’s say Roe v. Wade got overturned. There’d be 1.5 million women who had been seeking abortions who can’t have a safe one. Someone will have an unsafe one and will die or be damaged for life; some women will have the child and not be capable of taking care of it. And we know that women who have unplanned pregnancies who go on to deliver have a higher risk of complications in pregnancy, high rate of pre-term birth, a higher rate of the children having behavioral difficulty, poor achievement, cycles of poverty, domestic violence. And the whole idea that somehow adoption can solve it all is just not how the American public thinks. Only 1% of women with an unplanned pregnancy go forward with adoption in the US—very, very small. And I hear it from my patients for all different reasons: they never could do it, the interesting thing they say is that they don’t trust anybody else to raise their child. Will the child be loved? Will the child be well cared for? Again, it gets to the idea that they understand how important motherhood is—I don’t necessarily see out there the American public ready to adopt 1 million babies. So just from a practical point of view, if you do a thought experiment of making it illegal or ridiculously more restricted than it is now, more women will die, more families will suffer, and that’s not good. That is not a moral good.”
Clearly, we make excellent roommates.
You know you’re getting old when you look forward to doing your taxes on a Saturday night.
My essay, “Flight Lessons,” is up at Connotation Press. It’s a great journal, and I’m super happy to have my work up alongside that of my MFA buddies: Kristofer Whited, Gavin McCall, and JJ Anselmi. Ch-ch-check us out.
Just saw this today.
So, so proud of the Valley’s young writers, and so, so honored to be a part of something like this.
12 of our favorite songs by us!
Compiled by friends and band members, covering five years and eight albums, it’s James Rabbit Express! Our catalog, whittled into something you could hear in an hour (with breaks). Put it on a thing and leave it on the bus.
In a few weeks we’ll be in the studio (the real kind) recording songs we’ve practiced, and sooner than that we’ll show you a pretty good new music video.
For a different kind of retrospective, check out Drew’s James Rabbit hip-hop mashup album, Smush.
Seriously, though, listen to Smush. One of the most genius things I’ve heard in the last few years, made by one of the most driven, intelligent people I know.
