HeyJaredMaybe I'll Make You Laugh
Short memoir-esque stories and things I like, which might make you sad too.
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Maybe I’ll Make You Laugh #10: My Chapbook is out,Idols in Nashville, and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (opens the original)
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I don’t write enough, here or anywhere.This is objectively a stupid thing for me to say, though, because I write constantly. I have spent years getting paid to write. I write articles, press releases, grants, scripts, social media copy, emails, and bios where I describe myself in the third person like I am both very important and recently deceased.“Basil Soper is a Southern man of trans experience, multidisciplinary writer, and director.”Is he? What happened to him?But I don’t write enough of th
Fixin' to 40 (opens the original)
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Hi! I haven’t written in a moment! Today is my 40th birthday! I am having a pool party with like 10-12 of my friends, and we are going to eat GF lemon cake, and then Robert is taking me to Cúrate for dinner. I just got back to Asheville after a few weeks away, house-sitting for the Powells in Greensboro. They were in Croatia during the heat wave!! Also, my chapbook, Pixelated, will be released in August! Keep your eyes peeled! I am very nervous and excited. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewabl
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