I have not blogged since the day of my 28th birthday. I am now one month into my 31st year on this planet and have decided to return to blogging. Social media increasingly seems like a bad, toxic idea, and the more we can detach ourselves from it the healthier I imagine we will all start feeling. So maybe this is my attempt to do that. I don’t know. I’m always talking about how it’s unwise to spend so much time on social media, yet I continue to do it. If there’s Twitter in the afterlife, I’m going to be fucked.

I am going to quickly attempt to recap everything important that’s happened to me since my previous blog post back in 2021.

The movie I wrote, We Need to Do Something, came out to limited theaters before dropping on Hulu, where it continues to be available to this day. I still think it’s pretty cool. Nothing else to report on the screenwriting front. There’s been a few close calls, even a couple paid writing assignments, but nothing that ended up going anywhere. Especially lately, post-strike. Everything feels very doomed.

A drunk driver killed my mom and I lost my mind for a couple months.

We rebranded our small press “Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing” to “Ghoulish Books”. Can’t fucking believe I haven’t blogged here since launching Ghoulish. What have I been doing with my life? We also opened a bookstore in Texas with the same name. We’re in Selma, which is in the Greater San Antonio Area. Come check us out sometime.

I’ve written a bunch of books and have published many others.

We discontinued Dark Moon Digest and launched Ghoulish Tales.

I came out as non-binary.

I’ve launched two other podcasts with predictably infrequent release schedules (Decayed Tapes and Dog Ears).

I signed with a literary agent.

I married Lori.

We launched an annual book festival called the Ghoulish Book Festival. The next one is on March 14 and 15 next year in downtown San Antonio.

We adopted two new dogs named Frank and Conan O’Brien.

I launched a newsletter called The Ghoulish Times. First we were on Mailchimp, then Substack, and now we are on Buttondown. Technically this was launched before my last blog post, but I think the move from Mailchimp happened after July 2021. Or maybe it didn’t. Maybe I’m being inaccurate due to my poor memory. Who’s to say?

I neglected Patreon.

We changed website hosts and it looks like all of the images from the many, many years of old blog posts here have…vanished. So, if for some reason you’re creeping on my previous posts and are curious why everything looks like shit, that’s probably why.

I think those are the big things, anyway. There’s probably other things that I should mention, but again, let’s not forget my poor memory (like I did). What if I started blogging every day like some kind of maniac? Do I even post these blogs anywhere? Do I tell anyone? Or do I wait and see if anyone notices? Will comments be left enabled or disabled? If enabled, won’t spam bots flood the whole goddamn town?

So many questions. Will any of them be answered next time I do this?

Am I going to use this blog space to just type every stupid goddamn thing that comes into my head?

You betcha.