hey how are you?

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the feedback to my last lil email to all of you was really cool - a bunch of people joined the batcave AND a handful asked for free/reduced rate access which I gave with zero qualms and much aplomb!!
so first off, if you fit into that latter or lattest category, plz reply to this and let me know and I will move mountains and molehills both to make sure you are in the batcave now and forever.

maybe it was because i did a photo of myself? so you knew it was the real me and not an impasta?

two things

thing one

idk if you saw but i published a new piece yesterday morning that i am really proud of called remember, dad, who we are?​
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here's a little behind the scenes on it.

I wanted to publish it two days ago.
but it wasn't ready.
i knew that
but i wanted to publish anyways
because i can't wait for things
i have what they call marshamellow fever
gimme the one marshmallow now
who cares what happens later

but i also knew that this was sorta a thing i'd been doing for a while
publishing too early
and so I decided with the help of my one and only Lauren (wife, baby mama, friend) to wait.
just a day.

to let it simmer, marinate, and other words that are usually reserved for the cooking of meats.

and so i did.
i waited.

and then i realized why i don't like to wait.

because when you decide not to publish too early, you put yourself on the line like so:

you, on the line
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now you really care
now there's no excuse for why it might suck
so now, this morning, i faced the thing i'd been avoiding

needing it to be perfect
it needed another day
at least
maybe a week

i kept tweaking
rewriting
shuffling things around like a madman in an escape room
maybe the perfect essay is...UNDER THIS BOX OF LOOSE PAPERS

it wasn't
it can't be
because it doesn't exist

so i decided, as my eyes kept closing and going double eyed from sleep depreciation,
that i also couldnt wait forever

now was the time between too early
and
never
and so now was the time to hit
publish
and so i did

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and ya know what?
i was happy with it
even before the good responses came in,
i was happy

that's cool.
that's a good thing for many reasons.
most of all because it tells me that maybe i can change.
maybe change is possible.

and if i can change
i am 100% sure that you can
because there's no way you're as dumb as me
or stubborn

so yea, whatever the thing is that you think you can't change
now you can
go forth and be free

i didn't mean for that to be such a direct lead in to the batcave
like "maybe you can change and join the batcave"
or maybe some sicko part of my brain DID mean that
that'd be so fucked
but maybe its true

maybe both are
either way
​our next batwrite is tomorrow, ​saturday july 12 at 10am​
and then the next one is Tue the 15th at 4pm est

you can join by clicking here, the button below, or the ghost below the button

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thing two - last batwrite recap

wed night's batwrite was sorta amazing
15 ppl showed up
i told lauren that and she went "that's legit!"
so that's cool

i did a 15 min stand up set which people liked. here's what they wrote in their lil feedback forms which really do mean the world:

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here's the whole schedule

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ok that's it

oh i do have one little funny thing to end on - a surprise third thing!

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a surprise third thing

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the other day i saw a kid and he looked young like 11 with glasses and big puffy pants and just the lanky yet doughy body of a child. he was with his family but when he spoke HE HAD THE VOICE OF A MAN and it shocked me like a horror movie might shock you. truly disconcerting stuff. it made me laugh too when i told my friends about it so maybe it'll make you laugh too

god is a dog,
alex