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Max Watman
@maxwatman.bsky.social
Author (Race Day, Chasing the White Dog, Harvest). Occasional hack. Creative Writing at VCU. Erstwhile line cook. My novel, Tomorrow, the War, will be published Jan 6, 2026.
I’m so excited to send it out into the world!
December 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Damn. One of mine is in there.
September 25, 2023 at 9:19 PM
We call it synchrotracking! It’s the best!
September 20, 2023 at 3:06 PM
At which point you gotta ask yourself: “Prohibited by whom?”
September 15, 2023 at 12:34 AM
At which point I would say that legality has been, historically, a poor judge of what’s right. One should be just, not obedient. (And I certainly don’t mean to belabor this. It’s interesting to me, too.)
September 15, 2023 at 12:07 AM
Wouldn’t it be entirely situational? Doesn’t matter if it’s illicit. Definitely matters if you’re on parole, or if you are, concurrently, breaking another law: your van is full of moonshine, don’t speed. But that’s self preservation—maybe different than what you’re after.
September 14, 2023 at 11:51 PM
Not a law professor either, but I would say—with backup from Thoreau and Arendt—that one has a duty to break an immoral law. As George Stranahan said to me: “if it’s a dumb law, you gotta break it.”
September 14, 2023 at 11:34 PM
A mistake I see everywhere! (Downside to the popularization/education of psych, I guess?) I teach that you can remember it if you remember that you can diss, or distance yourself from a shitty associate—disassociate.
September 13, 2023 at 3:38 PM
Patricia Lockwood wrote wonderfully on “Bear” in the LRB. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
September 10, 2023 at 4:42 PM
Whenever I meet someone who has that fresh enthusiasm for cocktails, it takes me a breath to back off from remembering the citrus driven indigestion of Tales, and remember, instead, how good drinks like that one are.
September 4, 2023 at 1:58 AM
Eventually it will!
September 3, 2023 at 1:55 AM
Thank you.
September 2, 2023 at 2:24 AM
Yuck
August 25, 2023 at 5:36 AM
Okay not to be an idiot or
whatever, but his stage name is Alice? He wears tons of makeup? He made a whole career out of scaring the normies? WTF?
August 25, 2023 at 5:26 AM
Exactly
August 24, 2023 at 4:11 AM
By section (philosophy, outdoors, the low life, horse racing, cooking, etc) and then the big sections (fiction, cooking) are organized by levels of affection with eye level being the highest honor.
August 17, 2023 at 3:13 PM
And, speaking as a former short-order griddle cook, if you say “fried” in certain old school settings there’s a very good chance you’ll get an egg griddled on both sides, broken yolk, cooked firm.

Over easy is often pulled off by flipping sunny eggs onto the plate.
August 5, 2023 at 8:05 PM