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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 11h

some eyeballs undergo dramatic transformations during the long and arduous journey

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 12h

not all of these eyeballs will survive the arduous journey but rest assured some will

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 20h

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is the annual eyeball migration.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 03/10/2026

Idk if you should judge a book by its cover but if you’re into spines the one for SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME sneaked in the cutest lil skull in there

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 03/10/2026

love love love chili crisp & delighted w/ this particular brand bc it’s made w the two most important ingredients: love & MSG

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 02/10/2026

The rainy walk back to the train

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 01/10/2026

said hi to some friends on the rainy walk to the reading

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 01/10/2026

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is another day at space ranch.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 30/09/2026

The Chicago launch for SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME is tomorrow Thursday October 1 at 7pm in Exile in Bookville. Join Cynthia Pelayo & Ananda Lina & me. See you there? I promise you it will be fun & that there is literally no better way to ring in October. This anthology is as October as it gets.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 30/09/2026

He has just one more question for the giant spider.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 30/09/2026

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is a very special ABC Mystery Movie Event: Columbo in the Land of the Giant Bugs

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 29/09/2026

and yes, Mechanical Servants was a real company! Here are some of their items (lifted, appropriately enough, from a couple of random eBay listings):

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 29/09/2026

Here's a bit from the beginning of my story:

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 29/09/2026

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is a car-dealer-parking-lot balloon confrontation.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 26/09/2026

So excited for this landmark anthology to be out in the world & super proud that my story is in there in such awesome company: first time that anything I’ve written has been translated to Spanish.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 24/09/2026

yes the wear-a-tie-every-time-I-go-to-campus thing is still happening

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 24/09/2026

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is collective action at work.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 23/09/2026

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is this famous aria.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 21/09/2026

Super excited for the UntitledTown Book & Author Festival in Green Bay, WI in one week! I'd love to see you there! Here's everything I'm doing (links & details in thread):

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 18/09/2026

this lil guy is all done course planning and super excited for the fall quarter

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 18/09/2026

a delicious misalignment, founder 2 will explain to the board, is why founder 1 couldn’t be with us today

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 18/09/2026

founder 2 is nodding and listening—she’s totally listening—but also she’s thinking about this new term she just came up with and can’t wait to try out w the board: “a delicious misalignment”

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 18/09/2026

here’s founder 1 explaining (for the third time this fiscal quarter) that under no circumstances is it acceptable to eat anyone who has been recently onboarded

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 17/09/2026

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is an argument between the two founders about mission alignment & capital runway & the unexplained disappearance of most of their HR staff.

A giant snake wearing a bowler hat staring at a tiny man wearing a top hat 🎩

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 16/09/2026

picked up these two blu-rays from the library & accidentally created a new unbeatable cross-country team

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 16/09/2026

picked up these two blu-rays from the library & accidentally created a new Dynamic Duo

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 16/09/2026

but don’t be so quick to dismiss the equally bold Miracle Whip Sriracha Habanero, now with gochujang

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 16/09/2026

odds favor the bold new gochujang-ranch hybrid

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 16/09/2026

today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is when the Heinz CEO gathers the top division heads to duke it out for Best Condiment.

Two lunch bag doodles of tom gauld-ish figures in jar costumes, their little fists up and ready for a fight

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 15/09/2026

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the usual backyard birds doing their annual late-spring Fosse routine.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 12/09/2026

so much excellent storefront signage in Chicago but the stretch along Van Buren & Clark may be my favorite

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 11/09/2026

We'll be talking all things horror, and I'll be for sure nerding out with Bicks about her MONSTERS IN THE ARCHIVES. I love this book, and I love her attention to Stephen King's prose and revisions.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 11/09/2026

Hi, friends! See you at the Printers Row Lit Fest this Saturday 9/12 at noon on the Digital Realty Stage (On W. Polk St., at Plymouth Ct.) in conversation with Caroline Bicks and moderated by Jeremy T. Wilson.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 11/09/2026

So freaking excited for this October 1 event for SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME. If you're in Chicago or anywhere near or if you just want to drive a million miles to come to this, please do! It's with the amazing @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social & @anandalima.bsky.social

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 11/09/2026

also, also? Harlin is currently at work on a killer orcas v. yacht movie starring John Travolta. can't wait!

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 10/09/2026

today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the monthly meeting of the creatures currently plotting your downfall

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 09/09/2026

were it not for my amazing local library I may had never known that Renny Harlin made another shark movie

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 09/09/2026

the rapt and/or possibly trapped audience

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 09/09/2026

he feels he has to go a little over. It’s ok if he goes a little over, right?

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 09/09/2026

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is a well-attended literary reading.

Doodle of a lil bird reading from some pages on top o f a sentient multieyed baobaish tree at another o doodle of a lil group of lil birds on top of a different sentient multieyed baobaish tree

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 08/09/2026

two favorite bits from a super rough draft of a short story on the famous University of Chicago zombie outbreak of 1968.

Photo of handwritten excerpt: “We all lost people. millions died. Enrollments plummetted.”

“our ordinary, brutal, zombie-Free winters.”

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 07/09/2026

definitely check out the full entry, though my absolute fave is this Spiro Agnew bit.

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en.wikipedia.org
Baldwin spent a long time patiently waiting for his subject, and took 40 or 50 shots to get the
"Hang in There, Baby" photo.!?!
~ In politics
In 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew, charged with accepting $100,000 in bribes while holding office as Baltimore County Executive, Governor of Maryland, and Vice President, was allowed to plead no contest to a lesser charge as long as he agreed to resign as vice president. In September 1973, while he was considering his situation, Representatives William L. Dickenson, Republican from Alabama, and Samuel Devine, Republican from Ohio, presented him with a "Hang in There, Baby" poster signed by 100 members of Congress as a token of encouragement and support. 8)(9) Agnew resigned on October 10, 1973. President Nixon also received a copy of the poster from a supporter during the Watergate scandal.
Another copy of the kitten poster hangs in an outer office of former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The vintage poster originally belonged to his father, former Prime Minister
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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 07/09/2026

I went into the “hang in there, baby” Wikipedia entry for typographic reference, expecting some swirling 1970s serifs, but the original was more restrained than I remembered: original is on the left, mine is on the right

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 07/09/2026

I made you a motivational poster.

Multiteyed spiderish thing hanging from a thorny vine, the words “hang in there baby” written on top

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