Welcome to our weekend conversation! I’d like to talk about Submittable. What’s the dealie, friends? In my most recent interview with Whitney Koo, Editor of Gasher, I joked that editors sometimes describe Submittable as the lit mag mafia. (I want to give props here to Whitney, who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to ensure that submissions to her magazine always remain free.) The truth is, I actually don’t know very much about the mechanics of Submittable.

For reasons I don’t entirely remember, I used to sometimes listen to audio commentaries for reasons other than writing them up for The A.V. Club column Commentary Tracks of the Damned.  I listened to George Clooney’s audio commentary for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, for example, but had to shut it off after about an hour for two reasons. For starters, it was boring. George Clooney may be a smart and accomplished filmmaker but all he talked about on the commentary was where he “borrowed” each individual shot and which specific movie he was ripping off.

We took the boys to Mexico for fall break a couple of weeks ago and had a freaking blast, mostly thanks to three things: 1) the free kids club, 2) margaritas, and 3) making no plans and setting absolutely zero expectations for how our days would go with three boys under the age of 5. We’re pretty adventurous travelers, but at this point in our lives, our kids are, uh, not excelling at adventurous travel, to put it lightly.

G/GS: 23/14 IP: 78 ERA/FIP: 5.19/4.48 K/BB: 70/25 K%/BB%: 21.5%/7.7% WHIP: 1.23 Fastball: 50 Slider: 55 Changeup: 45 Command: 50 Overall: 40 Risk: High ETA: 2025 Big, sturdy framed pitcher. A bit high waisted with lankier limbs. Some room left in frame to add muscle but mostly filled out projection wise. Utilizes a drop and drive delivery coming off a waist-high leg kick. He has a longer arm motion and uses a 3/4 arm slot.

On Tuesday, right after the heat blast broke, I flew to Boston, straight into another heat blast. (Because why go on vacation when I can work at my volunteer job?) I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to interview Cliff Mass, Seattle’s beloved weatherman gone to the dogs, to hear his take. Mass has the rather mundane title of professor of atmospheric sciences at UW and literally wrote the book on Pacific Northwest weather.