Sorry I Haven't Written in a While

Share this post

User's avatar
Sorry I Haven't Written in a While
Smash Mouth
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More

Smash Mouth

Liam McEneaney's avatar
Liam McEneaney
Sep 04, 2023
∙ Paid

Share this post

User's avatar
Sorry I Haven't Written in a While
Smash Mouth
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
Share

Starting in two weeks or maybe three (I’m recovering from COVID) I’m going to start posting here regularly, twice a week. I’m working on a string of book projects and there will be more about that going forward.

For a while, it will all be free. Then I will go to a model where one post a week is free and one post a week will be for paid subscribers. I know which one will be more popular and that’s okay! This is going to be as much an experiment in self-worth and valuing what I do as it will be a cold-hearted cash grab.

In the meantime I wrote this last night and threw it up on my Facebook page first. Sorry.

Reading the news about Smashmouth founder/frontman Steve Harwell in hospice with liver failure really hit me tonight in a way I’d have never expected. After all, the band has been, for this country, a punchline since their career launched that summer that “Walkin’ on the Sun’ was inescapable. It was one of those songs that felt like it written specifically as a piss take on a vapid n…

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to Sorry I Haven't Written in a While to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2025 Liam
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture

Share

Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More