“Beetle Boop”

A classic fave from Michael Kupperman

Lords of Saturday

22-year-old cool-guy rides his bike through a red light. On the next block, a different, uglier 22-year-old cool-guy rides his bike through a red light. The Lord of Saturday takes a sip of water from a half-crushed plastic bottle as he coasts. It’s 10 a.m. This is their element. They are the Lords of Saturday. [...]

The Most Important Short Story of Your Generation

NPR’s Guy Risdall sipped his fourth cup of coffee. He listened to the first Helmet record on headphones as he responded to emails. The song played so loud, and Guy felt so high from the caffeine that, even though he could see a clear sky through the window in the corner of his vision, he [...]

Clarissa Explains Most of It

Horsey is champing at the bit! He is a professor of Spanglish at Domenicka Girl University of Barbados County, which is a hot little sub-county within Marin, in Northern California. Horsey teaches: poetry indie-rock criticism short story table mannahzzzz peacock shootin’ jewish studies ovary sciences a river runs through it (fly fishing) ENGL204: “John Fante [...]

Link to an Interesting Article About Twitter

SHOUTING INTERNET GUY: I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL EVERYONE LEAVES AND IT’S JUST ME IN THE OFFICE BLASTING STREAMING WEIRD INSTRUMENTAL HIP HOP AND MY TINY BOWL OF HONEY ROASTED CASHEWS RUNNETH OVER, WEARING A CRAZY WIG OF PAD THAI THAT FALLS INTO MY EYES, GCHATTING WITH MC PAUL BARMAN, GCHATTING with self-loathing people in New [...]

Speedy Marie

DEB: Don’t waste your youth. Don’t waste this coffee high. Get it down on paper. Grab life by the clear plastic tab and tug gently until you reach orgasm. VIJAY: What? DEB: Don’t pretend like you don’t know what I’m talking about, Vijay. V: I know what you’re talking about. DEB: Thank you. [East-coast trees [...]

Monday/////Detroit

—unhappy —why —work —it’s not that bad. —you know, being hungover at work is the WORST, but somehow days like today when I brought my lunch and slept 7.46 hours and drank a few rounds of earl grey on the same teabag and practiced zazen for 15 minutes and caught up on the news and [...]

Red Red Meat

I like/hate it when bloggers say things like… Welcome, HTMLGiant webtrawlers! …whenever there’s an influx of traffic from a generous link posted by a generous fellow webtrawler. But I’ll say it anyway: Hi, guys! I also struggle. I also did drugs. I also occasionally write things down and think too hard about the wrong things. [...]

this is tonight. I’m currently figuring out what I’m going to do. Don’t worry, it’s going to be great. Tonight and Saturday. Chen Santa Maria generously lent me a steak costume, and will also be performing on Saturday. Come. Don’t come. And so on. “Yikes”

bhlondrehdead

They handed out ‘x‘ logo t-shirts to the crowd, to thank them for coming to see them even though they were “competing with Chipmunk and Lethal Bizzle“.[11] UPDATE: A few days after A.B. introduced me to The xx, I read good old SF/J‘s fun column about them in the New Yorker. I like the way [...]