Category Archives: Babies

the party

June 24, 2011 – 11:00 pm

I love my dad. I don’t know if he reads this blog. Tonight was his birthday party. I went with my fiancée, Gerhard Richter’s Daughters.   GRD: It was weird. This one woman was mean to you. Q: GRD: And then Henry ate your headphones. Q: Henry is our dog. These were the $2 Virgin [...]

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The Lonely Dads of Noe Valley

February 7, 2011 – 4:17 pm

Even though I quit my job of eight years I am not unemployed though I am certainly not overemployed and there are things I should be doing but today it feels impossible to do them. I have been scooping the internet too hard and now my voice is stuck in this breathless Tweety Drescherian whine.  [...]

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Let This Hangover Be Not Wasted

October 27, 2010 – 5:23 pm

I’m in a book club with a whole bunch of pseudonyms: Jeremiah’d, Paulie Groundphones, Li’l Broheim, Shampoosie, et al. Maybe their pseudonyms should be taken from the book we’re reading, instead of from the jovial thin air above, since the book is already populated by hundreds of perfectly named minor characters. But I’d want an [...]

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“The Indie Yuppie”

October 27, 2010 – 2:14 pm

Christian Lorentzen: What would have happened to Kurt Cobain if he had pulled through his depression and come out the other end to experience the joys of fatherhood? He may well have stopped touring, moved his family to a co-op on the Upper West Side, had a few more kids, applied his considerable literary talents [...]

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Friendly Tip

September 28, 2010 – 1:51 pm

If you have a weird, sad suspicion that you are charismatic but dumb and a bad writer who won’t ever write more than a single half-funny tweet in your entire life, then don’t go into the folder that has all the stuff you wrote 10 years ago and read all of it!!!

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CSR

August 19, 2010 – 4:30 pm

AG: …and have been published or are forthcoming in ROAPE, Mouthwagon, and Came-Tree. AL: So you’re a freelance writer? Is that how you pay the bills? AG: Periodicals publish my writing, yes, but I’m not a freelancer. I’m a writer. AL: Fine, right. OK. But how do you make money? AG: I don’t, really. I’ve [...]

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BABIES

May 7, 2010 – 11:34 am

Babies babies “Babies” babies Babies? Babies babies. Babies babies babies babies babies babies babies babies babies babies Babies? Babies babies, babies. Babies babies babies babies babies babies babies babies Babies? Babies babies babies babies. (Kois 1) It’s pretty much just straight-up babies, all the way through. (Kois 2) (via Lauren Bans)

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