My College Radio Application

Dear mom and dad, I went to college from 1999-2003, where I lived, ate, breathed, and smoked college radio (WOBC-FM) all day every day. Then, with a year left, I dropped out to move to CA to work for a magazine. I worked there for the next eight years. Then I fell in love with [...]

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 [...]

The Passion According to B.M.

Benjamin Moser on “Why You Should Know Clarice Lispector” Colm Tóibín, at a wedding in Italy, rushed up to me to proclaim his love for her, and said he would do “anything anything!” to get more people to read her. Orhan Pamuk, who had read “The Passion According to G.H.” in Turkish, confessed at breakfast [...]

CV

My work has appeart in Shit Furnace, Papal Nutsheath, The Crow’s Li’l Quarterly, Preen, Lobestone, Nepali Ice Review, Pindelyboz, Jamiroquai, Text of Whispers, bu*lsh*t, Webslingazz, Postal Mouth, The Meal, Ripyarns, Cambridge and You, Frowncake, Busty Feminist Review, Clamhouse, Ars Poetica, Hayden’s Ferry Review, McSweeney’s, Fence, BOMB, The Paris Review, Open City, The Quarterly, Genesis West, [...]

Brainstorming Session

SHANNON: Maybe we should have called this a barn-storming session! [General laughter.] SHANNON: [Cont] No but really, Jacob, you haven’t been updating the admin site, and we’ve all fallen behind because of your laziness. What’s been going on? JACOB: Well, I stopped being a vegetarian, and it’s really thrown my digestion for a loop. I [...]

An interview with DOUGLAS PAUL TOBY

JONATHAN HUMMY, FILM CRITIC FOR THE NEW LONDON WEEKLY: How were you able to sustain a relationship with a beautiful woman while you were obese, gay, blind, rude, weak, fearful, and dumb? DOUGLAS PAUL TOBY: It’s a wonderful question. I don’t know the answer. What can I say? I had a rich childhood, and it [...]

Clubhouse — Keep Out!

Hey guys head’s up it’s come to my attention that there’s been another “Gamblesong Breach,” meaning that someone other than my best friend Parker is reading this blog. I don’t know how many times I need to post warnings like this but if you’re not Parker then please log out!! This is a private diary [...]

Domo Corpusti

OCEAN: The black flag wavers for a fucking second, not safe for work, a grand glugging gets going and the waters of the world drain away. BUSTY CACTUS: They drain? Don’t you think they’d evaporate first? OCEAN: Naw. No. They drain. Through mine anus. Through mine geo-bio-tunnel. Which, I should add, can be quite sensitive. [...]

private post

I have a degenerative retinal condition that causes severe night blindness normally it only affects me at night/low-light situations this week I’ve been having trouble seeing during the day, too it’s supposedly supposed to  slowly encroach to my “normal” vision but this feels sudden maybe I just need new glasses — my prescription is a [...]

Hope Chest

[Conventional short story about a lonely old man who gives himself a hernia by sneezing] [Interview with Emma Watson, the 19-year-old actress who plays Hermione in the Harry Potter films. Interview covers her personal life, her reading habits, some stuff about "romance." Conducted by FAQ magazine.] [Short essay by anonymous U.S. doctor about all the [...]