Awhile back I was interviewed by Nerve for their feature “Sex Advice from Extremely Tall Women.” I will warn you before you click the link that there’s not so much advice as there is talk…
Date Archives 2011
Two discoveries I made today (plus two bonus discoveries)
First, this afternoon I discovered I cannot write about music without headphones. It’s probably a procrastinatory crutch, but I tried and failed miserably. Something about wearing headphones makes the music more immediate, easier to talk…
Re-evaluating Personal Artifacts: A new project I may or may not abandon in a month
For the past few months, I’ve had a few ideas floating around in my head. I don’t even know if they’re actual ideas so much as figments of possible ideas. Here’s how it all started….
My American Uneasiness
Why are you unhappy? That’s the question thirty-something midwestern Zeke Pappas asks his subjects. He’s gathering answers for his magnum opus, a study of American Unhappiness. When the novel opens we’re nearly finished with the…
Things we can be done with now, a short list of knock it off
Writing bitchy posts about annoying Facebook users. Yeah, we’ve all done it. But most of us did it last year, so your witticisms about Vaguebookers are almost as annoying as a Vaguebooker. Shut up and…
Junior & Flunior: A tale of two penguins
As I’ve mentioned before, Liam’s best friend/alter ego is a small stuffed penguin named Junior. The stuffed penguin spouts all the opinons and sassiness Liam would like to say but knows he probably shouldn’t, and…