I got a call from Las Vegas CityLife editor Steve Sebelius today. “I’ve got some not-so-great news,” he said. I started writing a column for the CityLife back in, oh, late 2000 or early 2001. Originally called “Cyber Spyder”, it was a sort of basic technology column. I did so at the request of then-editor […]
Tag Archives: Writing
Dark Miracle
I just reposted my microjournalism story “Dark Miracle”, by request from several readers. I no longer have all the images I embedded in the story, but the text is there for you to read, if you’re so interested.
A Terrible Beauty Is Born
I just finished the first draft of a Cthulhu comic script I’ve been working on with my buddy Josh Wagner (whose comic book Fiction Clemens is appearing this month, and you need to go buy it, or I’ll totally kick your ass). It’s the first real piece of fiction I’ve finished in a long time. […]
This Monkey's Gone To Heaven
[This is pure fiction. I never saw any bands when I was in high school that got famous later, though I did see Jeff Ament from Pearl Jam in the parking lot of Tower Records in Missoula, MT. I recognized him, but I didn’t know from where — I thought he was just a friend […]
Three Days Was The Morning
[Holy shit, I’m over 10,000 words into this. I haven’t gotten that far into any fiction in a long time. I know these excerpts don’t make any sense, by the way. And they’re not in direct linear order. There’s lots of stuff in between. Also, can anybody name the Okkervil River reference in this one?] […]
Red Chuck Taylors.
[Another excerpt, which might give you a clue as to what sort of story this is.] I don’t know if it was real, if it was part of everything that happened later, if it was a dream. I don’t know. I got up out of bed and squinted the sleep out of my eyes. The […]
Bastards Of Young
[Here’s a little excerpt for you, from something I’m messing around with. I don’t know if this will ever see the light of day as part of a larger work, but I like it a lot, so I’m putting it here. Most of the details are autobiographical, with one exception: I was never skinny.] Anyone […]
Istanbul: City Of Cats Now Available On Volette
Some of you know this, but I’m formally announcing it as of now: I’m serving as the editor-in-chief of Volette, a new and badass travel blog created by my friend and colleague Joe Tangredi. Volette is going to be my kind of travel blog, which means it’s going to be weird and cool and will […]
Poetry I Have Known And Loved
(Sorry, the title made me grin.) So I used to host a poetry open-mike. I like some poetry. Not all of it. Not even much of it. But here are some links to poems I really like. I realize none of this is particularly obscure or controversial, but hey, you might find something here you’re […]
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Halo 3 Cheat Codes, as Explained by Neglected Girlfriend Janet Iverson.
An amusing piece in McSweeney’s, written by my colleague er, I mean editor boss Andrew Kiraly.