Month: April 2009
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Just Another Sunday Night (with Cat and Pamie and Pamie’s Mom)
Cat Davis thought she’d be so funny doing a dramatic reading of my first short story. …And then this happened. (Sorry about the hat. I was trying something out. Won’t happen again.)
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Photographic Evidence of the Last Time I Will Ever Be In This M’fn Convenience Store
I hope you like this picture I took last night, even though it’s not a good picture. I’m looking for some kind of bright side to what happened after I’d taken it. I’d been waiting in line for a long time. Long enough to look up, see these lights and think, “Why?” After I paid…
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Sirens v Varsity Brawlers Promo
The Los Angeles Derby Dolls are proud to have been honored as one of the Treasures of Los Angeles.
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currently reading/just read:
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: The Story of Success Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen Christopher Potter: You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe Bill Willingham, Lan Medina: Fables Vol 1: Legends in Exile Alessandro Baricco: Silk
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Liz Feldman Has a New Gig
Look, I have been friends with Liz Feldman for a very long time now and I can tell you with absolute certainty: that’s real fear in her eyes when Ray Liotta’s staring her down with his Manson Lamps. And that made me laugh.
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LADD: Sirens vs. Varsity Brawlers
April 18 – Sirens v. Varsity Brawlers At the Doll Factory, 1910 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles Buy Tickets Now! We keep selling out, so get your tickets early if you know what’s best for you. [Half-price tickets available here!!]
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Read and/or Reading
Amity Gaige: The Folded World. I fell completely, totally, 100% in love with this, and read almost all of it in a bathtub. Jonathon Keats: The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-six Keith Gessen: All the Sad Young Literary Men Sloane Crosley: I Was Told There’d Be Cake
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“Don’t Bother Me, I’m a Douchebag Eating a Cheeseburger.”
“Did you ever have a boyfriend who treated you badly, and you wondered, ‘Where did he learn to treat women that way? Maybe from his dad?’ Well, if his dad was named Carl Senior, then yes.” — Sarah Haskins Target Women: Carl’s Jr.