Tag: Writing

  • wow.

    Did I really just spend six and a half hours at a Starbucks? My editor is going to be so proud of me. I don’t have an entry. I just wanted to let you know that things are going to be a little weird around here for the next day or two as AB finishes…

  • Listening to Carlos Mencia on

    Listening to Carlos Mencia on Stern. He is the hardest-working man I’ve met in this business. I know everybody’s busy, but I have no idea when Carlos sleeps. He took an early chance on me, and I’m grateful for everything I learned from him.

  • Half a Tank of Gas

    Yesterday. 7:00am — So. Tired. 9:00am — 10 miles Drive to Hollywood to meet and welcome the new kid. He does not disappoint. I draw a not-to-scale and only slightly inaccurate map of all the Los Angeles he’ll need. [Hey, Eric. Last night I drove through Culver City. It is nowhere near Sherman Oaks. I…

  • random.

    random.

    die fraulein est strangen! There is nothing cuter than a box of these arriving at your doorstep. Inside each copy is a postcard with an ad for German coffee. I can’t read a word of my book, but I love it. [db] In my own personal battle of Depp V. Chocolate, it’s as if chocolate…

  • A Glamorous Hollywood Lifestyle

    1. You will not be home before eleven. 2. This is because you are at work. 3. When you wake up, it is because you have work to do before you get to work, because there’s so much work you can’t do while you’re at work. 4. Suffer the constant teasing that you’re leaving one…

  • We Need To Talk

    You and I. How should I put this? I’ve been thinking about this conversation for a while now. I want to know the best way to put it to you. Let me try and make it as simple as possible. When I first started this website, I worked for a computer company. Then I worked…

  • a short conversation

    [scripty] Pam Hello? Todd Hey, Pam. It’s Todd. Pam Hey. Todd I, uh, I read your story in the Cold Feet book. Pam Oh, wow. Hey, thanks. Todd Yeah. Pam That makes you officially the only person to have read it. Todd No. Pam Other than stee and people who are paid to read it?…

  • Book Day!

    Book Day!

    A big box of this arrived at my house today: Order it at Amazon Powells or Barnes and Noble.

  • Why Girls Are Weird By the Numbers

    Amazon has added a brand new evil feature. Now you can find out how many letters, words and characters are in the pages of Why Girls Are Weird. You can find out how many “complex words” I used (6%). You can find out what grade education is needed to understand the book (4.8). Sorry, third…

  • random

    Lately, people have made a point to let me know their wishes in the event of their untimely death (or persistent vegetative state). But if any of you are hoping to be shot out of a peyote button clenched in the palm of a 53-foot high Gonzo fist, you should probably let me know now…