One of the big problems I have with my site right now is audience. My main focus in writing has always been fiction. It’s what I’ve done best. I’m not good at any other kind of writing. Actually, I’m not good at any writing right now, because I’m so out of practice and [...]

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I’m a little late on the uptake for this, but Derrida is “dead.”http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3729844.stm
Here you’ll find some snarky commentary by people who think they know what Derrida was all about. This is a minor point of annoyance for me. Deconstruction has become synonymous with “analysis.” In other words, people think that deconstructing texts is [...]

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I may be a little late on this, but my favorite website about New York has a brief interview with my favorite writer on the Internet , Paul Ford.
Be sure and check out Paul’s best NPR voice.

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Michael J. Totten resolved to ramp up the writing gigs in 2004. It makes me wish I could start a magazine, online or otherwise, or that I’d get off my ass and launch Lies Lies Lies. Regardless of venue, you owe it to yourself to check out his writing and thinking.
I guess I [...]

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We’re at the pinnacle or just beyond it. A steady progression and career path is no longer yours for the taking and most certainly not your reward for sticking it out. Already the “vast sucking sound” of jobs fleeing to India has made you perk up and notice. You got a little [...]

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Mig at metamorphosism.com has come up with the ultimate in drunken, writerly privation and formed it into a challenge:

Note to Mig: I’ll save a copy of the image locally when I get home from work and have no firewalls preventing the vital connectivity required for such activity.

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I just got my copy of We Ain’t Got No Car #7 from Jack Saturn via the good ole postal service. I have decided it shall be my MARTA reading.

I love this type of thing: a guy putting out a high quality product on his own, outside of a system set up by [...]

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Gonzo sports journalism? Hunter S. Thompson on ESPN.com.
Remind me to tell y’all some of my Hunter S. Thompson stories from back in the days when I lived in Aspen. They are classic.

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Read how a guy named Ev announced he’d sold his company to Google

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When I was home in Colorado for Thanksgiving, I found an old journal of mine that I kept when I played drums for Taung Child (ca. 1996). The idea was that I was going to actually focus on the musician side of my life and take notes, get intellectual on music, and basically be [...]

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Artist Hopes Dairy Herd Makes Poetry
Mon Dec 2, 2:13 AM ET Add U.S. National – AP to My Yahoo!
By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press Writer
PURCHASE, N.Y. (AP) – Any artist can paint cows. Nathan Banks paints ON cows.

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From now on, refer to me as a member of the snoozeoisie.

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Here’s a nice bit of prose from a college buddy of mine. Be sure to hit MORE down there to get the full post. It has a great ending.
I went yesterday to get my TN driver’s license reinstated. Talk about
govtmental red tape and snafus. I walked into the TN motor vehicle
multipurpose building over [...]

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The Dooce is alive and writing. You can read the article at The Morning News.

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The Dooce (site) has ceased publishing her site due to friction it has caused in her personal life.I’m sad to see her go. Her sardonic musings and pithy analysis of common situations were a pleasure to read, and almost always side-splittingly funny. But I can respect her decisions. Go read her archives and [...]

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