weapons of massdistraction

I’ve never been a very lucky person, unless bad luck is taken into consideration…but I do seem to have the market cornered in one area. Over the past decade I have, periodically, been able to score guest list spots from our local college radio station. There seems to be a certain formula at work: [...]

If you are in NYC, or can be on March 25th, check out Where’s My Democracy (WMD), a fundraising event featuring new fiction readings by Paul Auster, Michael Cunningham, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, Gary Indiana, Jhumpa Lahiri, Joyce Carol Oates, Lou Reed, Susan Sontag, Wendy Wasserstein, and Colson Whitehead. The other day [...]

Too tired to create my own content this fine morning, so… Dan on the run went to the corner store for a loaf of bread and came back with something unexpected. Jason sees an upside to the bus strike. There’s this girl child using a photo of mine, of my Dad (scroll down to [...]

Last night I dreamt I had a daughter named Cunning, around toddler age…and another, a baby girl whose name I didn’t quite catch. Or couldn’t pronounce. But definitely can’t remember. The little man had grown. He was much taller (taller I am now, which isn’t saying much) and was quite capable of caring for [...]

I read a lot, mostly fiction…what with my tendency towards escapism and all. If I go more than a day or two between books I get a bit, well, anxious. The other night it came to a head. Everyone in our little household was coming down with a cruddy cold. The little man was [...]