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Questions One Should Never Ask

              Does it get any bigger? Do you have this in flax? Are those pants? Why is it moving? Which one is the dog’s toothbrush? Do you want to see my extra nostril? What do you mean what do you mean? Does your mom know? When will you shut […]

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The March of the Novel

It is almost done. The editing part. I received what has to be one of the best letters ever from any editor anywhere. And then I read the manuscript, which was odd – I haven’t read it in over a year. I went through my editor’s comments. We Skyped (she’s based in Brooklyn). And then, […]

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T-SHIRT SLOGANS THAT ALWAYS GET REJECTED

              I met a girl from Kalamazoo Fuck the rainforest My other t-shirt is a bowl of ramen You have hills. I have mountains. It’s not breakfast if you don’t stop eating! They don’t call me Godzilla for nothing I make a great second impression We pulled the goalie […]

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This is the Best and Most Informative Book About Farting and Everything To Do With Farting Ever Published

Your lexicon will be greatly improved upon reading this. You will learn of “mylar pantaloons” and “odor judges” and reverse engineering a fart. Or “flatus.” Why Bismuth pills are good. Why hydrogen sulfide is bad. And about the “archbishop of roughage.” Yes. I’m going to purchase the book. Of course I am. This is exactly […]

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Places I Have Never Visited

Idaho The Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea Hell in a handbasket Where the Sun Don’t Shine Paraguay Middle Earth Kingdom Come The Court of the Crimson King Harper Valley Yo Mama

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List: Stuff I Kinda Like (the start of something edition)

On Opening Day, I thought I’d add (yet) another list of stuff I kinda like, this one about things that start something, or foretell something, foreshadow, or even start the process of anticipation. Sometimes, the thing that starts something is more exciting than what follows (Opening Day is the perfect example: if you had to […]

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List: Movies I Kinda Liked (in no particular order)

There’s no rhyme or reason to this. Maybe I’ve been into lists recently. I’ve liked more movies than the ones listed below. For sure. But the truth is, I’m also picky. It’s my curse. Touch of Evil The Aristocats Raising Arizona The Birds Apocalypse Now A Clockwork Orange Badlands The Big Night Jules et Jim […]

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Some Long Islands

Java Cuba Honshu Baffin Eleuthera In the Stream No man is an Fantasy Iced Tea Long

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This Might Be My Favorite Tweet Mention Ever

Here’s a tip: If offered a chance to walk around in @arjunbasu‘s head, politely decline. It would be fascinating, but you WOULD NOT SURVIVE. — lisha cauthen (@lishacauthen) March 23, 2013

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Sometimes The Honesty’s Not Too Much

I was just GMail chatting with a friend and she told me she was at an event with a writer and he was asked: Can anyone be a writer? And the writer was honest enough to say NO. I’ve been asked this as well. I often respond with a question of my own (which, I […]

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