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What I’m doing this Wednesday: How I Learned to Fight Loneliness

By On August 23, 2011 · In As I Am Now


Something I’m very excited (and very nervous) about: I’ll be appearing at this month’s How I Learned Series, which is happening this Wednesday, August 24, at 8pm — at Happy Ending bar! I’m honored to be part of this lineup:

OPHIRA EISENBERG
(The Moth)
CONNOR GAUDET
(Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood)
BRIAN GROSZ
(Lapdance Academy)
CATIE LAZARUS
(Employee of the Month)
D.E. RASSO
(Love is a Four-Letter Word)

Created, Produced + Hosted by
BLAISE ALLYSEN KEARSLEY

It’s free, did I mention that? Please attend! I’m bringing a copy of the first book I ever wrote. It’s laminated.

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Me & Jon Langford: BFFs

By On July 19, 2011 · In As I Am Now

Over at The Awl, I have a Q&A with the lovely and hilarious Jon Langford. It was nervewracking, I must admit, because even though he’s certainly one of the most easygoing interview subjects I still felt like a total jackass.

Is there any sort of Mekons manifesto in 2011?

Not that you’d write down. But I think there’s a cloud of mass delusion that this is actually worth doing. [laughs]

I think sometimes, a lot of times in the Mekons’ career, the motivation, more than anything else, seemed to be like a big fuck-off to the world: “I will not be ground down into dust.”

Clearly, the longevity of the band must have something to do with that.

Yeah, I think it’s a sort of persistence. It hasn’t been financially rewarding for anyone.

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Yet another distraction

By On May 17, 2011 · In As I Am Now, Cremains


Could it be that the tumblr format is just so damn easy in comparison to WordPress? Lately I’ve felt like the creative equivalent of some dude who hasn’t left his chair for two days, bathed in the glow of a video game, scratching his back with a repurposed spaghetti spoon and eating Kozy Shack pudding with his hands.

Whatever that means. Oh, yes: Tumblr is easier.

So, just to dilute my brand a little more, I’ve created a new tumblr, Lovely Jetsam. It’s an assortment of old items I’ve found on online auction sites, things I would probably buy if I had unlimited funds and space. Go check it out. Follow me, if you must.

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Over at the runoff: The Ironic Combover

By On February 3, 2011 · In As I Am Now

I should just stop riding the bus:

The other day on the B62 bus (a line that wends its way through nearly all the hipster enclaves of Brooklyn) I saw a hipster guy with a giant ironic mustache and this elaborate Hitler-bangs-side-part hairdo, plastered low to his forehead with a prodigious amount of pomade. From the front it was, momentarily, bus-fascinating.

And then! He turned his head, revealing a large and partly concealed bald spot. The monument to vainglory and fixative resins. The Potemkin Coiffure.

In case you’re having a hard time telling them apart, THIS blog is where I hate people who deserve it. THAT blog is where I hate people who (probably) don’t deserve it.

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