TRUTH.

The decline of fiction starring Jonathan Safran Froer

Last week the Atlantic announced that from here on in, it would be publishing fiction only once a year, in a special issue. Once upon a time, Playboy supported a whole generation of worthwhile authors, from Shel Silverstein to Isaac Bashevis Singer and a host of talented goys, too. Before that, Sports Illustrated published Faulkner. Now, there’s The New Yorker and the Paris Review and little else, and the consolidation of publishing houses has nearly wiped out the mid-list author, leaving young authors with just one chance to write that great book before they get dropped, and just a handful of editors deciding who gets that one shot at the brass ring. With the decreasing number of outlets for quality fiction, each season’s “young stars” find themselves praised regardless of the quality of their work—there’s a common readership for Lahiri and Eggers, even though she’s brilliant and he’s anything but.

dear internet there is no bondage information on my website

Last month’s search terms leading to my site:

Listing the top 30 query words by the number of requests, sorted by the number of requests.

#reqs: search term
—–: ———–
24: password
10: hacked
7: passwords
5: meninpain
5: meninpain.com
5: hogtied.com
4: for
4: hack
4: http://www.whippedass.com
3: movie
3: http://www.waterbondage.com
3: galleries
3: to
3: http://www.hogtied.com
3: whippedass
3: waterbondage.com
2: site
2: system
2: modelbondage.com
2: no
2: apron
2: whippedass.com
2: free
2: user
2: http://www.wiredpussy.com
2: http://www.uniformdomination.com
2: com
2: accounts
2: new
2: http://www.meninpain.com
113: [not listed: 108 search terms]

I’ve got the dry ice and the syringes, so the party’s on!

The power went out and consequently everything in the Server Bathroom went down. I didn’t realize that a church like that would have testimonials, nor did I realize that people were supposed to cry during the testimonials. Their food tastes like dirt, like hippies made it. Bureaucracy is great; just look at Africa!

What will a couple of Goth girls do with a plastinated fetus, hang it from the mirror of their Jetta? I think we’ve inaugurated a Golden Age of Suck at work.

And I said, and I told him I said, look, I just said I need a note saying you’re responsible for damage, which you already are, and it’s 3 am and I’m going home, and of course it’s his footage, he’s going to get his footage, I just need that one little note which he doesn’t want to give me, and I tell you it was a learning experience although I’d learned all this intellectually before. Totally, exactly, totally.

i told her I was Orthodox, and she didn’t believe me, and it just went on like this for like an hour, and I couldn’t believe a 35 year old woman would be this way.

He perked up pretty fast when I explained that it was Federal because he’d done it through the mail. The place was packed with young rich white guys and the occasional girlfriend, you know, the “porn is mainstream now” crowd.

When the revolution occurs, it will be as a series of escalating workplace violence events. I can’t wait.

I, tinerary

I’ll be in SF from May 1-4, and SLO from May 4-6. Then I’ll be back home. I managed to fix my finances so I will actually be staying in hotels and/or motels instead of couch surfing; many thanks to those who offered their couches as surfboards.

Nous nous appellons les squelettes!