The inaugural podcast includes me reading my short story “Life on Mars”, a short piece involving a resigned man grappling with guilt on the surface of Mars while living among a sociopathic shipmate. It runs about 8 minutes and is probably not appropriate for work/children. Future podcasts will include more stories, fiction, and essays, and possibly interviews and discussions.
Archive for May, 2009
True Customer Service Stories: The Pie is Broken
It was 10:50 on a Wednesday night, and I was working at the cafe with my boss. By this point, he was pretty much burnt on owning the establishment. This night, he was uniquely irked. He was filling in for an employee that had failed to show up, an indignity only exacerbated by having to shovel bum shit out of the supplies shed. Two middle-aged women walked up while we prepared for closing time, a tantalizing ten minutes away. My boss and I looked at each other with glares that said “which one of us is going to relent and serve them?” He demurred after a couple of shared stand-offish glances. (more…)
A Cultural History of the Hipster Bogeyman
The transformation of the “hipster” from straw man to bogeyman has been a gradual process: here’s a first, incomplete draft of this supremely important cultural history. (more…)
News 5/3/09
Not much to report for now, just a quick news update. This new site is almost completely finished and out of its pre-pubescent ‘beta’ status. I’m working on a number of writing pieces for a few outlets, which I’ll have links to soon, and I hope to put the finishing touches on this new site design within the week. For the time being, take a look at the music page, which includes posts including full-album downloads of a number of the musical projects I was involved in (and all of the compilations I put together,) as well as my new personal blog, which is full of needlessly inflammatory items. There’s also an exhaustive metafeed of items I’m reading and posting to various social media tools, and a cherry-picked archive of articles I’ve written over the past couple of years. Thanks for reading, there’s a ton coming up so check back soon!