10.8.08
Just a minute ago I wrote the following:
“A new term for people to use if they want! A whole new word that I wouldn’t call ‘mine’, exactly, but I was there, I was privy to the magic, I touched the magic myself. I helped, truly. And if I sound proud it is only because I am proud because the term is damn good. The term is: GOOGLEGANGER. Or, in lowercase, googleganger. This is a person who ______ and ______ and really, I think the term makes sense enough. But! I also think it should extend also to non-googled gangers. Meaning that for me, the term’s meaning spreads to these gentleman…LINK HERE TO SEE GOOGLEGANGERS.”
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But then I became worried and went to google ‘googleganger’ and it turns out I’m way the hell behind on the whole thing. And now embarrassed. Someone could have told me. It would have killed you to tell me?
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On a plus note, there will very very soon be exciting news about THE SLIDE, which is the novel I wrote, and which is now available for pre-order for an economic turmoil price (see: Recently Updated Steps to PRE-ORDER THE NOVEL!). The exciting news is so close I can smell it.

9.14.08
“I’m not sure it’s the easiest time.”
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It was only through countless failed emulations of David Foster Wallace that I learned how to write.
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Thank you, sir, for the lessons. I hope you have found peace.

9.02.08, 9.03.08
Turns out I was once again totally wrong. Here’s updated info on the show…
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On Thursday, September 4, a project (COLLABO!!!!) I’ve done with Benjamin Shepard will show at the MAPS CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE in Belleville, IL.
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The event starts at 5:30 with a pub-skrawl from the Pin Up bar in the Loop, to the Metrolink, to Belleville, to some other bar, and then to the MAPS space. From that point on, MAPS will present the artwork along with Djs Crucial (Rob Fulstone, as honest, genuine, and talented as any man I know) and Ryan Sublette (a fine man, too, though I know him less personally; I didn’t GROW UP with Ryan, riding around in his tinted-out Cherokee, boxish, pouring sweat and drinking cans of Nestea, sometimes running the car’s heat in August so the pool would be that much more refreshing, Digable Planets and Compton’s Most Wanted, Social Distortion, our jeans huge, low, wheels tiny, trucks tight, boards everslicked…), who will play music. Then it will be like a bigtime art opening and man oh man, man alive, everyone should really go.
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More (better) info here: PRETTY SKATEBOARDS.
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Thank you for visiting.

8.26.08
Someone told me the last post was boring. I told him, I thought it was charming and he said, You would.
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Now I’m going to change “On: Beginning New Projects, Failing Awesomely” to “+ Radical Business News +”. I hope this will give the impression of importance and excitement. The newly expanded scope will now include a schedule of appearances and events, along with more personal updates about very personal items.
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I just watched footage of Ryan Sheckler’s mom cheering for him at the 2008 Action Sports Tour Dew Tour: Wendy’s Invitational Street Finals. It was all there — girls in the stands were holding up signs and the announcers called the action, they’ve memorized the names of tricks and they inflect when excited, and the name of the event is something so long it absolutely must be a joke, no publicity team would otherwise allow it, it’s funny, it must be funny, and it tastes in my mouth like I just bit into a piece of shit. But this is the natural growth, isn’t it. They are not joking.

8.24.08
New York City! Here to celebrate a birthday (mine) and help the lady find a home. “Help” in big massive quotations. Also here to meet with my editor at Dial…give him a chance to change his mind about publishing THIS NOVEL. He assured me he is not going to change his mind, or reveal an ongoing practical joke or speak remorsefully of budget cuts. Good man, my editor. Plus also the salmon was DIVINE.
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And I saw famous people! Slumming among normal people at this bar! Three men actors and THANK GOD someone had a Blackberry so we could figure out exactly who in the shit we were looking at. And guess who it was?! The handsome leading man from Jesus’ Son, drinking and gesticulating with the soon-to-be male lead from Chuck Palaumauiniacciak’s Choke (who’s also, Sam Rockwell, starring in a film adaptation of DeLillo’s End Zone, which good freaking luck to whoever is in charge of that project)! Along with some other guy who I could only point at and say, “Famous. That guy in red. Yeah that guy’s for sure famous.” And I was sort of right. And he sort of awkwardly hit on the lady as she went to the loo. And I thought, THANK GOD famous actors are still awkward despite despite despite.
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Also managed to lose my cell phone in the back of a taxi cab, but that is really none of your business. Sometimes a man falls asleep immediately after becoming 30 years old. It is really no big deal. Lulled to sleep by the soothing rhythms of maniacally driven car and madcap mystery bluetooth chatter. Happens all the time once you’re 30. So if you know me or ever want me to call you, send me your phone number, please. And thank you again for visiting the site.

8.8.08(?)
I’ve become concerned about potential confusion between this home page, here, and the other page, called, “Updates on the Novel”. Because I’d like, here, to offer some updates regarding the status of The Slide, though I’d prefer to do so without infringing on the domain of that specific page and its specific purpose. As such, I am changing the name of “Updates on the Novel” to “Personal Insights Into The Nature Of The Novel, The Slide, Written By Me”. The new specificity of the page title will allow this home page to offer more general updates about release date, cover design, lavish praise heaped upon the book itself, etc. In the future I will make such changes without any fanfare whatsoever.
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Thank you, again, for coming.