Just a brief plug for my old buddy Mike Buzzelli's new book, Below Average Genius. The title describes him perfectly, but I can certify Mike's way above average when it comes to standing in a swimming pool for hours on end and talking to anyone else who… more »

About a year and a half ago I started seeing promos for the show Game of Thrones. To me, it looked dumb.Then the show came on. I'll usually give a new show one episode to hook me, so I watched an episode.I was hooked right away.I watched the next nine ep… more »

The normally pretentious online literary magazine McSweeney's has started a series of what they call 'short imagined monologues.' And here's a great one, from Salvador Dali, Wedding Photographer (actually written by Julia McCloy). You won't get it unless… more »

Let me emphasize right off the bat that I am not dying at the moment and don't even have a cold, but, as I've mentioned here before, a few years back I was indeed very ill, spending two months in hospital and a couple of weeks in a coma. I was absolutely… more »