Broken Kingdom

So excited for my writing partner, Jason Gurvitz, who produced Broken Kingdom and the related documentary, Kingdom Come, which both premiere on Showtime tonight. Watch them.

Watch a caterpillar turn into a butterfly, in 3D

(Via)

Reading and Loving

Tenth of December, by George Saunders. “Victory Lap” is one of my favorite short stores ever.

“Thank you for telling us all of this. Good luck with the rest of your life!”

My Dead Parents

For the past two years, I’ve been writing about my family, and myself, on an anonymous Tumblr I elegantly named My Dead Parents. It’s been an incredible experience, but one I didn’t really… Read More →

Boston

Heartbroken.

Salt

It’s pretty much the best. (Via)

“What are you telling me? That you’re gonna leave Emily and run away with the winner of the Zelda Fitzgerald Emotional Maturity Award? “

Oh, Woody. Manhattan gets me every time. 

Sweet

So happy that my story “Bang” got a shout out in the LA Times’ review of the current issue of NOON. It’s a great issue and is full of outstanding work. 

Ukrainian killer dolphins on the loose in the Black Sea

“Using old Soviet Union techniques, Ukrainian scientists trained dolphins to attack and kill swimmers using knives and guns strapped to the heads of said dolphins…Today, the dolphins escaped.” Really, Ukraine??? (Via)

First LA Reading

I’m part of a great line up this Saturday, March 16th, at the The Comrade Club - 121 E 6th St, downtown. Starts at 8. Readers include my awesome friend Chiwan Choi, Andrew Choate, Sam Dufelmeier, Chip Godwin, Robert… Read More →

Yay

“Shoppers waited for the doors to open at Fairway in Red Hook, Brooklyn, which reopened for the first time since it was ravaged by Hurricane Sandy.” (Via) Miss you so, Red Hook.

Lilly’s World

So proud of Mark(o) for taking first place in PDN’s travel photography portrait contest. Such a beautiful photo!

(Finally) Reading and Loving

“GEORGE SAUNDERS DOES NOT NEED TO WRITE A GODDAMN NOVEL ALREADY”

I wrote this.    

Can Forgiveness Play a Role in Criminal Justice?

This is the most thought-provoking thing I’ve read in a long time. It provokes so many different, and conflicting, thoughts and emotions that I can’t even keep them straight.

Youths fared no better

The United States has the highest infant mortality rate among these countries, and its young people have the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancy and deaths from car crashes. Americans lose more years of life before… Read More →

Ride

I was on the fence about this video until the end, and then I was like, YES.

Love you, girl

Yes Please

                       

Work Whiskey Women

I used to always post pictures of the great books I encountered when I traveled, but then I just stopped. Not sure why. Maybe because I am infinitely distractible. Anyway, I encountered The… Read More →

Hello, Narnia

Night boarding in Tahoe. Doesn’t get much more magical than this. I swear there were fawns darting between the trees.  

Hello, San Francisco

Read and Loved

I am in awe of this book, and I want to buy it for everyone. Problem is, it came out six years ago, so I’m pretty sure everyone else has read it. I’m… Read More →

pronounced “hashtag men’s wear”

This parallel, remora-like universe took on the name #menswear (pronounced hashtag men’s wear) after the tag that was affixed to posts on Tumblr. Love. (via)