Showing posts with label ESSAYS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ESSAYS. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

It's hysterical


My friend Clayton Cubitt launched his Hysterical Literature site today, and it includes an essay I wrote: "The Last Real Porn Star."
This is the number of people who have watched a video of porn star Stoya read an excerpt from Supervert's Necrophilia Variations: 6,986,096.
Stoya is not: naked, having sex, in a porn movie.
She is: reading a book.
By the time you read this, over 7 million people will have watched Stoya read a book.
"We were at a party, you and I," Stoya reads, and everybody listens.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Medium


I wrote a piece on Medium about when my brain got squishy.
You realize there is a problem when you cannot sort the laundry.
Picture it:
There you are, in the laundry room.
The laundry basket is full of dirty laundry.
You look out the window.
It’s:
  1. overcast
  2. the sky is a pale blue with cloud streaking across it
  3. it’s raining and you’re wondering if the roof is going to start leaking again
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