TV STARS ON BLAST FOR THE LA WEEKLY

I swear I'm not making this up. I was standing in line at Ralphs buying acai juice for my morning smoothies when Tone, Andy and Josh from On Blast literally grabbed me and woke me up. I was almost asleep, rocking my pajamas and slippers and thinking about how awesome my bed was going to feel. Twenty minutes later we're at someone's apartment doing tequila shots to celebrate their song "Wanna Lose Control" being used on the HBO show "How to Make it in America."

Because I'm good at what I do, I turned this Sunday night impromptu party into a story for the LA Weekly about a band watching (or more like listening) to their tune on TV.

Click here to read it. And yes, I was a bit hungover the next morning. I usually am when I part with those guys.

DAVID SEDARIS IN LA WEEKLY

I hate David Sedaris, but only because I'm insanely jealous of how talented he is. Dude can write like Hendrix played guitar and he makes guys like me look like schmucks. Now that I've brightened your day, click here to read a blurb I wrote about Senor Sedaris for the LA Weekly.

CREATIVE NON-FICTION STORY PUBLISHED AT VIS A TERGO

vis a tergo, the fine folks who brought you Maastricht Coffee Shop, has recently published a creative non-fiction story I wrote about maybe the craziest night of my life. I'd tell you all about it here, but then you wouldn't want to click here.

ANOTHER POEM PUBLISHED AT BURNING SHORE REVIEW

Long Beach's Burning Shore Review has published another one of my poems. I'm very excited because it's always exciting to publish a poem, but this time is even more so. First, the guy who runs BSR is a good guy who never laughs when I order shitty beer. Second, I forgot all about this poem and found it by chance. I was digging through my files, looking for something else, when I came across it. A few days later, it was on the Intranets!

Click here to read all about it.

MORE ON BLAST STUFF IN THE LA WEEKLY

I really like On Blast. I also really like the LA Weekly. So as you can imagine, it's pretty awesome to cover the band for the esteemed publication.

Clicky click here to read all about the band's show with Little Red Radio at Club Moscow.

PS The photo was taken by Jay Oligny.

DAN PIRARO INTERVIEW IN VEGETARIAN TIMES

In 2009, I was incredibly honored to have a Q&A featured in Vegetarian Times. The story was on Dan Piraro, the creator of the comic strip Bizarro. Like me, Piraro is a vegan, so needless to say, we were both excited to be part of Vegetarian Times.

In other VT news, I recently interviewed cartoonist Patrick McDonnell, who created Mutts. That should run mid-2010.

In the meantime, click here to read the interview.

INSPIRATIONAL STORY IN LONG BEACH MAGAZINE

So 2009 wasn't such a great year. One of these days, I'll write a book about the experiences (which included a panic attack, anxiety attacks, claustrophobia and agoraphobia), but in the meantime you can check out this story I wrote for Long Beach Magazine. It details briefly a bit of what I went through and how I got to ride on a zeppelin.

Read all about it here.