Anne Lukeman took Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work and turned it into a teaching tool for filmmakers. It lends itself especially well to noir.

John McAfee might be his own worst enemy—at least when it comes to the press. When I arrived in Belize, Quorumex staffers were still reeling from what they felt was a hit piece of McAfee in Fast Company, which painted McAfee as an arrogant huckster on the run from lawsuits in the United States, including [...]

Another piece on Gizmodo, which is getting less traffic than a reposted XKCD comic. “Disabled Explorers In the World’s Most Badass Short Bus” [Gizmodo]

My latest piece on Gizmodo, which is one of my favorites: “Lots of times the families will go down to Kinko’s,” the funeral director tells me. “They can do a memorial folder thing down there.” Do you help them get photos off Flickr, off Facebook? “We don’t really help with that.” * * * The [...]

The first time I ever came in anyone’s mouth, it was into the mouth of my stepfather. He had slipped into my room while I slept, crawled under my covers from below, and gone down on me. I woke only as I began to ejaculate, pleasure masking confusion. Then, shame. I pushed him off of [...]

I wrote this around the New Year for Gizmodo, but for some reason (it’s super fruity?) it got lost in the shuffle, so here it is. Fire was not the first technology. It was the alphabet. By allowing us to tell a story, the transmission of knowledge blossomed, from myth to story to joke. And [...]

Romance has fled from travel. Flight is humiliating. Frisked and stacked nearly upright, airline passengers are captive patrons of the world’s least appetizing snack bars. Who rides the bus? Subways have utilitarian charm, but little grace. In America, if we want to travel with the last scraps of class, we’re left with the train. I’m [...]

I’m back on board at Gizmodo, sans title, but I think you could call me a “contributing editor” or some such. Check your local internet for details. I wrote this piece for The Awl, about New York and my ejaculatory experiences thereon. I was interviewed from the showfloor of CES by All Things Considered about [...]

In retrospect—a perch rising under with glacial immanence, pushing me further away from the hope I’d once had, as I gave up my city, my friends, what little that was secure in my life in the first place, tossed plans aside, only to see hope teased just a bit further away, then a bit more, [...]

…is my newfound love for The Turtles. They built a whole sequence around this song in the movie and even the addition of January Jones couldn’t save it. But the music nearly did.