Hmmm.

Twenty nine and kicked out of a party, a fight I think I may have started, a bag of chips that blew apart on the wall, a bad Eli Manning impersonation (or a good one? N'yuk n'yuk) Pardo rubbing chips into the carpet FUCK YO CARPET no neck in red shirt shooting daggers at us all night long, I was given a nineties hip hop name, it was Usher but I ( Read more... )

Do you ever have that dream where you're hanging out with him and he's talking even though he's obviously clearly an infant, and everything's going well except he absolutely will not tell you his name, and then you don't go back to sleep for twenty-eight more years?

I'm a cork on the ocean ( Read more... )

The Beach Boys were a band of brothers and local friends who formed in a city near the ocean. The creative force of the band was emotionally unstable, preferring to stay off the road to perfect his "uncommercial" masterpieces. Another was a temperamental braggart, always keenly aware of his inferiority and yet successfully scaring the leader off ( Read more... )

These days, posting in livejournal feels like a political act, but I just wanted to tell the world something, and it's this:

I play drums in two bands now, and one of them is based out of New Brunswick. Our first show was tonight, and it went really well, but it was at a party and I was feeling pretty anxious and lonely and Topher-like. I wasn't ( Read more... )

It's funny that the more secrets I have, the less inclined I am to write about them.

Hey everyone.

I'm broke and I miss New Jersey, and now I'm going to get something to eat.

You should read John Darnielle's Master of Reality, because I'm positive he wrote that for me.

Life immitates art: I wrote (and abandoned) a short one-act wherein a couple goes grocery shopping, and at the counter they're told their debit card has insufficient funds. Yesterday that's exactly what happened to us; and as my surrogate character felt in the play ("Lost in the Supermarket," I felt like crawling in a hole, much as my surrogate ( Read more... )

Literary types go here and tell me what you think:

http://tophsroughdrafts.blogspot.com