people often ask me which neil gaiman book they should read first. i’m not a neil gaiman expert. well, that’s not true. i wouldn’t call myself an expert. i’m maybe…a professional? an advanced amateur? i know the MAN. really well. the BOOKS, the COLLECTED WORKS…not as well. i’ve met neil’s fans. i cannot compete. i… Read more »

greetings from just having landed in boston earlier tonight. it’s been a whirlwind few days…(when is it not?) first, there was playing with the colorado symphony & devotchka at red rocks (all photos courtesy of the awesome brandon marshall unless otherwise noted): (ondi timoner & i during soundcheck, photo by @DavidMeKinley) into the crowd (bonus points to… Read more »

Cross-posted from my tumblr. tattoos come into my life a lot, but this one broke my heart open. neil and i both see a lot of tattoos of our words and works on people’s skin, and we have lots of weird tattoo anecdotes. last night I signed the inside of a girls thigh at the littlefield show and recommended… Read more »

hola comrades!!! just came home from the nashville kickstarter house party, which was fucking amazing and a balm for the soul. we dranked, we talked, we graffiti’ed a garage, i road-tested a brand new song. i’ll write more about it and post up some pictures in a couple days (if you were THERE, please send… Read more »

i was just reading an email from ZENA EL KHALIL , an artist from beirut that i’ve been corresponding with lately. she was talking about the various things she and her friends have been through, including much bigger dangers and real death threats on a level i hope i never face. she reminded me that the more you… Read more »

hola comrades. a lot of people asked for this, so here it be: the text from my talk at Grub Street’s 2013 “The Muse and the Marketplace” conference. they’d invited me about 6 months before the conference to give the keynote address, and they wanted me to talk about “the internet”. i was going to… Read more »

hello dear comrades down: thoaty-sick and battling a fever and i kind of want to lie down and die. but i’m not doing that. i’m on a train to new york to do a benefit to save the mermaid parade . the mermaids will heal me, i can feel it. if not: the combination of people on stage will heal me, i… Read more »

hello dear friends. first some quick news, then the dumping of my soul. it came together fast as a slippery lady fish….i’m going to be appearing at a benefit to SAVE THE MERMAID PARADE of coney island. may 25, bowery ballroom, NYC. hurricane sandy was an absolute bitch and has threatened to shut the parade… Read more »

this is me and ondi. if you missed the announcement elsewhere, i’m heavily involved in a kickstarter project that has only a few days to go. the goal is to help filmmaker ondi timoner fund “ a total disruption “…she’s basically crowdfunding her business from the ground up, and her business is to tell stories like mine, so… Read more »

i had dinner with anthony tonight, in bedford, near lexington…a little italian joint in a strip mall. he’s been ok. alive. not great but in what we call the cancer “clearing in the woods”. still surrounded by forest, but uncertain as to where the next battle is. it’s been hard. long. annoying. but he’s alive,… Read more »

hola comrades. it’s been a hard week – but i wouldn’t trade my life for anything. i’m currently blogging from a cafe near seattle. i’m sitting next to cliff, a marine veteran. i asked him what kind of veteran, because i saw his baseball cap. we’ve been chatting for the last hour. he’s now watching… Read more »

hello from the fine old american northwest… where i just delivered one of the first series of kickstarter parties in seattle, about to do one in portland, and will blog bad-ass photos when i get a sec. AND i just bought a package of band-aids at the local QFC for the nasty blister i got… Read more »