I suppose proper protocol is to post those totally cool, sexy Halloween party photos from a night of debauchery and exploits. Fine, whatever. I’ll get around to it in a minute. In the meantime I have one or two things to say that are of mild importance.
The sample chapters are in the mail, finding their [...]

I don’t normally update on a Sunday, but it’s the middle of the afternoon and I’m drunk on a bottle of Sam Adams Chocolate Bock, so I figured I’d give it a whirl. It’s not like I have anything better to do.
I went to Jersey City last night and attended some Halloween parties. I wore [...]

Last night I drove into the city to see Jackie-O Motherfucker at Tonic. I drove in alone, parked somewhere on Prince and walked around SoHo for a few moments. I stopped in a subterranean record store and found a nice copy of Kraftwerk’s Trans Europe Express. Then I parked somewhere on Grand and found a [...]

I’m just printing out the 52-page Chicago chapter (first draft) and sending a copy to two friends, one in central Jersey and one in Chicago. Luckily they are both the kind of people who aren’t going to say, “it’s really good!” without criticism. I fully expect both of them to do everything short of cock [...]

Here it is. The end. It’s very long.
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Richard Wurtz was an out of work computer programmer living alone in Miami, Oklahoma. Without a steady job, he spent his days searching for opportunities to provide local businesses with freelance web design. The remainder of his time was spent in a nearby casino and off-track betting house [...]

Today’s portion of the story is a bit slow-moving. You have to watch some paint dry before the real action occurs. This is, as we say in the biz (the unemployed writer’s biz) the calm before the storm, and by “storm” I mean “disaster… sweet, hilarious disaster!” Yesterday actually set a record number of visitors [...]

Like all movies/books, the middle section drags a little. In a related story (tangentially related, because everything here has to do with my life in some form or another), the sample chapter of my book will be finished this week, guaranteed. The time to shop it around is quickly approaching.
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The next morning, the campus was [...]