Manhattan Offender

Caption this.

Seriously. Words have, for once, failed me.

Okay, so, like, full disclosure? I'm going to DC for The Inauguration but did not know about this leather party thingie and, well, that's not really my scene. Because of beardiness and other attributes though, the leather folks always give me the "kno

Barack Obama Is Your New Gay Biker Party.

Subconjuntioned tone piece II

So I receive this email from someone that has seen my picture on some website or another and approaches me, via email, for NSA sex and, being an open-minded person, I ask him to send pictures of himself, actually "many picture" and he totally did in addition to sort of his whole life story, up to and including his current “openly mutually cheating” relationship, and being polite, I sent back a critique of the pictures, his "poorly lit, very 'self--holding-phonecam' pic” for which the color was off because of the lighting, and, so, he promised (twice and profusely) to get new pictures and send them right away, but regardless, I didn’t have an interest in this person, and really hadn’t expressed one, although there was an interest as to why he seeks the approval of this person whose picture he had seen on a website, but that was explained sort of in his last email asking for one confirmation:  “This is momo, right?”

One day after all of the start-ups become dried-ups and all the domain names have been bought by Berkshire Hathaway and the only websites you see are by corporations, the needy desperate story of the Internet, how we reacted to it and how our interactions were transformed by it, will be written, and it will be the saddest story ever written, except for "Old Yeller".  And maybe the beginning of Bambi.

 

Season, Over

I am not dying to get published

From a recent pitch that went well with a magazine editor but was halted by the editor-in-chief:

"It would be a different thing had you been permanently injured or in a coma or had died or something, but as it is the story, while a great story, isn't transformative enough."