Writing

Recently published

• René Girard, The Last Psychiatrist, and Mimetic Narcissism September 14, 2021
• The Umbrellas of Sharebourg April 1, 2021
• The great reshuffling, coming hard and fast to a polity near you September 30, 2020
• A simple OpenAI Jukebox tutorial for non-engineers July 25, 2020
• Setting your working directory to Google Drive in a Colab notebook June 13, 2020

A few of my favorites

• An Email Chain Between 4 People Depicted in Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” (satire)
• The Perfect First Date (satire)
• Leaving Chicago
• Marketing, Drama, and Tension
• The great reshuffling, coming hard and fast to a polity near you

Filmmaking

Writing & Storytelling

• What is suspense? September 1, 2019
• Stories as maps July 21, 2019
• Marketing, Drama, and Tension June 28, 2019
• Drama / melodrama / comedy / farce June 23, 2019
• Travailler, toujours travailler. June 21, 2019
• Sociological vs. Psychological Storytelling June 2, 2019
• A Review of Highland 2 (vs. Final Draft) December 30, 2018
• Screenwriting as a professional fascination November 17, 2018
• The crap +1 fallacy November 13, 2018
• Everyone is writing TV pilots November 8, 2018
• Two kinds of writing advice November 7, 2018
• Rules for work November 3, 2018
• Do screenwriting contests matter? November 2, 2018
• Skill vs talent (in screenwriting) November 1, 2018
• Content September 29, 2018
• Steal a bit from a lot of different places July 17, 2018
• June 10, 2018
• Making people move May 20, 2018
• Akimbo April 16, 2018
• Assorted links September 8, 2017
• “Art is fire plus algebra” September 4, 2017
• Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest August 7, 2017
• “If I were wrong in the script, then that’d be as wrong as I could be” August 6, 2017
• “The purpose of being a serious writer is to keep people from despair”
• How to create your own work as an actor July 22, 2017
• The joy of breaking a story February 5, 2017
• In your head, on the page January 20, 2017
• An app for tracking your daily writing streak January 7, 2017
• Burglars November 10, 2016
• Connect more, collect less July 11, 2016
• The cardinal sin is dullness June 20, 2016
• The identity gap June 19, 2016
• Writing again March 29, 2016
• Listen to everything, but say no to almost everything March 17, 2016
• The task of the craftsman February 14, 2016
• Everything is a remix December 23, 2015
• An interview I did with IFP/Chicago December 19, 2015
• We are creative because everything isn’t okay (yet) December 14, 2015
• Make your characters want something right away December 11, 2015
• Two kinds of perfectionism November 22, 2015
• Deliberate Practice for Screenwriting November 19, 2015
• Editing and Forwards November 7, 2015
• Timelessness in writing October 23, 2015
• Multiple projects at once October 4, 2015
• Some very good tips on screenwriting September 24, 2015
• Process & production notes on the web series September 9, 2015
• Creativity vs. imagination September 5, 2015
• Write what you feel bad about September 3, 2015
• Notes on Soliciting and Interpreting Feedback on Videos (or other creative work) August 12, 2015
• A review of Words Fail Me + an interview with me August 5, 2015
• Some deep wound or hunger was imprinted on them early in life July 2, 2015
• How to create suspense in writing June 25, 2015
• A long-term project is like a palimpsest May 26, 2015
• A story created this way will always be full of life May 24, 2015
• It’s a great joke but it’s an expensive laugh May 23, 2015
• They will probably be hustlers, too May 20, 2015
• Taking notes by hand May 17, 2015
• Boredom is one of the most important things
• /r/Writeresearch May 12, 2015
• As far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required May 9, 2015
• They don’t go to the police because it’s dull February 22, 2015
• Screenplay feedback and accepting that something is broken February 16, 2015
• Doing two important things at once improves the quality of procrastination February 12, 2015
• BEGIN: a staged reading of my screenplay at the Annoyance Theatre February 3, 2015
• What I accomplished by writing an hour a day for most of a year January 5, 2015
• A writer’s life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity November 21, 2014
• But it is the thing that wants to live November 20, 2014
• Can data help you write a better screenplay? November 19, 2014
• Happy New Year. You’re running out of time. November 11, 2014
• Rewriting on paper vs. screen August 27, 2014
• Audience feedback and finding ideas August 10, 2014
• Possibly a more fun psychology thesis than the one you’re doing February 26, 2014
• One of my favorite quotes on creativity February 24, 2014
• Meisner Setups for Writing Short Plays December 23, 2013
• Anachronistic Profanity in Deadwood December 22, 2013

Directing

• Drama / melodrama / comedy / farce June 23, 2019
• Film inspired by paintings April 8, 2019
• The crap +1 fallacy November 13, 2018
• Steal a bit from a lot of different places July 17, 2018
• Better ugly than dull July 7, 2018
• Wrapped on my first feature film July 6, 2018
• The weekend before production June 16, 2018
• The Party (2017) June 12, 2018
• June 10, 2018
• The worst sin a filmmaker can make June 6, 2018
• Back pocket notes June 4, 2018
• What’s the most indirect, intriguing way to present it? April 8, 2018
• It was by thinking of Hitchcock that I could find solutions April 7, 2018
• The Eternal Casting of the Director’s Mind: Fishing, Hunting, and Foraging April 3, 2018
• How to make a microshort March 26, 2018
• Physical comedy is hard July 22, 2017
• Pre-production stress May 16, 2017
• More daring and more sincere May 11, 2017
• Nominated for best director at Portland Comedy Film Festival May 7, 2017
• Christopher Nolan on starting out as a filmmaker January 11, 2017
• Assorted Links November 29, 2016
• Kiarostami interview July 8, 2016
• The cardinal sin is dullness June 20, 2016
• Claude Chabrol on filmmaking April 2, 2016
• Sidney Lumet on theme March 30, 2016
• A surprising number of earnest conversations March 28, 2016
• That’s a wrap March 27, 2016
• Directing kissing scenes March 21, 2016
• The day before production
• Mike Nichols on Directing March 20, 2016
• Breaking down a script as a director March 8, 2016
• The task of the craftsman February 14, 2016
• Really like the movement in this November 14, 2015
• Hitchcock/Truffaut documentary (!) October 7, 2015
• Notes on Directing Improvised Scenes (on camera) August 5, 2015
• Note on Directing for the First Time
• Some deep wound or hunger was imprinted on them early in life July 2, 2015
• Mike Nichols on how improvisation influence his directing style June 22, 2015
• The Kinski entrance June 19, 2015
• Watching with a detached gaze June 17, 2015
• No close-ups, unless we need to May 8, 2015

Comedy

Producing

• The SAG short film agreement is now the short project agreement August 3, 2018
• Better ugly than dull July 7, 2018
• The weekend before production June 16, 2018
• Back pocket notes June 4, 2018
• The stress of the big 3 May 15, 2018
• Wisconsin bird magic May 14, 2018
• Breakfast, Windshield Wipers, Kinko’s May 13, 2018
• $10k Short Film Budget Template April 13, 2018
• The Level-up Method of Filmmaking April 2, 2018
• How to make a microshort March 26, 2018
• How to create your own work as an actor July 22, 2017
• How to Make a Short Film with SAG Actors (and not kill yourself) September 28, 2016

Acting & Casting

• Deepfake casting August 31, 2019
• The SAG short film agreement is now the short project agreement August 3, 2018
• The stress of the big 3 May 15, 2018
• Breakfast, Windshield Wipers, Kinko’s May 13, 2018
• Actor reels, web series, and casting April 12, 2018
• The Eternal Casting of the Director’s Mind: Fishing, Hunting, and Foraging April 3, 2018
• How to Make a Short Film with SAG Actors (and not kill yourself) September 28, 2016

Editing

• The Passage March 17, 2019
• The long dark winter of the edit March 13, 2019
• Newsletter: Berlin + Feature Film Update December 17, 2018
• That first assembly September 29, 2018
• Wrapped on my first feature film July 6, 2018
• The worst sin a filmmaker can make June 6, 2018
• Sidney Lumet on Editing June 17, 2016
• Feedback in the editing process June 14, 2016
• Tony Zhou on editing May 14, 2016
• Speed up Adobe Premiere Pro with previews (how to get rid of those yellow and red lines) April 3, 2016
• Wide-angle close ups and the Coen brothers March 31, 2016
• The task of the craftsman February 14, 2016
• It’s a great joke but it’s an expensive laugh May 23, 2015
• Walter Murch’s hierarchy of editing priorities May 16, 2015

Film Festivals

• Marketing indie films: marketing starts with the product November 28, 2019
• Marketing indie films: how do people choose which films to watch? November 27, 2019
• How much should indie films spend on marketing? November 26, 2019
• Withoutabox is dead. November 18, 2018
• The crap +1 fallacy November 13, 2018
• Do screenwriting contests matter? November 2, 2018
• Skill vs talent (in screenwriting) November 1, 2018
• At the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham September 1, 2018
• WHAM at Sidewalk Film Festival, DC Shorts, and Middle Coast August 22, 2018
• Off Book wins Best Short at Beloit International Film Festival April 6, 2018
• Off Book to premiere in Chicago at the Midwest Indie Film Festival March 2, 2018
• The Deadline Chicago Premiere! September 30, 2017
• The Deadline will premiere at the Middle Coast Film Festival! July 10, 2017
• Off Book has a trailer July 3, 2017
• Festivals and other news June 2, 2017
• Some shorts that I loved from Portland Comedy Film Festival
• Film festivals, feedback, and re-cutting May 14, 2017
• Off Book wins best comedy short film at Twister Alley May 2, 2017
• Words Fail Me is an official selection at the NYC Web Fest September 23, 2015
• Words Fail Me is an official selection at the Brooklyn Web Fest September 21, 2015

Marketing & Distribution

• Marketing indie films: marketing starts with the product November 28, 2019
• Marketing indie films: how do people choose which films to watch? November 27, 2019
• How much should indie films spend on marketing? November 26, 2019
• Marketing, Drama, and Tension June 28, 2019
• Reasons to watch movies June 23, 2019
• Add marketing to the list of things you need to know March 19, 2019
• Making people move May 20, 2018
• Writing better headlines July 23, 2017

My Films

• Marketing indie films: marketing starts with the product November 28, 2019
• Marketing indie films: how do people choose which films to watch? November 27, 2019
• WHAM June 14, 2019
• The long dark winter of the edit March 13, 2019
• Newsletter: Berlin + Feature Film Update December 17, 2018
• That first assembly September 29, 2018
• At the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham September 1, 2018
• WHAM at Sidewalk Film Festival, DC Shorts, and Middle Coast August 22, 2018
• The Deadline is online July 24, 2018
• Better ugly than dull July 7, 2018
• Wrapped on my first feature film July 6, 2018
• The weekend before production June 16, 2018
• The Party (2017) June 12, 2018
• June 10, 2018
• The worst sin a filmmaker can make June 6, 2018
• Back pocket notes June 4, 2018
• Making people move May 20, 2018
• The stress of the big 3 May 15, 2018
• Wisconsin bird magic May 14, 2018
• Breakfast, Windshield Wipers, Kinko’s May 13, 2018
• Paxton, IL May 12, 2018
• Actor reels, web series, and casting April 12, 2018
• Off Book wins Best Short at Beloit International Film Festival April 6, 2018
• Poster for WHAM
• Off Book to premiere in Chicago at the Midwest Indie Film Festival March 2, 2018
• WHAM: Trailer November 19, 2017
• The Deadline Chicago Premiere! September 30, 2017
• Back from the Middle Coast Film Festival September 4, 2017
• How to create your own work as an actor July 22, 2017
• The Deadline will premiere at the Middle Coast Film Festival! July 10, 2017
• Off Book has a trailer July 3, 2017
• Festivals and other news June 2, 2017
• Pre-production stress May 16, 2017
• Film festivals, feedback, and re-cutting May 14, 2017
• Self-doubt vs. self-criticism May 7, 2017
• Nominated for best director at Portland Comedy Film Festival
• Off Book wins best comedy short film at Twister Alley May 2, 2017
• Another new teaser for The Deadline December 2, 2016
• New teaser for The Deadline November 28, 2016
• The Deadline is complete! November 11, 2016
• How to Make a Short Film with SAG Actors (and not kill yourself) September 28, 2016
• Post-production update for The Deadline September 8, 2016
• Sidney Lumet on Editing June 17, 2016
• Feedback in the editing process June 14, 2016
• Tony Zhou on editing May 14, 2016
• Speed up Adobe Premiere Pro with previews (how to get rid of those yellow and red lines) April 3, 2016
• Wide-angle close ups and the Coen brothers March 31, 2016
• Directing kissing scenes March 21, 2016
• Breaking down a script as a director March 8, 2016
• Words Fail Me in the HollyWeb Fest February 18, 2016
• My next project December 19, 2015
• An interview I did with IFP/Chicago
• Words Fail Me is an official selection at the NYC Web Fest September 23, 2015
• Words Fail Me is an official selection at the Brooklyn Web Fest September 21, 2015
• Process & production notes on the web series September 9, 2015
• Exporting to ProRes from Adobe Premiere on PC August 17, 2015
• The final episode of Words Fail Me August 11, 2015
• A review of Words Fail Me + an interview with me August 5, 2015
• Note on Directing for the First Time
• Episode 5 of Words Fail Me August 4, 2015
• Episode 4 of Words Fail Me July 28, 2015
• Notes on Pre-production and Planning for a Web Series July 25, 2015
• Why I made a web series and not… something else July 24, 2015
• Episode 3 of Words Fail Me was released today! July 21, 2015
• Episode 2 of Words Fail Me is now available July 14, 2015
• Episode 1 of my web series is now available July 7, 2015
• Words Fail Me will be released next week July 2, 2015
• Mixing sound for Words Fail Me June 29, 2015
• It’s a great joke but it’s an expensive laugh May 23, 2015
• Episode screening at The Spectacle film night at the Annoyance Theater! April 25, 2015
• Posted a full trailer for Words Fail Me March 30, 2015
• Words Fail Me is wrapped March 27, 2015
• Words Fail Me — filming complete
• Words Fail Me Production is set for March 20-22 February 23, 2015
• Screenplay feedback and accepting that something is broken February 16, 2015
• My Adobe Premiere workflow for editing improvised scenes December 8, 2014
• Watch the trailer for Words Fail Me, my new web series December 1, 2014
• Can data help you write a better screenplay? November 19, 2014
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You November 10, 2014
• Writing a screenplay (process) November 8, 2014
• Super Stunt Show Launching Soon September 1, 2013
• Hitchhikers July 30, 2012

Life, Work, Culture

Art & Commerce

• Cats (!!!…?) January 5, 2020
• Marketing indie films: marketing starts with the product November 28, 2019
• Marketing indie films: how do people choose which films to watch? November 27, 2019
• How much should indie films spend on marketing? November 26, 2019
• Deepfake casting August 31, 2019
• Marketing, Drama, and Tension June 28, 2019
• Reasons to watch movies June 23, 2019
• Sturgeon’s Law June 16, 2019
• For a city to have a thriving arts scene March 26, 2019
• Is your film worth 8 cents an hour? March 25, 2019
• Withoutabox is dead. November 18, 2018
• Screenwriting as a professional fascination November 17, 2018
• The crap +1 fallacy November 13, 2018
• Writing grants November 10, 2018
• Everyone is writing TV pilots November 8, 2018
• You can have my movie-watching big data November 6, 2018
• Let’s try this MoviePass thing again (Sinemia) November 5, 2018
• Stories get you through November 4, 2018
• Do screenwriting contests matter? November 2, 2018
• Content September 29, 2018
• The weekend before production June 16, 2018
• Akimbo April 16, 2018
• $10k Short Film Budget Template April 13, 2018
• Instead of planning your career… April 10, 2018
• How to create your own work as an actor July 22, 2017
• How to choose which movies to watch February 1, 2017
• Assorted Links November 29, 2016
• Joe Swanberg’s Keynote at SXSW on his indie film career and financing his films April 1, 2016
• Kubrick on originality in film January 13, 2016
• Mark Duplass on career development for filmmakers December 24, 2015
• Are there too many films being made? December 20, 2015
• The phrase “starving artist” is relatively new December 14, 2015
• Grubstake May 11, 2015

Work & Personal Development

• René Girard, The Last Psychiatrist, and Mimetic Narcissism September 14, 2021
• Travailler, toujours travailler. June 21, 2019
• Re-entry problems March 23, 2019
• Escaping the predicament of the self March 22, 2019
• How to not be busy November 11, 2018
• Sure, follow your passion, you masochist November 9, 2018

Ideas

• René Girard, The Last Psychiatrist, and Mimetic Narcissism September 14, 2021
• The Umbrellas of Sharebourg April 1, 2021
• Freedom and constraints December 1, 2019
• Transgressive behavior: when is it celebrated and when is it punished by power? November 26, 2019
• You get nothing but the wider world October 6, 2019
• Two competing revolts July 21, 2019
• AI is really funny, and maybe, creative June 29, 2019
• The phantom goodbye June 27, 2019
• Travailler, toujours travailler. June 21, 2019
• Exhilaration comes from naming the unnamable and hearing it named
• Kafka’s best joke
• Sturgeon’s Law June 16, 2019
• AI can mimic human voices June 14, 2019
• Bohm on creativity, order, art, and mediocrity June 10, 2019
• Sociological vs. Psychological Storytelling June 2, 2019
• Near misses and future success April 14, 2019
• For a city to have a thriving arts scene March 26, 2019
• Re-entry problems March 23, 2019
• Escaping the predicament of the self March 22, 2019
• anachroLARPing March 20, 2019
• The pushing sort of person March 18, 2019
• Notes on Berlin January 22, 2019
• Sure, follow your passion, you masochist November 9, 2018
• Skill vs talent (in screenwriting) November 1, 2018
• At the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham September 1, 2018
• Dining not alone July 11, 2018
• Akimbo April 16, 2018
• Instead of planning your career… April 10, 2018
• Don’t keep a schedule April 9, 2018
• Survivorship bias March 29, 2018
• Assorted links September 8, 2017
• “Art is fire plus algebra” September 4, 2017
• Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest August 7, 2017
• “We are driven back to the ‘blood’, the thriller” July 24, 2017
• Dissatisfaction July 21, 2017
• Between stimulus and response there is a space. February 9, 2017
• How to choose which movies to watch February 1, 2017
• In your head, on the page January 20, 2017
• Assorted Links November 29, 2016
• Connect more, collect less July 11, 2016
• The identity gap June 19, 2016
• The task of the craftsman February 14, 2016
• We are creative because everything isn’t okay (yet) December 14, 2015
• Identity and the other November 4, 2015
• Don’t surround yourself with smarter people October 30, 2015

Movies, Music, TV

• The Umbrellas of Sharebourg April 1, 2021
• Cats (!!!…?) January 5, 2020
• Marketing indie films: marketing starts with the product November 28, 2019
• Marketing indie films: how do people choose which films to watch? November 27, 2019
• What is suspense? September 1, 2019
• Reasons to watch movies June 23, 2019
• Bohm on creativity, order, art, and mediocrity June 10, 2019
• Sociological vs. Psychological Storytelling June 2, 2019
• Same Boat April 17, 2019
• Film inspired by paintings April 8, 2019
• Is your film worth 8 cents an hour? March 25, 2019
• Deadwood returns March 24, 2019
• The Passage March 17, 2019
• Newsletter: Berlin + Feature Film Update December 17, 2018
• You can have my movie-watching big data November 6, 2018
• Let’s try this MoviePass thing again (Sinemia) November 5, 2018
• At the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham September 1, 2018
• The Deadline is online July 24, 2018
• Wrapped on my first feature film July 6, 2018
• The Party (2017) June 12, 2018
• Making people move May 20, 2018
• Back from the Middle Coast Film Festival September 4, 2017
• “We are driven back to the ‘blood’, the thriller” July 24, 2017
• Some shorts that I loved from Portland Comedy Film Festival June 2, 2017
• How to choose which movies to watch February 1, 2017
• Tangerine November 29, 2016
• Kiarostami interview July 8, 2016
• A reasonable request June 19, 2016
• I love this scene from A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting Existence December 20, 2015
• Victoria (2015) November 14, 2015
• Cronies October 26, 2015
• Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party October 25, 2015
• Hitchcock/Truffaut documentary (!) October 7, 2015
• Some deep wound or hunger was imprinted on them early in life July 2, 2015
• Roger Ebert on The Exterminating Angel July 1, 2015
• OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies June 1, 2015
• This scene from Wet Hot American Summer made me laugh so hard May 19, 2015
• The Grifters March 11, 2015
• Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes)
• It doesn’t matter what the MacGuffin is February 21, 2015
• Headhunters (2011) February 12, 2015
• My review of Grown Ups 2 December 7, 2014
• Watch the trailer for Words Fail Me, my new web series December 1, 2014
• But it is the thing that wants to live November 20, 2014
• Quentin Dupieux has a new film coming out November 19, 2014
• The things fictional characters shout upon orgasm November 9, 2014
• Shooting episode 1 of my still-untitled web series November 8, 2014
• Writing a screenplay (process)
• Outline complete… November 7, 2014
• After Hours (1985) October 12, 2014
• Wrong October 2, 2014
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and making apartment scenes interesting August 17, 2014
• Watching Westerns This Week August 9, 2014
• Thoughts on Snowpiercer July 20, 2014
• Thoughts on The Lego Movie

Books

• Transgressive behavior: when is it celebrated and when is it punished by power? November 26, 2019
• Witch hunts October 2, 2019
• Marketing, Drama, and Tension June 28, 2019
• Drama / melodrama / comedy / farce June 23, 2019
• Shark Drunk June 21, 2019
• The days of small things
• Travailler, toujours travailler.
• Exhilaration comes from naming the unnamable and hearing it named
• Kafka’s best joke
• Re-entry problems March 23, 2019
• Escaping the predicament of the self March 22, 2019
• Add marketing to the list of things you need to know March 19, 2019
• The worst sin a filmmaker can make June 6, 2018
• Wisconsin bird magic May 14, 2018
• It was by thinking of Hitchcock that I could find solutions April 7, 2018
• Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest August 7, 2017
• I started to wonder what I was doing there June 17, 2016
• Thanksgiving reading November 27, 2015
• Editing and Forwards November 7, 2015
• Only people who don’t give a damn have style October 12, 2015
• Hitchcock/Truffaut documentary (!) October 7, 2015
• Fiction is the truth, fool! June 17, 2015
• My days become dreamlike May 26, 2015
• It doesn’t matter what the MacGuffin is February 21, 2015
• Stephen King’s “On Writing” January 4, 2015

Coding

• Setting your working directory to Google Drive in a Colab notebook June 13, 2020

Artificial Intelligence

• The Umbrellas of Sharebourg April 1, 2021
• A simple OpenAI Jukebox tutorial for non-engineers July 25, 2020
• Do deepfakes ironically make blackmail harder? October 8, 2019
• Deepfake casting August 31, 2019
• Interviews with GPT-2: The golden age of television and The Wire July 15, 2019
• AI is really funny, and maybe, creative June 29, 2019
• Deepfakes June 14, 2019
• AI can mimic human voices

Places

• The great reshuffling, coming hard and fast to a polity near you September 30, 2020
• Transgressive behavior: when is it celebrated and when is it punished by power? November 26, 2019
• You get nothing but the wider world October 6, 2019
• Despite your complete lack of distinguishing features, we have decided to hate you October 3, 2019
• Witch hunts October 2, 2019
• Leaving Chicago August 4, 2019
• At the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham September 1, 2018
• The Deadline Chicago Premiere! September 30, 2017
• Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring May 21, 2015

Creative Writing

Humor & Satire

• Bloomington (Weird Hemingway) March 25, 2018
• Antonio (Weird Hemingway) March 1, 2018
• Comedians (Weird Hemingway) January 2, 2018
• Chicago to Istanbul (Weird Hemingway) September 25, 2017
• Southwest (Weird Hemingway) August 25, 2017
• Maria (Weird Hemingway) July 14, 2017
• An Email Chain Between 4 People Depicted in Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” November 2, 2016
• The Perfect First Date December 3, 2014
• Picking The Low-hanging Fruit: Case Studies for the Innovative Business Exec July 25, 2014
• A Yale Admissions Letter from a Desperate Girl July 6, 2014
• A Woman Wonders If She’s Spending Enough Time Plugged in to the Internet February 22, 2014
• A Letter to My 7th grade Science Teacher Regarding Black Holes February 13, 2014
• Humor: What We’re Reading This Summer: Staff Picks from Maypole Leaf Books in Halifax, Canada June 8, 2013
• Diary of an Unemployed Elitist April 29, 2009

Also, I made The Historical Wire, where famous people from history quote The Wire.

Weird Hemingway

Short weird stories by Ernest Hemingway. For a while these stories would just pop into my brain, fully formed, and I had to write them down.

• Bloomington (Weird Hemingway) March 25, 2018
• Antonio (Weird Hemingway) March 1, 2018
• Comedians (Weird Hemingway) January 2, 2018
• Chicago to Istanbul (Weird Hemingway) September 25, 2017
• Southwest (Weird Hemingway) August 25, 2017
• Maria (Weird Hemingway) July 14, 2017

True Stories

• René Girard, The Last Psychiatrist, and Mimetic Narcissism September 14, 2021
• The day the mouth harp guy came to town December 18, 2018
• The Saddest Retirement Party In Recent Memory June 13, 2013
• Non-fiction: The Time My Friend Made a Really Bad Decision to Buy a House in West Baltimore at an Auction May 28, 2013
• Non-fiction: Did you hear those fireworks? May 25, 2013