Blog List

A few blogs that all of you should read with the fervor of the religiously converted.

The Unnatural Disaster: Are you the type most call crazy? Do you have plans to start a business involving door-to-door sales, pit bull puppies and meth? Do you have a fifteen-minute story for each of the seven teeth you're missing?

Then Ryan Boyd wants to talk to you. And write about you.

Ryan has taken up the smoldering torch that Burroughs and Kerouac dropped long ago, exposing the great, vast unknown middle of America as the country's true cultural gold mine. Just think: When was the last time you saw someone kicked in the head by a man in steel-toed boots? Were you in New York? Fuck no you weren't.

Let Ryan remind you that the wild and extravagant is just one layer beyond the mundane world of your local streets and alleys.

Andrew Slaton Photography: The phrase 'greatest photographer I know' probably isn't worth a lot coming from me. But that's what Andrew is. He's also a really nice, creative and enjoyable gentleman. You can go see a lot of his photography (for free!) on his Web site, and then swing over to his blog to see what the life of a working photographer is like. Apparently it involves going to Wyoming a lot. And sleeping in your car. So... equivalent to being a long-haul trucker. Except, you know, with worse pay.

Lucky's Corner: If you woke up this morning with an insatiable (and oddly specific) desire to read about modern philosophy, cosmology, art criticism, video games and college football - and to not have to navigate multiple pages to do so - then, my possibly mentally unbalanced friend, I have the perfect site for you. Ross Lucksinger – whom my family took from a gypsy camp as a baby after murdering all the adults as initiation into the Illuminati – writes on all things important and unimportant, leaving the semi-important to the uninspired, insipid novelists of the second half of the 20^th century, whom he regularly writes circles around. (John Updike and J.D. Salinger both died this year of embarrassment at the moral ambiguity and lack of decisiveness in their work after reading the first draft's of Lucky's Corner.) Let these mercurial musings of a gypsy orphan teach you the things you should have been talking about at your last cocktail party.