Another excerpt from my work-in-progress novel, Grey. Like previous excerpts (click here for those), this is all a rough draft, so everything could change. *** The asshole with the camera sees him going first, and instinctively raises his lens for a shot. A couple of the plaid-shirted men at the fire move forward, their hands [...]

Check it — up there at 4pm EST I’m be on MTV.com helping choose the OMA for Most Innovative Music Video. Panelists include me, Jermaine Dupri, legendary music video director Wayne Isham, and music journalist Caryn Ganz. It’ll be hosted by James Montgomery with appearances by Robyn, Tim Nordwind of OK Go, Andy Grammer, Perry [...]

Gird your loins for another thrilling installment of First a Dream, my unfinished (but unintentionally hilarious) “novel” from 10 years ago. Welcome to Mica’s World “Homecoming Dance. October 31st,” read the poster in the hallway. “Are you going to the dance Mica?” asked an overly sweet voice behind her. “Yep,” Mica replied, turning to face [...]

Gang tattoo leads to a murder conviction Inked on the chest of a Pico Rivera gang member was the detailed scene of a liquor store slaying that had stumped an L.A. County sheriff’s investigator for more than four years. It leads to a jailhouse confession from Anthony Garcia — and a first-degree murder conviction. [via [...]

This morning, I was reading The Fox by D.H. Lawrence (which I think I bought from some book table in Williamsburg) when the above fluttered onto my bagel. For those who can’t read scrawling, teacher handwriting, the scrap says: F Nice writing. No knowledge of what you’re writing about — and you’re bored because you [...]

So my wonderful friends are having a “bad writing” party tonight, for which I plundered a ton of old CDs containing stuff I wrote on my old family computer when I was in high school. In doing so, I came across my unfinished “novel,” First A Dream, featuring a girl who looks very much like [...]