2.9 song of the day

because of this Mark Warren gem via Esquire:

Mea Culpa, Conor Oberst

and because it takes one to know one

Tom Chiarella has more eloquence than Taylor Swift has sex partners.

This is incredibly high-level artistry - so high, in fact, that it would be a disservice for me to quote just one line.

How to Have Casual Sex (link for the clicking)

Seriously, go buy an Esquire for this guy alone.

And you started off so cute. More than cute...

*brilliant piece, worth your 12 minutes (9 if you graduated from college)

My Breakup Letter to the iPhone (link)

Hail, Hail Rock & Roll - p

Chuck Berry returns home after health scare - WGN Radio

Everything you ever need to know about life

my favorite piece from my favorite author, Esquire's Tom Chiarella

How to Kiss on New Year's Eve

So breath-taking that I needed to take the edge off with this pile of cat shit, you know kind of like your slore girlfriend needs a cig after sex:

because, in the indissoluble words of Chris Jones:

'it makes me feel like writing is the most noble thing in the world... that on some days, on its best days, it can rival even music.'



but I'm the protagonist


read him for the pleasure, read him for the pain
My 2010 Midnight Writing Playlist

Sarah Roemer, Gillian Jacobs and a link

I've always liked the way the poor man's Blake Lively looked but she's also got some fire in her belly.

Sarah Roemer: Funny* Joke(s) from a Beautiful Woman

Watch the entire video and the extra footage because Gillian Jacobs might even be better.



*special thanks to Esquire, without you I'd have no shoulders on which to stand

My writing Idol, Tom Chiarella

How to Meet Women Over the Holidays



*context

Golf Lives

How could a onetime rising golf star be gifted with top 10 - 12.13.10 - SI Vault

Erica Blasberg


but at least we still have Anna Rawson

Ooooooooooooh Tommy- Say it ain't so

via Esquire

Transplanting Tom Brady's (Balding) Hair from Men of Note

God he's the best, I promise

*from Tom Chiarella, Esquire Magazine

The TSA's Thankless War

The Meaning of Family, Alternative Thanksgivings and All

one of my top five favorite rogue writers

The Meaning of Family, Alternative Thanksgivings and All