I’m doing some readings and such in the upcoming weeks. Sins, sports, and punk rock!
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This is a short video tour that I did for turnhere.com, of San Francisco’s Nob Hill neighborhood. Includes history, lots of rich people, and at least one old lady with a little dog.

Playing nine holes of golf with the mystival Shivas Irons Society, who spice up the game with meditation, classical music, and alternative methods of keeping score. Originally published in San Francisco magazine Read the rest of this entry »

Some years ago, I compiled a bunch of research hoping to write a story about screenwriter Joe Eszterhas. It didn’t work out for some reason. So I wrote this instead, which was published in an entertainment website called Mr. Showbiz. Read the rest of this entry »

My version of Montana turns out vastly different than Tom McGuane’s. This was performed at the Litquake literary festival, along with a snippet of AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell.” Read the rest of this entry »

A column for SF Weekly about spending Christmas in Reno turns into a hellish nightmare, with vicious snowstorms, and the Blues Brothers tribute band Rubber Biscuit. Read the rest of this entry »

The eerie similarity between my dog’s coprophagia and American foreign policy. First performed at San Francisco’s Progressive Reading Series, on a bill with Jane Smiley and Jonathan Franzen. A more family-friendly version was later published in Bark magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

A delightful lunch in London devolves into a bout of Gwen Stefani-induced bile. Read the rest of this entry »