Posted by Jack on 4th July 2008
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 »
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Posted by Jack on 4th July 2008
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 »
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Posted by Jack on 4th July 2008
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 »
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Posted by Jack on 23rd September 2007
I haven’t written much about this era of my life, and I don’t know exactly why it feels time to post a few things about it. Probably because if something isn’t available online, it automatically doesn’t exist for a lot of people. And perhaps because enough time has passed. Anyway, here goes.
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Posted by Jack on 13th April 2006
Behind the scenes of a porn movie shoot in which I appear as an extra (fully clothed, with three hours’ sleep). This 1995 film “Dog Walker,” directed by John Leslie, won four AVN awards including best director and best screenplay, no doubt in part because of my one line of dialogue. Excerpted from “Sex, American Style.”
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Posted by Jack on 13th April 2006
This began innocently enough, as a magazine assignment about Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
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Posted by Jack on 13th April 2006
A trip to Mexico on the eve of the California gubernatorial election culminates in an unforeseen encounter with a bigshot celebrity.
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Posted by Jack on 13th April 2006
The treacheries of the world ice golf championships, held on the frozen waters of western Greenland.
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Posted by Jack on 13th April 2006
A unique home-made product from California’s wine country. And unlike the WMD in Iraq, the Wine of Mass Destruction actually exists.
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Posted by Jack on 13th April 2006
“Riding black” in Prague, waiting for Sumo and dreaming of defenestration. Outtakes from “Sumo in Prague.”
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