Dirty Boys are Back

Dirty Boys is back the night of May 15th at the Parkside Lounge on Houston! Save the date, save the month, hell save everything. We’ll have more details soon, but we’ll have old readers, some new ones, and a renovated back room with a bar. It’s going...

Writing in Bars: excerpt from a work in progress

I just wrote the first chapter to a new thing I’m working on. Piper and I spent most of Sunday wandering around lower Manhattan inventing bars so I could write a book about it. Maybe we’ll write a book about it. I don’t know. But we came up with a...

Dating Myself

A few Fridays ago I was out with a group of friends at a bar, laughing, drinking, talking, and presumably having a good time, when I suddenly realized I wasn’t really there. I was surrounded by people I love, but I was so exhausted, so burned out, and so overwhelmed,...

The Bars of Quickies New York

I get asked about bars a lot, presumably because I write about them and drink too much (give or take). So, I pulled together a few of the places I’ve been going to recently. They tend to change with the seasons, although a few of these places are consistently on...

Last Week in Photos

This weekend was pretty warm and delightful. I spent a whole lot of time writing and managed to get down about 15,000 words in two days, which felt pretty darn good. I’m enjoying the new book I’m working on, and it was fun to get lost in it. Otherwise the...