We got made one of Yahoo!'s Picks yesterday. Them Metafilter picked us up. Then we got so many submissions it looks like we're already into February.

Nice.

Two people I know were talking yesterday about why I consider myself to be such a horrible person. I had to explain that I don't consider myself to be a horrible person; I think that I am a wonderful person. I just know that others think that I'm a horrible person, just as I know that this is a reflection on them and not me ( Read more... )

So Saturday night was the big book release party for Our Movie Year that I threw ( Read more... )

Finished separating out Overheard in New York into chapters for a book proposal. Now I have to edit the formatting throughout and write the proposal.

Ten years ago (I think to the month) was when I read The Fountainhead and it Changed My Life Forever. Just recently I read The 48 Laws of Power and it, too, CMLF. Unlike Fhead, 48 Laws didn't blow my mind. Instead, it condensed and codified thoughts I'd had and patterns I've followed. It's also one hell of a read ( Read more... )

American Book Award-winning comic book writer and pop-culture icon Harvey Pekar has signed with Ballantine Editor Chris Schluep to write three original graphic novels for Ballantine Books. In addition, Ballantine will publish an anthology of the best of Pekar’s previously published stories from his critically acclaimed autobiographical comic book ( Read more... )

I have been given clearance to announce that I will be the subject of several American Splendor pieces, varying in length. The first will probably hit within a few weeks and will be about a story that first appeared on www.michaelmalice.com.

I've started writing the Team Player Manifesto (see my site). If anyone has any suggestions or things that I should make sure I add (or good examples of what Team Player is or isn't), please let me know.

I am pleased to report that our site OverheardinNewYork.com is up and running ( Read more... )

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