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US CITIZENS!! lawrence lessig (@lessig) is a hero of mine – a harvard lawyer who is a passionate writer, speaker and empath of the highest caliber. i saw him speak this year at TED about the deep way in which...

from the desk of things flying across my feed lately… …someone sent me this article about “hand lifts”. so frightening. if you’re vain, it’s easy: black and white. up the contrast. bam. there’s an app for that!!! but this piece...

i’m hunkered editing and editing and trying not to add. currently at over 150k words trying to cut this fucker down to 80 or 90k. here’s some pictures of my boring editing life at the moment, in a secret book-batcave...

attention ALL writers, readers, and human beings, an update from the WE ARE THE MEDIA desk of developments. so, imagine a world where journalists & writers who research stories to bring us The News of the World are no longer...

today is a very special day, comrades. today is the birthday of none other than my brother in punk cabaret the one the only mr. BRIAN DRUM-LORD VIGLIONE aka VIGGIE aka THE NOTORIOUS VIG aka the BIRTHDAY BOY me and...

i woke today ready to face a day of book work with my editor – the deadline has become cut-throat. my phone buzzed…my sisters best friend from childhood, our next door neighbor becky, had died, and another friend has a...

UPDATE/EDIT 7 may 5:19pm EST: we can now confirm that the one and only marc almond will be joining with a “dark cabaret set” alongside the artists previously mentioned, filling in amidst my absence. so, all the more incentive to...

hey everybody. it’s my birthday. i’m 38. here is what i would love. i’m headed into NYC with neil to take a break from book-writing and to see the new broadway production of hedwig and the angry inch, and then...

WELL HOLY FUCK. after years and years of asking, the answer has come as if by accidental magic. THE DRESDEN DOLLS self-titled LP is going to available ON VINYL!!! TODAY!!!! it’s for RECORD STORE DAY, LIMITED to 3,000 copies, and...

BOSTON – APRIL 15th: i’m part of a free event called “beyond the finish line”, organized by WBUR 90.9 FM, my beloved boston NPR station: a night to mark the first anniversary of the boston marathon bombing. i think i’m...