GET UP

My sobriety date is February 19, 2002.

12-Step recovery was my last resort. I was highly cynical and skeptical of the whole community and process. But yet it worked for me. Since then, a lot of friends, friends of friends, and random strangers on MySpace have asked me how I reconciled my atheism and my creative life with sobriety and 12 Step. This book is all about that.

Feel free to hit me up with any questions about your struggles with fitting in the weird world of recovery groups: what worked for you, what didn’t, or anything else.

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WHAT HAPPENS IN NARNIA, STAYS IN NARNIA

This CD, released in 2007, documents my crossover from spoken word to comedy. It’s either a spoken word CD that’s really funny or a comedy CD with long rambling bits, depending on who listens to it.

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Check out this track that SPIN magazine hosted on their site:

http://digital.spin.com/spin/200712/?pg=32

It’s a little hard to see the link, but it’s under Songs You Must Download Now.

ALL BLACKED OUT & NOWHERE TO GO

This is a collection of all the poems that were in the now out-of-print Whiskey & Robots, along with about 70 new pages. You still may be able to find W&R available used or online somewhere, but it’s gone.

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KING OF THE ROADKILLS

 This was the first book of mine that came out when I was 25. There’s a lot of short stories from my “pop transgressive” period, when I loved to write about serial killers and people getting maimed. I look back at the poetry now, and I see what I was trying to do, but feel like my poetic voice was realized later on.

This was published in the Gen X heyday, and I really thought it would launch me as some new combination of Charles Bukowski, William S Burroughs, and Kurt Vonnegut. The world didn’t agree with me. There’s a reference to a Slacker-type indie film I was in back then that, at the time of the cover design for the book, looked to be, well, the next Slacker. It was the next of many indie films not to leave the festival circuit or be released to video. Good thing I got my scrotum ring and my Arthur Rimbaud tattoo to remind me how good those times were.

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