Notion Building

Here’s something that I wrote for Truthdig about what it means to be nothing in particular at no particular time at all with nobody in particular paying any attention whatsoever.  Dig it.

Paul Krassner: The Politics of Being a Smartass

Here’s something that I wrote for Truthdig about a conversation that I had with one of my heroes, Paul Krassner.  It’s got all the charm of My Dinner with Andre – if My Dinner with Andre had happened at a Chuck E. Cheese’s in 1967 before there was anything like a Chuck E. Cheese’s.

Mr. Fish is leaving Harper’s Online

After 8 fabulous years of producing cartoons for the online version of Harper’s Magazine and accruing vast numbers of friends and enemies in the process, I’m sad to report that Mr. Fish is being discontinued on the site as of next week.  Harpers.org will be relaunched and taken in a new direction by management hoping […]

Mr. Fish at the Brooklyn Book Festival

That’s right!  I’ll be at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, September 23rd, signing some of my old lps and posing for pictures with my cape all spread out like I’m a fucking manta ray.  ZAP!  Or at least I’ll be showing slides and droning on and on as part of a panel convened to […]

Go Fish in The Los Angeles Review of Books

Here is a pretty smart review by F.X. Feeney of Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People in The Los Angeles Review of Books.  It made me want to re-read my own book, meet myself at a signing, laugh at everything I said, clap with way too much enthusiasm, nervously wet my own lips […]

Boners

Here is the illustration that I did for the Chris Hedges column over on Truthdig this week.  I’m really getting into this style of illustration.  I do it by scanning in the white, beaten up parts of old lp covers and then I use my mouse to draw all the tiny shapes that make up […]