From five years old to fifteen (when girls, booze, and pot took over my life) I had my Reading Tree. As you can see, it sits in the P’s backyard, limbs formed into a cone-shape, which nestled my awkward, adolescent body quite comfortably. There had even been a hole in the trunk deep enough to squirrel [...]
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RATS OF DIM: An Interview with Self-Deprecating “Author” and Professional “Contortionist” MJ Greenwald [Part 1 of 3]
Yes, welcome. My name is, of course, Michael Greenwald, and last Tuesday, I sat down in a ratty, cramped, cluttered, window-less, decaying-feet-smelling office at 606 Michigan Avenue in Chicago with the relatively unknown author, MJ Greenwald, for an interview. While he drank bourbon at ten o’clock in the morning (“beer before ten is my rule”), [...]
August 7, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: Alice Sebold, Ari Gold, author, books, bourbon, Charmaine Blake, chicago, chris moore, Cormac McCarthy, dexter, drive, edith wharton, Entourage, five skies, HBO, homeless, hope, house of mirth, how to make love like a porn star, james patterson, Jenna Jameson, jim sallis, law school, Lovely Bones, mcdonald's, Nicholas Sparks, rat, Ron Carlson, Snoop Dogg, stephen king, suicide, taco bell, Tammy Hunt, Writing . Author: Michael Greenwald . Comments: 1 Comment
Favorites: An Ode To Underperforming Milk Cows (Rerun)
So, it’s probably too early in my blog’s life-span to have reruns. I doubt I’d have made syndication yet. But, what the hell, even Carson took time off. I am too busy these last couple weeks to sit down for a couple hours and write a fresh, snappy blog. (For those of you who care [...]
July 24, 2009
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I’m a dumb-a**. Those of you who know me, know this, and still love me (may love me due to this–heck, I keep things interesting). And those of you who don’t…well, I am. It might be ironic to say this in a blog post, but I really don’t comprehend the share-tech craze. Maybe, I’m slow [...]
March 28, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: author, bi-polar, books, dad, facebook, father, fear, irony, mother, myspace, share-tech craze, twit, twitter, writer . Author: Michael Greenwald . Comments: 6 Comments
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