"Tanzer has eviscerated pop culture." I AM gets Verbicided. And likes it. A lot.

So very much we do really. And so very appreciative we are to the Gabino Iglesias and Verbicide for the very kind words. Drinks brother, on us, for sure, somewhere, soon. Yes? Good. And excerpt? Cool. 

"While humor helps make I Am a great read, what truly makes it shine is that it combines hilarity with sadness and delivers all of it using a frenetic prose that takes on a variety of rhythms in order to adjust itself to the voice of every story." 

New joint. They Say Jump, You Say How High? At The Weeklings.

Quite thrilled to Weeklings we are, so big thanks to Greg Olear, Joe Daly, and the whole Weeklings crew. And now maybe some excerpt, yes? Word.

"What the time-out does not necessarily allow for, however, is dealing with the anger that refuses to dissipate on those days where the frenzy is too much and my vision starts to blur. Where I feel something cruel has transpired and I react to the repetition of such behaviors, or the abuse of power they can entail, both of which are clearly triggers of mine, and must be managed as well.

Which I can’t always do, and when I can’t, I give myself a time-out too.

I step away, door closed, and I let those emotions bounce off of the walls as they are doing in my head. I also at times play music, because the emotions need a place to go, and they need to be channeled, and it’s possible that music does in fact soothe the savage beast, though I haven’t seen the data on that.

Data or not though, I want to share the songs that help me out during these times, even merely thinking about such times; what they represent to me; and how I get through the frenzy when it’s not clear anything will work."

New joint. Ding. Barrelhouse. Spring 2012 Online Issue.

Very geeked to have our new joint Ding in the most excellent Barrelhouse Spring 2012 Online Issue, which is not only edited by the always stellar Tom Williams, but contains an array of fine writers we love, including, but not limited to the Molly Gaudry and Jesus Angel Garcia. Now, how about some excerpt? Word.

"If there is a problem, yo, I’ll resolve it, check out the hook while my DJ revolves it.

It has always been about love, seriously, straight up, love of music, love of words, language, telling stories and making people happy, all up on their feets and loving life. And I do love everyone, even the haters, the liars, the disparagers and those big pimpin’ motherfuckers who will do anything to bring someone down the second they get any kind of props.

Which is why I never got it, I don’t get it and never will. I can’t fathom it really, truthfully, none of it. Some of y’all will say I’m not willing to get it, that the shit is obvious, obvious to everyone but me. But to that I say, why am I a joke? I didn’t kill no ones, I didn’t rape no ones, I didn’t lie and I didn’t steal. I kept it real yo, legit.

So what up?"