DOG EAT DOG
I thought ANORA was a really well-done piece of film. I think it had something to say about class underneath all its shenanigans and the quite good comedy of it all. The lead character played by Mikey Madison is this really tense person. I think she’s putting on airs most of the whole movie and…
FOR ASHEVILLE
Four years ago I came to Asheville mostly full of steroids and alcohol and spent a few days wandering around there, staying in hotels, drinking, visiting arcades and writing. Truth be told I only have very hazy memories of what I did on that first trip. I remember I had breakfast at Louise’s Kitchen in…
10 Years of Scrounging
Here we go again with some more self indulgence. I’ve recently had a short story accepted for an anthology. It’s a horror story that incorporates the 2020 quarantine. I just loved that idea, about a horror story where the fear is compounded by debilitating illness, queasiness, a kind of unsureness of what’s happening. I had…
Reset
The last two things I posted on this thing were pretty low-effort. I ought to have tried harder. I always inevitably fall back into not posting much on this thing. It was supposed to be a site to promote my own works, but life gets in the way, sometimes you go long stretches with no…
Real Dystopias
I’ve always had something of a problem with dystopian fiction. It’s just in the extreme nature of it. I get why this stuff was important half a century ago – show us the perils of where we’ll head if fascism gets in, and all of that. I understand. But these days it’s really become a…
The Perfect Is The Enemy Of…
There’s a pretty agitating phrase that goes around when you talk about politics in the U.S. (maybe other places too, but I wouldn’t be an expert on any of that.) It’s when they say “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” and it always seems to come up whenever a progressive doesn’t…
Art/Money
I’ve been thinking about art and how the pay works. There was some talk about pirating works recently on Twitter. And then that spiraled into another discussion about how streaming and whatnot affects artists. I’m not in a band, but I do travel for comedy. I am at what you’d call a somewhat lower level…
A Weird Comedy Adventure Chronicle – 7/22/22
Amanda and Steve met me at the Hickory Tavern. She wanted us all to meet at the Olde Hickory Taproom – a different place, we both realized too late. But the Hickory Tavern was closer to the venue we were doing this mic at, so they came to meet me there. We were informed pretty…
Breakthrough
I haven’t had anything published in about a year and a half or maybe two years. I’d made this site, originally, to be a vehicle to promote my stuff, but then I didn’t get anything published for a long time, which just made this whole site look like another weak vanity project. More words pretending…
The Great American Road Trip Pt. 2
I had one good day at the beginning of this last road trip where it seemed like everything was going to go off without a hitch. I did a show for a little crowd at this chilled out Charlotte sports pub, ate some fish, read a little. Then I was on the road again. It…
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Larry Griffin - Comedian & Author 