We parked on Michigan Avenue like we always would, walking hand-in-hand through Corktown, the oldest neighborhood in Detroit. We... more

We'd stood in the rain to watch the fireworks, my girlfriend Linda and I, and it was perfect. It was Boston and it was the Fourth of... more

WEDNESDAY got off the airplane, spencer landed like an hour ago. either he is in the... more

A man's eyes dilate when he climaxes. This is not a graphic metaphor of the soul opening up. This is an animal... more

Lone Star bottles were a dollar that night, and a leather-clad, hair-shaking woman howled “Whipping Post” on the... more

I fell in love with a woman who had a face like she meditated.

Tabitha Blankenbiller is revisiting the games of her youth, replaying them and writing semi-regular column... more

On August 23, 2013 I checked into an inpatient treatment center in middle-of-nowhere Ohio to get off heroin and... more

It’s been a big month for Mary Miller. Even prior to today’s release of her... more

I had no business in a haberdashery store that expensive as a seventeen-year-old high school student most recently employed as a dishwasher; even less so as a recently self-declared man, an until-three-weeks-ago woman, lurking timidly, covetously, in the racks of ties.  

I am at the back of the ConEx with a broom in my hand, smoking a... more

Tabitha Blankenbiller is revisiting the games of her youth, replaying them and writing semi-regular... more

To be honest, there were other books that had as great an impact on me, but I don’t have access to those authors (Bret Easton Ellis – Lunar Park, Elizabeth Wurtzel – More, Now, Again, W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage)..

My favorite video game lives in an ark. Surrounded by artifacts packed in a Rubbermaid tote box, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was next on my Summer of the Video Game list of must-plays. 

We crowd around the flame, we extend our naked hands, we feel the joints in our fingers warm and crack. The smoke stains our jackets and hats with its smell.

A lady doesn’t need makeup unless it’s the war paint she’s putting on to end me. 

Yesterday, Barry Graham favored us with his Top 10 Cities to Get... more

Last week, Barry Graham favored us with... more

FRIDAY   8:36 p.m.: I arrive at the intersection of Oak and... more

Yesterday, Barry Graham favored us with his Top 10 Cities to Get Drunk In,... more

We all know what getting drunk means and... more

I sat and bawled for half an hour after finishing Hill William in one swift read through this morning, beginning to end in an hour. 

The Summer of the Video Game will also go down as The Summer I Moved. Not across town, not from apartment to house.... more

“Go back to sleep,” I hissed at Perry. It was 2:00 in the morning and we were in our newly purchased condo in Mammoth,... more

I’ve gotten in the habit of writing these long email invitations and party reminders for parties I host at my... more