Bourbon Cowboy

The adventures of an urbane bar-hopping transplant to New York.

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I'm a storyteller in the New York area who is a regular on NPR's "This American Life" and at shows around the city. Moved to New York in 2006 and am working on selling a memoir of my years as a greeting card writer, and (as a personal, noncommercial obsession) a nonfiction book called "How to Love God Without Being a Jerk." My agent is Adam Chromy at Artists and Artisans. If you came here after hearing about my book on "This American Life" and Googling my name, the "How to Love God" book itself isn't in print yet, and may not even see print in its current form (I'm focusing on humorous memoir), but here's a sample I've posted in case you're curious anyway: Sample How To Love God Introduction, Pt. 1 of 3. Or just look through the archives for September 18, 2007.) The book you should be expecting is the greeting card book, about which more information is pending. Keep checking back!

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Infocom Games For Sale on the Street

75th and Broadway, on the street. Sorry this isn't clearer---I have to remember to NEVER use my camera phone's pixelating zoom function---but I was stunned to see not one, not two, but SEVEN old-fashioned text-adventure games from the perfecter of the form, Infocom. The pile, if you can make it out, includes Planetfall, Ballyhoo, Deadline, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Suspect and Moonmist. But even if you bought them, how would you even play them? Does anyone actually have a floppy-disk drive anymore? Weird.

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