Digital Keynote Address | EMERGING WRITERS FESTIVAL
As denoted by the fucking huge photo of my head, I delivered the inaugural digital key note address at the 2012 Emerging Writers Festival. Take a peek! (Thanks to Dan Donahoo for tricking everything out like a boss.)
I’ll be talking about getting paid for your writing (AHAHAHAHAHA!) at this panel on Thursday, May 31st at the Melbourne Town Hall.
HBO’s ‘Girls’ | THE GREEN GUIDE
Where the characters in Girls stray furthest from reality is in the way they speak: short, clipped, perfectly timed, culturally metatextual, Sorkinish bites. But what do we want from television, realism or escapism? Girls is trying to meld both and the result is something at once interesting, compelling, weird, off-putting and often hilarious but difficult to love.
Compromising Positions | DAILY LIFE
What else intimate relationships are partly comprised of is absolute terror (2%). They are terrifying because when we are in them, we are completely exposed as our true self to another human being. Our true, fault-ridden, sometimes horrible selves and all our desires, no matter how base, are there to be seen in the clear-eyed glare of someone else who has chosen to not look away, not matter what they see there (and because they like the look of the awesome stuff they also see.) They too want to be able to be seen in this way, to not be judged for it either. But this is the fear that being with someone else invites; that one day they might see you and decide to look away. That notion is extraordinarily frightening. Conquering the fear is the work of maintaining the relationship.
— Hmmm, I seem to have written about sex for a “women’s interest” website!
