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The further downtown I go, the more anxious I become. I’m on the 2/3. I’m listening to my iPod while reading my essay. I am imagining the sound of my voice over the sound of The Who’s “Eminence Front.” I am practicing emphatic pauses. And the further downtown I go, the more anxious I become.…

I was robbed. Not, like, metaphorically. Literally burglarized. Worst of all? I was home. Yeah so I’m downstairs cookin’ up an Amy’s vegetarian pizza and I’m thinkin’, ‘My contacts are kinda’ cloudy’ so I reach for my bag with my glasses and … and the bag is gone. It normally hangs in the kitchen but…

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I’m a heterosexual man with all the benefits of being a gay man. I’m speaking in broad generalizations, to be sure. But there are moments when I step outside of myself for a second, look back and think, ‘My gosh, you are so gay.’ I’m sensitive, and…

Man, I gotta’ get me one of those utility belts. A great piece of fiction — a novel, a film, a comic book — needs to leave one transformed, if only just a little bit. At the end, when the curtain closes, or the last page folds, the world need look just an iota different.…

Good news for my cousin is bad news for me. My 27-year-old cousin Andrew is going on tour with World Leader Pretend. They’re the real deal. They’re on Warner Bros. Records. And, as if this is some sort of validation, are one of MTV News’ forthcoming You Hear It First bands. So this is huge,…

They say you can never go home again. They may be right. “What have you been up to?” they ask. “Same old, same old,” I say. Nothing could be further from the truth. Still, I found myself mute to the din of inquiry. Somehow, the weight of the me that they know, the crush of…