Mungo is Missing! Please help us find our indoor cat who vanished Thursday April 25 from 122 Dean St (top buzzer)     He is male, orange-tiger-striped, neutered, and has a vague M shaped mark on his forehead. Has claws and is likely freaked out. Will likely respond to his name being  called in a [...]

Cartoonist (and Zinester’s Guide to NYC illustrator) Alisa Harris flattered me by inviting me to contribute a seasonal vegetarian recipe to Cooking Up Comics, her awesome comics-format recipe blog. Uh, hope she’s pleased with THE RESULT. Thanks to the Barnard Zine Library for letting yahoos like me hack the college’s dead photo file for uses [...]

Springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is Brooklyn Zine Fest time and viva, sweet love! Grab a fistful of dollars and hasten your heiner over to Williamsburg for the second annual Brooklyn Zine Fest, as featured in East Village Inky #50! Hot diggity dayumn! Wait til you clap eyes [...]

Are you up for some Brooklyn Zine Fest Afterparty Comic-centric Chicago-style action? Great, so am I! The East Village Inky is but one of  many Brooklyn Zine Fest tablers who will be staying on for Brain Frame, a fantastic event on loan from Chicago. Can’t say what I’ll be doing just yet, but it’s likely [...]

No Touch Monkey! was recently honored by Buzzfeed as the 16th of 20 Of The Most Awkward Memoirs Ever Written. I claim this mantle in honor of simians the world over.

Goober Goober HEY! Looks like Christmas is coming early, even if Peanut won’t be hitting the manger til the day after. The lootin’ nut elves have the story, so click em!

(everybody sing along!) The thrill’s gonna getcha When you see  my picture On the cover of the Rollin’ Stone… Hardly. But I have been gigging a bit for the Gray Lady. The online edition. Some folks think that’s steerage class, but I’d recommend taking a look at the ship’s layout before making assumptions about who’s [...]

A really neat opportunity fell into my lap recently. My assignment was to ask one question. Another art-loving soul would be charged with providing an answer.  After which I would find out who the hell I was interviewing. My question: How can we keep pre-digital communication’s most pleasurable rituals from becoming extinct? If you’re not [...]

I’ve got a sweet new gig, blogging for Open Culture, an insane source for free cultural & educational media on the web. So go ahead and learn yourself another language, take a complimentary college course, and feast on catch-free movies and music, and while you’re at it, we’d be much obliged if you’d leave a [...]

Mary Keitany, Tsegaye Kebede, several billion baby shoes, and the Zinester’s Guide to NYC! Thanks to the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation for awarding the bronze medal to the ZG2NYC in the annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition