The Slippery Fish

As noted last month, I'm collecting my published work for one massive entry here. I'll update it as new work comes out, but won't write new posts for The Slippery Fish. Archived work in reverse c...

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For the past month, I've been gathering all links to my work so that I can archive them here in one comprehensive entry. If I get super-ambitious, I'll scan my print-only features to my Flickr ac...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/04/coming-soon.html

I love the title my editor chose, "It's Always the Quiet Ones", and that the guy in the accompanying photo looks like Radiohead's Thom Yorke.Enjoying the responses this piece is garnering, even t...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/04/cross-dressing-bad-foreplay-math.html

I remember being so excited when Walter Mondale added Geraldine Ferraro to the Democratic Presidential ticket in 1984. With three terms in House of Representatives, she didn't strike me as the mo...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/03/on-geraldine-ferraro.html

In the West, we never embraced funeral pyres and the cultures that did have largely done away with them.Tonight, I would have to say this was a mistake. Count me as resolutely pro-funeral pyre.Al...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/03/whatever-gets-you-through-night.html

In college, the above photo was among those I tacked on the bulletin board near my bed. A film buff, I was enamored of Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Father of the Bride, Little Women and Who's Af...

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As of last night, I was authorized to reveal the great news!Please join me in welcoming George and Jennifer's new son, Mom and Dad's first grandchild and the beautiful little boy who has made me ...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/03/hes-here.html

I wish "hell" were divorced from religious connotations because it more aptly describes what has transpired in Japan since Thursday.Everyone already knows where to donate by now and I have no ide...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/03/we-need-new-word-for-disaster.html

I interview Mike Sacks' about his new, wickedly droll and superbly reviewed essay collection, Your Wildest Dreams within Reason.As I state in the intro after alluding to the horror unfolding in J...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-newest-piece-for-tnb-mike-sacks.html

The Wall Street Journal's newest CFIDS piece, on whether it's safe for those of us with CFIDS to donate blood and the role the XMRV retrovirus might play in determining the answer:http://blogs.ws...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/03/because-were-just-font-of-good-news.html

1) Elle Magazine's gorgeously etched profile on Laura Hillenbrand, author of the acclaimed bestsellers Seabiscuit and Unbroken. A searingly honest and often funny look at what it's like to write ...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/03/from-new-york-times-wall-street-journal.html

Because it's an effective writing warm-up but mostly because it's fun, I post six-word stories on Smith Magazine nearly each day. (As noted last year, I had a piece included in Smith's latest Har...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/02/time-travel-is-lonely-john-vanderslice.html

One of my dear lefty colleagues recently chided me for being too hard on Greece and its ongoing economic debacle. I explained to him nearly each Greek-American I know had predicted the motherland...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/02/and-laurel-resting-continues.html

The Washington Square Hotel posted this photo on its Twitter feed today:http://twitpic.com/42a0vuYes, I know New York winters permeate one's bone marrow and they're damned near impossible to navi...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/02/magic.html

First off, thanks so much to everyone for your delightful birthday wishes yesterday. Imbibed the leftover cake from Kingfish this morning and am experiencing a sugar crash not unlike the opium ma...

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Hey, straight guys!If you'd admit you're a wee curious about fucking each other, the NFL would become superfluous.As would bar fights and any film in which Hugh Jackman transmogrifies.Think it ov...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/02/prompting-nacho-comsumption-to-fall.html

Everything about this bill is revoltingly sexist, out-of-touch and cruel. I'm not a fan of Speaker Boehner (obviously) but I praised his eloquence when Congresswoman Giffords was shot. I don't fo...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/01/as-usual-inability-to-empathize-has.html

Well-researched and detailed new piece on the pernicious forces battling Egyptian writers who are calling for democracy:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41285248/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gad...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/01/egypts-brave-writers-risk-imprisonment.html

The Nervous Breakdown Literary Experience, Seattle Edition #2 is Friday, April 8, 7 p.m. in the Jewelbox Theater at the Rendezvous!Last time, the Stranger called us "a big goddamned deal"; KOMO4....

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I'm fairly certain the emails in all three inboxes are now asexually reproducing. While it's objectively fascinating and, more importantly, the content contained therein is humbling, moving and g...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/01/seriously-its-got-makings-of-discovery.html

My new Seattle Weekly feature, "An Incomplete History of Clutch Douglass' Journey to the '80s" is out now:http://www.seattleweekly.com/2011-01-19/music/an-incomplete-history-of-clutch-douglass-jo...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-new-seattle-weekly-feature-is-online.html

The Nerve essay (see previous post) generated a volume of letters as large as it was unforeseen. Completely bittersweet, given the piece's topic, and deeply humbling that people have chosen to sh...

http://theslipperyfish.blogspot.com/2011/01/brief-catch-up-while-dinner-is-in-oven.html

Hard to write; much harder not to. Deeply touched by the insightful comments:http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/true-stories/true-stories-after-the-fire

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Since first watching CNN's "Breaking News" report yesterday while nestling with the puppy and returning emails, i.e. engaging in unremarkable Saturday morning behavior, I've been incredibly sadde...

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...this would be horrible news under any circumstances, but one of my best friends for the past 23 years just moved to London yesterday, so I find this particularly disturbing.Wishing the Brits b...

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