A lot of places are selling those “dirt shirts” in the sw. Shirts made entirely from red clay. Here’s their big mistake, though: There’s red dirt everywhere! I just got some rubber cement and rolled around on the ground; made my own shirt. Take that, fat cat novelty-t-shirt retailers! Tried to get across the worst […]

M and I are camping down around Moab for a couple weeks, so if you’ve left some hilarious and poignant comment, or tried to contact me for a lucrative book deal and I haven’t replied, it’s not personal. So, a couple quick reflections here, mid-trip… We passed through Winnemucca, Nevada, which is where I had […]

I recently wrote a guest post over at the always compelling, entertaining and engaging Worst Professor Ever, and the post got tweeted by The Times (you see, in England, they still have a few remaining “news papers” – which are like news web sites that have been printed off for you; I know, clever, right?), […]

It’s the strangest feeling.  When someone gives you credit for something you really don’t think you did, but really wish you had. Does this happen to everyone?  I’d think so.  I’m not talking about plagiarism, or even failing to correct false credit for anything on a grand scale (“Hey, Byron, I really loved your novel […]

Here’s the thing about Independence Day that I love:  I love the actual day it commemorates, and its relationship to the very idea of independence and autonomy.  Here’s what I mean by that: Our independence day doesn’t celebrate the end of a war, or the day we were “granted” liberty.  It reflects instead the moment […]

The other day I got a phone call from a guy here who’s sort of a film/modeling/TV liaison, asking if I’d be interested in auditioning for a series of commercials.  Now, obviously, commercials are hardly the most riveting things, challenging things, certainly not the most dignified things.  They can be fun to do sometimes, though. […]

So, I had this dream last night– no, wait! Come back!  I’m not going to go into detail about my dream, I promise.  If you read my last post (and if not, why not? ) you recall it had to do with the guy here who posted a Craigslist ad for a time-travelling companion to […]

Last night there was a major breakthrough in the battle against Alzheimers.  What?  No, there isn’t some new medicine, or the announcement that we all now need to eat six pounds of asparagus a day, or anything like that.  Come on.  No, no, what happened was, I was able to remember the name of the […]