one real whatever

I have a story published in a print anthology called One Real Story.

It was accepted about a year ago (maybe longer?) and now copies are available.

They are $50. No. Really. $50. $50?






Click here and laugh: https://www.createspace.com/3369508

I think I’m supposed to get a contributor’s copy but I have no idea.

I will not pay $50 for anything….maybe alcohol.

You should not either....

calliope nerve

I have a new piece up @ calliope nerve.

You can read it here:

http://calliopenerve.blogspot.com/search/label/Adam%20Moorad
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I’m headed down south for the weekend tomorrow. I’m excited to be going where the weather will be nicer and less excited about being in a red state where the majority of people watch bill o'reilly religiously.

red states make me pray for apocalypse.

what color is your state??

I painted the following in honor of our government’s preternatural ability to stimulate what was once called our economy.

“TARP 2” (oil on canvas)

I don't have a house, have a dad, but am not sure if my dad has leftovers

mark baumer read a story i wrote and emailed me. i googled mark baumer and discovered he is the man behind everyday yeah. i have visited everyday yeah several times before but I did not know mark baumer until today.

google gave me a story mark wrote a long time ago. i'm assuming it was written by the same mark baumer. you can read it here: http://www.eclectica.org/v11n2/baumer.html

it reminds me of one of those early pynchon short stories where you feel weird things are moving behind the narrator’s eyes (I can’t explain it any other way)

i emailed mark baumer back. he emailed me back. i emailed him back again. he emailed me back again. then i emailed him back again. then he emailed me again.

it was fun.

you can read mark baumer interview (?) me here: http://everydayyeah.com/adammoorad

happy monday.

check me out today at thieves jargon, here:

http://www.thievesjargon.com/workview.php?work=1327

thieves jargon is probably one of my favorite zines. it consistently has a good balance of top poetry and short stories from writers like Spencer Dew and Joel Van Noord.

they also have a crazy selection of art. I recommend checking out their artist archive.

do it. DO IT.

4-1

almost every weekend i give up and resort to boozing around the east village while cavorting with drunken ex-pats whose names i sometimes have trouble remembering.

I don’t know why i do this…I think it may have something to do with a soccer team…or something entirely different. Something uglier. I’m can’t be sure.

On the days our team loses, things get particularly ugly.

Our team lost yesterday. It was particularly ugly.

ewwwwewwwwwewwwwew

I have a newbie up @ red peter. It’s a short excerpt from a larger, un-publishable story about a hick-whore who wants to be a country music star. Strange. The Corduroy Mtn. read and said they were, “very aroused.” Thieves Jargon said they hoped, “There’s a place sleazy enough for this.”

That place is red peter. red peter says he’s traveling Thailand right now. I envy red peter. new york city be being a springtime cock-tease.

Hick-whore is here: http://redpetersdf.blogspot.com/2009/02/excerpt-from-tennessee-christmas-adam.html
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I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday. It was boring.
People were eating fast food @ ground zero.
I went inside a church - just to look @ a stained glass window.
A Christian shushed me.
I wanted to karate-chop the christian in the back of the head.

I rode the Staten Island Ferry just to ride the Staten Island Ferry. It was boring.
I think my liver is bleeding. It’s boring.
I’m boring.


my brother said he saw someone break their leg yesterday. bone through the skin. foot dangling. ewweewwwwwewwwewww.
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I finally received Sam Pink’s book yesterday. I am ready to devour it. I think I will read it aloud to tired people on the subway.
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i discovered this today: http://mindancerpress.wordpress.com/books/skulls-and-crossbones/

i wish someone i know would write something hilarious and send it in. it says:

"EACH STORY MUST FEATURE A WOMAN PIRATE"

fucking awesome.

shoots & vines

I have a new story up @ shoots and vines. It’s titled “Barbie World” – for lack of a better, more creative title. Read it here: http://www.shootsandvines.com/?p=480

shoots and vines is a relatively new journal edited by Crystal Folz.

Every time I log into gmail, Crystal Folz is online. I imagine she is working on something crazy.

I want to g-chat her and see what she’s working on because she is never-never-not-on.

The only other person online more than Crystal Folz is probably Jason Behrends (@ http://orangealert.net/)

I think Jason Behrends either lives inside a computer or – in actuality – is a computer himself.

winter is killing me

i have a new story up @ static movement.

read it here: http://staticmovement.com/popeinnocentX.htm
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This winter is ridiculous. I have been hibernating in my apartment for tooooo many weekends and it is making me more and more insane – maybe a little dangerous too.

I have been painting:

“nyquil cacti” (oil on canvas)

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And drawing:

“rip van winkle wakes up this morning in your parent’s backyard” (chalk & charcoal on overpriced paper)

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And drinking:

(yummy)

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I need spring.