Writing Rules

It is both one of the sweetest and fondest memories of growing up in the country, and a chill-inducing series of creepy-crawly recollections. [...continue...]

A fantastic community of creative, talented, intelligent, loving, supportive people that I enjoy being a part of. Also sexy. They're very sexy. [...continue...]

Why is having sex without a condom portrayed as, like, the Be-All-End-All of committed love? [...continue...]

I'm honored to have a poem featured along with the likes of Sally Rosen Kindred and Micki Myers and a host of other fabulous humans. Please, go peruse! [...continue...]

I got so excited when I got it home that I started taking pictures. In hindsight, this was silly because the lighting was terrible, but you know what? I don't care. You're lookin' at 'em! [...continue...]

It's that time of year again! What time of year? you may be asking. The time when we take off our shoes and lay around on the grass? The time when we buy food-truck morsels and have a picnic? The time when we take a free ferry to a free poetry festival and enjoy the summer on Governor's Island? [...continue...]

Over the course of the Earth's last revolution around the Sun, Luna Luna has transformed from 10 or so driven writers and a few readers to over a million hits to date, more than 50 regular writers and contributors, numerous articles that have gone viral, regular features and columns, and general badassitude on a scale nobody could have predicted. [...continue...]

Sometimes I fall into the all-too-common trap of not wanting to sound like a broken record of self-promotion. I mean, not that I want to be that guy who’s constantly promoting himself. But this is my website. I’m allowed to promote, right? And to be honest, right now I don’t have [...continue...]

After an extended bout of craziness involving running my porn panel at apexart last Wednesday, hosting several out-of-town visitors and one Madison Young at my tiny Bronx apartment for many evenings, showing said out-of-town visitors around the city, and juggling many ideas and projects… I am [...continue...]

I’m no good at promoting myself. Never have been. It’s not that I don’t value my own work–it’s that I’d rather other people like it and do the advertising/word of mouth/buzz for me. I don’t know if it’s modesty that keeps me from pushing my brand, or [...continue...]