Taintbrush

Perhaps you haven’t heard, but there’s a movie coming up that’s going to SHATTER YOUR WORLD (assuming your world sucks) and it’s all about Facebook. It’s directed by David Fincher,…

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A disclaimer: I originally wrote this essay as part of a creative nonfiction class, working from David Foster Wallace’s incredible Consider the Lobster and its…

These guys are not in the “Best Music” list, but they swept the “Take A Shower” awards.

We do a lot of talking at Taintbrush. Sometimes we are wrong. Sometimes we are right. The latter is…

Oh, this crowd. My roommate and I are here because she called into the radio station and won tickets, and now to my right is a girl who has taken her shirt off, wearing just a leopard print…

Some heroes look like Cary Grant. Mine looks like this.

I. I think I’ve just seen my hero walk past me in a Barnes & Noble. He is almost middle-aged, wearing a ferocious beard with…

“What’s up, Real?” “Oh, nothing, Chase - just about to get my dick sucked. You?”

I do not feel safe in the world.

I don’t have health care, because it’s expensive. I can barely…

mfw, lookin’ for some cutie Asher Roth fans

Acoustic hip-hop covers are the most unheralded genre in music, because music critics are afraid of the transformative power of a bro…

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I didn’t watch the Michael Jackson memorial because I was being a working person doing work at the time of its bajillion-channel broadcast (I still love you, liveblogs.)…

In the vacuum of gangster drama, no one can hear you emote.

The above title is irony. Public Enemies will not make you shit yourself. It is also not a shitty movie. But, given the…