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Dad Jeans: The Podcast
In the early 2010s, I met my friend Brendan Hughes for drinks at The Red Lion in Silverlake. I had a two year-old daughter and Brendan had recently become a dad himself. As we talked about our children and pounded our Dunkels (get your filthy mind out of the gutter, it’s a kind of beer) we had a sudden flash of inspiration: this, but for everyone, in their ears! And thus, Dad Jeans, a semi-regular podcast about losing your cool was born.
Books
In another life I wrote fiction. I may still write fiction in this life. You will know when you see me on the NY Times bestseller list. My two novels, I, An Actress: The Autobiography of Karen Jamey, and Johnny Astronaut by Rory Carmichael, are no longer in print, but you can get them on Kindle should you be so inclined. In addition to fiction, I also wrote several books for the educational publishing house Learning Express that you will never read, including Best Green Careers, Express Review Guides: Spelling, and Express Review Guides: Vocabulary. (Yes, I wrote an entire book about vocabulary. That’s how come I know so many big words.)
Music
I’ve been writing and playing music since I was a teenager. When I lived in New York, I wrote music for and performed in a few off-off Broadway shows, including a one-man Christmas show called Christmas with the Flamingoes featuring an all-stuffed animal backing band. In the last few years, I’ve written and performed original music in a series of stand up Powerpoint presentations / tent revivals curated by my podcasting partner Brendan Hughes. Recently I’ve been recording as a fake band from some vaguely Eastern European country called Vörhörst. It’s deeply silly and strange but when the muse appears, I must follow.
The Vanishing Point
The second publishing company I started was called Awkward Press. We printed two collections of original short fiction before folding because as it turns out, people still hadn't started buying books by 2010. For our second release, we made short films based on some of the stories. The Vanishing Point is an adaptation of my story, directed by Eric Kissack with a script by me.