This is the mixed media blog of James Foreman. He writes things.

Favorite topics include art, history, modern life, pop culture, dating, sex, atheism, science, stories, whimsy, magic, writing and self-deprecation.

You can read a fiction story he wrote in the bestselling Machine of Death anthology, a true story he wrote in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette or a funny thing he wrote for McSweeney's.

He's working on a novel. It's going okay.

The actor who plays Dwight (from the Office) has a site: SoulPancake.com  

I love art. I have some actual art right here in my house, and I don’t mean my replica Darth Vader lightsaber.

SoulPancake is about art, but it also does one of the many things I hate (though I’m definitely not a “h8r”), which is to automatically associate ART with SOULY-TYPE NEW AGE CRAP.

New Age is kind of pejorative, so I’ll use a more socially acceptable phrase to describe it: how about F*CKING RETARDED.

Art exists outside of faith and spirituality. How do I know? Because one of my favorite artists is an atheist who has no time at all for faithy bullshit.

Art is not spiritual, it is creative. It is a way of taking all a bunch of stuff in one’s head and focusing it into something solid. That might include “spiritual” stuff for some people, but because I’m an asshole atheist, I would say that all this spirit talk is fogging up the windows of clarity into our own brains.

Poop joke.

Source: soulpancake.com

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