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.

What I’m doing instead of cleaning in preparation for Riffsnax night

1. writing this blog post about not cleaning

2. twittering about how I’m not cleaning

3. backing up my iTunes folder and then copying the folder to a second computer, and then backing that one up

4. writing on Facebook about how I’m not cleaning

5. making more coffee

6. burning a DVD for someone

7. burning a few DVDs for a different someone

8. making a list of things I need to clean

9. paying a few bills that don’t need to be paid for like a month

10. organizing my games - in a room where none of my guests will be

11. apologizing to everybody who didn’t get invited this month - I’ll get around to you eventually, but I just don’t have a lot of room (at all):

My living space