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.

My new weight-loss plan

Whenever I think about eating something with sugar in it, like ice cream or whatever, I immediately replace that thought with a nauseating wave of self-loathing and black, impenetrable shame.