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.

Very strange feeling today - the kind of social confidence that normal people probably feel. No intense, overexcited mania that usually accompanies that kind of confidence, either. It’s like getting drunk without the sloppy clumsiness.

I don’t know why it happened today or why it doesn’t happen every day. It didn’t particularly help me or improve my mood in any drastic way, but it felt good to know that I am capable of feeling that way.

The trick is making it last.