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I didn’t want to start a business. I wanted to interview prostitutes. I started a web series at HBO called “III:am” about what people were up to in NYC at 3 in the morning. Of course: I interviewed prostitutes, drug dealers, and probably you, if I ran into you at three in the morning. Sometimes […]

I was happy when I sold my first company and made money. I was happy when I met my first wife. I loved her and on that first kiss I remember how much she was shaking because she was nervous and so was I. She wouldn’t kiss me until date 5. “Too fast,” she said. […]

I had a boss who would push his glasses down on his nose when I walked in and look at me above the glasses. Like I was not worth focusing on. Like I was half a human. He hated me. Your boss hates you also. HATES. He takes your hard work and pretends, to his […]

In 1980. It was in NYC. I was 12 years old. I begged my dad if I could go. I called up the Democratic party national offices and said I “represented kids”. My dad simply dropped me off at Madison Square Garden. I had to find the guy who gave me a special pass. I […]

Every day I realize more how stupid I am. It’s OK to be stupid. But when I was 18 I thought I was a genius. Now I realize I’m an idiot. Here are the other 50 or so things I realize as I get older. I list this just for me. Because my memory is […]

Every day for five years I wrote 3000 words a day and they all sucked. I wrote four novels and maybe 70 short stories. I sent every novel to about 40 agents and all the publishers. I only got form letter rejections back. Finally I gave up, left my job, moved cities, my girlfriend left […]

Having children is awful. The first night I was the father of a child I left the hospital as soon as everyone was drugged up and I played poker all night at the Mayfair Club. Ingrid, at the front door, refused to let me in until I insisted everyone was drugged and there was nothing […]