We've gotten a chance to work quite a bit with Moby, who always surprises me with how funny and irreverent he is, not to mention his candor, passion for music and art, and extreme support for the causes he believes in. Recently, Moby read that California completely cut funding for domestic abuse programs, and [...]

Did you read the NY Times story about Sergey Brin's $1MM donation to the organization that saved him and other Jews from death at the hands of Russian anti-semites?
Maybe the money I sent to Bolislav Vainman, my "Russian Twin," in 1986, did find its way to him, after all. Maybe my mom was wrong, maybe [...]

She asked that I not reveal her identity because she works for a TV station and is well known in Russia and elsewhere. She's been reading about my search for Bolislav Vainman on SomethingBurning — how it began when I sent him some money, how my mom weighed in, how Greg Clayman joined the search, [...]

My wife's friend, Rie, just sent this to her. It's from McSweeney's…

IT'S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS.
BY COLIN NISSAN
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I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to [...]

Our friend, Maggie Molina, made a new Haloween-themed movie for MTV: MY SUPER PSYCHO SWEET 16. Premieres tonight (in 45 minutes, actually) at 10PM on, you guessed it, MTV.
I gotta say, it's getting tough around here at MTV. Earlier today, Alexa Chung got her head cut off just for trying to [...]

Over beer last night here in Brooklyn, my friend and I were discussing the social media strategy for his new book, which comes out soon.
I mentioned that I'm following a squirrel from Tehran, on Twitter. When I got home, I wondered why I'm following that squirrel, and why I'm not following, for example, the [...]