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Mr. Fish’s Interview with Graham Nash

by Mr. Fish March 26, 2010 Words

I did an interview for the Huffington Post last week with Graham Nash.  Click here to read all about it.

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High School Mucosal

by Mr. Fish February 12, 2010 Words

I drove out to the Beverly Hills Hotel, an hour and a half in traffic while the oily Tuesday afternoon sun melted into the toxic rainbow sherbet that is the Los Angeles sunset, for the singular purpose of snubbing Ken Starr.

I’d been imagining the scene for weeks, the sophisticated crowd, the sound of Dave Brubeck’s [...]

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Cover Boy

by Mr. Fish February 4, 2010 Words

Looking for some of that sweet-ass New Yorker exposure (and cashola!), I’ve taken to throwing together cover ideas and tossing them into the ghost mail when they occur to me.  Being Mr. Fish and knowing that Eustace Tilley is on the receiving end of my pitches, I sometimes feel as if I’m casting expletives into [...]

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I’m Younger Than That Now

by Mr. Fish January 31, 2010 Words

It is a queer fact, indeed, that none of the most outspoken and anti-authoritarian radicals in this country are under 65-years-old.
Queer because radicalism and the job of saying fuck you! to the bureaucratic versions of mom and dad have traditionally fallen to much younger men and women; men and women who, as they approach early [...]

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Persons Who Need Persons

by Mr. Fish January 27, 2010 Words

The recent Supreme Court ruling affirming the personhood of corporations (Georgie Orwell had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-uh-oh …) should force Fortune Magazine to rename its annual list – if for no reason other than to demonstrate a real commitment to journalistic accuracy – to 500 Lousy Moneygrubbing Cocksucking Assholes Who Make the Subversion of Our Democracy [...]

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Belly of the Beast

by Mr. Fish January 21, 2010 Words

I stood with the father of one of the little girls who lives on my block and we watched the school bus swallow up 9 jittery kids, my twins included, like so many amphetamines and disappear around the corner.  Walking away, I turned and asked this father, “So, anything going on with you today?”  He [...]

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Empathy for the Devil

by Mr. Fish January 20, 2010 Words

I was called an asshole today by an 11-year-old selling hot cocoa.
He was sitting behind a card table that teetered beneath the weight of an enormous plastic Gatorade cooler, one that was orange and battered and looked as if it had been pulled from the ass of a rhinoceros, the intestinal juices and fecal mucilage [...]

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Fresh Fish

by Mr. Fish January 16, 2010 Words

Ever since the takeover of the Village Voice Media Company in 2006 by New Times Media, I knew my days were numbered. We all did – by that I mean everybody at the old LA Weekly, where for nearly 6 years I wrote, cartooned and illustrated and produced a shitload of work. That [...]

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Notion Building

by Mr. Fish January 12, 2010 Words

By pure accident, I ended up hanging out with Damian Kulash from OK Go the day after he had finished shooting the treadmill video for Here it Goes Again.  “It’s really cool,” he told me, “better than the last one – you’ll love it.”
This was in the summer of 2006 at the Beverly Hills Hotel [...]

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Fah-LA-LA-LA-LA …

by Mr. Fish January 8, 2010 Words

I first saw the massive spread of twinkling lights that is Los Angeles at night from the San Gabriel Mountains in the early 90s while visiting from Philadelphia.  It was stunningly beautiful and made me think of a phone interview that I’d heard on CNN a year earlier at Christmastime during the Gulf War.
The images [...]

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