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Brojobs

Brojobs, my new ebook, is up on Amazon. I must say, I’m quite proud of the product description:

Hey, bro. Here are fifteen stories about bros gettin down with other bros. From fuckin around with your big brother’s bro, to gettin bromantic at a drunken bachelor party, to bangin your brahs on a camping trip while the girlfriends are at home: Brojobs is chock full of brotastic erotic goodness.

Brojobs contains the never-before-published story “The Bachelor Party,” which is about a…well, a bachelor party, the one that everyone tries to forget.

I’m also making Brojobs available as a PDF. If you donate three dollars or more to my Paypal account, I’ll email it to you. Thanks!

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New Ebook Alert!

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I’m putting out a new ebook in a few days called ‘Brojobs.’ That’s the cover above, by Johnny Murdoc – ain’t it wild?

It largely consists of previously-published work, but will contain the fruits of my most recent story poll, ‘The Bachelor Party’ [being a story about “the bachelor party that everyone tries to forget”]. ‘The Bachelor Party’ contains a character named Bradley and a character named Zach, which means it’s essentially based on a movie I’ve never seen.

Also included is the story ‘Details’ which was published in an anthology but never on my site.

Otherwise everything is going good. I’m nearly finished with my sequel to ‘428 College St‘, which is a 30k-word novella titled ‘691 Suburban Dr.’ More on that later!

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Here’s Somebody Jacking Off While Reading One of My Stories

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Well, I can’t be exactly sure that he’s reading one of my stories – in these photos by Marlen Boro, the model Ollie is reading some section of the anthology that also contains stories by Johnny Murdoc and Rob Wolfsham. Regardless, Ollie has made a fine choice of reading material, and should you wish to follow his lead you only need to click over to the Queer Young Cowboys store and purchase either an ebook or print version of Never Easy.

And, just to reiterate, this is the book that contains a story about a guy who gets fucked by his boyfriend’s straight, horny brothers.

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Summer Reminisced

I want to write about my summer in a positive way and not feel like I’m bragging. Intention stated! Let it be known that I had a lot of great times this summer, and a lot of down times, too. I’d rather reminisce about the good stuff.

Things I did this summer:

– Banged on a drum for the first time and found a love for it that hasn’t abated; attended weekly drum circles in Pittsburgh.

– Danced my ass off in New York City while wearing a pink tuxedo.

– Attended the Lambda Literary Awards where one dude from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy told me he liked my jacket.

– Found the Radical Faeries and balled my eyes out in my first heart circle.

– Scrubbed pots at a hippie commune while dancing to Madonna.

– Went to the drive-in and initially got blown away by ‘Magic Mike’ until the romance subplot took over and totally blew.

– Spent a couple days languishing poolside, writing, socializing.

– Saw Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings at an outdoor concert on a day when I was feeling lousy and left feeling like the weight of the world had been lifted off my shoulders.

– Started writing a book that I’m super excited about.

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Animan!

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I think I’ve posted about this amazing animator before, but if you haven’t been exposed to his work do watch his classic “The Twist Party” – most decidedly NOT safe for work! If you’ve checked out the rest of the stuff on Animan’s GayTube account and (like me) still can’t get enough, order his newer videos – there’s three of them, they’re fantastic and a step up from his previous work (some of them contain voices and dialogue). Ordering them is a little convoluted but it’s worth it: order them here.

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Incomplete List of Certified Tearjerkers

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[Note: the term “profound” is subjective, and so is everything else.]

MOVIES

1. Fearless (1993, s. Jeff Bridges, d. Peter Weir) – overcoming fear of death

2. Thelma & Louise (1991, s. Susan Sarandon, d. Ridley Scott) – overcoming fear of death, profound intimacy

3. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993, s. Johnny Depp, d. Lasse Hallstrom) – profound empathy

4. Wendy and Lucy (2008, s. Michelle Williams, d. Kelly Reichardt) – profound empathy

5. Mysterious Skin (2004, s. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, d. Gregg Araki) – profound empathy

6. Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001, s. Diego Luna, d. Alfonso Cuaron) – overcoming fear of death, profound intimacy

BOOKS/STORIES

1. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry – profound intimacy, overcoming fear of death, profound empathy

2. “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury – overcoming fear of death

SONGS

1. “The Lifting” by R.E.M. – ?

2. “Like a Friend” by Pulp – nostalgia

3. “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman – profound empathy

4. “Gardening at Night” by R.E.M. – nostalgia

 

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Dad’s Best Friend

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I have a story in this month’s issue of Handjobs Magazine, “Dad’s Best Friend.”

Home for the summer after his freshmen year in college, Nate gets drafted to help Dad put a new roof on the house. Dad’s best friend, Alan Burke, is helping out, and the two men get to talking about the girls they fucked before they got married. Their banter warms Nate’s ears and on a rainy day when they can’t work on the roof, Nate gets excited when Dad asks Nate, “You want me to head over to Alan’s in a little bit?” Just the way he says it gets Nate’s heart racing.

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One of my favorite movies is Groove the Rave Movie

I really denied this one for as long as I could. A couple of years ago I bought a cheap VHS copy of Groove the Rave Movie at a Blockbuster that was going out of business, and I told myself it was out of nostalgia for my college years and my rave days. But now I find myself watching Groove the Rave Movie at least twice a year. It’s my rainy-day movie, a guaranteed entertainment.

Here’s a story. In 2000 I was driving with some friends to see a movie, not Groove the Rave Movie, though I did end up seeing that in the theater eventually. Anyway, we were driving along and we had no weed. So we were smoking resin and we were stopped at a stoplight. Suddenly the guy in an SUV in front of us got out of his car and ran back to ours. He handed us a bud of really good weed and some flyers for his club night. We were like, “Thanks,” and he was like, “Come to my club night.”

That was sort of how it was in those days. Oh I know that I missed the “real” rave culture by years and years, but when I discovered it (and ecstasy) at the tail end of the nineties when I was in my early twenties, it certainly felt like something to me. The air of acceptance, of opening up (brought on by ecstasy, sure, but no less authentic), of casual intimacy with hundreds of strangers…it was intoxicating for lack of a better word. [Feel free to read a more cynical and depressing account of my rave days here]

So I’m not going to try to argue that Groove the Rave Movie is a great movie or even a good one. It’s a personal favorite because it reminds me of a certain time. And it has specific elements that always endear me to films: the whole “everything changes in one night” trope, the youth culture element, the drug element (okay, basically it’s a cheap facsimile of the far superior Dazed and Confused, another of my rainy-day movies).

But Groove the Rave Movie definitely does some things right. Sure, the acting is B-rate…everything in it is B-rate. But it captures those times perfectly, and the characters, broad as they are, feel recognizable to me. The morning after/comedown montage gets me every time – the candy ravers passed out in their dorm room, the anxious intellectual cruising down the highway with an E-afterglow. I was there. For real.

And yeah, I do love Go and I have seen Human Traffic but neither of those really hit me in the same way.

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