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joey comeau

untoward

About Me

I write A Softer World with the charming and infectiously enthusiastic Emily Horne . I wrote a novel called Lockpick Pornography and there's always some new short stories and some math stories . You can read it all .. for free, or buy it in book form from the drunk people at Loose Teeth .I believe that if you can't be a good example, you have an obligation to be a horrible warning.Also, I have a new book! It's Too Late to Say I'm Sorry is a collection of my short stories.

My Interests

writing, reading stories out loud in bed, winning, losing, forgetting and then remembering

I'd like to meet:

queers, suicides, winners, losers, future regrets, past proud moments, and sad stupid lonely fucking assholes

Music:

go outside in the desert heat, make your dress all wet and send it to me.

Movies:

SUPERSTAR,Canada Russia '72, Brick, Crank, The Last Man on Earth, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion. Some Like it Hot. Raging Bull. Ghostbusters. Exorcist III. Little Miss Sunshine. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Ferris Beuller's Day Off. Planes Trains and Automobiles. The Apartment. Finding Nemo. 40 year old virgin.

Television:

firefly, veronica mars, homicide life on the street, entourage, oz, queer as folk, the sopranos, freaks and geeks, the muppet show, battlestar galactica, extras, monk, will and grace, the office [US], the west wing, the wire, weeds, dead like me, house md, those know-it-all gilmore girls, k street,

Books:

the complete plays of Sarah Kane

Heroes:

patricia highsmith, kathy acker, sarah kane, morley callaghan, am homes, mordecai richler, mary lynn rajskub, primo levi, kelly link, truman capote, steve aylett, ryan north, my mom, george eliott clarke, queers, suicides, winners,

My Blog

A Softer World: Nov 2

There is a new comic today, and it is available for you on the internet.http://www.asofterworld.comThere is a hurricane headed for eastern Canada, right now. Hurricane Noel. Hurricanes always die down...
Posted by joey comeau on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:59:00 PST

A Softer World Oct 19, and a reading in Ottawa

Hello, it is Friday:http://www.asofterworld.comHere are the details for my reading in Ottawa on the 19th of October ( that's today, if today is Friday where you are!):Transgress, part of the Ottawa Wr...
Posted by joey comeau on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:56:00 PST

A Softer World: Oct 5 (and reading suggestions)

Hello!http://www.asofterworld.comThere are too many internet memes about figuring out which key you are on the keyboard, and there are maybe not enough memes for telling your friends about exciting be...
Posted by joey comeau on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:18:00 PST

Overqualified 64

There's a new overqualified on the internet today. http://www.asofterworld.com/oq-display.php?id=64I am working on an idea for a novel of these, and it is incorporating some writing you might have see...
Posted by joey comeau on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:17:00 PST

A Softer World: August 22

Comic:http://www.asofterworld.comNews Post:When I drink juice, I always end up with a juice mustache. I know that this isn't something that happens to adults. When I am walking down the street sometim...
Posted by joey comeau on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:35:00 PST

A Softer World: Feb 16

Living in a horror movie is the best part of my day indeed.http://www.asofterworld.comThe internet is full of people to secretly admire. The girl who makes detailed maps of her neighbourhood knows a b...
Posted by joey comeau on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:57:00 PST

A Softer World: Jan 19th-ish

Here is a comic for today (or yesterday, depending on where you are):http://www.asofterworld.comOur apartment flooded. The water heater burst. It came gushing out from under the door of the furnace ro...
Posted by joey comeau on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:29:00 PST

A Softer World: Jan 6

There's a new comic:http://www.asofterworld.comWhen I was a kid, I used to be terrified that someone was watching me all the time. Me, in particular. I worried that guessing passwords to citadel86s wa...
Posted by joey comeau on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:46:00 PST

A Softer World: Dec 29

There's a new Softer World:http://www.asofterworld.comWe hope that you like it.Joey
Posted by joey comeau on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:20:00 PST

A Softer World: Dec 1

Hello it is Friday. After this we all have one fewer Friday left. Govern yourselves accordingly.http://www.asofterworld.com
Posted by joey comeau on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:28:00 PST