Hi Micah-

I can’t listen to your interviews on the Media page. File not found! Also, why are there only two interviews available?

Hope you’re not a Bills fan, still.

TJ

I am a Bills fan, still. Who doesn’t love a perpetual underdog?

As for those interviews, we’re working on a fix. Seems the media files were misplaced. I’ll find ‘em. Why only two? Because the rest weren’t recorded. I did about a dozen interviews during my U.S. tour, and another dozen overseas, and most [...]

And so it’s come to this: some schools want their students to wear certain types of friendlier Halloween costumes–princesses and food items, for example–in lieu of the scary stuff. No crazed axe-wielders, no monsters with fangs and jagged fingernails, etc. No stuff most children like, the stuff they get to wear only once a year and have it miraculously lead to a bag of candy.

The biggest problem I have with this (aside from the creeping sanitization of childhood) [...]

I was expecting more hits but these things happen–you think your pop culture experience will translate across generational borders, and you discover otherwise. I’m referring to my most recent Throwback Thursdays column (found here).

True, the writing isn’t my best, and Swayze isn’t as entertaining as, say, terrible gangster rap lyrics. But Swayze deserves better. Spread the word.

Remember a few months ago, when I was working on that little film treatment? I’ll refresh: an indie producer hired [...]

My first time on Prednisone has unearthed Norseman rage. What is this stuff, how does it work so well on poison ivy, and why does it make me want to wrestle world-serpents?

Sometimes a random internet browse leads to something good. In this case a tongue-devouring isopod:

It’s a fish-specific parasite that replaces the fish’s tongue with itself. Then it just hangs out, nibbling on blood and mucus while the fish…well, the fish continues being a fish. Does anyone else notice a [...]

Micah old man, I’m about half the way through GODS OF ABERDEEN and I’m enjoying it immensely.  I particularly enjoy the precision and elegance of your writing.  I really look forward to more of your work.  We’re both Nathans, but I don’t think we’re related.  I also have a new nephew named Micah–the name’s coming in at last, like somebody’s boat.  All the [...]

I’m working on a major announcement in the graphic novel realm, involving an adaptation of a storied franchise. Details as they emerge.

I have a horrendous case of poison ivy. Yesterday a weeping, leathery patch covered my right forearm, and the itching was…well, it was as though a nest of hornets erupted beneath my skin. Benadryl did nothing, cortisone did nothing, but then I discovered a poultice of kosher salt and baking soda. The blisters dried, the itching stopped, and now [...]

Web wunderkind Andrew Boni has done his job and my site is reborn. MicahNathan.com is all growns up.

(Aside from some lingering menu issues but those will be fixed)

So how do we mark this occasion? With shameless plugging of current and future endeavors? Nah–we’ve had enough of those for awhile. How about an update of my life as a graduate student at Boston University’s writing program? Self-indulgent, yes. But this is a website for Crikey’s sake. We traffic in self-indulgence.

So here’s [...]