Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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Farmers and Sons of Farmers are Sometimes Two Entirely Different Farmers

HEALTH & LIFESTYLE

Greg Boose confesses that just because he grew up on a farm doesn’t mean he knows shit about farming.

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Even a Clever Homemade Thank You Card Involving a Picture of Wyclef Jean Can’t Get Me the Job

BOOKS & PUBLISHING

Part 3 in the ongoing saga of Boose trying to quit his day job to be a professional writer.

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“BEFORE you, mother Idoto, naked I stand”

MEMOIR

The title is the beginning of “Heavensgate”, by Christopher Okigbo, the greatest modern Nigerian poem, and I think the greatest modern African poem.  Okigbo is my patron saint, and my personal Janus (he died in the war that gave life to me), so it’s appropriate to pour out for him before I take a draught.  [...]

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Rewriting a Media Guide Is Easier When You’re Both Lonely and Looking Important

SPORTS

Part 2 in the ongoing saga of Boose trying to quit his day job to be a professional writer.

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In the Beginning There Was an Unpaid Editing Job in Cleveland, a Potential Lawsuit, and a Bunch of Unprovoked Angry Geese

BOOKS & PUBLISHING

Part 1 in the ongoing saga of Boose trying to quit his day job to be a professional writer.

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Walking Around Naked With Thousands of Other Naked People Is Totally Fine Until You’re One of the Last Searching for His Clothes

VISUAL ARTS

Boose poses naked for a Spencer Tunick photo shoot on the shore of Lake Erie.

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So Maybe I Don’t Have the Pictures to Prove It, But LeBron James and I Have a Special Kind of Relationship

COMEDY

Ever try to get a photograph of a celebrity and have the camera ripped out of your hands? Boose + LeBron James = Embarrassment.

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