MTv has posted an excerpt from The Alcoholic, a graphic novel by Jonathan Ames. Ames wrote the story (it's illustrated by Dean Haspiel), and true to Ames' form it is quite autobiographical. The protagonist is even named Jonathan A.The author says that The Alcoholic is “a life-story as one big bender, and so there are … Continue reading Lost Weekend

Terrible, terrible news from the Guardian. Michael Jackson has been at work with some British celebrity I've never heard of, David Gest, on an album whose lyrics will be the poetry of Robert Burns, Scotland's most celebrated versifier. "He [Gest] explained that he and Jackson were originally planning to do a musical about Burns's life, … Continue reading Gan Aft Agley

A fight broke out at a recent reading by James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces. According to the New York Post, six "hooligans" came to the event at Los Angeles' Whiskey-a-Go-Go expecting to hear a heavy metal band and started to tear the place up when they found only Frey, reading from his … Continue reading Calling All Cars!