Welcome to the New MartyBeckerman.com

You can now read all my (non-book) writing from 1998-2009. If you dig this stuff as much as I think you will, do me a big favor: tell your friends, enemies, frenemies, blog it, Digg it, Tweet it, send it to your Facebook/MySpace contacts, all that jazz. Feel free to use the “share” button on the left side of the new site. Enjoy!

Daily Twitter Posts - 07/01/2009

23:46 p.s. for the good reviews, see http://www.martybeckerman.com/books -- when I feel down, this page is a better antidepressant than alcohol. #
23:40 A blogger trashed my last book--Alice Hoffman, how should I respond?? (No big deal; 90% of reviews were positive.) http://tinyurl.com/ne9x5r #

Daily Twitter Posts - 06/30/2009

22:48 Me to right-wing friend: "Grammar is one of the few things I'm still conservative on... wait... on which I'm still conservative." #
14:37 Franken declared senator. Prediction: Rush Limbaugh next celeb to die of heart attack. #

Daily Twitter Posts - 06/29/2009

22:38 @ronhogan An author must expect a few negative reviews, or else should not publish. That said, all my critics are evil rancid scum. #
22:15 only in NY: I heard meowing from a trash can, so I walked over intending to save an abandoned kitty... only to find a meowing schizophrenic. #

Daily Twitter Posts - 06/28/2009

12:50 feels wonderful to wake up without a hangover after downing a bunch of tequila shots--as if the laws of physics stopped working just for me. #
12:42 Ed, Farah, Michael, Billy... clearly there is a celebrity serial killer on the loose, making these deaths look natural. #

Daily Twitter Posts - 06/27/2009

20:56 "My back hurts so much -- we've been walking ALL DAY LONG," I complained... and then noticed the guy in a wheelchair right behind me. FML. #
17:20 reading went OK -- not my best, not my worst.... (my worst: performing "Fuck the Homeless," drunk, at a vegan coffee shop filled w/ hippies) #
11:34 Reading TODAY at 4:00 p.m., Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow Street, NYC (Free) #

Daily Twitter Posts - 06/26/2009

21:07 out of respect for the dead I refuse to re-post your tasteless MJ jokes... although "King of Pop, meet Prince of Darkness" is pretty good #
17:18 Chris Cornell's version of "Billie Jean" -- crazy amazing: http://bit.ly/cEWS7 #
17:12 when I read the michael jackson news, I almost had a fucking heart attack. #

Daily Twitter Posts - 06/25/2009

21:07 out of respect for the dead I refuse to re-post your tasteless MJ jokes... although "King of Pop, meet Prince of Darkness" is pretty good #
17:18 Chris Cornell's version of "Billie Jean" -- crazy amazing: http://bit.ly/cEWS7 #
17:12 when I read the michael jackson news, I almost had a fucking heart attack. #

Daily Twitter Posts - 06/24/2009

23:23 "Beatles: Rock Band" animation will blow your mind: http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/cinematic.php #
23:18 Peter Travers: "I know there are still 17 months to go but Transformers 2 has a shot at Worst Movie of the Decade" http://tinyurl.com/llehef #

Daily Twitter Posts - 06/23/2009

23:01 "[M]onotheism isn't intrinsically good or bad. It depends on the circumstances..." http://tinyurl.com/kl9r8h #
15:23 the average facebook user spends 20 mins per day on the site? I spend 20 hours! #
13:15 "The Best of Both Worlds (I and II)" = such a good ep of Star Trek: TNG #