Welcome to the New MartyBeckerman.com

You can now read all my non-book writing from 1998-2009. Enjoy and tell your douche bag friends!

Twitter Archive (October 2009)

I saw a dead homeless person splayed on the sidewalk and felt no emotions whatsoever; I've become such a New Yorker! :-D

Friend: "This is the kind of day that can only be salvaged by tequila." Me: "Welcome to every day of my life."

Ad for Lifetime Television: "It's impossible to be a pet lover and a jerk." Someone in marketing never learned that Hitler was a vegetarian.

Kill Fatty: A Modestly Sized Proposal

October 13, 2009
 
Overweight people are fucking abhorrent, which seems like an obvious and uncontroversial statement, but you cannot turn your head these days without gawking at the vile cascades of shapeless distended flesh that ubiquitously engulf your grotesque countrymen.
 
Look at these nauseating statistics:

Twitter Archive (September 2009)

making a PB&J sandwich, I noticed the PB contains an ingredient called "rapeseed." I do not feel quite so hungry anymore.

bu$ine$$ plan: apply for job at abortion clinic, bottle fetus juice, add vitamins, market under brand name "Infanti-Cider." (would it be necessary to add vitamins? chicken eggs have plenty of A and B12, right?)

Friend: "Scholars think Shakespeare was gay." Me: "They say that about EVERY dead writer... they say it about ME and I'm still ALIVE!"

Twitter Archive (August 2009)

girlfriend's aunt: "Our new cat's name is Jacko." girlfriend: "What kind of cat?" aunt: "A black one." me: "It hasn't turned albino yet?"

I bought a Powerball ticket worth $5 a few years ago. Whenever somebody asks what I do for a living I'm tempted to say, "I won the lottery."

I haven't tweeted in 18 hours -- felt like I was missing a limb or a nipple or something, which would bring me down to 3 limbs or 2 nipples.

New Daily Beast Article: Making Peace with Nick McDonell

Between 2002-2004 I relentlessly bashed an author my age whose success I envied/resented. (My tirades appeared in New York Press, New York, the New York Daily News, New York Post, and every other publication with New York in the title.) We recently sat down for an interview, and I offered an olive branch.