submitting poetry to the magazine IMPERIUM in 1989 i must have included that glittery confetti in star shapes inside the submission. from the archives:
12-1-89
Dear Josh B. Axelrad,
Thank-you, sorry we cannot use your poems. You stars fell all over the place. Nice personal touch.
Sincerely,
Paul Cohen
IMPERIUM
PO Box 13077
Gainesville, FL 32604
errors, if any, are from the dot-matrix original.

came across a number of short stories i wrote in the late 90s. they are unreprintable by a person of conscience. but the following critical letter from a colleague in one of the writing workshops to which the stories were submitted demonstrates a certain consistency between my work then and now – a consistency, if [...]

yeah, there is this move coming next week because of an Inner Voice who likes to say you can’t bleed your days away in brooklyn forever, and new york is too small of a city; a man needs breadth for his heart to expand. anyhow i’m going through boxes. generally i don’t go through the [...]

Dear Motherfuckers:
All of our cell phones have cameras. We will walk into pits to get intelligence. Why make it so damn easy? We’ll plain stroll in there, goddamnit.
Josh
(photo courtesy of anonymous)

Over at Tumblr, Jed ruminates on esoterica. That page is for rumination, however; nobody’s allowed ever to read it. If I can speak of religion for just one second I’ll venture yea much here: that the Big Questions tend to be responded to by some in our camp with just silence. Okay? And what I [...]

“Toku-san (780-865 CE) used to swing his big stick whenever he came out to preach in the hall, saying, ‘If you utter a word I will give you thirty blows; if you utter not a word, just the same, thirty blows on your head.’ This was all he would say to his disciples.”
- D.T. Suzuki, [...]

SMITH Magazine has posted a correspondence between Lewis Schiff and me. Topics include dogs, Colorado, posturing, and the last time I passed through Las Vegas:
I was last in Vegas for two days in September of 2006. It was a bleak mission for me. As you know from the book, having sold to Penguin Press for [...]

Doing Cleveland radio tomorrow. The hosts are apparently monks – monk talk radio (Jesuit?). It streams live here.

72F, 28%. Barreling Sixth Ave just on the back third of the evening rush. You might think of this as a kind of emergency drill for New York City. The pedestrians get a B-. We’re still not prepared.

12/28 – 12/29/00
Las Vegas Hilton, +$1,955
Stardust, +$42,076
Blue color contacts. Beard dyed using Just For Men.  Bandanna covers hairline and the tops of the eyebrows.
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12/30/00 – 1/1/01
Mandalay Bay, -$19,840
Venetian, +$20,900
Frontier, +$32,425
Similar – eyebrows fully hidden. Frontier (an utter toilet) had conveniently raised their maxes to $3K just ahead of New Year’s. For a short [...]

77F, 65%. Squelched in that fury. I would not have thought 65% is exceptionally tough for humidity. Eighty or 90 is bad, right? Well. Proceeded slowly from about mile 1.  There was one thought underlying some of this go, thought taken from the 22nd Street facility where I spent 1 hr 18 minutes prior to coming [...]

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