Democracy took a dive on Thursday after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that corporations may now spend unlimited amounts of money to support or oppose the Congressional or Presidential candidates of their choosing.

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150 more magazine titles were shuttered than launched in 2009, according to a tally by magazine database resource and directory publisher Oxbridge Communications. In total, 428 magazines were shut down in 2009 while 275 were launched.

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Skipping the traditional Craigslist route in the attempt to keep things within my circle of friends. For rent is one huge bedroom in Williamsburg, Brooklyn available Nov. 1, maybe sooner depending on my move-out date.

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Opponents of health care reform have made a hilarious about-face in the past year. In 12 months they’ve managed to reposition themselves from vanguards of “the best system of care in the world,” to a noticeably more demure standing, complete with blanket admissions of a “broken system” along with conciliatory promises to fix it.

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NYC CD release this Friday. 9/11

It occurred to us that we should probably host an event to commemorate the official release of the amazing CD we now have for sale. 9/11 seemed like a day apt for the commemorative stamp so we figured we’d use it. Instant heroes. Consider it done.

Friday, September 11, 2009, Methodist will be officially releasing its debut record, produced by Alex Newport (At the Drive In, Death Cab for Cutie, System of a Down). The show will be at Bar Matchless. Opening the show will be our friends COBRETTI and our enemies ARROWS.

Bar Matchless is located at 557 Manhattan Ave. (corner of Driggs & Manhattan) in Greenpoint Brooklyn. G train to Nassau or the L train to Bedford.

The show starts at 9 and is $7. We’ll have t-shirts and CDs for sale. No shit.

Self-titled. Six songs. Produced by Alex Newport. Easily the best musical offering in the past 25 years. I stake my reputation on it.

As if things couldn’t get any better (go on!) you can now buy this album online via Paypal - safe, secure and fast. I won’t even have access to your bank/credit card information. That’s a good thing.

All proceeds fund our “re-birther movement,” a radical political platform that believes President Obama was created in a lab by Jewish lesbian abortion doctors funded by the healthcare lobby to rile rednecks across the nation into baseless conspiracy theories should the popular vote go to a black man.

To buy this CD for $8 ($7 for CD + $1 for s/h) please click the Paypal button below. I need the money.

I have several working excuses as to why this blog has not been updated in more than 3 months (feel free to pick one): A botched attempt at a novel, a writer’s workshop at NYU that has resulted in three newly completed short stories, and a completed studio album that I recorded with my band. Not to mention the myriad responsibilities of work (the magazine’s monthly page-count has gone up and so have my hours - in 2009 no less, who would’a thunk it?). Seriously, I’ve been busy.

Here’s where I hop onto today’s popular platitudes of change. I’ve updated the site, including the addition of all my previously published fiction for your unfettered perusal (just click on the ‘Fiction’ tab near the upper left for downloadable PDFs). I will also be injecting myself with the blogger’s cyber-equivalent of an infinity/super-soldier formula which will force me, via a series of Pavlovian shock responses (henceforth referred to as the “Protestant’s guilt”) to somehow return this site to its previous productivity standards. It is spring, after all. Stay tuned.

Obama’s war on special interest groups has received praise for its populist tenor and condemnation from those in the Washington influencer circuit. But it reached a boiling point on Jan. 21, when he imposed an executive order that seeks to remove all lobbyist influence from the White House.

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You know, some of you pussies might find that it will do wonders to your character if you braved the cold every once in a while and got out of the house. Seriously, life is too short.

We’re playing a show this Thursday at The Charleston (174 Bedford Ave between N. 7th Street and N. 8th Street) in Williamsburg with freakish Philadelphians Bubonic Bear and Monolith. Show starts at 9 p.m. or thereabouts. Cover is a cool $5.

This will be our last show for a while, as the following months will be spent writing new material and recording all the stuff we’ve written so far. Just how long we’ve waited to write such delightfully trite copy as the previous sentence will be our secret alone, but let it be known that if you miss this show, we don’t want to hear any whining.

A list of some of the best stuff I read, heard, saw and otherwise empirically ingested (voluntarily, or in some cases otherwise) in 2008.

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