Tumblr Editorial

In advance of the Thought Catalog re-issue of the novel based on my own experiences with schizophrenia, now called ‘Schizophrenic Connections’, here’s the trailer I put together for the book a few years ago. 

The release of the new edition is coming up soon and should be here in the next couple weeks. 

It’s been revamped, re-edited for impact, and it’s got an effin’ awesome new cover I can’t show you guys yet but if you can hold onto your butts a little while longer, it’ll be worth it. 

In the meantime, please reblog this post to get the word out, and if you’re seeing this post as a reblog feel free to follow me on Tumblr, Twitter, or Thought Catalog for the latest on the book and for a buttload of other awesome stuff. 

A week or so ago I turned in my first piece for Storyboard, a profile of Chris Gethard and The Chris Gethard Show. Storyboard shut down last night. I was excited about writing my first long feature piece in two years, and excited to write a profile of a comedy show where there are stunts and fart jokes and dildos, but where the audience asks questions on suicide and antidepressants and anxiety. Where things are just sad sometimes, and how more TV could work. Like how David Foster Wallace said, a medium that could actually reflect reality (49% pleasure, 51% pain). 

So last night when I heard Storyboard shut down I felt terrible, and embarrassed that I had wasted the time of everyone involved, and I just sat and cried (and watched the Knicks get the Atlantic division title) and cried. Now that I think about it, that’s exactly the ending I deserve for thinking it would be funny to do a profile of a comedy show that starts and ends with people weeping (as you’ll see below). 

Anyway so if you like my feature, please share it, because it’s not like it’s going anywhere else. 

We’re sad to hear this news, as Storyboard was a brilliant experiment in journalism and we hope it returns soon. It’s part of what separated Tumblr from the rest of the social media and blogging community; Storyboard was curated and it was editorial. It was a coherent and human voice that Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter all lacked and still lack.

Storyboard was an effort to give a voice to and shed light on Tumblr users like Jay Batlle, who creates beautiful art out of restaurant stationary. Storyboard told fascinating stories like how Lombardi’s and Motorino managed to keep serving pizza New in the wake of Superstorm Sandy’s power outages. 

Stoyboard is why we know about the Letters to Newtown project. 

Tumblr-User im Blickpunkt: Frederik Frede und Timmi Seifert von Freunde von Freunden

Would you donate to a Kickstarter film project if it meant seeing this guy* in a sex scene? Or does the thought repulse you so much that you’d donate to make sure he doesn’t appear in a sex scene? Either way, donate here and if the project is funded, you’ll be given a chance to vote if the kid stays in the picture or not.

On a serious note, this is a film about women being made by women. Women filmmakers are important.