University Of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia,Pennsylvania
Graduated: 1991
Student status: Alumni
Major: Communications
Minor: Italian
Clubs: 34th St. Magazine
Daily Pennsylvanian
I edit SMITH magazine, smithmag.net, a new online and soon-to-be print magazine about the way real people tell stories and how technology has made storytelling easier and more amazing than ever. We believe everyone has a stor
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SMITH mag "Dorm Stalker" the latest NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR truelife webcomic on SMITH is live: http://www.smithmag.net/nextdoorneighbor/ view more
About me: I am SMITH magazine, an on-line (and soon-to-be print) magazine celebrating, documenting, encouraging, and facilitating the Personal Media Revolution. SMITH is about real people telling real stories in this gritty, funny, intense, amazing world. A new kind of magazine where the readers and editors work together to tell stories about all our lives. Everyone has a story. Everyone is a SMITH.
NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR is the third original Webcomic presented free on SMITH Magazine. “Everybody has one. And, no matter how close or how far, we all live next to someone, and we all have a Next-Door Neighbor story,” says NDN Editor Dean Haspiel. “With this in mind, I asked some of my favorite storytellers and cartoonists to create their favorite NDN stories so that we at SMITH Magazine could share them with you over the next year.” New installments of Next-Door Neighbor will appear every other Monday only on SMITH Magazine.
SMITH's follow-up to the successful SHOOTING WAR webcomic switches gears from future-fiction to non-fiction in A.D.: NEW ORLEANS AFTER THE DELUGE. When the levees broke, nothing was the same for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. A.D. is about surviving Hurricane Katrina — and what happened next in the lives of a cross-section of Crescent City residents.
Click above to read SMITH Magazine's first featured original graphic novel, SHOOTING WAR, a near-future, media-obsessed story about a Brooklyn videoblogger who heads to still-war-torn Iraq (2011) after witnessing a terrorist attack on Williamsburg soil.
Click here to read what the media is saying about SHOOTING WAR
Got a story for SMITH? Or a photo essay? Or a a tale about something that happened to you on MySpace? Send it to info@smithmag.net.
At SMITH we're interested in all sorts of personal stories, so don't feel bound by these categories. But these spots are good places to start:
Memoirville: Have a memoir you're working on, or just a personal story you want to share? Send it to us and we'll consider it for Memoirville, a spot where stories from the pros mix with unpublished memoirs in progress.
My Diary: These are reader-created journals about your life in transition (like Cree, who moved back to New Orleans or Ben who's converting from Judiasm to Greek-Orthodox), your wild job (like Mistress Y, the dominatrix trying to make an honest living in a painful world), or any other notion that you think others will want to read about. If you want to keep a diary, send us your idea and a writing sample and we'll be sure to get right back to you.
Brushes With Fame: What happens when a celebrity unexpectedly entered your sphere like an alien landing? We want to know (in 300 words or less). Maybe you met Sharon Stone in line to meet the Dalai Lama, ran into Jon Stewart at the dressing room of the Gap, or somehow have Mick Jaggers urine in your freezer. These things happen. If you've caught a celeb making out with someone he shouldn't have been or making an ass of himself at a pretentious bar, save it for Page 6 and Gawkerwere interested in an actual personal encounter, not gotchas.
My Ex: We've all got ex-lovers, partners, husbands, wives. Some we equate with beautiful moments of love. Others were train wrecks. What's your favorite ex story? Tell us in 1000 words. Tell us in just 50 words. But tell us (and you'll feel better, too). The best My Ex stories will be included in our forthcoming book.
Check out the mag. Then jump in -- the water's excellent.
Who I'd like to meet: Writers. Creators. Other Smiths. Memoir writers. Storytellers. Memoirists. Non-fiction writers. Comic makers. Graphic novelists. Photographers. People who have great stories about things that have happened to, by, and with them on MySpace. If you want to submit your story, send an email to: info@smithmag.net.
Or check out our writers guides.
You got your Tao in my Swayze. Your Swayze’s in my Tao.
Within the ancient passages of the Tao Te Ching there is great wisdom on how to live your daily life; how to live the “Way”. The same life lessons can be found in the sage-like colloquies born out of Patrick Swayze’s storied film career.
Proceeds from this book benefit the American Cancer Society.
YOU DONT HAVE TO POST THIS..but i would like you to watch it...i have been e-mailing rachel about helping spread the word about our project. THe idea behind this one is president bush's brain just before nap-nap...id vs. ego vs superego........appreciate you viewing-james wo, james whoa, and james woe
i'll be in NYC mid april to celebrate publication of Chelsea Hotel Manhattan. the book will be launched in the Chelsea Hotel so all you kids who've never been inside the legendary hotel should come along and look at the place before it changes forever, while seeing me read from my book of extreme travel writing concerning the hotel, ira cohen, allen ginsberg, leonard cohen, brendan behan, johnny thunders, william burroughs, Brion gysin, gregory corso, marty matz, herbert huncke, patti smith, the clancy brothers, lou reed, debbie harry, linda tripp, stanley bard, gerard malanga, dee dee ramone,and rockets redglare. watch out for details of this exclusive event on myspace. see ya there, joe ambrose www. joeambrose. net
SIX WORDER HAS MEMOIR CONTEST OF HIS OWN!! ANTHOLOGY IS THE GOAL!! got a story (written or recorded)? or art? you seem like the type of humans that would... check it out, friends.
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