Author Archives: rubpawpress

I Visited Seattle Once When I Still Lived on the East Coast

It was a little more than year ago when I visited Seattle my friend Dan with the idea that I would write an article about it. The article didn’t get published. I decided to edit and post it, with added commentary from an older, wiser self currently residing in Seattle. It’s like I’m reviewing myself!
The [...]

Sort of liveblogging Joanna Newsom’s “Have One On Me”

I found out that NPR was streaming Joanna Newsom’s new album in its entirety. Before finding that out I knew that a track from the album, “Good Intentions Paving Company” (I think) was available for download on Drag City’s site, following a cryptic blog entry bearing the date 2/23/10. My initial reaction to the song, [...]

Photos found when typing ‘.jpg’ into spotlight

I was looking for photos that may or may not have been lost in the great ibook meltdown of 2009. Specifically these pictures were taken by me a little more than a year ago when I first visited Seattle meaning to write an article about it, a travel narrative. That didn’t work out; the article [...]

An interview with mythical third founder of Rub Paw Press / poet / student Drew Kalbach

Drew Charles Kalbach is a poet and student. I had a class with him my last semester at School, with the teacher I shared with Jackee. This, however, was a different class, one not attended by Jackee. But Jackee and Drew knew each other; she would talk about him to me. When she talked about [...]

An article tenuously related to the keywords ‘prayer’ and ‘music’

Lately I have been experimenting with alternative methods of income generation. In one of these experiments, I contacted a gentleman (via Craigslist) who needed writers for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In this case, SEO meant writing articles tenuously related to their purported subject for the purpose of directing people to sites and gaining ad revenue. [...]

Introducing the Seattle Show / Fun Stuff Calendar

Do you live in Seattle and sometimes feel disconnected from the other people who live in Seattle all around you? This happens to me sometimes, sitting in my chair in front of the computer alone in my room on a Friday night wondering what I am going to do with myself and in the end [...]

Reasons I am searching for a job despite depression

I should probably be spending less time on the Internet
In September my roommate quit his job and went to Scotland. He came back and didn’t look for work. He started looking for a job a month ago and now he has a job. I have been looking for the past three months.
Wow. I wasn’t logged [...]

I will be alone this Valentine’s Day so I made a mix for another blogger and in return received a mix, which is posted below

This Could Be Love    Alkaline Trio
No One’s Gonna Love You    Band of Horses
Love Song    The Cure
This Modern Love (Dave Pianka’s Making Time Remix)    Bloc Party
Space Age Love Song    A Flock Of Seagulls
Lovefool    The Cardigans
I Believe In a Thing Called Love    The Darkness
Why Can’t There Be Love    Dee Edwards [...]

An Interview with Brandon Scott Gorrell, Creative Writer

Brandon Scott Gorrell is a writer of poems and stories. His last book, during my nervous breakdown i want to have a biographer present, was published by Muumuu House. I think I’ve seen it on sale at the Anne Bonny. I also saw it in the ‘zine rack at Healthy Times Fun Club. The book [...]

AAron and I like to go to bars and ‘meet girls’, which means that we like to go to bars and not talk to girls and instead talk about this blog. When we talk about this blog we often talk about what will make people want to read this blog or what would be worth [...]