Friends who can write

Recently I've been made aware of the fact that there are other outlets for writing on the Internet besides personal blogs. These sites are called "Online publications," or sometimes, "Online magazines." A couple of particularly fine online rags called "McSweeneys" and "FailBetter" currently feature stories by a couple friends of mine, Jeremiah Tucker and Stevie Davis, respectively.

Jeremiah's story is something making fun of Thomas Kinkade. I don't understand exactly what's going on in the piece, which makes it perfectly at home for McSweeney's. Jeremiah also has a blog full of entertaining musical selections and writings, including this, his most heartbreaking post of the past year.

Stevie's story can be found at failbetter.com, just below the one about vibrators. According to the author bio provided by failbetter, Stevie is a firefighter from Topeka. I never knew.

So check these guys out, along with the sites that published them.

P.S. How about you? Anything you'd like to share with the humble but growing readership of lucubrations.net? I'd be happy to send the spotlight your way, even if it only has as much wattage as a keychain light.