Best of My Haters 2015

A dispatch from the “discount bin jizz receptacle.”

2015.

This was the first message I sent into the void in 2015, and I don’t remember being particularly happy when I wrote it. I was heading back to…

2015: Started out homeless and ended up a staff writer at BuzzFeed

with a lot of help from Medium

2015: Things I Loved and Put in the World

“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” - Joan fuckin’ Didion

2016 In My Fucking Excellent Looks

2016 was a banner year for comeback kids and unlikely breakout stars alike: Kermit the Frog reemerged as a meme favorite, an elderly dysprosody sufferer who used to play the meanest HR guy on reality TV show The Recruit became the president-elect, and the heretofore…

Simply The Best: My Favorite Things That I Wrote In 2016

My writing output in 2016 was smaller than in 2015, largely because I spent 2015 writing at an unsustainable volume and with far more writing obligations than I had in 2016. I was afraid at first of putting this list together…

I feel like Eminem at the end of 8 Mile

So, 2015 was the year I learned to hate the media and love myself.

I realized I had to choose one or the other. I realized I was slowly being driven crazy by my obsession with the machinations of media companies, my infatuations with…

What Paul Ford Wrote/Said in 2015

That’s me!

The Year in Humbling

A little over a year ago, I moved from Canada to the US. (My political timing was, uh, impeccable.) The idea was to leave the small, self-congratulatory world of Toronto magazines for the big, self-congratulatory world of New York magazines. Instead, through a series of happy accidents, I…