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

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!

oh god what have I done: 2015

LONGS

2015: Burn Everything and Start Again

2015 was the year I moved to America from Australia. Some things in my life back home had ended, quite abruptly, and so there was no reason for me to stay. Before I left I spent some time traveling around my home country to visit people close to me who I probably…

2015: A Year of Writing and Killing My Darlings

2015: A Year.

I’m hoping that 2015 will be one of those years that I will look back on and think, “I did a lot. I grew a lot.” There were ups and…