It's all about the writing in here, pal.

This is the blog of M.J. Mahoney.

I'm an author, not a celebrity. That is, I'm a sort of medium through which the ghosts of stories make themselves known. I write them down as they come to me, hoping to do them justice, lest their vengeful spirits haunt me in the night. Sometimes they do, regardless.

So, don't worry about all that mundane shit out there. You can leave it at the door with the hat-check girl. In here, the lights are low and faces are strange and things move in the peripheries of vision. Everybody's high and the world is haunted. We're between the cracks and behind the scenes and under the floorboards.

It's a masquerade, pal, but it's honest. It's all a conceit in here.