Hello. My name is Justin Porter Stephens. I am a writer living in Boston. I have not yet won a Pulitzer Prize. Currently, I’m enrolled in the creative writing MFA program at Lesley University. I like toy cameras and video games. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-7560203-2"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @justinporterstephens)http://www.justinporterstephens.com/<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz4f8khoTv1qz7vt1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Invaders from the eponymous episode of <i>The Twilight Zone</i> look like they’re wearing the <a href="http://diggingtrenches.gamerdna.com/images/vPos3QF/fallout-3-the-brotherhood-of-steel">power armor</a> from Fallout 3.</p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/441220828http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/441220828Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:07:00 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyu7r7WblH1qadxxzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://iamtherog.tumblr.com/post/430372005/pjsykes-pretty-nice-from-richmond-va">iamtherog</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://pjsykes.tumblr.com/post/430197835/pretty-nice">pjsykes</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a title="Pretty & Nice" href="http://www.myspace.com/prettyandnice">Pretty & Nice</a></p> </blockquote> <p>from richmond, va.  this is awesome :)</p> </blockquote> <p>Gravity’s got shit on Roger.</p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/430601595http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/430601595Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:16:52 -0500<a href="http://deadspin.com/5482198/my-roger-ebert-story">Will Leitch's Roger Ebert Story</a>: <p>If you haven’t yet, go to Deadspin and read Will Leitch’s article about his relationship with Roger Ebert. The quote below appears in it. It’s a warm, decent, wonderful story that will make you want to be a better person. I say this without the slightest bit of hyperbole.</p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/426307521http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/426307521Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:49:00 -0500“I’ve been around a long time, and young men, if there is one thing I know, it is that the only way to kiss a girl for the first time is to look like you want to and intend to, and move in fast enough to seem eager but slow enough to give her a chance to say “So anyway …” and look up as if she’s trying to remember your name.”<br/><br/> - <em>Roger Ebert</em>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/426301023http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/426301023Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:43:43 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyo290HonP1qz7vt1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/422353283http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/422353283Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:05:24 -0500Polaroid<a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2008/03/net_generation.html">The Net Generation, 1974-193</a>: <p>This ran in the Globe about two years ago but Joshua Glenn describes the generation of those born from 1974-1983, such as myself, as the Net Generation.</p> <blockquote> <p>Socially speaking, Netters were the first American generation in a century or more to successfully merge a strong proficiency with technology and coolness/attractiveness… The prime fictional example is Seth Cohen on “The O.C.” Adam Brody, who portrayed Cohen, is a Netter, as is Alexis Bledel, who played Rory, the cute (and, later, sexy) young intellectual on “Gilmore Girls.” Elijah Wood, who made J.R.R. Tolkien’s hairy-footed Frodo Baggins sexy, and Tobey Maguire, who did the same thing for Marvel Comics’s nebbishy Peter Parker — also Netters.</p> </blockquote> <p>These are awesome examples.</p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/422493769http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/422493769Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:31:00 -0500<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/01/ranking_the_mad_men_casts_off-.html">Mad Men's Michael Gladis Reviews His Co-stars' Off-Season Beards</a>: <p>Apparently, the cast of Mad Men independently all grew beards during the show’s off-season. Michael Gladis—aka Paul Kinsey—reviews/mocks eveyone’s facial hair.</p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/419893316http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/419893316Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:11:00 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyie80ad841qznz6co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://iamtherog.tumblr.com/post/415586341/flyer-for-our-show-3-5-10-the-middle-east">iamtherog</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Flyer for our show 3/5/10 @ the Middle East Upstairs!!  Come on out!</p> </blockquote>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/420032123http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/420032123Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:09:00 -0500<a href="http://blog.videogamepricecharts.com/2009/07/most-expensive-nintendo-nes-game-prices.html">The most expensive NES Nintendo games</a>: <p>I only collect games that were released in the US commercially, so the Nintendo World Championship and Campus Challenge carts and Punch-Out!! Special Edition fall out of that category. Ditto Devil World and Mr. Gimmick which were only released in Europe and Japan.</p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/418269165http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/418269165Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:08:51 -0500video games<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/emgXwYWqd9Y&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/emgXwYWqd9Y&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>BEES?!?!?!?!!</p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/417982663http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/417982663Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:35:00 -0500<a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1339">This American Life: Ep. 400 - Stories Pitched By Our Parents</a>: <p>This American Life celebrates its 400th episode by <span class="text"><span id="ctl00_Content_Body_lblDescription">taking all the bad ideas for stories that their families have suggested to them over the years and try and make them interesting and exciting. Topics include Ira losing a suit on the train, funny funerals, the unofficial Eerie Canal theme song!<br/></span></span></p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/413356164http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/413356164Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:59:00 -0500this american life<a href="http://lesley.edu/marcom/land_page/ga_arts.html">Living Creatively: Explore the Arts at Lesley</a>: <p>Because my school thinks a good way to get people interested in its programs is to have me talk about comic books, I’m doing a presentation on Saturday at our Living Creatively event called <i>The Ninth Art: Storytelling in Graphic Novels and Comic Books and How They Pertain to Fiction Writing</i>. My presentation is at 3:50 and it’s open to the public. I promise not to mention the Nite Owl or Silk Spectre once. Maybe.</p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/409596241http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/409596241Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:42:00 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky5owdd3zw1qz80i6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.jessicaheleneadler.com/post/401026864/diskovery-brighton-ma">jessicaheleneadler</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Diskovery, Brighton MA</p> </blockquote>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/401226009http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/401226009Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:10:25 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.justinporterstephens.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/397605596/tumblr_ky2fviY5yB1qz7vt1&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><b>The Arcade Fire - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)</b></p> <p>Live at TT the Bears in Boston, September 2004.</p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/397605596http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/397605596Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:52:30 -0500records<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.justinporterstephens.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/393813301/tumblr_kxyrchpHVw1qz7vt1&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><b>Pretty & Nice - Wandering Eye</b></p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/393813301http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/393813301Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:09:53 -0500records<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxdntx4vCt1qznz6co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Pretty & Nice are on tour with Title Tracks. Dates are listed <a href="http://prettyandnice.com/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/prettyandnice">here</a>. Go see them! Their <a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12563-get-young/">record</a> is amazing and insanely fun but they’re even better live!</p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/393806167http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/393806167Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:05:00 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxy55lrMMu1qz7vt1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.jessicaheleneadler.com/">Jessica</a>, by Marco.</p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/393080176http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/393080176Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:10:33 -0500“Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake, a challenge that seeks a password, a heliograph flashed from a tower window, an act of hopeless optimism in the service of bottomless longing. Every great record or novel or comic book convenes the first meeting of a fan club whose membership stands forever at one but maintains chapters in every city—in every cranium—in the world.”<br/><br/> - <em>Michael Chabon, <i>Manhood for Amateurs</i>, pg. 5</em>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/392990945http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/392990945Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:00:59 -0500fictionrecordscomics<p>Wikipedia entries that are way too long in proportion to subject’s relevance. Idea for title: Get a Life, Superfans</p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/391405553http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/391405553Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:24:00 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxqmu4Z8ly1qz7vt1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Magnetic Fields last night at the Wilbur Theatre.</p>http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/385696092http://www.justinporterstephens.com/post/385696092Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:51:40 -0500records