Jason Mulgrew has been hilariously blogging his misadventures and peculiar failures in New York City for the better part of a decade on his website Everything is wrong with me. It's landed him a TV development deal, a book deal, tons of fans and even being named one of People’s "50 Hottest Bachelors" of 2005. On first glance, Jason's subject matter of masturbation and drunken exploits might lead one to be tempted to compare him to Tucker Max. But Mulrew is no Tucker Max. He is charmingly self deprecating, endearing, and his writing is evocative of sensibilities that go way past your typical frat row authors.

Sure, he writes profusely about masturbating, getting drunk and making out, but he's so goddamned likeable and writes so well that he's leagues above those other clowns. Also, dude is hilarious. I interview Jason about the upcoming release of his first book, available March 2 from Harper Perennial.

Q: So am I speaking to you at your office right now? How do you keep your writing life separate from your work life?

Mulgrew: Oh, we’re not going to talk about my 9-to-5 job at all. I like getting regular paychecks and having health insurance and I’d like to keep that going, thank you very much.

Do you have dreams of quitting your job after the book comes out?

I think I’m a little more realistic. Basically, I’d like to be famous enough that people will regularly buy me beers in bars. A mansion in the Hollywood Hills with weekly orgy parties would be great, no doubt, but I’m a simple man. So a few free beers now and then would be nice.

From your writing online I take it you haven’t had much luck with groupies. Are you hoping this changes with the book?

God, I hope so, but I really can’t say for sure. Though I have no actual evidence on this, I’m pretty that sure women read more than men, which works to my advantage, just in terms of numbers. But I’m not quite sure how reading a chapter about me as twelve year old trying on a condom for the first time translates to, “Man, I really want to make out with the guy who wrote this.”

So how will the book differ from the blog?

Well, the blog is about me now, and how I suck. Whereas the book is really a memoir that covers a few years before I was born up until, say, I was thirteen. So there’s a lot of stuff about growing up in Philly, growing up in a big Irish Catholic family (my dad is one of ten kids; my mom one of six), and wondering how you fit in in all of that. So while the tone is obviously similar to that of the blog, there’s no overlap in material: It’s not a copy and paste job.

My favorite stuff has always been when you talk about your relationship with your dad. Is there a lot of that in the book?

Exactly. My dad is almost the main character in the book. The man’s been smoking two packs of Marlboro Reds a day since he was twelve, got drunk and broke his neck when he was seventeen, couldn’t legally drive until he was twenty-nine (despite driving trucks for a time in his twenties) – basically I write about how he’s a real man, and how when I was a kid, he to some extent tried to instill that kind of toughness in me. Fast forward twenty or twenty-five years later, and I’m still afraid of thunder and have way more Go-Go’s songs in my iTunes library than any straight 30-year-old male reasonably should.

A large part of your blog focuses on being a twenty-something in downtown NYC. After an 18-month stint in L.A., you’re finally back in NY. How’s that going?

It’s great. I will admit: I miss L.A. a little bit now that I’m not there, but I think that’s because it’s been a really shitty winter here and I forgot what kind of robbery paying rent is. What I’m paying could get me an apartment with a view of the goddamn ocean in L.A., but instead it’s gotten me a glorified hotel room on the LES.

But otherwise, it’s perfect. I love having so much to do, all the time, around the clock. That’s the best thing about NYC: anything you want, anytime of day, is never more than a $15 cab ride away from wherever you are in Manhattan. Want Thai food at 4:30am? No problem. Want to get spanked by a tranny on a Tuesday afternoon? No problem. It’s the most wonderful city in the world.

Are you giving anything up for Lent?

Probably. Even though I’m a pretty shitty Catholic. God and I have been feuding on and off since 1994 – I still like to pretend or say I tried. So I’ll likely give up something really easy for me to give up, like, I don’t, eating tofu or, you know, sleeping with multiple women at once. Gonna take a break from that for 40 days, but after that, right back at it.

What’s going on with your TV deal?

I’m still trying, baby. The original TV show was for DreamWorks and NBC, but that was canned, just about three days before they made the final cuts, which was a bummer. But otherwise, I’m back in L.A. a lot, meeting with people, trying to kiss ass, drinking a lot of free water and diet coke and trying to act charming. Wish me luck with that.

One of my favorite posts of yours is about your James Iha run-in. Any good celebrity stories from LA?

I think that James is ducking me. Which is fine. I think we’ve made our peace with each other.

My favorite celebrity sighting in LA was once when I left my agent’s office and I was waiting in line at the valet to pick up my shitty rental car, and I realized the girl waiting before me in the valet line was Sarah Michelle Gellar. Now, I know she’s not super famous, but you have to understand that between the ages of 13 and 20, I masturbated to Sarah Michelle Geller (conservatively) 15,000 times. So that blew my mind. It was a good thing that after seeing her I fell into a state of shock, or otherwise I would most certainly still be on some sort of court-supervised probation.

How do your friends feel about the book?

I think they’re glad it’s coming out, if for no other reason than perhaps I’ll stop talking about it so much. My family, specifically my mom, I’m a little concerned about... She wanted me to change some things, but I, you know, didn’t. So she’ll stop talking to me for about six weeks or so, but she’ll get over it. That’s standard procedure for Irish Catholics, really.

Any big plans for the release date celebration? Strippers and Cocaine?

You know, I’m not a big strip club guy: as a chubby guy with a beard who smacks of desperation, I walk into a strip club and it’s like I have a bullseye on me, like I might as well just give my ATM card to the bouncer at the door, tell him the PIN, and not even bother going in. So I don’t do the strip clubs, and as for cocaine, I don’t think it’s cool to do cocaine after age 25 unless you’re famous or really good-looking, so I’m obviously out. Instead I think we’ll have something a little more low key, like a happy hour or whatnot, capped off by a visit to Rosario’s at the end of the night.

You’ve been a huge proponent of Rosarios since I first started reading you five years ago.

Dude, I used to go all the time, but I’ve only been back in NYC since December, and I already have a “regular” order there – with TWO different guys that work there. Basically, I walk in, make eye contact with either of the two guys that know me, and even if the line is 20 people deep, they start my order: beef patty with cheese and a side of sauce and a plain slice. Having a “regular” order at Rosario’s is, without exaggeration, one of the coolest accomplishments of my life. It’s really quite humbling, actually.