From . . . man, about 2005 until maybe 2011? 2012? there were so many of us there. Pre-Facebook, sort of alongside MySpace and the other bulletin boards (I remember being somewhat active on Shock-Waves too—think that’s what it was called). Anyway, just dredged this up from an ancient-old folder. Cool to see it again. Still have matching stickers, too:
But, of course, The Velvet went away, as good things will. Worse, it just blipped into nothingness—no archives left ove…
Had no idea when I put this Scream shirt on Wednesday that I’d be getting tv-interviewed at lunch. But, was cool. And, luckily they edited me down so I don’t come off as ridiculolus as I most assuredly was:
All right, I guess, yes, I’m finally going to have to play a video game.
Slaughter, D-A-D, Skid Row, Poison, Mötley Crüe, Warrant, Ratt, Faster Pussycat, Tesla, Kix, King Kobra, Trixter, Jackyl, Cinderella, Guns n’ Roses, Lita Ford, Bon Jovi, Vixen, Twisted Sister, Steel Dragon, Bang Tango, Quiet Riot, Def Leppard, LA Guns, Great White, Whitesnake—these are a few of my favorite things. Which I guess is just another way of saying I was born in 1972, meaning I got my first truck in 87, meaning I had that hair metal volume knob cranked all the w…
Texas Tech Library’s got all my stuff as of about a year and a half ago. Looks to be catalogued, now:
Busy month, but aren’t they all:
➔ September 1: Pixel Project live Q&A (I’m posting this after I actually did it…)
➔ September 6: giving the keynote address for Lighthouse’s The Book Project: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/adult-programs/book-project
➔ September 13th: introducing Friday the 13th at Alamo Draft House, the Sloane’s Lake location: https://drafthouse.com/denver/show/friday-the-13th
➔ September 14th: …
Last night’s Pixel Project , recorded:
what this is:
last week, maybe the week before, I don’t know, I had a lot to write, so figured to keep myself somewhat on-task by making myself log down what-all was going on. this is that—closing down files, found it off to the side. just added the images and stuff. and, to be sure, this isn’t a success-story week: wrote a lot, but not exactly what I needed to be writing.
done for the moment with The Only Good Indians copyedits, just finished up months and months …
is mostly, it looks like, gags on tv and in movies. But it’s so perfect, yes? So wonderful. It makes me feel, and, isn’t that what it’s about?
And, the poetry I need:
And who knows, maybe the exact seahorse unicorn …
is the author of 22 or 23 books, ~300 stories, and all this stuff here. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, and has a few broken-down old trucks, one PhD, and way too many boots