Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Month: June 2011

  • My new book, Fistful of Pizza, is available now

    I am happy to announce that my new book, Fistful of Pizza, is now available at the following places: On the Kindle for only 99 cents here. In print at Lulu.com for $8.74 here. In print at Amazon.com for $12.99 here. Here’s the answers to some questions about this: What is it? Fistful of Pizza is…

  • Random bitching about Lulu, and why print is dead

    I am publishing a book of short stories momentarily.  [Edit: I just did.  Go here to check it out.] The initial thought was to pull together a bunch of the stories I’d published elsewhere, and make a nice little 99 cent download on the Kindle.  And I’d make that a free download on the Kindle,…

  • Thoughts on a random picture: The Student Building

    I went back to storage the other day and dug out two books of prints, most of which were unscanned.  There’s still at least one box of prints somewhere in there that I didn’t find, and I have no time to scan more of them, but here’s an interesting one I found. This is the…

  • 10 things I learned from the Lemmy documentary

    I’ve been a fan of the band Motörhead for over 25 years now.  When I was a freshman in high school, I used to watch the British comedy show The Young Ones on MTV, when they used to show it late Sunday nights, and one week, this weird metal band came on that sounded cool…

  • The pros and cons of storage

    I went to my storage locker the other day, to drop off one of those plastic tupperware bins filled with old 8-bit computer pieces and a half-dozen MiniDisc players in varying states of decay.  I have this locker that’s about 4 by 8 feet and maybe five feet high, on the top floor of an…

  • Thoughts on a random picture: The Turismo

    I have a million pictures in iPhoto.  (Really, 18,035 as of this morning.)  I will never use them for anything, but I spend a lot of time looking at them, dredging up nostalgia that never makes it onto these pages.  So I thought I’d visit that a bit. This is a picture I took in…

  • City Lights Run

    On Memorial Day, we decided to run into “the city,” although I hate sounding like one of those bridge and tunnel types that refer to San Francisco as “the city,” because I happen to actually live in A city, but not THE city.  (More annoying than this: the show So You Think You Can Dance…