Month: June 2013
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Blast from the past: Morgenstern’s
Here is a receipt I found recently: Morgenstern’s was an interesting book store in Bloomington that came and went in the 90s, but was pretty central to my experience at IU. I don’t remember exactly when they opened, but it must have been around 1991 or so. There were no big box book stores then,…
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LA Weekend
I had an unexpected trip to LA last weekend. It wasn’t unexpected as in bad; S had a Monday work thing at the last second, and she extended it and I tagged along, leaving Friday after work and coming back Sunday morning. I always like to go to LA, although the trips are always far…
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My new book, Thunderbird, is now available
Over the next few months, I chipped away at The Perkins Declaration: a 1400-page, ten-part handwritten epic that told the secrets of a military tribunal executing a group of Pakistani filmmakers who were shooting a DeLorean biopic movie in rural Iowa before getting nailed by the Department of Agriculture on charges of aggravated sodomy and…
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Why I Write
So the next book, which is titled Thunderbird, is done and moving through the steps in publishing. The cover is ironed out, the interior is done, and the kindle version is being tested and tweaked. It’s entering the phases of waiting on robots and meatgrinders to finish churning on what I gave them so I…
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Before the chop, noise labels
I just finished reading the new Henry Rollins book, Before the Chop, which is a collection of his LA Weekly articles from the last couple of years, in their longer, unedited form. Previously, Rollins would write in his journals all year about his travels and whatnot, and then at the end of each year, dump…
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All of the stuff currently on my desk, a list with little to no commentary
This is a list of all of the stuff on my desk. Note that I don’t always write fiction-type stuff at my desk, because I work all day there, and it usually works out better when I write sitting on the couch in the living room, with actual sunlight and windows and whatnot. Macbook Pro,…
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Sleeping wall of remorse
I always hate dealing with the postpartum depression that follows writing a book. I’m finding it’s even worse when I don’t immediately publish the book and get it out of my hair. I’m currently waiting for someone else to go through it, and I want to just rip it off like a band-aid on a…