Alexander:
thanks for the sympathy!
:)
maybe I'll add one of your books to my list as well for even more (sympathy)!!
all best,
JT

Is it just me, or did you just pick up a couple of distinguished awards very recently?

Alex-
It's good "running into you" here. Hope all is well with you and your writing.

Cher Soldat Alexandre,

Thanks.

Most seem to think it's either 1)acting out a Berber subplot from a Paul Bowles novel 2)playing Commandante or 3)a stick up....one friend said he instantly reached for his wallet to surrender it.

I was actually pretending I was Bazooka Joe for some self-portraits. Remember him? Remember how unfunny those comics wrapped around the gum were. Dry as the gum dust on them.

Getting up at 4 a.m. for monday work: lousy

tripping over terra cotta bunny going through backyard at 4:18 a.m.: Sucky

getting out of work at 1 pm, encountering no traffic coming home and sipping on a Smirnoff Raw Tea at 2:12 p.m.? Priceless!

lol...oooh Sanvaean is on! Lisa Gerard is a goddess. I was accused of being a devil worshipper for playing her at work once. I was just singing along with Liz Phair about taking someone's head...wow that's a rangy collection lyrics-wise...i can't sing along with Lisa...who the hell can...

I bought a movie camera and am making my first film tonight...i already have it in my mind's eye and ear...hope it comes off...

Hope you are furiously writing but without, like, the fury...only the furor...cacoethes scribendi is I believe the technical term...

ooh cake is on...my media player knows and loves me....

;-)

xo B.

I just wanted to say, Alexander, that you look very hot in your photos.

Because you look so composed.

You look very relaxed in the world but prepared for the horrible struggles that will follow.

You will shrug like Caligula.

And say...."And?...."

That's hot.

I am W. (the good...well less evil one) and I approve this message.

Don't worry. I unclicked the fucking Update Feed button.

:-)

You scared me when you said "Click with great care."

I heard in it a Brothers Grimm voice and suddenly I felt a forest looming up all about me...

A forest of cat eaters and dragon prodigies walked on leashes by corporate drones.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Then I realized I belonged there and metamorphosed into a wolf and went looking for a magic purveyor of sushi.

The Grimms are all about the sushi.

I probably thought it said Pasolini.

That would interest me.

I don't Paolini from Paolo & Francesca or payola.

Alexander, I am not a joiner...really I'm not lol.

But when you get the email...it's like you click on it to see what the group is and YOU'VE INSTANTLY JOINED...

I keep forgetting this.

And once I've joined it's too late. I'm too lazy to reverse my membership.

I still have no idea what the CATS group is. I think it might be an Asian swingers club. Or it might be about eating cats, because the moderator jovially talked about eating cat curry...curry cat?...whatever...

Every so often I ask Dana, "Hey Dana, are we still in the cat eating club?'

Still the moderator seems like a nice guy (gal?) I don't believe I've ever investigated...so I'm happy to "swell his throng" or whatever.

Maybe I am in a group that will help to topple an East Asian despotism.

That would be nice.

And to think I did it while sitting in my living room eating sushi and scratching my meat and two veg.

You made me laugh. Emma never had to worry about an "update feed," thank god.

Oh wait, that's what they called the neighbors & townspeople back in those days!

Apothecaries are hot.

She should have done him instead.

I'm feeling just a little bit Bovary tonight. Je me sens un peu "Bovary" ce soir. Would you recommend arsenic or a shopping spree. Will Charles know if I go to Rodolphe? Will Rodolphe ever care about a human being other than as an abstract category....like acquisition.

What is the Flaubert quote...Life is a comedy to those who think but a tragedy to those who feel?

Close?

I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me today. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy

It is good to see my friend Alexander the Soldier about.

I am listening to Bobby McFerrin mouth Concerto in D Minor in a really convincing way.

Now my media player just went to K.D. doing something even more convincing from Ingenue.

K.D., Cmere. She makes my legs so wobbly.

Now, that's a mensch. :-)

I feel I may need a serious smudging.

Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

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thanks for the add!

hope you're doing well!

i finally got a "real" job! no longer in postdoc limbo

I like looking around on your bookshelf, Alex.

xo

it's kinda like sneaking into the library late at night and finding all the cool stuff.

xoxo-L.