Michael Perry's Blog, page 62
January 4, 2021
Michael Perry: Whether Waylon Jennings or K-Pop, music remains a formative obsession
Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s column ‘Michael Perry: Whether Waylon Jennings or K-Pop, music remains a formative obsession‘ can be seen online here.
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December 29, 2020
December 28, 2020
Michael Perry: Looking back with dread and ahead with hope as the year runs out of time
Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s column ‘Michael Perry: Looking back with dread and ahead with hope as the year runs out of time‘ can be seen online here.
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December 23, 2020
Christmas Tree Kids
Our 2014 Christmas tree. Tan-tan in a bucket. We were house-sitting in the Virgin Islands. Tough gig.Have a listen to a free episode of Michael Perry’s Voice Mail: “Christmas Tree Kids“
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December 21, 2020
Michael Perry: The dry ice warning from well-intentioned public servants
Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s column ‘Michael Perry: The dry ice warning from well-intentioned public servants‘ can be seen online here.
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Posts From the Box – Bill Stork, DVM
Even at my non-famous level (9 out of 10 times no one recognizes me at the Farm & Fleet) (and then half the time it’s a relative, neighbor, or Moose Country 106.7 listener), my calendar is such that I meet many, many thoughtful people in passing and simply cannot do justice to their kindnesses or adequately recognize their hard work or support their latest project the way they might hope and deserve. In addition, my email and snail-mailbox overflows weekly with manuscripts, CDs, advance copies, digital links and attachments, and requests for me to review or discuss more smart, powerful writing and heartfelt art than I could lay my eyes on if it was my full-time job. That said, I keep a box of books and notes and CDs and miscellaneous objects given to me on the road, and when I can I jot a note or make a mention. Thus, Posts from the Box.
I am often asked how to become a writer, publish a book, roll around in royalty money*, etc., and so on. In my case the answer is a multi-faceted, incomplete, meandering, chance-inflected evolution of a process I am still learning nearly three decades in. Often when I’m five minutes in to the answer, the listener’s eyes glaze over. Or they think I’m putting them off. Bottom line is, however you do it, you gotta do it. Bill Stork asked me those questions a long time ago, and then he went and did it. And did it again. And now book number three is out. More on Bill and his work here. And here’s a great profile of where he gleans his best insights (it has to do with the back end of a cow).
*I won’t self-deprecate to the point of saying I get no royalties (I do, and grateful I am) but they are less “rolling-around-in” and more “helping with the health insurance deductible.”
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Posts From the Box – Spike Carlsen
Even at my non-famous level (9 out of 10 times no one recognizes me at the Farm & Fleet) (and then half the time it’s a relative, neighbor, or Moose Country 106.7 listener), my calendar is such that I meet many, many thoughtful people in passing and simply cannot do justice to their kindnesses or adequately recognize their hard work or support their latest project the way they might hope and deserve. In addition, my email and snail-mailbox overflows weekly with manuscripts, CDs, advance copies, digital links and attachments, and requests for me to review or discuss more smart, powerful writing and heartfelt art than I could lay my eyes on if it was my full-time job. That said, I keep a box of books and notes and CDs and miscellaneous objects given to me on the road, and when I can I jot a note or make a mention. Thus, Posts from the Box.
A long, long time ago I wrote an essay about water towers. One of my favorite things about that essay was it allowed me to study something I saw every day and used every day but knew very little about…and it turns out water towers are fascinating. So I’m pleased to share that Spike Carlsen has taken the exact same approach…not only with his hometown water tower, but with a book’s worth of objects we think we know, but don’t know the half of. More on Spike’s book (and books) right here.
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December 14, 2020
Michael Perry: There are few things more humbling than writing a new song
Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s column ‘Michael Perry: There are few things more humbling than writing a new song‘ can be seen online here.
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December 13, 2020
Set to Ship
Signed, stacked, and set to ship. Burned through some Sharpies. Thank you. We’re still taking orders. Not being an international conglomerate, Monday’s pretty much the last day we can guarantee delivery by Christmas although feel free to take yer chances…since the crew’s all local, sometimes we can expedite. A big thank you to the crew at Ambient Inks for all their good work through trying times. The tattered rescue blanket over the door isn’t paranoia, it’s to keep the late afternoon sun from blazing in. By the time I got all these books signed the sun was long buried.
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