Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 105

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So do hit it now thank you. It just might change your life.

Happy about these books we are.

Daddy Cool is one the "7 Great Father’s Day Presents for Dads Who Like to Read" at the Babble and in some quite kind company indeed yo.

For real. Here. Totally. And big thanks to the Brian Gresko and Babble for that.

Orphans page proofs yes now.

Happy Birthday.

"Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so." Maurice Sendak

New joint. They Say Jump, You Say How High? At The Weeklings.

Quite thrilled to Weeklings we are, so big thanks to Greg Olear, Joe Daly, and the whole Weeklings crew. And now maybe some excerpt, yes? Word.

"What the time-out does not necessarily allow for, however, is dealing with the anger that refuses to dissipate on those days where the frenzy is too much and my vision starts to blur. Where I feel something cruel has transpired and I react to the repetition of such behaviors, or the abuse of power they can entail, both of which are clearly triggers of mine, and must be managed as well.

Which I can’t always do, and when I can’t, I give myself a time-out too.

I step away, door closed, and I let those emotions bounce off of the walls as they are doing in my head. I also at times play music, because the emotions need a place to go, and they need to be channeled, and it’s possible that music does in fact soothe the savage beast, though I haven’t seen the data on that.

Data or not though, I want to share the songs that help me out during these times, even merely thinking about such times; what they represent to me; and how I get through the frenzy when it’s not clear anything will work."

Fisk. Smolarek. Thomas. Anderson. Duffer. Peterson. Brand. And Tanzer. We are Daddy Cool release party. The Book Cellar. Tonight. Hit it. Yes.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Sixty-Five - Controlled Compulsion, starring the Rachel Hyman.

We are "Red Light On." We are also podcast, Rachel Hyman, Emily Mooney shout-outs, MTv, Banango Street, projects, branding, and George Solti. Quite delightful, all of it, so please do hit it, enjoy, share, post, and, if so inclined rate it on the iTunes. Thanks.

Wherein we riff on Mad Men, duality, and Los Angeles while trying not to think about the Red Wedding scene in Game of Thrones which is impossible because it was so fucking traumatic.

That covers it we think. As needed you can read more here and thank you for that. We can also excerpt. Cool? Cool.

"Look at Megan in her red star T-shirt last week. Is that a shout-out to Sharon Tate’s murder or Abe’s stabbing, both, or neither? Is it mean to be explicit, or just a conscious recognition that America was slowly be subsumed by spasms of violence, halting changes in leadership, youth asserting themselves, and cultural shifts that those long in charge (white males) were no longer sure they could contain.
 Which upon reflection sounds a lot like Game of Thrones.
And that wedding scene. Fuck.

Yet, I digress, sort of, back to Mad Men, and maybe even some joy?"

And then the almighty Keating said there should be waves of Cobalt Press Start-Up/Where You Should Be KICKSTARTER love magic spreading near and far across the land and there was.

  
There really, really was. So please go here, now, to learn so much more. It just might change your life. Really. And thank you.