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So this is happening.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Fifty-Five - Live Yourself To Death, starring the Andrew Keating.

Podcast we are. We are also Keating. Kitchen table. Wearing plaid. Possibly lap. And Participants pre-order. So please do hit it. All of it. It just might change your life.

Writer In Residence. Day Twenty-Eight. And more. Way more. Really.

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Freeness.

For the next five days you can download the Kindle Edition of You Can Make Him Like You
for free. As in no cost to you. So please do. Because it just might change your life. Also, please tell your friends about it. Because it just might change their lives too. Then, please let us know what you think. And thank you. In advance. For all of it.     [image error]

New joint. Common. At the THOUSAND SHADES OF GRAY.

We are Common and we feel fine. So big thanks to the Patrick Trotti and the whole THOUSAND SHADES OF GRAY crew for that. Excerpt? Cool.


"To say we are small and insignificant compared to the vastness that is the universe, is not to misspeak, but to say that a common person cannot profoundly impact the world is wildly inaccurate.
The fact that I always believed that I would someday travel into space is true, but to give the impression that I believe this imparts some special kind of legacy on me seems less than humble.
I want to touch the lives, and hearts, of people everywhere, serve as an inspiration, and show them that anything is possible, which may want to make both of us puke, but it’s true.
Still, if I am to state anything through either my words or actions, it is this, I have spent my life being curious, not just seeking knowledge, but imbibing on it, and continually consuming the next thing, and the thing after that, so I could share this knowledge with others, it is who I am.
And so this thing, this amazingly magical opportunity, represents the ultimate chance to be who I am, and do what I do, everything I care about encapsulated in this moment, or series of moments."[image error]

New joint. White Noise. In the In Those Days We.

Very true that. We are White Noise. And we are In Those Days We. We are also in some massively fine company and big thanks to the Jennifer Tomaloff for that. Excerpt? Word.

"But I can’t stop and I won’t stop. Good or bad, the crowd is lost in the thrill of the fight. I am doing my job and must continue doing so. I am an entertainer, and I am here to be destroyed for their pleasure, a pugilist hunger artist fighting until I fade away. The fans have come to escape their lives, the bad marriages, the dead end jobs, their physical and emotional pain, and they need to project all of that onto me. So I do my job, I do it well and everyone goes home happy."  [image error]

Dang. R.I.P. Larry Hagman.

"Well I think they broke the mold when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets." Larry Hagman (1931-2012)

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. All Graveyard. And full of Huffman.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. We are new piece, Necromantics by A.J. Huffman, which we are way excited about, and, (almost) as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, music curation from Jason Behrends and fiscal cliff prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links. Finally, please note, we are hoping more of you will submit comix, and music, novel excerpts, and art, and video, yes, video, and combinations there of. And most finally, Happy Thanksgiving one and all.

Mary Miller. Thankful we are.

We are most thankful for the Mary Miller and "I Am Sorry, Women" at The Rumpus.

"At a reading recently, my boyfriend had this conversation with multiple people:

Person at reading: So, you’re dating Mary Miller?

Boyfriend: Yes.

Person: Have you read her stories?

Boyfriend: Yes.

Person: [Walks away shaking head, feeling very sorry for boyfriend.]

People are uncomfortable with people like me, those who want to tell everything. Those who can’t keep quiet. You can do these things, and you can feel them and talk about them, but you can’t write them down. 
Just don’t write them down.

I don’t know what this essay is about anymore."

Collected Works. There are. Which is most cool indeed.

Here. Or here. For real.