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The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. All Election. And (re-) full of Hamilton.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. We are re-running Hey There Stranger, Come On Over and Hold My Hand by old friend Mary Hamilton, which we are way excited about, and, (almost) as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, music curation from Jason Behrends and electoral college 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, Florida, finally, thanks for joining us.[image error]

Fathers. Sleep. Death. NAS. New joint. At The Good Men Project.

New joint indeed. And most thankful we are to the always beautiful Robert Duffer and The Good Men Project for running with it. Excerpt? Cool.  

"I have always preferred to quote NAS when it comes to sleep, as in, “sleep is the cousin of death,” but that may not be so accurate. I don’t fear sleep, and I don’t worry that sleep is too similar to death to embrace or befriend it.

I didn’t think much about death until my father died and I began tussling with his ghostly presence at every turn. Or before I became a father myself and started trying not to think about death and all the irrational ways my children might face it, Leukemia, porch parties, school shootings, errant cabdrivers, IEDs, and on and on and on.

The issue of sleep started early for us as parents. We decided to cry our son out. The family bed wouldn’t work for us, I who didn’t sleep for so long, and wasn’t going to add any additional hurdles to that battle. Not more than necessary anyway."[image error]

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Fifty-Four - What Women Want, starring the Sarah Terez Rosenblum.

So podcast we are. And so very, totally Rosenblum. Like totally, totally. So do hit it, totally, do enjoy, post, and share, and most definitely do not forget please that we are now so very iTunes as well.

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Writer In Residence. Day Seven. Video Killed the Literary Star: Or How Caleb J. Ross Learned How to Stop Worrying and Love the Change.

Really. And totally. More here. Now. Yes.

Dude, Where’s My Country?

We are so totally H.W. Bush today. No really, we are. We are also most happy to join such fine company in the final edition of "Forty-Four Stories about Our Forty-Four Presidents" at the Melville House. So please do hit that. And enjoy. Really. 

We are You Can Make Him Like You Hush Up And Listen Stinky Poo Butt ADP Fatherhood Bundle. And we feel fine.

Quite fine. And quite cheaply at that. Here. [image error]

Too soon?

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Writer in Residence. Day Three. alt.Ludlow.

Really. And totally. Here. Now. Yes.[image error]

Crapalachia. McClanahan. Soon.

"Then Frog raised his hand and told the teacher, “Do you know that Charles Manson grew up in West Virginia? His mother was a prostitute in Clarksburg.” The teacher told him to be quiet. Everybody laughed. Frog told us again that it was true."[image error]

This is happening. For like a month apparently. And we are very thankful to the beautiful people at Necessary Fiction for making it so. Now please do expect more. Soon. Thank you.

More here. And much to come. Things that just might change your life. If only for a little while, and not even that much, but some. Which isn't bad if you think about it. So go ahead, please do. Nice. [image error]