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This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, Week Forty-Six - "Thankful."

It is Week Forty-Six of This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, our remarkably self-absorbed effort to post one self-portrait per week for one year. Despite previous protestations that we may not be so thankful here at TBWCYL, Inc., that is not entirely true. We are thankful to still have a job. A cool job. Healthy kids. A lovely wife. Being able to write and publish and sell books. And the new administration. For sure. For now. We are also thankful for your support and we hope you are...

Dread. Mad Max. Destruction. Fathers and sons. Deliverance. Viggo. It's the end of the world as we know it. And we do not feel fine. The Road.

Dread. Mad Max. Fathers and sons. Deliverance. Viggo. It's the end of the world as we know it. And we do not feel fine. The Road.

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Thankful? Not so much.

Can you say finito?

Big props to TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Ken Wohlrob for finishing his first novel No Tears For Old Scratch. Quite nice. Congratulations man.

Pittsburgh. Morgantown. Winter Shorts. Guz. Bernier. Book reading madness.

We are hitting the road and we hope you will be joining us. On December 8th we will be reading with Savannah Schroll Guz and Craig Bernier at the Te Cafe in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, and many, many thanks to Karen Lillis for helping us get this together, and then on the very next night, or if you prefer, December 9th, we will be reading in Morgantown, West Virginia at The Bookshelf. We expect that good times will be had by all. We also expect that these readings could very...

We are trying to figure out how we could have gone all of these months and not made a comment about either Mad Men or Curb Your Enthusiasm. Huh?

Stuff.

Maybe its the work travel. Or the fact that we have been so self-absorbed lately. It could just be the fact that we have been unable to concentrate on anything but the once imminent now very real release of New Moon. But things have been missed, stuff has been overlooked and an array of TBWCYL, Inc. favorites have not received the airspace here they deserve. We however intend to fix that like now:
(1) Sally Weigel the author of Too Young to Fall Asleep recently did a fine interview with the

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This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, Week Forty-Five - "Trifecta."

It is Week Forty-Five of This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, our wholly self-absorbed effort to post one self-portrait per week for one year. In fact, it has been quite a week for the increasingly massive TBWCYL, Inc. media empire. There has been a new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life, a new episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life and now this, in other words, a rare TBWCYL, Inc. trifecta. Can you feel the love? We knew you could. Meanwhile, if you would like to follow...