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In which we totally fail to realize that Men's Health ran our piece on last-minute Halloween costume ideas and decide to share it with you now even though Halloween is long past.

That probably covers it. More here though if that's your thing. Which we hope it is. 

And then there was the time that Lost in Space was all A Room of One's Own.

In which we encourage you to REVOLUTION JOHN right now.

And you may do so here. Feels good, right?

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Ninety-Five - Like Magic, starring the Clayton Smith.

We are so podcast and so very Clayton Smith. We are also self-publishing, Dapper Press, Apocalypticon, Roald Dahl, Amazon, and free gift today from the Clayton Smith, if, when, you hit his website. We should add, that we are a mere five episodes away from Episode One Hundred, and we are interested in your thoughts and recommendations one who that guest could be. Most finally, This Podcast Will Change Your Life is on iTunes and we would greatly appreciate your efforts to rate the show there, something we recognize may not change your life, though it will certainly might change ours. Thanks.

StartUp. Killing it. No pun intended.

Now do hit it. It will most certainly change your life.

Something Like This is a Dapper Press Haunted Lounge Halloween joint thing.

Appreciations many there are. Excerpt? Word.

"It was an agreement, tacit and understood. It’s what people do over time when they are in love. They ask things of one another. They have expectations. Sometimes spoken, other times stated less overtly, the request based more in how they react, or don’t react, to the things happening around them.
We were watching a movie one night. We were on the couch. There was popcorn, Twizzlers, a comforter that had flowers all over it, and little, twisty vines.

The dogs were lying at our feet, sleeping, their backs rising with each breath, and it was dark, except for the glow of the television which was lighting up Jen’s beautiful face and illuminating her hair like a halo.

Did she look like an angel? Maybe, I thought so, but I was in love. I am in love. Despite what’s happened, where we are now, and what she has become.

Love dies for many reasons, or worse, fades, but it doesn’t stop because of something like this, a disease, or virus, or whatever. It changes, and you adapt, molding it to fit this new way of being. You have to, otherwise you have to let it go, and who wants to do that?"

A Room of One's Own in Madison, WI this coming Sunday, November 2nd we are. And a most stellar line-up it is.

So totally stellar indeed. Details here yes.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. All Reincorporating. Full of Guerrucky. And just in time for Halloween.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live, and we are thrilled to have new story, Reincorporating, by the Matthew Guerrucky, and (almost) as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, music curation from Jason Behrends and robocall 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, da Bears, ughhh, more.

New joint. Powder Blue Polyester Tuxedo. At the Manifest-Station.

And big thanks to Jennifer Pastiloff and the whole Manifest-Station crew for that. Excerpt? Word.

"Like any relationship, parenting doesn’t always feel like that though, not in the moment anyway, and not until it does, but it will, eventually, and much of the time anyway.

And so, on this day there is quiet.

Can you hear it?

Just wait a moment.

Pause.

Take it in.

It is like magic. It is magic.

The boys are reading and not because we made them do so, or because it is so important to me. It is because developmentally they have caught up with my needs and impatience, and my inability to accept that unlike actual magic, when it comes to parenting, things happen as they are supposed to if you remain diligent and trust in their inevitability."

Chicago Writers Conference we were.

.@BenTanzer says Always Be Writing. He's like Alec Baldwin from Glengarry Glen Ross, but a whole lot nicer. #cwc2014

— Andrew DeYoung (@the_younger) October 25, 2014

This publicity workshop by @BenTanzer is "changing my life." Learning to rise above the clutter. #cwc2014

— Jennifer Inglis (@Jennifer_Inglis) October 25, 2014

@BenTanzer informative energetic enthusiastic #cwc2014

— Derek Rempfer (@DerekRempfer) October 25, 2014

Can't believe this, but I'm actually a little jazzed about publicity. Thanks @BenTanzer! #cwc2014

— Christina Brandon (@ladywinegeek) October 25, 2014