Would it shock you...
...if I told you it was fucking raining again???? You know, it's not like I live in Seattle, or someplace cool like that, where a ton of rain might feel endurable.
Oh well. It is making my lawn, my trees, yes even my weeds, really, really GREEN. And who knows, maybe by early August we'll be having a drought and saying, "God, I wish it would rain!!" So I try to be grateful for what may truly be hiding in every moment, b/c you just never know, gang.
Patti Smith!
Okay, go, Patti! Not only is there a really cool article in the LA Times about a talk Patti & Dave Eggers gave about their respective memoirs over the weekend, it was also announced today that Patti Smith is one of the 2 recipients of this year's Polar Prize in Sweden. How great!! (Honestly, gang, 35 years ago, in this very town, me and this other girl (who also moved to NYC as soon as she could) had to force people (at pen point; not gun point) at the local swimming pool to sign a petition to get Patti some airplay on our local FM rock radio. People at the swimming pool signed the petition in order to get us to leave them alone. Then the radio finally played "Gloria" once and then never again. So this is just really, really cool for me, to be living back here again in this town and reading this news about Patti.) (You know, also -- back when I was 17, I had embroidered Patti Smith's name on my jeans. And you have no idea how many people would ask me if my name was Patti Smith. Okay, it's one thing to live in Ohio and not know who Patti was back in 1977, but, come on! Why would I embroider my own fucking name on my jeans????)
I also had "Aerosmith" embroidered on my jeans back then and no one ever asked me if my name was Aerosmith... (Funny weird "smith" thing going on there, though! How weird I didn't notice that until right this moment.)
Which further reminds me -- Go Steven!! I am officially back on TEAM STEVEN, gang, after reading that interview with him in the new issue of Rolling Stone. Wow. To be honest, I haven't been an Aerosmith fan since the late 70s, but that interview with Steven Tyler really rocked. You must check it out!
Now -- About Me!! Me! Me, me, me, me me!!
Finally, through some mysterious, serendipitous miracle, my newest novel, Twilight of the Immortal, is starting to get some reader reviews on Amazon.com. You can read them here! Yay! (You can also buy the book, conveniently enough, at that very same link, gang. Double-yay hint, hint!)
All righty. (Still all about me...)
On the agenda for today, besides preliminary work for the adaptation of Neptune & Surf (that my writing partner, Jerry, has insisted we don't call Surf Avenue, but just plain Neptune & Surf, instead), I also have to begin writing up a press release for Twilight of the Immortal. You can guess how much I love writing press releases. Actually, I like writing them a whole lot better than I like writing synopses, so there is at least that to be grateful for!! (Wow, I'm all about gratitude today, aren't I, gang?) But remember the days when the publisher took care of every little thing for you because they thought that writers were just these indescribably cool and honorable beings to be anywhere near???
(Well, you know, if you do remember those days (and you don't live in France, that is, where they still honor writers like nobody's business) then you are super old and I am literally amazed that you are still out there, walking around!!)
Actually, my publisher will write press releases for me, it's just that I am super picky and indescribably vain about the magnificence that is my writing talent, so it's just a lot easier to write it myself. B/c, hey, they write the press release but then I have to send it out anyway, so why not just be Super Woman and do it all myself? (Until Bill Brent gets here in July, that is!! Then I will foist all of this hard work upon him!!) (I'm so fucking serious! Yay!)
Okay, I suppose I should get crackin' around here. Time's a-wastin'. (I sure hope you don't speak English as a second language, gang, b/c I sure don't want to have to try to explain all these stupid little sayings I say!!) Have a great Tuesday, wherever you are! I have recently been informed that "Tuesdays are cool" so go out there and enjoy the heck out of yourselves. Thank you for visiting me. I will see you again soon!! Bye!
Oh well. It is making my lawn, my trees, yes even my weeds, really, really GREEN. And who knows, maybe by early August we'll be having a drought and saying, "God, I wish it would rain!!" So I try to be grateful for what may truly be hiding in every moment, b/c you just never know, gang.
Patti Smith!
Okay, go, Patti! Not only is there a really cool article in the LA Times about a talk Patti & Dave Eggers gave about their respective memoirs over the weekend, it was also announced today that Patti Smith is one of the 2 recipients of this year's Polar Prize in Sweden. How great!! (Honestly, gang, 35 years ago, in this very town, me and this other girl (who also moved to NYC as soon as she could) had to force people (at pen point; not gun point) at the local swimming pool to sign a petition to get Patti some airplay on our local FM rock radio. People at the swimming pool signed the petition in order to get us to leave them alone. Then the radio finally played "Gloria" once and then never again. So this is just really, really cool for me, to be living back here again in this town and reading this news about Patti.) (You know, also -- back when I was 17, I had embroidered Patti Smith's name on my jeans. And you have no idea how many people would ask me if my name was Patti Smith. Okay, it's one thing to live in Ohio and not know who Patti was back in 1977, but, come on! Why would I embroider my own fucking name on my jeans????)
I also had "Aerosmith" embroidered on my jeans back then and no one ever asked me if my name was Aerosmith... (Funny weird "smith" thing going on there, though! How weird I didn't notice that until right this moment.)
Which further reminds me -- Go Steven!! I am officially back on TEAM STEVEN, gang, after reading that interview with him in the new issue of Rolling Stone. Wow. To be honest, I haven't been an Aerosmith fan since the late 70s, but that interview with Steven Tyler really rocked. You must check it out!
Now -- About Me!! Me! Me, me, me, me me!!
Finally, through some mysterious, serendipitous miracle, my newest novel, Twilight of the Immortal, is starting to get some reader reviews on Amazon.com. You can read them here! Yay! (You can also buy the book, conveniently enough, at that very same link, gang. Double-yay hint, hint!)
All righty. (Still all about me...)
On the agenda for today, besides preliminary work for the adaptation of Neptune & Surf (that my writing partner, Jerry, has insisted we don't call Surf Avenue, but just plain Neptune & Surf, instead), I also have to begin writing up a press release for Twilight of the Immortal. You can guess how much I love writing press releases. Actually, I like writing them a whole lot better than I like writing synopses, so there is at least that to be grateful for!! (Wow, I'm all about gratitude today, aren't I, gang?) But remember the days when the publisher took care of every little thing for you because they thought that writers were just these indescribably cool and honorable beings to be anywhere near???
(Well, you know, if you do remember those days (and you don't live in France, that is, where they still honor writers like nobody's business) then you are super old and I am literally amazed that you are still out there, walking around!!)
Actually, my publisher will write press releases for me, it's just that I am super picky and indescribably vain about the magnificence that is my writing talent, so it's just a lot easier to write it myself. B/c, hey, they write the press release but then I have to send it out anyway, so why not just be Super Woman and do it all myself? (Until Bill Brent gets here in July, that is!! Then I will foist all of this hard work upon him!!) (I'm so fucking serious! Yay!)
Okay, I suppose I should get crackin' around here. Time's a-wastin'. (I sure hope you don't speak English as a second language, gang, b/c I sure don't want to have to try to explain all these stupid little sayings I say!!) Have a great Tuesday, wherever you are! I have recently been informed that "Tuesdays are cool" so go out there and enjoy the heck out of yourselves. Thank you for visiting me. I will see you again soon!! Bye!
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