AN ERNESTOID INTERLUDE

Whew! I need to take a long, deep breath. Or maybe a loud, noxiousfart will do. 

Been up to my orejas in the Gonzo Science Fiction, Chicano Styleclass for the Palabras del Pueblo Writing Workshop during which I wrote a storywhile delivering play by play reportage on my creative process. I also got tovisit an alternate reality where I am famous, and an influence on a lot ofwriters in the planet-spanning reaches of the Latinoid continuum. It was greatand had me feeling like I can take on all the madness that I see building upand threatening to erupt in the rest of the year. 

I don’t want to be a guru. I don’t believe in gurus. I do haveexperience that can help people who have chosen to take the path I have taken.I’ve been around on this merry-go-round a few times.

Meanwhile, Our Creative Realidades takes its place next to GuerrillaMural of a Siren’s Song: 15 Gonzo Science Fiction Stories as something I'vegot to hype. Yes, I’m a sort of a gonzo journalist–or is it anthropologist?--fromtime to time. And I do know the differences between fiction, and nonfiction,sci-fi and reality. I think. Maybe I’m just a clumsy slapstick comedian.

Then there’s my novel Zyx; Or, Bring Me the Brain of Victor Theremin. Still trying to get an agent who will be willing to run itthrough the gauntlet of the big New York publishers because I can’t give up thedream of making a wad of cash and retiring to write my bucket list novels anddo art rather than work far into my old age. Creativity can be a bitch.

I could probably find a publisher for Zyx (did I evermention that it rhymes with sex?) in a few weeks if I didn’t care about money. Unfortunately,I need money to survive. I won’t rule it out. Like I keep saying, I keep onefoot in the underground, so when the shit hits the fan, I’ll have a place tostand. What is that stuff flying around?

Speaking of novels, mine, High Aztech, Cortez on Jupiter,and Smoking Mirror Blues made David Bowles’ List of Mexican American Futurism. I’m down as Nestor Hogan, but people still get confused when yougo against their handy-dandy stereotypes. Nestor, Nesto, Ernesto, I’m myperplexing Ernestoid self. Buy my books and figure it out yourself.

The election and politics are getting weirder than ever. Grotesquealternative universes battling over which one we’ll live in. Your favoriteutopia d’jour ain’t one of the choices–guess what, it never is, and be carefulif it seems to be. Meanwhile, I recommend voting against the guy who the Klan,the Nazis, and the governments of Russia and China want in the White House.

Ah . . . I’m feeling better. More focused. What was that I justdid? Maybe it was deep breath and a fart. Is it possible to do both atonce? Nah, it would probably cause serious injury, and I’m actually feelinggood.

I’ll just keep doing my Ernestoid thing in the face of a futurethat promises to be crazier than my wildest dreams, because I have some dreamsthat are pretty damn wild that I haven’t shared yet.

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