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p.s. Hey. Well, it's true. As you undoubtedly know by now, bedtime tonight is the deadline for sending in your birthday presents to the blog. So, let me make one last heartfelt plea to show this well meaning sliver of the internet you care enough to throw something together and click Send. I typed that on my knees, just so you know. ** Misanthrope, Well, I think if you own a work of art, or, in the case of these Dali exploiters, a whole bunch of 'art', it's yours and you can do whatever you want with it or them. Deadline's looming, buddy. Today's your doctor appointment, isn't it? Hope he does his job. I'd watch CC bottom, but I wouldn't pay for it. Well, maybe a little. ** Oscar B, I'm going to ring you first thing after launching this. Wanna go to the museum soonish? That's my vote. ** L'étranger, Hey. Oh, man, that was nice. The Crucifux tale(s), I mean. I didn't know hardly any of that. Thanks a giant bunch. Hope all's superb with you. ** Bernard Welt, Not on point exactly, but Ryan was enthusing wildly to me about the brand new version of Photoshop which apparently has this insanely high level of artificial intelligence that turns a single click into the jpeg world's equivalent of the Big Bang. What clips are you choosing for the Gayness of Cowboys? ** Jeff, I can only imagine re: the Easter Egg thing. I got one of those spams from Atheist's hacked email account too. I'm guessing she knows. I haven't seen or heard a peep from her in yonks. That comments graveyard you made in the middle of the comments arena was ... trippy. Oh, let me pass along your Ariana alert. The direct link was bad -- I got 'Fatal Failure' -- so I'll skip it and use the other link. Everyone, the great d.l. Jeff requests your attention regarding an important matter. Here he is: 'Ariana Reines is in Haiti, and she could use help with money. She says that she will give a copy of her new book SAVE THE WORLD to anyone who donates $50 or more. Go here and click on "Donate." That page is dated in that it refers to her trip in March, but the donation link is the same as the one she sent in her recent email. I think her current work in Haiti is about the same as what she was doing in March, also.' Just thinking about reading Anti-Oedipus on acid is risking my sanity. Man, that witch story is great. Do not delete it. That's an order. Everyone, really nice comment/story by Jeff at the bottom of yesterday's comments. Check it out. Highly recommended. ** David Ehrenstein, If Christophe H. ever does me the lovely favor of an introduction to Louis Garrels, I'll take four, send two to you, and we can call each other in the morning to compare notes. Deal? ** David, Oops, I jumped the gun on the sex thing. That's so unlike me. Oh, it's there as promised, and I think you handled the 'sex' thing very deftly. I've just read it now quickly and once, but I think it might be my very favorite piece yet. I'm really glad you're doing this, that you're writing. You're very, very good, you should know. Everyone, the next installment in the lustrous writer and d.l. David's saga in progress is ready for our eyes. Mine have absorbed it, and both they and I highly recommend you punch this blue thing. ** Sypha, Hey, man. ** Bollo, To believe the Editor's Note thing in the recent Wire, there was some hauntology/ hypnagogic pop conference-like thing just a month or so ago, so I guess the fire is either ongoing or building. Vegetarianism has been kind of slightly sweeping Paris over the last few years, so it's becoming less hard to eat here by the day. Sorry about your mehness. I hope sleep turned the tide or whatever. It usually does for mine. ** _Black_Acrylic, Any Skinny news yet? Even though I'm not a UK guy and don't know nearly enough to have an informed opinion, and even though Labour seems like a creepy mess of a party at this point, and even though Clegg is probably just the lesser of the evils, man, I sure hope Cameron comes out anywhere but on top today. ** Steven Trull, That's got to be some mosh pit you've got going in that head of yours. I hope you're okay. ** Derek White, Hey, Derek! A total pleasure and honor to have you here. Yeah, thanks a lot. Much respect and hopes for a new book from you asap. ** Steevee, Why is interviewing Noe a budget issue? I mean, unless that would require you flying over here, a phone call or a subway trip to some NYC locale wouldn't cost that much, would it? ** Dave Hebb, Ah, the legendary and great Dave Hebb right here on my humble blog. Greetings and respect and many thanks, sir. ** Joseph, Money shortness, brr. My greatest source of life anxiety. Hugs, man. Very cool about Luca Dipierro being on board. Man, I want the blog to do its part in launching your book. When the time becomes right on its and your ends, send me some stuff so I can christen it with a nice related blog post, okay? Exciting! Yeah, I'm flying slightly higher than I was a few days ago. Still have to dodge some volcano ash, though. ** L@rstonovich, Dude, I started your book last night. Just an initial dip so far, but it's a total beaut. So fucking awesome to hold a book of your work in my hands at long last too. Pretty trippy, pretty amazing. ** Justin, Hey. I've been with guys taller than me, but not too often because I'm pretty tall. I found it not to be a problem at all. I've definitely been with guys shorter, sometimes much shorter than me, and I also did nothing but enjoy the height difference. I can't see it being a problem, really. Pretend he's a lifeboat or something. Go for it. Hesitate not a moment re: the scale difference issue. That's my sage advice. ** NB, Hi! It's you, NB! Man, your birthday gift was/is absolutely heroic. I was on my knees when I started this p.s., and now I'm on them again. You good? ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Responsive as a word will work, sure. I want to hear all about 'The Human Centipede'. I haven't heard all about it from anyone yet. You would like Ryan, and vice versa. So, did Bendy act differently around his sister? I've always thought you can learn a lot very fast by observing someone when they're with a family member. I can't remember if you ragged on 'Avatar' to me before or not? I didn't hate it, as you probably know, but I just wanted it to make my eyes pop more than a little bit, and it did that. The story was just kind of in imbedded in there somewhere like the bass line in a song or something. Your friend is very lucky to have you. I hope you finally got some solid sleep last night. What's with the no sleeping thing lately? Stress or whatever? My day, hm. Did novel work. Started putting together the blog birthday party post(s). At 2:30-ish, I took the metro to the offices of my French publisher P.O.L. They're doing video interviews with all the authors who have books coming out right now. Well, except for Jean-Luc Godard who has a new book out from them. I asked if they were too shy to ask Godard or whether Godard refused, and they answered that he looks like a homeless person, and I'm not sure if that answer meant he's too different from the rest of us to do something so promotion-oriented or whether it meant he looked too grungy to be filmed or whether it meant something else entirely. Anyway, one of the awesome guys who run P.O.L., Jean-Paul Hirsch, interviewed me in his office using his camera's movie mode, and maybe I was interesting or maybe not. Couldn't tell. I guess the interview will be posted on Facebook and/or Youtube or something. The P.O.L. offices are near Place St. Michel, which is one of my very favorite parts of Paris, so, when the interview was over, I strolled around. I bought/ate a crepe at this crepe stand I like. I saw Orlando Bloom talking on his iPhone. His chin is a more noticeable component of his face in person. I went to Shakespeare & Co. hoping to buy a book d.l. Tosh was talking about on his Facebook feed the other day, but they didn't have it in stock. I eventually came back here, worked on my novel more, etc. I started gathering slaves for the next slave post. I ate a veggie dog sandwich with mozzarella cheese, alfalfa sprouts, and mustard and one of these cookies I'm really into right now: Sables nature pur Beurre. Stuff, some TV (can't remember), sleep. Thursday now belongs to you until I join in tomorrow. ** Ken Baumann, Hey, Ken. I'm almost positive I'm seeing 'Enter the Void' tomorrow afternoon. I'm so excited, I can't tell you, and, yeah, I'll pass along my reaction, you bet. I did get your B'day gift, and it choked me up, and I'm not kidding, my friend. Thank you. Great: you at novel. Not to mention 'Solip' and 'Unguentine'. That is a tantalizing work report right there. Oh, re: the warning sign thing ... I guess I generally just embrace the need to do a lot of different projects when I swarm myself with them and then let the chips fall where they may. I figure there are times when the urge to make stuff has a lot of variety and explosiveness, and I trust my instincts. The only thing I try to watch out for is when it involves projects where the needs and expectations of others are involved. I do have a tendency to take on too much and then end up feeling overwhelmed whereupon I tend to flake on one or more of the projects. Not a problem if they're all private projects, but if people are expecting things from me, and if I can't follow through, obviously, it can get unpleasant. So I generally do my soul searching in those situations. I don't know. Does that make sense? Is that in the realm of what you were asking me? Are you feeling a strain for taking on too many different artistic endeavors right now? ** Blendin, I'm glad you're still alive. I kind of figured you were and hoped that wasn't decadent of me to assume. Why is the week crushing you? Newsstand chaos? Hope your sleepiness got fed, man. A love supreme to you. ** KIller Luka, Hey! Oh, wow, that's a lot of heavy stuff. Your friend, Jesus, ... what can one say? You have a chihuahua? Did I know that? Poor thing. And etc. Of course your call was most welcome, my friend, so remove that from your list of bad things post-haste. Why can't any of these 'Ton's be the real Ton? Is that too much to ask? Not that having Jack Smith on my blog isn't volcanic in the good way. It's awfully nice to see you. I would love either of those recipes. I mean the blog would love them. You know the way to a blog's heart. ** Changeling, Hi. Yeah, of course you can send a gift tonight. I'll even throw in a curtsy if you do. Thank you. Yeah, voting day. I've been sort of following all of that over here just to ... I don't know. I have this thing for awards shows, the Oscars and all that. Maybe that explains it. I hope 'Avatar' doesn't win. Oh, you have a new story up on your blog! Awesome. I'm just about finished here, and then I'm going to inhale it with my mind. That was a horrible sentence. ** Now I'll read Changeling's story, take a shower, and then I'll go to a museum with Oscar B, I think. Birthday gifts, please, please, thank you. See you, yeah, tomorrow.