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p.s. Hey. Good morning or afternoon-ish, as the case may be. Two things: (1) Some mysterious creature whom I'm guessing is one of the blog's silent readers but might be one of you acting crafty sent in this lovely guest-post for us to enjoy, and I did, and I hope you do/did too. Speak to it, if you will. Thanks Mrs. Santa Claus, and thanks to all of you for your attention. (2) Tomorrow I have an early flight to NYC, so there'll be a post but no p.s. other than a hello, a quick intro to the post, and some info on how the blog will be functioning for the week that I'm in New York. I'll catch up with the comments from today and tomorrow when I reconnect with you properly on Wednesday. ** David Ehrenstein, Thanks, David. Sorry to hear about the party's weirdness. Yeah, pretty cool about the Jane Birkin shoulders rubbing. Yury snapped a pic or two of her, so maybe I'll post one here in some context. I really liked that Rivette too, as you know, and, yes, one hears he is not doing well at all, health-wise. One can only hope, though. 'Zipless fuck', never heard that term before. Curious. I never actually ever read the Jong book, which is kind of strange. I suspect it's way too late to do so now. Nice zipless memories, of course. ** Sypha, Hey. ** White Java Sparrow, Hi, WJS. It's very good to see you! A very late but very happy New Year to you too. 'Aminadab' is a beauty, yeah, and, as someone who's also not wild about wholly narrative fiction, yeah, I think his circumventions make its story deserving, if that makes any sense. Maybe not. We've been all about rain here lately too, although it's supposed to snow tomorrow, of course, tomorrow being the day I'm supposed to fly out of here, here being a place where even a light snow shuts down airports. Anyway, a lovely year to you, and I hope to get to see you throughout it. Take care. ** Steevee, I'm glad to hear you're finally feeling better. Sounds like it was a body/chem adjustment issue, which is the best case scenario, I suppose. The Lonely Christopher and Stokoe books are at St. Marks already? Wow, early and cool. ** Polter, Greetings, P. Your holidays, while strange, sound better than mine since mine were so nothing that I can barely remember them as holidays already. Nothing meaning fine, I guess. That recounting of your walk with the dog and human footprints was very beautiful. Worth preserving in fiction or some other form of writing, if you haven't. Really pretty and strange. I bow to you. I hope the still-new year is rewarding you already. ** Amputaciones, Hey! Thank you for the adds. I'll go pay my respects. Everyone, the amazing Amputaciones adds two Spaniards to the sad role call of this weekend. Enrique Morente. Singer (1942-2010) and Luis García Berlanga. Filmmaker (1921-2010). The very best to you, pal. ** Alan, Hey. No, I didn't know that, ha ha, and that's cool. Yeah, I think the critics at the Post can be better than the context would indicate. That's nice. 'Them' has gotten great best-of 2010 list presence: The New York Times, Artforum, Time Out, Paper Magazine, and others. 'Jerk' seems to have gotten lost, but the shows were about a year ago, and memory is memory. Thanks a lot! Also for the alert to that blog, which, yeah, is up my alley of course. Everyone, courtesy of Alan, check out this cool blog: Paleo-Future: A look into the future that never was. It's pretty cool and tasty. ** The Dreadful Flying Glove, Hey! You made it! And you're here! A relief on both fronts. I can't even let my mind picture that horrible traveling it took to get there. But I will use its blurry existence to make myself feel less whiny about my 8 1/2 hour direct flight tomorrow. Summer, weird, yeah. But the light/ sky there must be gorgeous and so huge right now. Welcome to your new and old homes, buddy! ** Bill, Hey. Thanks for checking in, man. Speaking of long plane flights, yikes. You guys are amazing. I don't how you do it. Enjoy the holidays' tail end, my friend. ** Casey McKinney, Hey, Casey! Good to see you, man. I've been thinking about you and wondering how you were doing. I'm sure you know my dad died right after your mom died. It's been strange. Beefheart was painting and showing his paintings up until just several months before he died. He became an art star or something. Good to see you, man! Say hey to Robin and to the kiddo in whatever way one passes along a hello to a little kiddo. Love to you. ** Pilgarlic, Hey. Yeah, my mom, a Texan, did that black eyed peas and collard greens thing with us on New Years her/my whole life. So, yeah. That food sounds amazing, excerpt for the pork thing. The hoe cake especially. Slurp. Corn bread ... few things better. I would do that chronological listening thing with the Beatles mono box too. Either that or backwards. No, forwards is better. Nice. ** Emptythesun, Hi! Oh, Blake Edwards, right. I blanked and missed a few. I'd never heard that Bruno S. story before, and it's very flavorful and easy/weird to imagine. That Beefheart boot sounds nice. It'd be interesting to hear those songs more raw, for sure. I haven't pulled out the 'UG' album in a long while, but I remember really loving one song ... what was it ... oh, 'Upon the My Oh My'. (sp?) Yeah, 2011 must rule. I think if you remove politics from the equation, it has every sign of ruling. ** Alexp336, Hey. Yeah, I love crazy, wordy sentences too. My problem is the opposite: pushing myself to extend and wack out sentences because my tendency is toward tightness. Interesting. Oh, yeah, Chris Morris, terrific. I reposted an old guest-post about him here a couple of months ago. Let me see if I can find it. Yeah, here. You probably know all that stuff already, but there it is. The quiet NYE sounds nice. Oh, when you say 'cover' the electronics show, what does that mean? Write about it, or ... ? I'm curious. ** Trees, Hey. Yeah, Leslie Nielsen, total oversight. I love him. I think he was kind of a genius in a weird way even. Intense year you had there. But you're so geared up to head into an amazing one, I think. Sorry about the m4tt fight, but I'm glad things are cool. Yeah, it's looking like I'm not going to be able to come out to the West Coast for those events, which sucks on numerous levels. I'm super broke, and I can't afford the flights and everything it will take to get to LA and SF at this point. I'm making a last ditch attempt to figure out a way to do it, but it looks bad, and I may have to come to LA, etc. later when I get myself out the big financial hole I'm suddenly in. I'll let you know if I can do it, but ... ugh. Take care, T. ** Colin, Hi, Colin! Good to see you! Any firm date on your book coming out? I'd love to do a post to help celebrate and announce it, if you're game. It was a bad year vis a vis death and art, yeah. Very best to you. ** Ken Baumann, Hey, Ken! Yeah, man, I'm seriously loving the 'Solip'. More soon. Oh, see what you think of 'Fable'. It's not precisely like 'Solip', of course, but, I don't know, I really love it, and I think you might. ** Scunnard, Yeah, it looks super, super promising, and it's pretty damned interesting already. Definitely, let me know the scoop re: its proper beginning. ** Math, Hey, pal. You got it! 'Epic Mickey', I mean. Yeah, the ruined Disneyland thing is massive draw for me, of course. Easy sounds good, ha ha. I like easy and wandering. Cut scenes are mostly a drag, but I'm used to them. They're adventure game standards. Hm, maybe I'll wait a few weeks and see if I can score a decently priced used copy. Problem is my Wii is French, and it won't play US games. Kind of a big drawback. Man, I hate weird neck sleeping headaches. The only good thing is that they're the kind of headaches that acupressure treatment works well against. I think I've seen one episode of the US 'Office' and one of the British 'Office', and that's it so far. Oh, wait, and there's a French one too, I think. Or maybe it's dubbed, I can't remember. The Brit one looked better. No, it's one of those shows I'll need to catch up on via DVD retrospectively, I guess. Take care, buddy. ** Andrew, Good start to your year as a master of your own artistry, man. If there weren't cut scenes, what would they make the trailers for the games out of? I can't remember the last time I saw a trailer that showed more than a fraction of a second of actual game play. Bastards. ** Chris Cochrane, Dude, I'll see you tomorrow evening. That's so crazy. For me, I mean. Being over here about 24 hours-ish before that moment feels crazy, I mean. You didn't like the Paul Thek? Hunh. We'll have to add that to our Kiefer tete a tete. I'm so prepared now to walk into a teeny-weeny theater space tomorrow that I'll probably go, 'It's not that little'. Right? Uh, ha ha, right? Can not wait! ** MANCY, Cool you got to see Trecartin. I'm a massive fan of his. And, partying as overhyped, totally, severely. ** Rigby, Well, greetings, Rigster! What's up? What's new? What's the big and tall? ** Creative Massacre, Hey. Oops, about the first art project. Oh, well, onwards and upwards, right? Oh, that 'fire' photo is really nice. And those pix of the insides of a Taco Bell taco made me urp. No kidding. Everyone, check out Creative Massacre's lustrous runny paint/fire photo, why don't you? And then, by contrast, get a close up look at what lies inside a Taco Bell taco, if you can handle that, courtesy again for the camerawork of CM. Here, in that case. Rarely have I felt happier to be a vegetarian, which is, of course, a high compliment. Good day, pal. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Hi, man. Oh, you've moved now. But you sounds pretty okay about it, or resigned in a not devastating way or anything. The text is coming along okay, slow but okay. It's tricky. I'm going to try to finish it up in NYC. I'm sorry about your friend moving away. I know people usually don't stay in touch very much when that happens, but I hope you guys do. The Italian James Franco story was really good. I thoroughly and complexly enjoyed it. Out of curiosity, I google image searched 'Italian James Franco' and there was a guy that fit the search terms, but he didn't look like James Franco at all to me, so it didn't really help me picture your guy, which is fine. Maybe having moved will throw your stalker off? She doesn't own bloodhounds, I hope. Hunh, yeah, that song you linked to by Cults is kind of cool and odd. I can't quite figure it out. I mean figure out what it is, musically. That's good. Hm, I'll listen to more by them. Thank you! My weekend wasn't too much of anything, I don't think. Well, it was in one sense because I got hit with this really big money problem about two weeks ago, and I've been kind of trying to be denial about it, and this weekend I realized I couldn't be in denial about it, so I accepted it and kind of freaked out, and I realized I'm almost for sure not going to be able to go to LA/SF for the LHotB events, for one thing, which sucks on many levels, and will make a bunch of people mad at me, and ugh, but ... yeah, ugh. It sucks, and I suck as a consequence. So, that was big. Otherwise, mm, I reread my novel for the first time since I finished it, and I'm just far enough away from it now to think, Wow, this is great, how in the hell did I do that? Ha ha, but that felt nice, even if it turns out that I'm wrong. I talked to Gisele a bunch of times because our new piece is in high gear, and there's lots of talking and planning in the works now. She sent me the latest blueprint of the maze, and it's pretty cool, but we both want it to be even more complicated, so we're meeting with the architect tonight. I ran some pre-trip errands. I started getting my usual pre-trip anxiety. It was kind of cold and wet out, so I didn't do too much outside, or inside either, really, apart from stressing out about money and traveling. Not a great weekend, in other words. But the next time we trade day reports, I'll be in NYC, so that'll bring some kind of freshness to my anecdotes, I guess. So, tell me all about your Monday and your Tuesday too, if you don't mind. ** Misanthrope, Yeah, Tony Curtis. I forgot him. Craven Cox, I know. I liked him too. I watched him comport with his friends across a room once in NYC. He didn't disappoint. Sad. I'm glad Little Show loved his birthday despite it all. Hm, yeah, maybe re: trying the Didion method on the emotional thing I'd like to write next. First I need to try to remember how I did it the first time around because I can't quite. So, I'll see you soon, I think? ** C.P., Glad you made it there safe and sound and more. Hope the apartment hunt is an easy one, or easy-ish. Let me know the latest, and, yeah, enjoy the new joint, man. ** Bollo, Hey, J! You snuck just as I was about to post this. Good timing. Very nice to see you, and I'm glad your technical circumstances promise a greater attendance record, ha ha. France weirded out about the snow here too. Excellent lists. I'm going to track down a couple of the things I don't know. And thanks for, you know, putting my stuff in there. Everyone, the d.l. Bollo aka the wondrous visual artist Jonathan Mayhew has top ten music and book lists on his blog for your delectation, and they're very fine, and so go feed your list manias and learn stuff by clicking this. Here's to no more leaks! See you soon. ** That seems to be all of you. Be with Mrs. Santa Claus today, and, like I said, I'll give you a post and a hello, etc. tomorrow, and I'll be back in direct touch via a full-length p.s. on Wednesday. Safe days!
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