Congrats to Nina--a recent acquaintance...& Katie & the late AJ. I probably owe the biggest timespan apology ever to Harry Harrison for rudely stepping between Harry (I think it's called cockblocking these days) & my date at LA Con '70. My date was a foxy fan-girl and maybe Harry was just being Harry. ~m ( Read more... )

It's strange that if I don't blog for a while, I think I haven't done anything (worth writing about) with my time. The time goes quickly enough but seems like empty passing of hours and days if I don't take the time to think about it--write it down and re-examine it. I know that's not what life is about but I am stuck in a non-writing mode. The ( Read more... )

My friend John Dorsey of Toledo rang me up yesterday. I was on the car bluetooth & couldn't recognize his name at first but then the excitement hit. So funny-- I asked him how the weather was there out east, and he said, no, I'm here at Annie's in Sacramento. Wow. He caught me on the way home so I told him to call me back in 20 & he did ( Read more... )

APRIL 2009 EVENTS ( Read more... )

MARCH 2009 EVENTS ( Read more... )

I was looking at the SXSW schedule from Grub Dog and It Looks Mahvelous for the punk get together. Half of Sacramento with Kep, Kev, & Christian there. Must be Hotel Stoycoff. Mo had better put a lot of paper down in the cage ( Read more... )

Typical day in the backyard. (I wish. But it is just behind my zero lot line.) Wonder what's in that lawn treatment... ~m


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Old age: the book in the bathroom is getting read faster than the book on the nightstand which is getting read faster than the book on the coffee table.

That is all ~m

o & the philip glass concert at Mondavi was exquisite, plus i promise to start posting more & tweeting less. writing to myspace is picking up also

Boy, a guy gets a little behind in his posting and it seems as if he has to lift a bridge or something to catch up. Thus, catching up falls farther behind. And gets heavier ( Read more... )

Shopping at the mall is such fun I do it every five years whether I need to or not. Shoes need replacing. Some of mine have places where the polished leather has scaled off. This could be my fault for eschewing, so to speak, hard leather shoes since I decided to quit the corporate ratrace--it was no creases, no hard shoes for two years before I got ( Read more... )