The last few weeks have been a little harder on me than usual. Maybe it's winter getting to me. So, I'm a different person alone versus with other people. With other people I put on the mask, smile, construct who I think "pecky" should be in this context. But the last few weeks my mind has been dizzy, and I can't quite keep up. Or I'm absurdly ( Read more... )

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“O you, who in some pretty boat ( Read more... )

Voice is excellent... Spot on Mercury... But the music itself is the same consistency as pop. Mercury and his crew wrote truly interesting music.

The flight took off Friday night -- the red-eye one way from Pecksburg to Paris -- everyone on the flight was so excited hardly anyone slept. Will and I did the usual trifecta -- wine, sleeping pill, and melatonin -- but with all the noise and excitement, it was hard to sleep still. We arrived at CDG mid-morning. No trouble with customs and ( Read more... )

Well, I've been a busy boy lately ( Read more... )

I counted the books last night. The publisher sent me double. I e-mailed them on a pro forma basis, but I expect I will be keeping them. No biggie. I used to sell books online to make ends meet. But yeah, call mr big time erotic fiction now ;)

There are certain moments in life a person remembers.  Like when I was shopping for my birthday party at the liquor store one year (I haven't had a birthday party since Thailand btw): I reached the cash register and the woman asked for my license, so I handed her my driver's license -- "No," she said, "the liquor license for your bar." I haven't ( Read more... )

I'm tired of pop. I'm tired of comfortable rhythms and chord progressions. Time to go slumming...

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I can't remember if this was the first or second annual Krampus party at the dance club down the street from me. I've been amazed at how popular the idea of Krampus has become over the past few years. I wonder if it has anything to do with the prolonged economic recession, societal disaffection, and occupy phenomenon of the past few years. The ( Read more... )

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This makes me remember the old nuns reminding us every time we entered a building to remove our hats.