Hello people.  After 10+ years of working on it, my book "American Loser" is now for sale.AL has its genesis here on LJ.  I would sit around late at night, drunk or high or both, and let my brain roam and write some pretty crazy stuff, real "stream of consciousness."  At some point, I realized there was a common thread that could tie some of them ( Read more... )

So Godot drops me a line, asking me to drill a hole in the case of the machines so we can attach a clamp. So not only did we overpay for a suck machine that we can't control other than on/off, it didn't even come equipped to hang.

I wish I was making this shit up. I really really do. Yet he's considered a tech god around here. Oh my aching

Oh Godot, the breadth of your fucking idiocy is truly boggling. After convincing the Boss that you know more than me about snow machines and can hook us up with far better machines that are cheaper than the ones I specced, the machines arrived and guess what- they're not even DMX-controlled. Bwahahahahaha. Whoops. Guess we overlooked that ( Read more... )

Sitting here at home at ChezKez NJ after a very nice Thanksgiving back home in NH ( Read more... )

So we get closer to election day and we will see which way the country turns. It's interesting to watch the GOPers and Tea Baggers whinging about deadlock and how Obama can't do anything when these fuckers block everything he tries to do ( Read more... )

Today we sold our old Camry. About 6 weeks ago we bought a nice used Honda, so we no longer needed the Camry. I took a look on Craigslist and found a junkyard down in Jersey City that offered us a reasonable sum for it ( Read more... )

Got a facebook message from this guy Kevin. He friended me through some common friends who are stagehands up in MA. Kevin's a stagehand here in NJ and belongs to the union. Well, it seems that the union's a bit shorthanded these days and in need of bodies. They've got a call Saturday morning at 5am and they might use me. I know it's a 3pm show ( Read more... )

Not that I've finished any of my other books, but..... got the idea for a new one. Something pithy like "The OCD Guide to Life". The inspiration was riding home from work on the bus and looking at this huge apartment building- maybe 35 or 40 stories, and many of the units sport a remarkable view of the Manhattan skyline. However, looking down, ( Read more... )

My bosses have charged me with a mission. ( the gory details )

Wow. I had to be over at 4 Walls Lighting this morning to meet with their head tech guru to get trained in how to properly care for the leased VariLite rig at the club. Fascinating stuff- learned how to tear apart the light and clean the lenses and the color wheels. Interesting in also seeing how moving lights are dimmed- it's done with a wheel ( Read more... )