Of a Feather, Pg 68
The Daily Grind Table of Contents Classical literature has so many applications in real life.
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Of a Feather, Pg 67
The Daily Grind Table of Contents Another action scene coming up? Only time will tell!
Terebinth, Page 1,827: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt
The Terebinth Story Archive If you'd just stop bringing up sleeze, Lamont, I think we'd all feel more comfortable.
Of a Feather, Pg 66
The Daily Grind Table of Contents Malvolio as a source of exposition? Color me shocked!
Of a Feather, Pg 65
The Daily Grind Table of Contents Asking Malvolio to tell you everything? You might wanna rephrase that, Kain...
Giving to UCI
It's UCI Giving Day! Apparently... Every year since about 2015, UCI does a thing where they make it easy for folk to donate to the university in general and the various departments and organizations thereon in particular. And for more than 40 years now, that particular organization for me has been the campus radio station, KUCI, 88.9 on your FM dial and concurrently at kuci.org . So if you've got some money and would like to contribute to keeping me from wandering the streets on Sunday afternoons in a dazed and confused fashion, please consider giving that money to KUCI by clicking on the facsimile image of joyful college students mugging about over most of this entry. None of the money donated will go to me—I'm a volunteer when it comes to being an air personality—so don't worry about that. They'll use it to repair our equipment and pay for electricity and things of that nature. So if you c...
Of a Feather, Pg 64
The Daily Grind Table of Contents It's all wheels within wheels when Howlett's involved.
Terebinth, Page 1,826: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt
The Terebinth Story Archive The problem, Lamont, is that anything you call non-sleezy becomes immediately suspect by all and sundry.
Of a Feather, Pg 63
The Daily Grind Table of Contents If anyone would like to see a recording of me reading some of my poems, I took part in last Sunday's installment of the Speculative Sunday poetry series. From about 5:45 on the YouTube video linked to in the previous sentence till about 23:30, I do seven poems and a bit of interstitial blather. Who could ask for anything more?
That Poetry Reading
The Speculative Sunday folks: Still haven't posted the program with my poetry reading to YouTube, but they have got it up on their Facebook page if anyone wants to take a look at me flailing about. I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, so I don't know how the audio quality is. But I can tell you that my part starts about six minutes in and runs till about the 24-minute mark. It's largely light and silly verse as one might expect from me. After me, though, you get an actual poet. Known as upfromsumdirt, he's writing some very powerful stuff, so give it a listen. Wednesday Afternoon Edit: And now it's available on YouTube! In this version, my stuff starts about 5:45 and runs till about 23:30, but it's the same stuff. ...
Terebinth, Page 1,825: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt
The Terebinth Story Archive Looks like two triolets stacked on top of each other, there. Better call a tree surgeon...
Online Poetry Reading This Sunday
Last month, I mentioned this online poetry reading I'm involved in . Well, it happens this Sunday, so I've of course caught a cold. The disease appears to be progressing apace, as they say, and I've been sucking away on zinc lozenges since Monday night. I expect, therefore, to be more or less recovered by Sunday afternoon. After all, my watchword has ever been: What could possibly go wrong? What I wanted to mention here, though, is that the thing will be streamed live on Facebook. I'm largely unfamiliar with the process, but this is where I think it'll be taking place within Facebook's vast virtual architecture at 4PM Pacific Time on April 13th. DJ Gold Code from KUCI's Omakase program has already agreed to take over Episode 2141 of The Darkling Eclectica for me that Sunday, so the radio show will continue unabated. And if you can't stop by the banks of tha...
Of a Feather, Pg 60
The Daily Grind Table of Contents Maybe another action scene? I guess we'll find out next week!
Of a Feather, Pg 59
The Daily Grind Table of Contents Yes, as I believe we've said before around here. What could possibly go wrong?
Of a Feather, Pg 58
The Daily Grind Table of Contents Whispering brain's one of those things they warn you about very quickly at the end of a pharmaceutical commercial, seems to me...
Terebinth, Page 1,824: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt
The Terebinth Story Archive Yeah, whenever anyone starts using any form of the word "apostate," beatings are sure to follow...
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The Daily Grind Table of Contents So let's all rampage thorough the streets over the weekend and meet back here Monday for the next installment!
A Poetry Chapbook
I assume: That I'm scheduled to be run over by a streetcar soon since so many pleasant things have been happening to me lately. The most recent—I just signed the contract today—is a poetry collection of mine that's due to be published this summer by the interestingly named Island of Wak Wak Press . On their website, they define a chapbook as "between 20 and 50 pages of poetry," something I didn't know till I began this whole process. What I ended up submitting has 63 poems spread out over 51 pages, but I guess that was close enough. The title is Two Strikes, And I'm Out , and it focuses on a hapless 1st-person narrator trying to make some sort of connection to the outside world. In the first half of the book, he reaches out to a talking animal, fantasy world, and in the second half, to a computer-driven, science-fiction world. I don't wanna give anything away, but the title perhaps foreshad...
