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My current eBay auctions end this evening, and the weekend brought a smallish but much-needed Exquisite Corpse royalty check. Maybe things are looking up a little. The Nutty Professor (the 1963 original) is my new favorite movie. Thank you, Ramsey!


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Elton John (the real one) is starting to get on my nerves. TAKE A HINT AND DROP THE SUBJECT, DUDE.* Billy is obviously not going to give you whatever pathetic validation you're looking for here. Now go listen to "My Life" and hush up. I tell you what, if Ramsey Campbell ever goes to rehab and then calls me out in Rolling Stone for still smoking pot ( Read more... )

Another arrival in today's mail was a package from Wildside Press containing three recent issues of Weird Tales. I don't know why they came -- perhaps John Betancourt in yon faraway tower still spares a stray, fond thought for me -- but I don't mind; they look to contain some pretty good reading, and there aren't nearly as many Darrell Schweitzer ( Read more... )

DEVIL PZB: I don't wanna edit manuscripts tonight. I wanna smoke pot and read It for the ten- thousand-and-thirtieth time ( Read more... )

The Mexican workers are singing as they scrape paint out in the hall. They're very nice guys who patiently put up with my bad high school Spanish, but other than myself, Chris, and possibly Jon Anderson of Yes, they are the worst singers I've ever heard ( Read more... )

After a Meet the Candidates forum at Cafe Adelaide last night, suspect_d and I had dinner at Cuvee. It was very good -- Bob Iacovone is currently serving a foie gras Twinkie* -- and they comped us like $45 of food and drinks. I came home pleasantly tipsy and spent the rest of the evening reading wonderful stories Ramsey Campbell and Neil Gaiman had sent me ( Read more... )

Mmmmmmmm Cajun Eggnog daiquiri with an extra shot of Southern Comfort. 'Tis the season. For several days my head and heart have been in England. In transit or since I got home, I've read Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, Elizabeth's London, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Tim Richardson's Sweets (about the history of candy, but with a decided ( Read more... )