We have live eBay auctions! Hardcover first editions of Drawing Blood, Guilty But Insane, The Value of X; chapbooks Liquor for Christmas, The Seed of Lost Souls, Used Stories. Obviously these won't be done in time for Christmas, but if you've got holiday money, what better to spend it on than books? As always, all items are signed and can be ( Read more... )

I haven't been able to post because I was too busy hanging upside down. marrus kindly lent me her Teeter Hang-Up inversion table (see last post), and I can hardly stay off the thing. After the first day I had it, I was almost free of pain. I didn't even know how to move because my body felt so different; I'd find myself doing things (as simple as getting ( Read more... )

I haven't been able to be here lately. It's not that I haven't wanted to, but I've felt incapable of talking about the BP disaster and irresponsible talking about anything else. My mind is full of the images: the hurt in the eyes of people in Grand Isle and Lower St. Bernard and Plaquemines, the ancient innocents mired and dying in filth. The land ( Read more... )

Jesus. I didn't know the tornadoes in Mississippi were so devastating until I read the paper this morning. (My mom is fine; she lives farther south.) Oh, weather, weather, weather, how I hate you sometimes. You make me want to channel the People's Poet ( Read more... )