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I am doing a reading!

On Wednesday August 18th I am part of a reading at The Rumor Mill in Culver City. It is a little coffee shop that’s so badass you can get them to make you a grilled cheese sandwich. Also, while I didn’t actually have any of their quiche, I looked at it pretty hard and let me tell you, I could almost taste it through my eyes, that's how good it is. Plus the chocolate chip cookie that I had was really good . . .

Anyway!

Come out and see me read. They have given me 30 WHOLE MINUTES! One time, at a reading, I made a girl cry, and that time I only had seven minutes. This time I’m going to be reading a story that has like fifteen separate dialogue speakers in it, it’s gonna be a one-man show for 1,800 seconds and you will be sad if you miss it.

Check out this link for details.

If you wanta come in from out of town for this one, you can crash on my couch. I am so excited. It is going to be EPIC!


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Plans and Maybe a Coffee Shop.

So dear blog, I am sorry that I have not been around much as of late, but life has been overwhelming. I am in the final days of my last semester at Cal State Northridge and it has been much more difficult and intense than I had expected. All of my papers and projects are turned in. I have three finals still to come this week, but by next weekend I will be done. All that will be left is the stress of waiting for my final grades to come back.

Once all that is done I will be trying to find a way to reengineer my life. I plan to write more (I hope and plan to become prolific!) So expect to see a lot more short fiction posted here. Also, I need to get back down to my fighting weight. I realized that I have put on twenty-five pounds since I went back to school three years ago. So in a few months I want to be nice and trim and maybe even possess a detectable muscle mass!

Also I will be reading more. I can not wait. I have not gotten to read for fun in three years. Three years! I have a whole stack of books I to bite into.

And since Violet and I will finally have some eveing free time, I want to begin the quest for a good coffee shop. I believe in my heart of hearts that somewhere in the greater LA area there simply must be a decent coffee shop. I resolve myself to finding it. So if you have any suggestion, PLEASE COMMENT! I am desperate and need your help.

I know that none of this means anything to you, but sometimes I just like to type. It relaxes me to sit here and type. The way that some writers used to talk about the soothing mechanical clattering of their typewriters, I feel that way about the plastic click of my keyboard keys.

Anyway, once we get through this week you should expect to see much, much more here. A blog updating onslaught that will be unheard of in its veracity and intensity.

So that will be fun. For me anyway.

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