... continues to accrue graphic goodness, day by day.
Amazing artist Nick Derington's on board, now,
gonna be providing a huge page of original sequential art.
Jon Adams of Truth Serum fame is working on a two-pager for the antho.
Lance Myers is putting his nonpareil talents to paper & ink for Minerva's, too.
Patty Leidy's working on an angst-ridden-yet-somehow-kawai tour de force.
And Angelica Brenner just showed me the roughs for her one-page comic.
And, textually speaking ...
I have an article due from Marc Savlov on Friday;
Marrit Ingman just turned in her terrific
"What the Alamo Drafthouse Means To Me" piece;
Kirk Lynn's new short story ~ that I commissioned so
it could be Nori-fied ~ is excellence itself; and Hannah Kenah
just finished recording her roundtable discussion with the Rude Mechanicals ...
Slowly, slowly, the edition accumulates ...
Just a day after Shando McCormick snagged me
for hosting duties for part of next Thursday's line-up at
the Out Of Bounds Improv & Sketch Comedy Festival ...
... I got a call from Paula Hanna of Riot Ink,
who asked me to be the featured reader at the next iteration
of their twice-monthly poetry reading series on that very same night.
No way, of course.
But she'll be calling about some future spot in the months to come.
Ah, so much to do, so much to do ...
The Chronicle's Arts Editor, the redoubtable Robert Faires,
has assigned me to write the feature about Rubber Repertory's
The Casket of Passing Fancy, for our October 10th issue.
I'll have a length of between 2,000 to 3,000 words to work with.
I'm very happy about this,
and look forward to exercising my craft in ways that befit
what those Rubber Reppers have accomplished with their own.
And, if you've got some spare time for reading,
and especially if you like movies,
and most especially if you like your snarkery all popcultural and brilliant ...
... then I suggest you click the forthcoming link
and check out the bantery battle between Kimberley Jones and Josh Rosenblatt
in the Austin Chronicle's current Film Fight series.
Because they're fucking hilarious and trenchant, is why.
Also, not to diss Jones by comparison, but Rosenblatt ...
Josh Rosenblatt is like some marvelously warped combination
of S.J. Perelman, Dorothy Parker, and a slightly less manic Ren Hoek.
What's even more impressive is that he's that way in person, too.
The man is, I mean, quick.
So why he's not already making millions with his wit, I don't know.
Actually, Rosenblatt might not be totally sure about why not, himself.
But ~ here's the thing ~ he's exploring that very subject in depth
in an essay that he's working on for Minerva's Wreck.
Minerva's Wreck.
You know: That thick, oversized, limited-edition literary-and-graphic arts anthology
that I've been working on for about a year, now, and will publish
sometime in December of 2008 or January of 2009?
Yeah, that one.
Just so you know.
Yes: CONNECTONS.
See, as some cheesy commercial hype might point out,
the word is meaningless unless "I" is involved.
Heh.
Of course, there are a couple problems with that.
In the first place, it involves the " 'I' is involved " construction ...
which sounds more like the grammar of Bizarro
~ who me am definitely not, y'know what I'm saying?
And, in the second place, I'd like to suggest
that there are such things as "connectons," actually,
and that, CERN's potential findings notwithstanding,
they are both more evident and more prevalent than any goddam Higgs particle.
I mean, you could seriously dispute the above, sure;
but it'd cost you a few billion dollars to do so effectively;
and, meanwhile, the whole field of quantum physics
continues to seem more and more like a vast community involved in
some mass interpretation of Thurber's "The Unicorn in the Garden," doesn't it,
and it only remains to be seen just who's going to wind up in the booby hatch.
But all that is merely tangential to this post, really.
Which exists mostly to provide an update so this blog doesn't stagnate.
And this post reports the joy of connections in that, soon, my Spawn and I
will be flying to Orlando to see my darling Katherine and her mother.
But it also reports the sadness that, in going to Orlando,
we'll miss much of the annual Out Of Bounds Improv and Sketch Comedy Festival
that so galvanizes and delights Austin for an extended weekend.
And the joy is immense and the sadness relatively minor, yes;
but, still, one likes to amplify or mitigate where possible ...
So I checked with my friend Shannon McCormick, one of the Festival's producers,
to see if Ange and I could get a pair of media comps for Thursday the 28th,
which is 1) the night before we leave, and 2) the night featuring The 3 Actorteers
(who are hilarious and who include pal Alan Metoskie ~ who'll be flying in from Chicago
to join the other 2 Actorteers ~ Chuck Watkins and Jason Newman ~ onstage).
And Shannon's like, "Sure, and do you want to host that night?"
So now I'm not only going to see the show, I'll be the emcee for that segment.
Because of the whole McCormick-OutOfBounds-Chronicle-Brenner
quantum community arrangement sort of thing.
Because of the connectons, y'see.
Right.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll sing a few verses of "Particle Man,"
drink another cup or three of coffee, and get my ass to work.
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The painting called Malocchio is done, done, done,
and it turned out better than I thought it would.
Image to follow, eventually, after I've better acquainted myself
with the camera that I bought so long ago and have been
Meaning To Get Better Acquainted With One Of These Days.
* * * * *
Those most excellent Rubber Repertory folks,
wishing to retain something of me even though
circumstances have kiboshed my involvement in
the highly anticipated Casket of Passing Fancy this winter,
have had me teach the talented and handsome Carlos Treviño
(who's replacing me in the event) how to perform my song "Sitting in the Armchair."
Which I did last night, after almost two hours of volleyball; and that was fun
and Carlos was terrific, of course; and no one's covered a song of mine before,
so it felt kind of strange, and it was Carlos performing it, so it felt kind of like an honor.
* * * * *
Four weeks from now, Labor Day weekend,
my spawn Angelica and I will be on an airplane,
flying together for the first time ever,
going to visit Katherine and Katherine's mother in Orlando.
And it occurred to me, the last time I was with Kat,
that, huh, my daughter will be checking out the physical parameters
of those pieces of my pre-Texas history that played out before she even existed.
That Spawn of mine will see Weaverville and Lake Eola and the Library
and The Leaper and, heh, those particular iterations of Denny's and IHOP,
all those places and things that informed my raw and ragged twenties ...
Of course, she's also going to meet that dear Nancy;
which meeting is the main reason for our traveling together.
And Ange is seventeen, the age that Kat was when I met her ...
Circles within circles, the clockwork gears all turning ...
* * * * *
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