Between friends who donated directly to me today because they did not want to use GoFundMe because of the fees, and one friend who did use GoFundMe to donate–
I am already HALFWAY to my goal!!! In just a few hours.
I just want to thank everybody for all the help, generosity, and encouragement today.
These are going to be terrific audiobooks, gang. I really mean that!
And I also wanted to share this incredible thing, too.
A poet/friend in NYC, Ron Bass, received an advance review copy of my new novel a while back, and this afternoon, he submitted his review to Amazon. He sent me a copy of it:
“The Curse of Our Profound Disorder is extremely hard to put down. I read through it in just a couple of sittings. I found myself completely wrapped up in this first-person narrative of Jemima Callahan’s life. The author, Marilyn Jaye Lewis, is such an astute observer of human nature. The characters Jemina encounters, both good and bad, as well as those who are a combination thereof, ring totally true and serve to pull the reader further into the story. How to properly classify the novel in the terms of genre could be a bit tricky unless you take the expansive view that it can be shelved in a number of different categories. It’s definitely a coming-of-age novel describing not only the pitfalls facing the young narrator but also her strong will to survive her adverse circumstances. It’s also a spiritual journey in which the narrator’s own very real religious orientation is tested repeatedly. And it’s a worldly exploration of a young woman’s sexual encounters while trying to stay alive, and her later involvement in a love relationship that changes her way of looking at the world. In a sense, The Curse of Our Profound Disorder is three books in one, and all three of them fire on all cylinders. I could not recommend it more highly.”
I posted about this in my earlier post this morning (this is the link to that post).
If you’re not inclined to contribute, it’s not a problem at all. If you are inclined to contribute, any amount will help. Thanks everybody!!
Me at my desk, staring at you right now
“Hi, I’m Marilyn Jaye Lewis, a writer in the USA. I was in the process of negotiating with narrators and producers to create audiobooks of 4 of my novels, when I became the victim of a banking/phone scam and my bank account was wiped out. I am seeking to raise $1700 to cover what was stolen that was earmarked specifically for my audiobook projects. If you can contribute and help me move forward with these projects, I would be so appreciative. Any amount will help! Thank you!”
These are the novels that are currently in audiobook negotiations:
Again, I really want to thank those of you who contacted me privately the last couple days, to just send your good thoughts and prayers.
I truly, truly appreciate that. It helped me a lot.
I am in a much calmer place now, for sure. And I’m trying to just move forward.
I have decided to set up a GoFundMe drive later today, to try to get donations to help me recoup $1700 that was earmarked for the audiobook productions. All of that money is gone.
The recent book editing job I had, and the check I got from Honda last week, would have covered all my production costs, but that, of course, was in my bank account, which got wiped out Monday.
And again, just FYI — I didn’t know this, maybe you do, but don’t answer your phone if the caller ID is from your bank. Call your bank back instead, and ask if they were trying to reach you. That way, you know for certain who you’re talking to.
Also, be alert to anything concerning CHIME online bank. Not that CHIME bank is a scam, it’s not; but the police officer who was taking down my report said that CHIME bank is used a lot in banking/phone scams. And even Wayne said that he had a $45 scam involving a CHIME bank account recently.
So just be aware.
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I also have 2 pairs of vintage Gucci high heeled shoes, from the 1990s — one, a pair with those silver mirrored sequins designed by Tom Ford, that is reasonably valuable.
The shoes don’t fit me anymore because my feet got too wide. But I have such great memories of wearing those shoes in the 1990s! (And that is an understatement.)
Even this photo is an understatement…
However, I have the memories. I don’t need the actual shoes, so I’m going to offer them for sale online. Maybe get as much as $800, combined.
We shall see.
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Okay.
Later today, my Q-following girlfriend in town is meeting me at Kohl’s! Not that I can afford to go shopping right now, even though they’re having a huge sale. But we decided it would be good for me to get out of the house for a few hours and just have fun.
I’m looking forward to it. The store has changed a bit over the last few years, but it used to be my favorite store, so it has good memories for me.
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Another totally mind-blowing thing happened to me yesterday, gang.
Another “I didn’t see that coming” thing — but this time, in a really good way.
I can’t go into all the details yet, but I can say that an older gentleman who lives across the road, who chats with me frequently when I’m outside watering the flowers or getting my mail, was chatting with me yesterday afternoon.
He is very friendly, very chatty. And he suddenly said, “I hope you don’t mind me asking this, but how come you’re not married? You’re so beautiful.“
Long story short, he asked me if I wanted to go out to lunch sometime. And I said, “Yes!!”
He is just so nice. (He’s a widower.)
So we decided that when I get back from James Tabor’s conference in North Carolina, we’ll go out to lunch. That made me really happy, gang.
We love lunch!!
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All righty!
If you missed this last night, here’s the replay! (I really enjoyed this because he is so much younger than me — his take on the whole literary world now is so different from what my experiences were.)
“Rob Macaisa Colgate is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (2025), winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award and longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the verse drama My Love is Water (2025). Currently based in Chicago, he serves as managing poetry editor of Foglifter Journal and was the inaugural poet-in-residence at Tangled Art + Disability. A graduate of the New Writers Project at University of Texas at Austin, he is a recipient of fellowships from Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Fulbright.”
Webinar with Rob Macaisa Colgate, Author of Hardly Creatures (51 mins):
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Okay.
Here’s this!! It brought a smile to my face.
From Phyllis Stein.
Sid Vicious and friends!! In 1976. (Photo by Bob Gruen)
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And I loved the blonde hair…
Again, from Phyllis Stein.
Iggy in the East Village, 1976 (Photo by Roberta Bayley)
(And when I lived in the East Village in the 80s, Iggy lived 4 blocks from me!!)
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And here’s this!
From Dior!!
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And I loved this!!
Blixa Bargeld! Smoking!! In London!! With great hair!! In 1987!! (Photo by Andrew Catlin)
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And speaking of Bad Seeds….
My stash from Facebook!!
Nick Cave!!
Great hair!! Weasels or not!!
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And speaking of Nick Cave ( as if there were ever a time when I’m not speaking of him…)
He sent out one of those great Red Hand Files yesterday, wherein he answered 40 questions with very short answers. (He was celebrating the Red Hand Files turning 8 !!)
This was my favorite!! (It took me a minute to get it, I have to confess.)
“Fuck you & fuck Isreal from MICHAEL, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
“Daer Micheal, a raelly graet plaesure to haer from you again.”
This won’t be a regular post today, but I wanted to thank the readers who texted me yesterday to just reach out. I truly appreciated it.
I’m in a calmer place about everything this morning and I am just grateful that it wasn’t worse.
And I was once again impressed by how supportive and helpful the police are in this tiny village.
I’ll be back here to post tomorrow because I’m pretty sure Keith has had another cigarette, but I wanted everyone to know that I am feeling calmer this morning. Just knowing that there are people out there who care, helped me get some actual sleep last night.
Have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world.
I love you guys. Thanks for visiting.
(PS: I think Keith actually quit smoking a few years ago…) 💖
I’m trying to make the absolute best of it because not only is the weather perfect — and the rest of the week, we’re supposed to have a lot of rain.
But also, tomorrow morning is when I’m supposed to report for Jury Duty again. I will find out later tonight if I do indeed have to show up, so we’ll see.
But regardless of tomorrow, I am trying to just have a really nice morning here.
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Before I forget!!
Facebook is just so strange.
Yesterday, I got another really cool “friend request” from someone I’ve only known for 54 years!!
She was, basically, my best friend all through Jr. High, high school, and most of adulthood… It’s only been a few years since I last heard from her. But we’re supposed to catch up in the phone sometime today!!
We met in the 7th grade, in September of 1972.
Yes!! There is someone still alive on Earth who knew me when I looked like this and wore plaid palazzo pants to school!!
Me, in the 7th grade yearbook
When she and I were teenagers, we had mostly the same tastes in music, movies, literature, theater. We were both really smart and we laughed so hard about so much insane stuff.
I don’t know, but if you’re familiar with the playwright Eugène Ionesco, and his Theatre of the Absurd plays, our lives were kind of like that. 24/7.
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Okay!
Let’s go straight to the “here’s this’s” today!
Apparently, I need to get back to Shanghai by Sunday! (Which is also the start of Yom Kippur, so that’s dicey, right there!)
But I’ve already bought all 150 of the available tickets, so it only seems polite that I make the effort to show up…
Johnny Depp will be appearing at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai, in connection with his exhibit there, “Figures of the Fringe”!
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And here are a couple of great photos of Richard Hell!
Again, from the fantastic Phyllis Stein!!
Here, Richard Hell is seen with the “tiny Richard Hell head” that was really popular back then!
And here he’s seen at CBGBs in 1978 with Elvis Costello, who was also really popular back then!!
And I can’t help it, gang — we gotta hear this one, one more time!! Elvis Costello, 1977, “Mystery Dance”!!
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And here’s this!
Warren Ellis and one of his dogs appear to be very excited by Sundays!!
And taking a cue from Warren’s t-shirt, how about this? An AI version of the other Elvis singing Kris Kristofferson’s song, “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” the way Waylon Jennings sang it… (that’s right, but it’s actually pretty good…)
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And here’s that other thing that Facebook is good for!!!
Old photos of Nick Cave!!
I don’t know if I posted this one here before, but I love this!
And here’s Nick Cave, either taking off his coat, or pretending to wear handcuffs — or perhaps both! A long time ago! In color!
And this wasn’t on Facebook, but here it is anyway!
Nick Cave on TV in NYC, in 1990!
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And here’s this — from my own life!
This movie came out in 1968, when I was 8, and my mom and I went to see it together in Cleveland and I just loved it.
Throughout my whole life, really, I wanted to have a huge family. I really did. I used to think about it all the time. (And by the time I was in my early teens, when things in my home life were getting really bad, I had a huge imaginary family in my head that I would retreat to all the time.)
In fact, the hardest part about leaving Wayne, in 2003, was knowing that I would never have even one child, let alone the 14 or so that I wanted…. I was 43 when I left Wayne and I was already in early menopause. Wayne had finally decided that he didn’t want to have kids. So that whole dream was all over.
Anyway.
I am currently re-watching “Yours, Mine, & Ours” on TUBI. From 1968. A glorious family with 18 wonderful children —
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And that’s it for today.
I will let you know early tomorrow morning if I have to report for Jury Duty again or not.
Meanwhile, enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world!
Thanks for visiting!
I love you guys. See ya!
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Let’s close with this.
This was sort of magical, gang.
I’m still reading the Conversations with Tom Petty book (2006) at night.
And last night, Tom was telling the part where he was going through his divorce, and to pick up his spirits, Rick Rubin had Tom (and the other Heartbreakers) come onboard the Johnny Cash albums Rick was producing at the time, on his American Recordings label.
Tom had such an incredible time doing that — it was very detailed in the book. He loved Johnny Cash.
I knew I had all of those Johnny Cash American Recordings on my phone, but I wasn’t sure which ones I still had on actual CDs. So I got out of bed, went downstairs in the dark, went to one of the many CD racks I have and turned on the light — and the very first CD I saw was Johnny Cash’s American III: Solitary Man–– with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers!! (And others.)
It really felt like magic, gang. I still had it!
I hurried back up to bed, popped the CD in the retro boombox next to my bed, turned out the light and just listened. And, wow, was it good!!
And, oddly enough, it’s the CD that has Johnny Cash’s cover of Nick Cave’s classic, “The Mercy Seat”!
So, let’s listen! From 2000, Johnny Cash’s version of “The Mercy Seat.” So different from Nick’s version, but still so good. Okay. Enjoy, gang.
It’s a gloomy and rainy morning so far, but that often unreliable weather app on my iPhone says that by noon it will be sunny and remain sunny for the rest of the afternoon!!
Yay!!
So I’m going with that thought today, gang! Nothing but sun up ahead!
And since Sunday has become my go-to-town-and-get-groceries day, I’ll wait until noon before heading to town.
I’m hoping I can persuade these guys to go with me again today —
It’s always so much more fun driving anywhere with them!
So, we shall see. (They’re probably in church right now, so I’ll wait a bit before calling them…)
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Okay!!
Wow, you know? What a morning. The first 2 things I saw on Instagram, very early today (5AM), were 2 of my favorite accounts having huge troubles with Instagram & Facebook — the various algorithms there were making them very unhappy.
One was our beloved Phyllis Stein — I so hope she doesn’t leave Instagram, but it was actually Facebook that was threatening to block her awesome account for no valid reason.
The other account was for 2 cute little dogs that I follow in Germany —
Me, following a dog in Germany…
I have followed the account for years and the woman who runs the account is around my age and we interact all the time (luckily she speaks perfect English since my German consists of about 4 words — and I count “gesundheit” as one of them). But she is so fed up with Instagram interfering with her posts now that she is actually leaving Instagram as of today.
I really can’t stress enough how much I do not like Facebook (I recently rejoined it). It has gotten so different now and it is very difficult to post over there.
I don’t interact much on fb at all. I have about 5 followers. Literally. And all of them are people I have known for a long time and, except for Iris N. Schwartz, I also follow them on Instagram. So fb seems sort of pointless to me.
It seems like the only thing I really do on fb is look at Nick Cave photos!! Like I needed another app on my phone to look at more Nick Cave photos!
But here’s one I liked on fb yesterday!!
But as far as Instagram — I love Instagram. I have been active on it every day for about 8 years.
Once in awhile I post something concerning my writing career, but mostly I post photos of my cats. And I just love looking at everybody else’s photos.
I mostly follow other cats, and dogs, birds, alpacas, goats, donkeys, cows! From all over the world!
And a few people in Finland and Norway who take unbelievably gorgeous photos of nature.
And a bunch of Punk and rock & roll musicians — most of whom, sadly, are already dead.
But I just love Instagram, so it makes me sad that people I enjoy following are being bullied by the algorithms now — and enough to leave the platform altogether.
I don’t have a lot of followers on instaramg — sorry, that’s a different app I also use. But on Instagram, I have about 1600 followers.
But I only really interact with about 12 of them on a daily basis. So for me, it’s just fun.
I can’t imagine how awful it must be to try to rely on those apps for career-related stuff. It must be a nightmare.
I am so glad that I have my blog, gang.
You know, even though it is totally old school — no bells & whistles — I have about 100 people a day, sometimes as many as 200, from all over the world, who stop in and read my blog!
That’s about 3,000 views a month, and about 36,000 views a year now!
And I’ve had this same blog for 12 years already. In fact, a few years back, WordPress was after me to update it to a different layout. They wanted to retire the layout I use because it was too old-fashioned. But I love this layout because it is SO easy to use.
So I think I am the only blogger left on WordPress who uses this layout.
Anyway… I digress.
I am really glad that WordPress doesn’t resort to a bunch of terrorizing algorithm stuff.
And I really want to thank you guys so much for stopping by every day to read the blog.
It still means a lot to me, even after all these years.
“Oh, and then I saw a photo of Keith Richards smoking in London back in 1968, It was just SO COOL…”
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All right.
Well, after listening to the new auditions for audiobooks that came in yesterday morning, I have decided that for now, I’m removing the short story collections from the audition queue.
Those are just going to be too complex, since some of the stories are from the female POV, and some from the male POV. I’ve decided to just focus on the novels for now.
But other than that, we are moving forward with perhaps THREE novels to turn into audiobooks! 1954 Powder Blue Pickup, The Guitar Hero Goes Home, and possibly Freak Parade.
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Okay!
Since the Bad Seeds’ tour is over now, I am resorting to a photo of Nick Cave from the desktop stash!!
Singing and smoking!! In black & white!! (He looks so, I don’t know, energetic here!)
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And here’s this!!
If you look REALLY carefully, Keith is smoking — and walking & carrying a package in London in 1986. In full color!! Heavy on the blue!! (Photo by Richard Young)
I can’t say for sure if Keith is smoking here, you have to do your own research on that. But it does seem to be the 1980s, and in black & white.
And if you don’t really know much about Keith–
Back when he was a heroin addict, his teeth started rotting really badly. After he quit heroin for good, around 1978, he had all of his teeth replaced.
But here’s one of the photos from the not-so-great-teeth days. But he still looks so sweet here:
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And that is what I have for now.
The laundry is just about done! I’m gonna check in on the 2 cats outside and see who wants to be fed (again) before I head to town.
Have a great Sunday, wherever you are in the world, gang.
And THANKS for visiting!! I really mean that.
I love you guys. See ya!
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Let’s close with this!!
Since I have been reading that book, Conversations With Tom Petty (2006) at night now, and we are now up to when he was recording his triple multi-platinum Wildflowers solo album, I put that CD in the kitchen jukebox player this morning!
So let’s listen to “You Wreck Me”. I hadn’t heard it in awhile!! A real rocker.
From the Wildflowers album, 1994!! Enjoy, gang.
“You Wreck Me”
Tonight we ride, right or wrong Tonight we sail, on a radio song Rescue me, should I go down If I stay too long in trouble town
Oh, yeah, you wreck me, baby Yeah, you break me in two But you move me, honey Yes, you do
Now and again, I get the feeling Well, if I don’t win, I’m a-gonna break even Rescue me, should I go wrong If I dig too deep, if I stay too long
Oh, yeah, you wreck me, baby Yeah, you break me in two But you move me, honey Yes, you do
I’ll be the boy in the corduroy pants You’ll be the girl at the high school dance Run with me, wherever I go And just play dumb, whatever you know
Oh, yeah, you wreck me, baby Yeah, you break me in two But you move me, honey Yes, you do
You wreck me, baby Yeah, you break me in two Oh, but you move me, honey Ah, yes, you do
I did manage to salvage yesterday by making a trip into town and chatting with actual people, so that I could get out of my own head.
The bookstore where I’ll be doing my book signing next month, was looking for donations of children’s books.
I actually have a ton of children’s books. Most of them have sentimental value for me, but I had about 8 books that were basically brand new — meaning, never been read. And they weren’t connected to my childhood in any way, so it gave me a good excuse to get in the car and get out of my house.
A few of maybe a total of 50 children’s books, very used, that I won’t ever part with:
From the old “Dr. Suess I Can Read All By Myself” book club!
And while I was at the Historic Arcade, dropping off the children’s books that I would part with, I stopped in at my friend’s art gallery and chatted with him and one of his customers for a little while. And then headed to my favorite health & wellness store, and chatted with my girlfriends in there for a while. So I was feeling a lot better by the time I got back home.
Yesterday was not a fun day. Between the horrible Twin Towers “anniversary” and all those awful memories, and then getting the news that my new novel was experiencing some sort of shipping delays (fixed now, btw).
Also, my publisher had spent a good chunk of money on getting advanced reviews for my book — and of all the many total strangers who downloaded a digital copy several weeks ago — not a single person reviewed the book.
I was hoping for at least one good review, but I wasn’t planning on no one at all reviewing it.
Plus, it was sad to be at a stage in my life where I had no one at all to go out with last night and celebrate having such an important book (to me) finally published after nearly 3 decades.
I was also missing my long-gone family, since it was the start of the Jewish holiday, Rosh Hashanah, last night, too.
But I tried to put my thoughts elsewhere. Focus on everything that’s going well, overall. So I got through it.
And now here I am. A whole new day — and I see that I have 3 new auditions awaiting me from a potential narrator for my audiobooks!
And Sandra called this morning and she had GREAT news. (I will keep you posted about all that — but I can at least say that I will likely be in NYC for 1 or 2 nights in late January, and I can never get enough of NYC in late January!!! Yay!!!)
Anyway!! On we go!
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Guess what amazing thing happened 60 years ago today, gang??!!
YES!
A true highlight of my wee bonny girlhood in Cleveland–
The Monkees premiered on TV!! I was 6 years old and I loved it!!!
And I will never forget this opening theme song as long as I live!! And if you have TUBI, you can watch the old Monkees re-runs for free right now:
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Okay.
Here’s this!!
Not a lot of people remember that when the Rolling Stones toured Europe in 1976, Marlon Richards was briefly part of the band!
But here’s proof!!
And here are a couple more photos of Keith that I liked:
And — No! As loyal readers of this lofty blog no doubt recall, Keith was NOT the one who turned me on to Jack Daniels!! (It was a little Jewish girl named Karen!!) (I don’t think Keith knew Karen… but not sure.)
Keith, July 1972!!
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I loved this photo!
A couple of Bad Seeds on Portobello Road yesterday!!
George Vjestica and Larry Mullins!
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And I loved this photo, too.
Peitor Angell and I once had a really great time in Mel’s Drive-in on Sunset Blvd. It was when we were first getting our micro-mini film production company, Abstract Absurdity Productions, off the ground, creating the first scripts.
We laughed so hard that whole night! Great memories.
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And here’s this!!
Nick Cave smoking, Kylie laughing(?), in 1996!!
And I liked this photo, too!
Eye catching!! (Photo by Will Collier)
And speaking of Nick Cave–
A few updates!
It is the 10th Anniversary of the release of the album, Skeleton Tree, by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. A beautiful album, whose timing was intense, since one of Nick’s sons died at the same time.
You can listen to the whole album on your favorite streaming platform HERE.
And it is also the 10th anniversary of the documentary, “One More Time With Feeling,” that was filmed at the same time:
I’ve watched the film a couple of times. It is really good, but, of course, very emotional.
And Nick Cave’s ceramic figures, “The Devil– A Life” return “to Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, Netherlands as part of Celebrating the Icons of Art, marking the museum’s 10th anniversary.”
“The exhibition also features work by artists including Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and Gerhard Richter.”
What an amazing line-up of artists, right?? Congratulations, Nick Cave!!
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And I guess that’s it for today.
I hope you have a great Saturday, wherever you are in the world, gang.
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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Let’s close with this!
Even though I have a TON of reading to get through before I head to James Tabor’s conference in North Carolina in 2 weeks…
I’ve been reading Conversations With Tom Petty by Paul Zollo (2006), for the past several nights.
In my opinion, it is so much better than the popular biography that came out about Tom in 2015, because in this book it is just Tom talking about his whole entire life, and all the music he created along the way, for 302 pages!! With many photos.
I just finished reading the chapters on The Traveling Wilburys. It seems like it was such an incredibly fun time for all the musicians who were involved with that. (Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne.) And I love that album.
So here’s this!
“Handle With Care,” The Traveling Wilburys. 1988. Enjoy, gang.
“Handle With Care”
Been beat up and battered around Been sent up, and I’ve been shot down You’re the best thing that I’ve ever found Handle me with care
Reputation’s changeable Situation’s tolerable But baby, you’re adorable Handle me with care
I’m so tired of being lonely I still have some love to give Won’t you show me that you really care?
Everybody’s got somebody to lean on Put your body next to mine, and dream on
I’ve been fobbed off, and I’ve been fooled I’ve been robbed and ridiculed In day care centres and night schools Handle me with care
Been stuck in airports, terrorised Sent to meetings, hypnotised Overexposed, commercialised Handle me with care
I’m so tired of being lonely I still have some love to give Won’t you show me that you really care
Everybody’s got somebody to lean on Put your body next to mine, and dream on
I’ve been uptight and made a mess But I’ll clean it up myself, I guess Oh, the sweet smell of success Handle me with care
c – 1988 – George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Roy K. Orbison
If you pre-ordered my novel in print and received an email from Amazon today that there’s a delay in the shipping, it has something to do with the distributor, not Amazon or the publisher.
And this actually made me really happy this morning when I discovered it online–
My beloved Strand Books in NYC, on my beloved E.12th Street, is carrying the book!!
I actually began writing The Curse of Our Profound Disorder back in the mid-1980s — it began as a short story. I was living on E.12th Street at the time. So the woman I was way back then is feeling really happy that the book is real and being sold at Strand Books today!
The actual woman I am today, however, is dealing with all the sadness of this, and all the trauma and all the loss that came along with it: :
Wayne and I were still technically living in the same apartment back then, we were still on decent terms, but we had already decided to divorce.
On 9/11, he was in the South of France, vacationing with his family. So I was alone in the apartment that day and during the week that followed. What an awful time that was.
But here’s something happier that I found — me at the Statue of Liberty, sometime in the 1980s:
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And here’s this–
Joe Strummer, NYC, 1985. (Photo by Bob Gruen)
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And I liked this —
From Phyllis Stein.
Johnny Thunders in Paris, 1973 (Photo by Alain Dister)
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And here are a couple of cheerful things from yesterday–
From Facebook.
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And that’s it for now, gang.
I did have a great day yesterday, though. For so many reasons.
One is that I have officially begun the audiobook project for 1954 Powder Blue Pickup . (And maybe Freak Parade with the same producer/narrator. We’ll decide further along.)
And I am close to finalizing negotiations for The Guitar Hero Goes Home, as well.
So I’m really happy about all that.
Meanwhile, I am going to try to rescue this day somehow, and celebrate. Even if it’s just here with my many happy cats.
Have a good day, wherever you are in the world, gang.
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya.
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Let’s close with this.
Taken from the Martin Scorsese documentary on George Harrison, “Living in the Material World”.
Tom Petty remembers. Really delightful.
George Harrison, Tom Petty and Ukuleles… (1 min 30 seconds):
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