Yes!!
This afternoon, is our lunch date at the pizzeria in Granville!!
And to refresh your memory — it was voted MOST ROMANTIC LOOKING PIZZERIA IN THE WORLD back in 2023:
But the food there is fantastic, gang.
All ingredients are locally grown by farmers out here in the Hinterlands. And the recipes are sort of “nouvelle cuisine” but applied to pizza and pasta.
Dennis and I are both very excited! In fact, we talked on the phone for 3 hours last night, all about how excited we are! (And other stuff…)
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Oh, and here’s something that doesn’t happen often, OOPS! I mean, EVER, in my world these days–
American Express wrote this morning to tell me:
THEM: “We’ve increased your credit limit!”
ME: “Fucking A!!! Are you serious??”
So that was really cool. I guess this means the fucking fake lockdown that completely wiped me out financially is officially over…
Yay.
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Okay.
So, yesterday, my favorite nearly-95-year-old Japanese client and I went to Peony Bistro for sashimi (and sake), and this happened:
You know how he refuses to read his fortune cookies, or claim them in any way whatsoever because he says he doesn’t need any more fortune, he’s already got enough?
Well, yesterday, for some inexplicable reason, he decided to read his fortune and it was just incredible, gang. He read it and said: “This one is true — it’s you.” And he handed it to me.
Wow. It kinda broke my wee bonny heart!
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And in other good news!
Some “sort of” decent photos were posted on Instagram from night #2 of Nick Cave’s show in Latvia last night!!
And here’s the setlist from night #1. Check out that incredible encore! The encore alone would be worth the price of the ticket:
Okay. Next up is Bulgaria, next week, but both nights are SOLD OUT.
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All righty!
You know, Dennis has listened to all of my old music demos on my YouTube channel, and he has been just incredibly flattering about that part of my long-ago career…
But the time is gonna come soon when he will need to start checking out some of my fiction. (Perhaps not ALL of it, since no one really needs to be exposed to ALL of it, do they??)
He was going to start with some of my stuff that’s available in eBook editions, but I offered to lend him print copies of my books from my own collection since they are easier to read when you’re out back on your porch and the sun is going down…
But which title to give him for his first exposure to my often unbridled and excessive brain?
Here is the short list. Please feel free to VOTE and vote often!!
- Neptune & Surf — my first book! It put me on the map across the globe! Won awards. Made me famous. Still in print 26 years later! But is exceedingly hardcore and exceptionally graphic.
2. 1954 Powder Blue Pickup — short. Easy to read. To the point. But is extremely hardcore. Plus, he owns a pickup truck and while it isn’t blue or from 1954, it could still fill him with many, many seemingly questionable ideas!!!
3. Freak Parade — another award winner! Very popular with critics! A lot about the music scene in NYC in the late 90s. But it is also exceedingly graphic and also kinda way too close to my actual LIFE back then… and way too much about NYC.
4. The Curse Of Our Profound Disorder — novel-in-progress, but almost complete! He could be the first person to read it, outside of the publishers! Not too sexually graphic but nonetheless graphic, a tad bit brutal, very raw, a bit relentless. The kind of book that, as you sit on your porch in the fading sunlight of the glorious Hinterlands, could make you say out loud; “Jesus Christ. Who the fuck IS this woman??”
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I guess we shall see, gang!! I will keep you posted…
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Meanwhile, I suppose I will close this now and get some stuff done before I head out to the pizzeria!
[curious typo above…I wonder how they missed it?]
Anyway!
Enjoy your Thursday, wherever you are in the world!
Thanks for visiting!
I love you guys. See ya!
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I leave you with this!
Morning listening music!!!
I absolutely loved Sha Na Na when I was a wee bonny lass and I loved their version of this song!! And I still loved it this morning, all these decades later. I sang along at the top of my no-longer-wee bonny voice!!
“Yakety Yak”, Sha Na Na, 1973. Enjoy, gang.
"Yakety Yak"
Take out the papers and the trash
Or you don't get no spendin' cash
If you don't scrub that kitchen floor
You ain't gonna rock and roll no more
Yakety yak (Don't talk back)
Just finish cleanin' up your room
Let's see that dust fly with that broom
Get all that garbage out of sight
Or you don't go out Friday night
Yakety yak (Don't talk back)
You just put on your coat and hat
And walk yourself to the laundromat
And when you finish doin' that
Bring in the dog and put out the cat
Yakety yak (Don't talk back)
Don't you give me no dirty looks
Your father's hip, he knows what cooks
Just tell your hoodlum friend outside
You ain't got time to take a ride
Yakety yak (Don't talk back)
Yakety yak, yakety yak
Yakety yak, yakety yak
Yakety yak, yakety yak
Yakety yak, yakety yak
c - 1958 Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
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