Unless of course, you’re trickin’ and you’re a lot older now and you just gotta have it… but that’s your business!

Okay!

I’m looking forward to this evening, gang. Mostly because I’m just looking forward to hanging out in my family room, eating (organic) pizza and popcorn, and watching old Halloween movies (you know, the kind that weren’t horrifically disgusting, trauma-inducing and gore-filled….)

Yes, I’m actually old enough to remember the very first TV-Network airing of that Charlie Brown classic!! (I was 6.) And, wow, was it fun!! I even remember my dad coming into the den for a moment, while this scene was playing, and he laughed and shook his head:

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Oh, and speaking of Halloween…

You have until TOMORROW (November 1st) to get that 40% OFF on all Halloween Picks over at Cave Things!

This means you have one more day (UK time, that is) to purchase me this, at 40% off, plus FREE — OOPS — Plus $7 trillion in overseas shipping — The “Up Jumped the Devil” Milk Jug:

And lest you forget — or have thus far refused to play it — here is that song again! One of my All-Time Top 5 favorite songs by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, “Up Jumped the Devil”:

(Includes one of my all-time favorite rhymes!! ‘Me’ rhymed with ‘hilarity’:

Who’s that yonder laughing at me
Like I was the brunt of some hilarity
Who’s that yonder laughing at me
Up jumped the Devil 1, 2, 3

c – 1988 – Nick Cave)

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Okay!

Here’s this.

One of my never-ending inspirations as a writer on Earth, however, I’m not crazy about the tone of this photo, but here it is anyway!

A William Burroughs Halloween in Lawrence, Kansas:

Oh, and here’s this!!

One of my many original Olympia Press treasures!! An original printing, from 1959, Paris, France, when it was mistakenly titled ‘The’ Naked Lunch. Mint condition.

My collection of original Olympia Press titles were all gifts to me from Richard Kasak, the publisher of the legendary Masquerade Books, back in the late 90s.

I have long ago lost track of how much this specific book is worth, but I’m not selling it anyway, so it doesn’t matter:

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And Ronnie Wood has a special collection of prints — Paint It Black — available for a limited time. It includes a Personalized signing of the print, just for you!! (And it’s not outrageously expensive, all things considered!! Each print is $1650, while they last.) (And if you want to get me the ‘Keith’ one, that would be really cool!)

Visit this LINK.

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Oh, and before I forget!!

Thanks to whoever is buying the Kindle edition of my novel, The Guitar Hero Goes Home. Published in September, 2020. I thank you very much!!

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Well, yesterday.

Wow, gang.

I don’t even know how best to post about this without betraying anyone’s privacy, but my sweet client from yesterday’s shift, is really, seriously, going downhill.

I had not seen her in a mere seven days… but she had a stroke. On Wednesday. So the Agency had not even had time to alert me beforehand that everything had changed.

And still — wow, is that family the most loving family I have ever encountered.

I walked in to a situation that was drastically different from the last time I was there, but there was still that sense of love, of peace. It was just beautiful. And they have no intention of having her “institutionalized” in any way. A second daughter is staying there now, too, so that the family can be with her around the clock, even with caregivers and Hospice nurses there.

It was a very intense shift, and yet I left there with a profound sense of well-being and peace. The client and the family are just so loving.

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Well, I have mixed feelings about whether I should take my favorite 95-year-old Japanese client out for sashimi and sake today, or wait until tomorrow.

It’s really cold here today. Plus, with it being the holiday, a lot of people might be going out for lunch today and Peony Bistro is really small, and really popular even when it’s not a holiday.

I’m leaning more towards waiting until tomorrow, but I just don’t know. It’s cold but it’s also sunny, so the drive would be beautiful and he always loves that. And he loves the sake, of course!!

I guess I’ll just decide at the very last minute! (But he just gets SO cold, so easily. For instance, his furnace might be set at 78 degrees Fahrenheit, and he’ll be wearing 2 shirts and a sweater, and then ask me to “please turn off the AC” because he’s freezing…)

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Okay, I guess I’m gonna scoot.

Enjoy your tricks or treats, wherever you are in the world!!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this!!

A cute Halloween clip compilation set to “The Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett, 1962. Enjoy, gang!