Sadly, late yesterday afternoon, just as I was walking in the door from my shift and getting ready to relax and have a great Saturday night…

I got an email from my new publisher at Parisian Phoenix Publishing, asking me if I wanted to contribute to an upcoming tribute anthology to M. Christian.

I had absolutely no idea he was dead, gang. But it turns out he died of heart failure on New Year’s Day.

Chris and I go way, way back. I first started working with him when Masquerade Books asked me if I would publish an excerpt of Chris’s new book on my website, Other-rooms.com. Back in 1997. He and I were both 37.

I was delighted to and from then on, Chris and I were not just colleagues but friends. In fact, as did most out-of-town writers stopping in NYC back then, he came to visit me and Wayne at our apartment on West End Avenue. We went out for lunch, etc.

Many, many, many anthologies, book reviews, interviews later… suddenly, we were both 65 and now he’s dead.

It was because of Chris, in fact, that I even pitched Parisian Phoenix Publishing about maybe publishing The Curse of Our Profound Disorder. He was already publishing with them and asked if I would review one of his books.

So, of course, I am working on a tribute to him to include in the anthology. I will keep you posted.

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All right.

Well, I’ve just come from my new church, and today’s sermon was all about the crucial need now for discernment, that everything and everyone in our world today has a hidden agenda, to watch out for the dangers of AI.

All topics that I agree with, but none of them topics I want to dwell on in church, since I dwell on them 24/7 already, so that was sort of frustrating.

However, I’m still glad I went. And I got that seat in the 3rd pew, right by the stained glass window. And everyone was still really friendly and seemed happy to be in church.

So onward.

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But first!

A tiny bit more politics.

I try to keep politics off the blog these days, however. If you’ve followed my blog long enough, you know that I have posted many, many times about how you should try to buy gold and silver if at all possible, and only keep enough cash in your bank account right now to cover your bills.

I just wanted to post this video because if you are still not aware of what’s going on with silver, worldwide, and now with the imminent return to precious-metals-backed currencies, please take a moment (well, 12 moments) to watch this. It is concise and very easy to understand:

And just FYI, I buy and sell gold and silver through SD Bouillon because that was the company my dad used forever. I have found them to be incredibly trustworthy, reliable, fair. So if you don’t have your own preferred company, you can try them.

As of this morning, they still had plenty of silver. (And they also have plenty of gold.)

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Okay!!

On to non-politics!!

After I had sort of recovered from the shocking news of M. Christian’s death, I got back to work on that logline for the TV project with Sandra, and I think I got some really good stuff!

It will still need tweaking, but I’m awaiting Sandra’s response before getting back at it.

And I also managed to wash my hair, do yoga, take another one of the lectures in James Tabor’s new course, “Christianity Before Paul.” AND have a delightful dinner, in the company of many delightful cats. AND watch another 30-minute streamer TV show, taking notes on how they develop the Acts and weave them through the A & B plots , etc.

A lot of work, but I do believe I will not have to watch any more episodes of that particular show. Yay. Because I’m not crazy about it, although it is extremely popular. (I thought “I Love LA” was interesting, but I wasn’t crazy about that show, either. So I’m also done with that show, too. The 3rd and final show is fucking intense, gang. I do not know how I am going to stomach more than 2 episodes of that one, but, wow, I believe it will be very educational as far as how certain key topics are presented on streamer TV shows nowadays.)

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Well, I just got up from my desk, turned around and saw this, so I had to share!!

(In no particular order: Cuddles, Queenie, Princess, Goldie, Calico, Freddie McFee, and Bobbie McGee, and a stuffed animal…)

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Okay!

And here’s this.

I liked this tribute to Sir Rod Stewart’s birthday yesterday, from Muscle Shoals Recording Studio:

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And I liked this!

Posted by Jo Wood yesterday. Ronnie, at home in NYC, in 1978!!

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And this!

From Keith’s “deep blue period”….

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And if you can believe it, gang–

Only 6 more days until Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds return to the stage in Australia and New Zealand! Buy tickets HERE. (And you can also start buying tickets there to see them in Europe this summer but I’ll spare you those updates until much, much closer to summer…)

And here’s this!

We don’t often see Nick Cave in ruffles anymore, but maybe he will consider revisiting that look while in Australia…? We shall soon see!!

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And I suppose I better close this and get some lunch before heading out to see the retired Minister and his lovely wife and cat!

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, wherever you are in the world!!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this.

I was listening to this hymn on my retro boombox at 6:30AM this morning. While lying in bed and thinking about M. Christian. With a few beautiful cats laying with me on the bed in the dark.

It was incredibly peaceful. Enjoy, gang.