Jeepers, gang. You know, yet another email arrives this morning wherein I am reminded that something else urgent needs doing.

This time: the Indie Author Bookstore is about to launch and I still need to get all my book covers & links uploaded.

Well, obviously, I need to take care of that. But I’m not sure when — Thursday??

I am getting a lot done. I am. However, it amazes me that there is still more that needs doing . Still trying to tackle that back cover blurb for The Curse of Our Profound Disorder. (If anyone out there has read this book, can you shoot me a short email and explain to me what it was about??)

Honestly, it feels that way to me. Even though I wrote it. The novel is surprisingly subtle , even though there is a lot of brutal, crude, crass, raw stuff in there that’s right in your face. But there is also this tiny voice beneath all of it that says: with the love of family, everything is endurable; without it, you’re fucked.

Methinks if I put that as my back cover blurb it wouldn’t attract enough readers…

So on I go.

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Meanwhile!!

It was kindly brought to my attention by Martha, that if you don’t join Kindle Unlimited my free eBooks are not quite so free. However!

The Guitar Hero Goes Home, Kindle version, is still free to download until Friday (if you are in Kindle Unlimited).

BUT ALSO!!!!

The re-published Kindle version of Twilight of the Immortal is now also free until Friday (if you are in Kindle Unlimited), and guess what??

Last night, it was ranked at #119 in LGBTQ Historical Fiction!!

That just made my wee bonny heart jump for joy! Yay!

You have to use THIS link though. (The LULU version still has a link out there but that eBook is no longer available. Something else I need to take care of…)

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And here’s something else that made me happy.

An artist from Ecuador that I follow on Instagram messaged me yesterday to show me a painting he was posting that was based on one of my photos from my NYC hotel room this past summer.

I thought that the fact that he even did that — and the painting itself — were just beautiful:

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This also made my day (night)!

I got a lovely letter last night from a girl I will call “Anonymous” but she informed me that she’s been trying to read my novel, 1954 Powder Blue Pickup, but that she has to keep stopping to sort of “take care of herself” and then is too distracted to get anything else done all day…

And THAT, dear readers, is why I wrote the book!! Yay!!

So!! If you’d like to have a similarly distracted day, you can buy the novel HERE (eBook not currently available). (ADULTS ONLY!!!)

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Okay.

Here’s this!

From Phyllis Stein. The NY Dolls outside their tour bus, in LA, in 1973:

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And here’s this!

Sandra posted a photo from the set of “The Ms. Pat Show” (Jordan is one of the Producers):

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And this!

From Keith’s official Instagram page the other day:

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And I love this.

Richard Hell and Susan Sontag in NYC in 1978:

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And I loved this, too, although I can’t believe it was already over a decade ago…

Nick Cave, on tour with the Bad Seeds, in Milwaukee, in 2014 (he seems to be smoking & drinking, but I’m not entirely positive):

But just in case he is, here’s this! Jerry Lee Lewis, “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out of Me)”:

(If you are not old enough to know this — there used to be a popular Schlitz beer commercial on TV many years ago, saying that it was the “beer that made Milwaukee famous”.)

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And now I gotta scoot!

Yes, it is Tuesday! The day I go into the Rural King to buy a lot of guns cat food, and hopefully see ‘Wild Thing’ at the checkout counter for approximately 4 minutes!!

We shall see, gang!!

Have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Let’s leave with this today!

I have posted this here before, but I just looked at my phone, and apparently, it is at the top of my Playlist for driving-to-town music for this morning!

Play it loud, sing along, perhaps even get into your car and recall vivid memories of my wee bonny girlhood, and have a splendid morning.

Joni Mitchell, “You Turn Me On, I’m A Radio”. Enjoy, gang!