This; And also that

I am late to this particular party. In fact, the party has rolled on. And yet here I am. Partying nonetheless.

Hi all, A little shameless self-promotion. Red Hills Review and C’era Una Volta (one of my very favorite Italian restaurants on the planet) are hosting a poetry reading and were nice enough to ask me to read. So I’m bustin’ out my top hat and cane and I thought I’d use this old web site … Read more

I don’t usually use this blog for “links to funny things”(tm) but this one has earned an exception. See, there was this contest to create trailers for movies that sorta mess with what the movie’s about. And this piece for The Shining won. Super-dooper-highly-recommended. -Cecil

that I get to pick up a brand-new Big Star record. (One of my favorite bands just put out its first new record in 30 years yesterday.) For Big Star aficionados I will say, as ya might expect, it’s more of an “Alex Chilton and the Posies” record than the old Big Star sound. But … Read more

If you’re a Big Star fan (and our market research shows that 31% of cv’s readership self-identify as “Big Star fan” or “fan of Big Star” or “person who is or would like to be identified as ‘Big Star fan’ or ‘fan of Big Star’”), you may already know that they’ve got a new record … Read more

Not that you need me to say this and anyways, who am I to say this besides which, knowing you, as I do you’ve probably already done this or else are getting geared up ya see really what I’m trying to say is: please consider giving what you can to a charity to aid Katrina … Read more

Alameda’s own Red Hills Review is the gift that keeps on giving. They’re hosting the second reading for their current issue Wednesday night at 7:30, at Books Inc., in the heart of the Island City (also known as The City That Looks Suspiciously Like a Whale. I’ll amongst them what’re reading their wares — love … Read more

Not just thank you very much. But thank you very very very very much.

Boy am I glad that trout don’t eat cats. Because if they did we’d have to use kittens for bait. And, well, yuck.

Mosquitoes avoid the sunlight. Likewise, vampires avoid the sunlight. Think about that. It would be eerie almost except for the fact that vampires aren’t real. And I’m not 100% certain that mosquitoes avoid the sunlight.