Go East, Young Man

February 26, 2023

As I wrote in an earlier post: Breathes there a man with soul so dead that he doesn’t like cowboy songs?  Even if they’re sung in Mongolian, with indigenous instruments and throat-singing? What you need for a proper cowboy-western song is the following. A sound that somehow invokes the big open spaces. Music that reflects […]

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Fiyo Away

February 22, 2023

We’ve been listening to Mardi Gras music all day on Sirius Radio, so I thought I’d share some with you. Here’s Trombone Shorty and Cyril Neville with “Fiyo on the Bayou.” Dance if you want to.

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Another Point for the Toolbox

February 16, 2023

I’m pleased to report that The Bone Orchard, by Taos Toolbox veteran Sara A. Mueller, has been nominated for the Compton Crook Award. The Bone Orchard was workshopped at Taos Toolbox, and has been generating buzz for its author ever since its publication earlier in the year. Not to be forever harping on the subject, […]

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Back to Boston

February 16, 2023

I’m heading to Boston for Boskone 60 this weekend. I’ll hope to see you there. I’ll be participating in panels, a reading, a signing, and a kaffeeklatsch, and I’ll also be hanging out and talking to people. Here’s the schedule. Some of the convention will be virtual, so you might be able to participate without […]

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Sending

February 15, 2023
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Talk Video

February 11, 2023

Brenda Cooper, Ken Scholes, Hank Schwaeble, Cliff Winnig, and I are interviewed by Sean Patrick Hazlett about our participation in the anthology High Noon on Proxima B. We had fun, I think. Odds are you will, too. P.S. The book is now available wherever fine books are sold.

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Cover’d

February 9, 2023

Looks like I’ve bought tickets to see Steve ‘n’ Seagulls live. Hope they bring the anvil with them.

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Another Win on the Shelf

February 7, 2023

So Bonnie got another Grammy to put on her shelf, much to the astonishment and outrage of the world. (If you can’t outrage the world at an awards ceremony, what’s the point?) I could post the video of “Just Like That” here, but I thought I’d put up one that was new to me— a […]

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When Horses Fly

January 31, 2023

I suppose because I was the most junior person on board, I was first through the hatch, and then I just gaped. The smell struck me first, horse dung and horse sweat and horse panic and horse urine, all blended into a primeval acid reek that scalded the back of my throat. And then there was the […]

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Whole Yellow

January 29, 2023

For Cousin Cindy’s visit the other day, I cooked a large ham. It was something like 12 pounds, so it lasted considerably longer than the night Cindy was here. Since then we’ve enjoyed ham sandwiches, ham omelettes, and ham fried rice. Because there was a leftover ham bone, I was inspired to make a memory […]

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