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p.s. Hey. So, I'm back. And how cool to come back with this great guest-post by the honorable writer and d.l. Chilly Jay Chill. Enjoy thoroughly, and speak to CJC, if you will, and major thanks to you, our kindly guest-host. So, yeah, the Japan trip was completely amazing from start to finish. So much happened that I don't now where to start talking about it. I'll try to put together a post about it very soon, and, in the meantime, if you want to know anything about it, feel more than free to ask, and I'll give you the scoop as best I can. But it could not have been more perfect. Now, I'm not going to subdivide my responses to the comments that showed up while I was away into designated days/posts like I usually would because that just seems too daunting. I'll pretend that the three plus weeks' worth of your missives occurred on one very long day, and I'll just answer everyone's words in a big pile and rather speedily, as you can imagine, so I won't still doing this p.s. at midnight, starting right now. ** Scunnard, Hey, buddy. ** Lizz Brady, My great, great pleasure, Lizz. Thank you so much again, and I hope you're doing great. ** Rigby, Hi, R-ster. Leprosy Island? Yeah, I think we missed that maybe. And our hotels were smallish, but never capsule small, thankfully. You good? ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, D. I did have immense fun, yes. We were in Shinjuku a fair amount, but I don't think we went into any bars. I'm sure they were something, but, yeah, not my scene, I guess. Yes, indeed, about your link to the situation in Russia. Crazy horrible. I'm so glad that I was tuned-out during all the noise around the Snowden thing. I could just go, 'Cool, that was helpful', and who he is and why he did what he did and the whole cult of personality thing around him didn't/doesn't matter at all. I got your email, thank you! The post in question will appear here on this coming Saturday. Thank you so very, very much! ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh! I didn't end up seeing your friend or really anyone while there. We decided to forage on our own just for fun and adventure, and it was actually not that confusing. We only got hopelessly lost a couple of times, and, as I'm sure you know, if you stand in one place looking confused for more than ten seconds, some kind person will come up to you and ask if you need any help. We tried twice to go to Nakano Broadway, and failed both times due to it getting too late. But it's on the agenda for our next trip, which I think will happen before too long at all. Finding excellent veggie food was very easy, it turned out. We ate like kings the whole time. If you need any restaurant tips for your next trip, I've got some. We went to a lot of temples and shrines in Kyoto. Maybe, I don't know, 12 of them at least, including the Golden Pavilion, yes. ** MANCY, Hi, S! I'll go check your video very happily. Folks, a new video work by the always awesome artist Stephen Purtill aka MANCY is right here. ** Gary gray, Hi, Gary! Oh, I'll read your story paragraph asap, as soon as my jetlag departs, and I think it might have departed as of last night. I look forward to it. Hard Gay was a Japanese fad/celebrity a few years ago, but he seems to have either vanished or lost everyone's attention now. Not a trace of him that I could see. Did you get your essay done? Still don't know why the guro post has been the blog's biggest success story, but I checked the stats of that post after I reran it, and it had added over 200,000 hits in 24 hours, so ... Fuck knows. ** Statictick, Hi, N. I did have the best time ever, yeah, thanks, and I hope you've been very well. ** Misanthrope, Glad you got home safely almost a month ago now, ha ha. I'm a little lagged. Your niece was really great. I liked her a whole lot. Tell her hey for me. And it's nice to get a welcome home comment from you, dude. So sorry to hear about the family stuff. Shit. My ear is yours if you need it. ** Sypha, Thanks for the pre-trip good vibes, James. ** Steevee, Hi, Steve. Kanye West has always been very clever re: what he amalgamates. I heard some parts of the new one. I'm still not convinced that what he's doing is all that. I look forward to reading your review of 'The Attack'. Everyone, Steeveee reviews the film 'The Attack', which sounds like a must-see, here. And he interviews Pedro Almodovar for the Village Voice here. I don't think what the Supreme Court has any impact on my situation, at least not for the foreseeable future. It's a step, and we'll see what happens, basically. ** S., Hi, man. I see you linked to a bunch of stacks while I was gone, and I see that I missed every single one of them except for the most recent. Jeez! Everyone, a fresh S.-made Emo stack is here and now for you. Thanks for listing the possessions you prize, man. Nice, pretty list. As kind of was that list re: avoiding gay drama. I will tattoo it on my ... something. Rimbaud is still the man. The boy, I guess. The dead boy, I guess. I think I read that Andrew WK is opening act on the upcoming Black Sabbath tour? Is that true about the Pompidou guy? Hm, I'll ask around. I've never been to Mexico City either. I've never been south of Baja even. ** David Saä V. Estornell, Greetings, David. ** Bill, I had no jetlag at all when I arrived in Japan. It was some kind of miracle. I have some on my return, but hopefully not a ton. Thanks for your prized possessions. You were or are in Sydney? Wow. How was that? Great to hear that your gig went so well. Have you heard/gotten the recording? Thanks for the tip and link on Simon Colton. I don't think I know his work, and I'd love to see his stuff. ** Rewritedept, Hi, Chris. Hope you had a sweet three plus weeks. Fill me in. Japan was a dream come true and a half. Skype: I should be in Paris and around for a while now, so let's sort it. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben! Really nice list of beloved possessions. Thank you. Weird about that extremely delayed voicemail. I'll go find your pal's discogs comment in a bit. Cool. Excited to get that YnY package. Maybe it's here. I haven't cracked my pile of mail yet. Thank you! New YnY! Everyone, the legendary and deservedly beloved zine co-edited by our own master of many things _Black_Acrylic, is now online and ready for your perusal. Get yourselves over there pronto. ** White tiger, Hi! Whoa, so did you open the gallery? What happened? What is it? ** Paul Curran, Hi, Paul! I'm so sorry that I didn't get to see you. Long story, but between insane busyness and disorganization and so on, I waited too late. Of course I'm dying to compare notes. I loved Tokyo so much. I think we're going to try to come back in the winter. We were staying in Meguro, and, the last two days, in Shibuya. Anyway, how are you? ** Robert-nyc, Hi, Robert! That robot restaurant was one of the things we didn't end up having time to do. That place has so much stuff available to do, it's crazy. The maid cafes are everywhere. They looked kind of cool, kind of lame, but eccentric eateries are all over the place there. ** Postitbreakup, Hi, Josh. Thanks for the tip about my post about Chris. I'll go look at the new comments. You doing well? I came back at 4 AM on Sunday morning. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T! Did you write the Nico essay? I would love to read that, if so, natch. And how was that mansion? And did you get some good writing done? Excellent slave responses. I'm honored, and I'm sure they are or would be too. I did have the most insanely awesome time ever. Thanks! ** Graham Russell, Cool. Hi, Graham. Excited to read your Nico posts! Everyone, d.l. Graham Russell has linked us up to the posts re: Nico over on his super great site Bitterness Personified, and you can read Graham/Nico by clicking this. ** Daniel Shea, Hi there, Daniel Shea! Thank you so much for entering this place. Agreed, agreed. Please come back anytime. ** Nemo, Hi, Joey! Very cool about Jarrod's success in Oslo. Oslo's a nice city. I hope he gets the residency. ** Jeff, Hi, Jeff. I'm glad Martin Bladh was so helpful. Whoa, how did you know that I met Justin Isis? He must have said something somewhere. Yeah, we were eating at this Italian place on, I think, my first night there, and he came up and said hello. I haven't read his book yet, but I ordered it while I was there, and it's here waiting for me. Trippy. I had incredible fun in Japan, thanks! How are you? ** Grant maierhofer, Hey, Grant! Travels in Japan were spectacular, yes, thanks. I am a Tarr fan, yes, a big one. Oh, I really want to read that Darby Larson novel a lot. Is it out now? ** Brendan, Hi, B. Surprise: the post repost. Cool about your show! Photos? I fell very in love with Tokyo, so, yeah, I'm there with you. ** Heliotrope, Hi, my buddy Mark! Wow, David Margolis. His good fortune is very nice to hear about. How are you doing, man? I'm jetlagged, but I'm great. Japan, dude. You gotta go. Love, me. ** Un Cœur Blanc, Hi there! Thank you about the Rhys post. You good? How are you? We had such bad luck re: Mt. Fuji. At one point we were at an amusement park right at the foot of it, and it was too cloudy and foggy to see. So I never even saw it. Yes, I like Laporte's writing on Blanchot as well. Laporte was a very interesting guy/writer. ** Kara Jou, Welcome! Thank you! I'll go check out your blog in a while. ** Eskorte Service, Thank you, hi, and I've been doing this for forever, basically, it seems like. ** Patrick deWitt, Patrick, you young dog! Yes, I was in Kyoto then. Uh, my dearest friend and I just decided to go to Japan. So we did. And we worked on a Japan-related film project that we're collaborating on while we were there. Algeria! Why? I mean, why not, but why? The book ... oh, you mean my novel? The one I was working on about George Miles crashed and burned after months and months and months of work, and now I'm working on a new, different one. Early on, we'll see. What are you working on? I miss you too! ** K, Hi, K! Thank you so much! ** Ian Tuttle, Ian Tuttle! Holy shit, how the heck are you, man? What's going on? It's so great to see you! I missed you. Catch me up, if you don't mind. Hugs. ** John Draughn, Hi, John. Welcome. Ah, Reddit, yeah, that makes sense. Thanks a lot. Come back sometime. ** Alan, Hi, Alan! Lovely to see you, man, and thank you again for the post that I so wisely reran. I did so love Japan. Really everywhere we went, although we really rushed through Hiroshima and Miyajima, so I didn't get much of a feel for them. But everywhere else, especially Tokyo and Naoshima, and Kyoto and Osaka too, were amazing. I'm so sorry to hear about your craziness. I hope you will find a new room without too, too much trouble, if you haven't already. That's such fantastic news about Sujatha's book! FSG! I mean, whoa! And it's exciting to hear that your new novel is going well. That's great news! I'm back now. I should be mostly in Paris for the next month or six weeks, I think, so, yeah, just ask your question whenever you like. Lots of love to you. ** Jax, Jack! How's it hanging, man! Yes, I was there, and there was fucking killer, man. How are you? ** Kier, Oh my god, hi Kier! It's so, so, so great to see you! Are you good? Man, I've missed you! Huge love from me! ** Ludovicus, Hi there. Wow, interesting comment there. ** Kyler, Howdy, Kyler! Oh, right, there was some kind of march or something in NYC, I read that. Oh, wait, it was Pride Day or something, I think. Oh, right. Belated happy one! Lovely to see you! ** Flit, Flitster! I'll be happy tell anything and all about the trip. I just don't know how to begin. I need prompts or something. ** Ar, Alex! Oh, this is a really nice thing to come home to. Wow, you might move to NYC? That's super interesting. Wow, you in NYC. That's such a curious mental image. I can see it. I'll check out Perils, cool, thank you, man. Big love to you! ** Lee, Hi, Lee! It's greatness to see you, pal. August ... I think I'll be here off and on. Not sure totally yet. Probably a fair amount, I think, and it'd be super swell to see you. ** Chris Cochrane, Hi, Chris! Cool, cool, cool. Right, that parade, right. I'm so out of it vis-a-vis the West. I gotta catch up. Jetlag's so-so, I think, I hope. Love to you, bug C. ** Jheorgge, Wow, cool, hi Jheorgge! I'm so glad to hear that everything seems to be okay so far with your treatment. And, yeah, please do let me know how everything is after your last chemo. So good to hear that you're so motivated. That book project sounds amazing! How/where can I hear your bandcamp stuff? So good to see you, my friend! ** Okay, I think we're caught up. Sorry for the rush and all that. Now, let's get back to the business and the pleasure at hand starting with CJC's post. It's nice to be able to say that I'll see you tomorrow.