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p.s. Hey. Thanks for all the contest entries. The detached links and I will be sequestered today, and I'll announce the winner tomorrow. Oh, and I want to give you a slightly early heads up that the blog will be holding one of its occasional Writers Workshop posts on this coming Saturday. Please plan ahead, if needed, to devote some time to reading the short work that will be presented to you in the workshop and then giving the author, Bill Porter in this case, your feedback, whether it be a brief reaction or much more. Thank you! ** Scunnard, Hey. Your trick resulted in nothing but an eyeful of education, so no problem to say the least. I'm good. Busy doing what? ** Gary gray, That new Sean Patrick is terrific. He's terrific. I hope you can figure out how to make that sigil writing experiment payoff in transcendent story form. I worked my ass off trying to make a similar experiment work at one point, and I still can't tell if it did. Tricky trick. Your description was really juicy, nice. Yeah, I saw that the new Death Grips has arrived in the world when I first woke up this morning, and I'm about to go give myself the gift of it. Exciting! They're so great. Thanks! ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Glad you enjoyed that footage. That was definitely a cool find by someone. Thanks for the entry. We will all know if you've won by tomorrow. Best of luck until then. ** Kyler, Hi. Was it astrological? My tendency is to blame myself. Maybe it was a combination. Thank you for the entry. ** Lee, Hi, Lee. That is a pretty Borges story, it's true. Hunh. Nice, thanks, man. ** MANCY, Thanks a bunch for the link. Hope you're good. ** Bollo, My blog is so phone unfriendly. Does that mean it's old fashioned. Maybe. Weird. The announcement for that show is beautiful. I hope it gets photoed. Have fun, and let me know what Creed decided to do. The artist, not the band. ** Angela, Hi, Angela! Uh, when my particular sprits dip, I just think everything I do or try to do is worthless because I am, so my concentration feels like decadence or something. Thanks for the well wishes. I'm shaking it off. And thanks for the sweet stuff about the blog. You rule. I hope I'll get to you again soon somehow. Love, me. ** Zach, Hi. That Wikipedia thing was very interesting indeed. I am interested to see the article, yes, definitely, if it's easy to hook me up and if you don't mind. Big thanks for intro-ing me to that. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. I'm glad you approve of the Varioso's return and of the form it took. What's your friend's show? I hope your pals get to meet your new pal. You sound good. It's a cool sound. ** Torn porter, The Shivers ... mm, I don't know, maybe I don't know them. But that's one of those names that blurs into other names so easily. I'll google and listen and find out. How did the pix-taking session work out? Do you have particular strategy for shooting bands amidst their sets? That always seems like it would be a challenging gig. ** _Black_Acrylic, It's your birthday tomorrow? Wow, an early happy happy! 34 is a great age, don't sweat it. Those disco lyrics are kind of really good, yeah. I'll follow them. ** Kiddiepunk, Hey, M! Thanks, buddy. I hope to see you straight away. ** Etc etc etc, Hi. Yeah, that Silverblatt transgression essay is really nice. One of the very best early attempts to define transgressive lit. He is a super smart guy, that Michael. Thanks a lot for dipping me back into it. Best to you! ** Chris Goode, Chris! Thanks and thanks again. I want a catch up, etc. from you at some point of your choosing in the not too distant future, remember. Lots of love from the place I call home. ** Steevee, Oh, right, I can imagine the load yesterday was a drag given that I was using so many different types of time-requiring things. I like what I know of DJ Rashad, yeah, but I haven't heard the new one. I will. Thanks, Steve. ** Sypha, Yeah, I don't know, I think you have to already be on Gaga's train to think the station she's stopped it in this time is all that different from the last station. But what do I know? Nada. ** Misanthrope, I think maybe she's playing with her wad the way a little will play with his food hoping he can make it look more delicious but he forgets that it's also getting cold while he plays. But multi-millions of buyers and/or fans can't be wrong or whatever they say. Thanks for the good wishes, but don't worry about me. I'm fine. Were those links your contest entry? I can only accept one as per the rules. I guess the first one since it was the first. But I'll look at them all. Am I going to get fucked up? Probably, right? But that's good, right? ** Bill Porter, Hi, Bill. Excited for the weekend! Another vote for an astrology-based explanation for the mood thing. God, maybe, right? Who's to know, ultimately? It seems to be waning, in any case, which is very good. Long story short, thank you. ** Bill, Hi. You're performing a lot these days. That's so awesome. So happy/proud to have had your wonderful piece in the array. When I made that post, I didn't know that 'Home' was already sold out. Urgh. No, I don't know the Another Timbre label's Anonymous Zone. I will go look at that as soon as I click the Publish button today. Thank you, Bill. ** Chris Dankland, You're really into Stanya Kahn! Awesome! She's so great, that's very cool. Thanks, great, that you liked a bunch of the Varioso's stuff. Oh, ha ha, the match up of the teenaged mugshots and the robots link was kind of a spontaneous poetic association that made intuitive sense to me only or something. Maybe it was also a little bit of a test to see if anyone was paying detailed attention to the post too. So, yeah, no connection other than poetically. ** les mots dans le nom, Hi. Thanks for the commiseration. I'm okay. It was just some weird conspiracy of something bad or other that got ahold of me or something, but I'm easing back up. You feel better. ** Okay. What's today ... oh, image stack. Hope you like it. See you tomorrow with the contest winner's identity in tow.