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p.s. Hey. ** les mots dans le nom, Hi. No, I didn't move. Same place, room, everything, just ever messier. Thank you so much for working on a day for here and for agreeing to its hardness. That's super kind. I hope you feel much, much better. They look like Koi, it's true, but I don't know. Seemingly. ** David Ehrenstein, He's well worth reading, as you could tell. Lovely piece on the Anderson. Kudos. ** White tiger, Hi, pal. I haven't checked it out yet. Tentative, fairly firm plans to eat my face off there later this week or weekend. I'll let you know as soon as it's under my belt. ** Empty Frame, Hi, buddy. Great to see you! Very happy that the post/book hit home. I do know those blue fugs, yes, ugh, sorry. Well, shit, don't burn up your studio, and for goodness sake leave your head intact, man. Those things, those fugs, they always burn off for reasons as mysterious as why they initially envelop, so hang in there and, well, here too, if you think my mostly optimism, etc. might rub off. I'm very good, thanks. Oh, the internationally famous Paris smog incident, yes. Well, there was a freak weather condition, low pressure mixed with unseasonably high-moderate temps, and that apparently trapped the pollutants. The temps dropped dramatically yesterday afternoon, and I think the smog drifted off to wherever smog goes. It's weird, though, 'cos I was out and about during the smog days, and it didn't look like much to me, but then I grew up in LA. ** Dan, Hi, Dan! Good to see you! Yeah, I should be here in Paris then, so I guess she should get in touch. I'll email you my cell number to give her, if you don't have it. It would nice to meet her, yeah. I'm doing great, and I hope you are too. ** Misanthrope, The rough with the smooth, eh? So often the case. Sorry. Just concentrate on the good of him being there and good that will be done for him, obviously, and I guess try to pretend she's like one of those noise artists I love and keep foisting on you guys who's giving you an epic, in-house concert, although I guess that fantasy overlay won't actually help much, oh well. I only grew a few inches from when I was in 6th grade, so yeah. Glad you're still on track for the European sojourn, obviously. Oh, shit, that sucks about the non-renewal. Maybe they'll wilt, like you said. At least you have until December. So that's what a herniated disc might be. I've always wondered what that meant. Be careful. ** Steevee, I'll let you know when I've seen the Anderson and found out what I think. That's cool that you're doing that for the BOMB blog/site. I like that place. I always look at that place. That's very cool. ** Torn porter, Hi, TP, or, rather, tp. I've seen very little of Franko B's work, for some weird/no good reason. I hung out with him a few years back, and he was a total sweetheart. The best performance art venues in Paris? There aren't really performance art-specific venues here, that I know of. Most relevant venues mix performance, dance, avant-theater, etc. together in their programming. Mm, so I don't know. Maybe the place that's the most risk taking and supportive of brand new performers/dancers is Menagerie de Verre. Otherwise, I can't think of a venue that's consistently 'the best' or anything. I'm not sure what you mean by 'catering to young people'. In what sense? You mean a place that programs performance art that targets young people deliberately? Uh, I don't think so, but then I can't think of a place like in other cities either. If you mean a place that programs new artists particularly, then MdV. I guess maybe a place like Point Ephemere would draw younger crowds when they host performance art events just because they're best known as a live music venue? Why do you ask that? Cool to see you, and I hope you get back inside yourself in a manner that suits/pleases you. ** Scunnard, Hi, J. Yes, your timing is absolutely impeccable, as always. Oh, wait, did I never respond to your query about your 'Weaklings'/Five Years piece? I might not have done that in all my recent traveling. Did you ask Marc/Tender Prey directly? That's the person to ask. ** Brendan, Hi, B. I can picture that. The big painting-in-progress. I sort of can. Your description may have been short but it was sharp-ish. Excited. May be it be born healthy and prosper thereafter. Yes, garden photos, I want! ** Armando, Hi, A! Really good to see you! Oh, man, I don't know the answer to that question. I haven't done Xanax since the very early '90s. Let me ask around here. Everyone, Can anyone answer this question for beloved d.l. Armando? Here's the question in his words: 'Is taking 17 mg of xanax over a period of approximately 12 hours kinda bad, or dangerous or something. I did that the day before yesterday. Feel quite tired and week and kinda sad, you know.' Please answer/help him out if you can. Thanks! Man, if you're not feeling good after doing that, that's probably your answer, right? I know I quit doing Xanax back when because it started fucking me up mentally or emotionally or both. Love, me. ** Will C., Genres are fickle terms, that's for sure, yeah. Generalizations are always bullshit, especially the official ones. I think the pollution is either gone or skulking off to find another victim. ** Paul Curran, Then happy birthday a second time! Did you have a blast? What did you do? Thanks a bunch for that Siratori link. I'll scour it today. Cool. And, ultra-cool: Beach Sloth did you! I just broke my usual habit of waiting on experiencing things that people link us to in the comments to read it quickly, and it's lovely! God love Beach Sloth. What a saintly, smart guy. I hope to shake his hand someday. Wait, the book isn't out yet, is it? I want to do a celebratory post upon its arrival. Is it already out? Everyone, as you probably and should know, the great Paul Curran's first novel 'Left Hand' is due out very shortly, and it's a meta-humdinger to put it mildly, and Beach Sloth aka the great arbiter/supporter/critic of all things even vaguely Alt Lit, has written a review of it already, and it's a beautiful piece of work, so I urge you very strongly to click this link and go read what BS has to say about PC's 'LH' ** Sypha, Great timing on the doctor visit. Please surrender to him, throw your body on his mercy, etc., and hopefully get some solid advice and tips and meds or whatever else to get you through this recent crap. ** Gary gray, Hi. Any date you want. As soon as you can do it, basically. Oh, how to do it? Well, hm, you can send it to me in a Word doc, Text File doc, etc., or pasted into the body of an email. If there are videos, show me where you want them to appear in the post, put links to where they are, and I'll go get them and imbed them. If there are images, indicate in the text where you want them to go, put their names/identifiers there, and send me the photos as attachments on the email, and I'll inset them on my end. I don't know. If you have any other questions about how to make the post, just ask. You see how the posts generally look, but, really, anything goes, formatting-wise, as long as it's something I can build/re-recreate in Blogger. 'Eden Eden Eden' rules, obviously. I read about the Schooly Q album yesterday, but I haven't tried it out yet. I will. Really nice prologue. I only read it through quickly once 'cos I'm in speedy p.s. finishing mode, but it reads excellently and intrigues appropriately. Paris has been A-okay since I got back. Nice to see it again. Oh, LA, cool. I love me some LA, as you know. Have huge fun. ** Creative Massacre, Hi, Misty. That's funny: I was putting together one of my image stack posts yesterday, and I kept seeing all these images from 'Bates Motel', and I thought, What n the world is that? So now I have my answer. That's all I know about it. I didn't even know it was a TV series until you said so. I'll see if I can find something to look at from it, video or something. Thanks! I'm well, and I hope you're doing really well. ** Rewritedept, Hi. Oh, before I keep forgetting, I'm posting your next guest-post on this coming Saturday. The Hicks one. Thank you, man! Nice close there. $8000 is nothing to sniff at. Sweet. My day was quiet and relatively productive, I guess. 'Valis' awesome. K. Dick is very addictive. Watch out, or don't watch out. I hope your Tuesday is in the upper echelon of Tuesdays. ** RAHUT, Ha ha, spam! I haven't had one of you spam people show up here in a while. Welcome, I guess, and nice try. ** Right. The post today is the post I made for today, and it's what it is, seemingly, if not necessarily what it intends to be because that's not my call. See you tomorrow.