Pascal presents ... Here Comes Everybody... well nearly everybody: textual manifestations of the name/initials of the character Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker in Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' with random images from my phone (mainly taken in Dublin) and then some extra bits

Howth Castle and Environs

hod, cement and edifices

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p.s. Hey. First of all, the blog and I are very proud to host this fantastic guest-post by writer and d.l. Pascal. A rich, complex kind of beauty is going on up there, and I hope you enjoy having the weekend to cruise and unravel it. Thanks, and massive thanks to Pascal. Hm, I said first of all, but there isn't really a second of all that I can think of. Snow has finally and quite heavily arrived in Paris, if that counts as news, and my crush on it is about to be tested since I'm going to be tromping around in it all day. ** Thursday ** Chris, Hi, Chris! Your magical reappearance is a very happy thing. Hi! Me? Doing good, definitely keeping busy. I didn't know that about Borges' widow. Jeez, especially about the weak translations. Hopefully there'll be some outcry from the official critical realm that'll preemptively help undo any potential damage to Borges virgins. How are you doing? Catch me up, if you don't mind and feel like it. ** Misanthrope, Ouchy. Yeah, that makes sense about how/why knowledge accrues and gets filtered through past knowledge. The problem comes when people so often seem to mistake their emotional investment in things they've known for a while for a quality difference and start to think/say that things were better or more interesting in the past when all that's really happening is that they're getting an emotional hit from things in the past. I mean, that's fine, that's fair, but it's not objective at all. ** Un Cœur Blanc, Hi! 'What modern is' as a fashion word ... Hm, that does sound quite interesting. I can't quite picture what that class would be, which is nice too. Mallarme's typography, yum. Tarbes was good. We made the progress we needed to make. The intended step was accomplished sans problems. The big questions will come when we actually start working with the giant, super high tech stage-set in March. But, so far, it's all good. Love from me.  ** David Ehrenstein, Thank you, David! I appreciate that. I was actually pretty happy with that post. That is a very nice house, yes. ** Scunnard, Indeed, at times, thank you. ** Steevee, Fingers crossed re: Sight and Sound and the third proposal! ** 5STRINGS, Whoa, I wasn't ready for that this morning, ha ha. A little bit of stomach in my throat. Everyone, if you dare, 5STRINGS' Bookworm. (Not the Michael Silverblatt one). I get you on Gysin. Sure, makes sense. Hm, not sure Emos are punks. Don't think so. I think it comes from elsewhere inside them. That's a whole bunch of books. Did you polish off the big 'G'? ** David J. White, Hi, David! Real good to see you! I don't know Bjarne Melgaard personally. I know his work. He seems to have very mixed feelings about me. First he wanted to collaborate me, and then he denounced me, and then he said he loved my stuff, and then he said he hated it or something. Confusing. I don't know that book by him. I know some of his visual art. I've liked some of it a fair amount, and, at other times, I wasn't so interested in what he was doing. So, I don't know. Wow, you've shot 'TBotFR' already? Very cool. Excited! A poster! Looks good. Everyone, director and d.l. David J. White, who previously honored my stuff by making a short film based on my story 'Oliver Twink' is finishing a new short film based on my 'The Boy on the Far Left', yet another honor. Here's poster for the latter. That guy in the poster looks so familiar, like ... I know him somehow, it's weird. Thanks a lot, David! ** Grant maierhofer, Hey, Grant! It's awesome to have you here. I owe you an email, which I'll write soon. I've been traveling and tied up and stuff. Thank you about 'Try' and for everything else. I just read and really like/admire your new post at HTMLG. Excellent, kudos! Everyone, Grant Maierhofer, new visitor, is, if you don't already, a most excellent writer and thinker, and he has a very sharp new thing up at HTMLGIANT called 'A Portrait of My Failures as a Critic' and it is highly recommended reading. And he blogs here, and that's also recommended. Thanks a lot! A great pleasure. If you ever feel like coming back in here, please do. ** Anonymous/ Postitbreakup, Hi, Josh. Oh, thank you a lot, man. By the way, thank you so much too for sending me the post. I've got it set to launch next Tuesday, the 29th. May the converting begin then. Yeah, great and kind of you, Josh. ** Kyler, It's absolutely impossible to believe, ha ha. Sorry about the terrible day. If unloading about it would help, please do. Everyone, Kyler has a very interesting and tempting project/offer going on. Here he is to explain: 'Anyone who's interested, I'm doing a thing on Facebook, like the columns I used to write, where people message me and I do one answer/Tarot reading a day. It's going really well so far, lots of questions. here's my FB page, if someone wants to message me a question.' I may very well take you up on that, man. I got this tingle/ache while reading your offer. Cool! ** Friday ** Misanthrope, First again! I did have fun, or as much fun as you can have answering audience questions like, 'Why do you write about such horrible things', ha ha. Yeah, probably not such a good idea to use me as reference in that context, even though, from a legal standpoint, one pot growing bust in my early 20s is the only damning thing, as far as I know. You'll know if you're legal and ready to go in a couple of weeks? Is that what you said? ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, Thomas! Enjoy London, and I'm sure you will. Did you get tons of snow like we have? ** David Ehrenstein, Thek was/is the man, and his earmarks are all over all kinds of newbies and relative newbies. ** Cobaltfram, Hi, John. I'm not beat by the trip, as far as I can tell. Right, the Austin trip, it was as nice as you'd hoped? That's weird about South Korea and Christianity. I wonder what that's about? I always find it hard to understand why people who don't grow up with Christianity as an imposing ambience would choose it. I don't know 'Secret Sunshine', no. I'll look for it online first, I guess. Thanks! Right, I'll send you my LA address. In fact, I'll do it now before I space out. Hold on. Done. Thank you again greatly for the kind offer. Have the best weekend possible. ** 5STRINGS, Hey. Nice Thek-related stuff there, man. And Sade quote. I remember that one. The anti-Thek, ha ha, interesting, nice. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben! That black glitter piece sounds beautiful. The pic is beautiful.  Awesome title/image mash-up. Yeah, sounds stellar. Should wow 'em. Oh, apropos or not, did you know that the word 'wow' dates back to 1590 AD? That really surprised me. ** Billy Lloyd, Hey, Billy! Welcome back! Did everything go okay on the school front? Oh, you said you're happy with what you made, great, that's what counts. Thanks about the book post. I was sad to see today that one of the animated gif links is already dead, which fucks it up. I have to go repair it. And thanks re: the rent boy post. That post seems to have survived in tact so far. Oh, no, that's sad about your lack of Harry Potter entry. You couldn't get tickets? It's that popular? Good to know. I'll pre-buy a ticket as early as I can once I know whenever I'll be going. I promise a report whenever that is. Maybe even a blog post report. Anyway, sorry, sad. Things are good here. What's next on your agenda, for this weekend and/or beyond? ** Steevee, I just saw that about Sachs' new film on FB. Sounds intriguing, no? Urgh, about the CD player. Electronics problems stress me out and turn me into a procrastinator too. Curious. I wonder what that's about. ** Kiddiepunk, Hey! You're probably on your way here right now. Dude, definitely prepare for body temperature shock. It's as cold as hell, and it's supposed to snow until the end of next week! If upgrade vibes work retroactively, they're sent missile-style. Call me when you get back and are awake enough to want to call me. Can't wait to see you guys! ** Sypha, That's cool that the Thek post was responsible for that insertion. 180 pp. to go in 'IF' is surely totally survivable. Nice. ** Kyler, Hi! You're entering DFW! A great thing to do, to my mind, and no news there. There's a lot of external hooh-hah to get through with David's work right now, but it's so very worth it, but it's there. Same with Robert Bolano, who everybody is majorly crushed out on right now, and the noise is making me put off reading him until the fuss dies down. 'TMS' lives in your library! Victoire! ** Frank Jaffe! Hey Frank! Oh, Billy was going to go to the London Harry Potter attraction thing. Well, sorry to step in. He can tell you that himself. It has been a while since I had the pleasure that is you, and I'm thrilled to see you! The move is happening at last! And LA looks like the place? You know I'm digging that news. And Matt might move with you guys? That's great! I don't know him very well, of course, but I feel like that would be really good for him. Excellent! Give me the latest scoops on that plan. I so hope you get the Outfest job. You so should. I'm going to, I don't know, pretend my fingers are votive candles and light them on fire or something like that but maybe less painful. Hm, I've been told fairly often, I guess, that people started reading me when they were 'too young' or too young. Let me think. Oh, a guy wrote to me just the other week and said he started reading me when he was 12. That's pretty young. And he didn't seem like he had been turned insane or into a sick fuck or anything. Or at least not a sick fuck by my standards and from what you can tell via email. Poppers in your drunken eyes. Crazy. Uh, highlights of late? Mm, back into my novel, I think, which is a huge relief. Started the heavy work on the new theater piece. Mm, made a really great new friend here, and that's been a joy. Not too much else. Had a really bad flu for a while. Anyway, so good to see you, my pal! Lots of love! And to Luke too!  ** Alan, Thanks. Oh, shit, man, I'm so sorry about Melville House. That must be really disappointing. I mean, they're tough, and they don't publish all that much new American writing, relatively speaking, so there's that, and it is cool that they were interested to read the mss. even if ... yeah. My encouraging words are that the novel is fucking fantastic, and this getting published shit is really hard, especially when you don't have an agent to deal with the hopes and the waiting and the no's completely on your own. The presses that have said no so far have made a total mistake.  End of story.  As your fan, I await the one who will be wise enough to say yes. Sucks, Alan, I'm really sorry to hear that. ** Bill, Hey. Me too, re: the Hammer. All went as well as was expected/hoped on my trip, yeah, thanks. You're entering submissions mode? My burning, votive fingers are all crossed and double crossed. As in crossed twice, not as in having been fooled, obviously, ha ha. ** Okay. You guys have a great weekend ahead of you as far as the blog is concerned, thanks entirely to Pascal. Enjoy, say stuff to him. Thank you! I will see you on Monday.