Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Afterword
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p.s. Hey. Those of you who said yes to the Escort SPD will be receiving your escort photo(s), template, and deadline via email today. Thanks a lot! ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. Thanks a lot re: the post. Yeah, she was/is something. It's okay about the SPD, of course, and thanks for wanting to. **
_Black_Acrylic, Cool, thanks, Ben. Argh about the delay, but, yeah, I know from personal experience that the time things take is out of control, which is even kind of educational in an interesting way if you think of time's flakiness as a collaborator. The Sugimoto stuff at the Palais de Tokyo is definitely on my agenda. Thanks. ** Dom Lyne, Thank you so much again. Very cool about getting to see at least a preview of Marc's photos of you and your b'friend. I'll go check them out asap. Everyone, the fine photographer Marc Vallee has shot a sequence of images featuring the fine writer, d.l., and much more Dom Lyne and his boyfriend Christopher Rudd-Perry, and you can see some of them really, really easily by clicking this. ** Keaton, I have a bead on some Bierce already. You must be very Apollonian. Makes total sense. Your and everyone's escort is being chosen via a game of chance, so good luck. Who or what was in the concert hall? I mean on the stage? Or in the audience, if you prefer? ** Schoolboyerrors, Thanks a bunch, D-ster. I'm going to steal that pun. Or accept the offer of it gracefully. His blog's great. No, I haven't read his book. I don't think I even knew he had one. Wow, your description, brief though it may have been, has turned my eyes into a microscope and it into the cure for cancer. That is a great EoE/Ashbery/O'Hara story, and, no, I didn't know it, and not just because I'm a calf in clover re: anything New York School related. Thank you, kindest of sirs. Have such a knock out weekend! ** Steevee, Cool about the drugs. See, there's a silver lining to ... well, I was going to say everything, but we all know that's not true. I haven't heard the new Tune-Yards album, I've never been all that interested by what I've hear of theirs to this point in time, but I will test the new stuff out. Yeah, the 'no homo' thing has been co-opted and made subversive by at least certain happen-to-be-gay folks I know, including myself, not that I know myself, mind you. ** Daniel Portland, Daniel! The great and mighty Daniel! Thank you ever so much for joining the SPD brigade. I think I have your email address, right? If you've changed it since you last wrote to me, can you send me an update? Are you good? ** Kier, Hi, K! Why were the turnips so long ignored? I mean, I don't like turnips, so I kind of understand, but someone planted them, right? Or do they grow wild even on farms? Anyway, that sounds a little yucky. The herding doesn't, though. Wow, I want to herd sheep someday. It's messy? Then I especially want to do that someday. Do you work the farm on the weekends too, or do you get those days off? I guess farms are eternally in need of care, right? Oh, okay, that's cool about sitting out the SPD. It is kind of a tough assignment. I kind of didn't realize that when I thought it up because I'm so used to reading escort ads or something. I was in Oslo on National Day of Norway last year! People dressed up in these archaic looking costumes and walked around the city all day. It was very weird. My day? Let's see, oh, Zac and Gisele and I are going to see two experimental theater pieces. They're both by this theater collective called Rimini Protokoll. We're seeing this one at 5 pm, and then this one at 8:30. The first one is kind of a research field-trip for the film Zac and I are writing for Gisele to direct since it involves moving around in a labyrinthine structure. The second one is for curiosity. That plus some work and hanging out is my day. How was yours? Did you do the beer plus films combo? What films, if so? ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Jorgen Haugen Sorenson's work looks very intriguing and tempting, so I'll do a full investigation, thank you, pal! I think you're seeing that piece tonight? Have fun, if so. ** David Ehrenstein, Morning, mister. ** Schlix, Hi, Uli! Peter Roehr: no, I don't ... think I know his work. I'll go find out if I do or not. Thank you a lot. Hope you find your escort inspiring. Have a very excellent weekend. ** Misanthrope, Antiques still make sense in some cases. Maybe not in a ton of cases, but I'm all about the future, so what do I know? Leo D. is kind of strange looking in person. Not bad strange. But photographs usually make his giant Mojave desert cheeks and forehead scrunch up in a way that is perhaps more aesthetically sound. Her clothes designs aren't ugly. You crazy. Zac is the films's director. I am its co-screenwriter with Zac. Michael Salerno is its cameraman and co-cinematographer with Zac. The names of the lighting person, sound person, make-up artist, and art director would mean nothing to you, and to me too, in a way, since I'm only going to meet them for the first time tomorrow. Oh, have I ever mentioned the film's title here before? Maybe not. The film is called 'Like Cattle Towards Glow'. ** Aaron Mirkin, Hi, Aaron! Really great to see you! Thanks a lot about the post's nourishment in your regard. That makes me happy. I've been ridiculously busy too, so I dig and take a high-five. Your Xiu Xiu video is now watchable! Awesome! I'll watch that the very millisecond after I launch this here post. Everyone, Aaron Mirkin, filmmaker extraordinaire, has directed a brand spanking new music video for the very great Xiu Xiu! It's for the very beautiful song 'New Life Immigration'. This is big! Go watch the video right now or very, very soon. Do that without breaking a sweat or taxing your internet abilities whatsoever by pressing on this. Congrats to you and even more to Jamie! Very exciting! Have the best weekend you can manage! ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. Bleah about your return trip's elongated time shit. No prob on the SPD, I understand. I'm on the 'DotRC' case, and, yes, that NYT Times will not hurt the case one little bit, so I'll get that to the guy pronto. Everyone, I think you know about 'Dream of the Red Chamber', the sleep requesting and enhancing theater work authored by our own Chilly Jay Chill. right? The New York Times has now given its big stamp of approval to the work, and, if you don't believe me, prepare to be rendered wrongly skeptical. Thanks, Jeff. All's well here, and I trust the same is true with you. ** Kyler, Hi, K. Thanks for venturing a comment. Proof correction is fun. They're cool to let you make actual changes at that stage. Mine usually arrive with the caveat that I am only allowed to fix typos. Hooray for French people! Fuck everyone who is anti-French people! Excited to see the stuff you're putting together for July 8th. Crazy days are often the best days of all. Definitely not always, but frequently enough. I'll be filmmaking on your pub date, but I wish I could fly over. I know Josie Woods Pub, or I think I do, or I mean I think I've walked by it any number of times, or I mean I think I did back when I lived just south of there on 12th Street between 3rd and 2nd. ** Okay. I made that horror novella adaptation thing up there for Zac, but, since I'm posting it here, I obviously made it for you too. It's not an exclusivist kind of thing. I don't think the magical ingredient will work on you however, although I have no idea if I'm a butterfingered gif-utilizing magician or not, so who knows about that? I think that's the story. Have good weekends, and I'll see you again come Monday.