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. Apologies, as always, for the amount of time it may have taken for your device to get the gifs up to speed and doing their tricks/magic. Hopefully worth it? ** Lee, Hey, Lee! Very nice to see you, buddy! Thesis worthy, cool. You sound good, productive, up, engaged, and all that great stuff. What's the show in Milan? You're thinking about some great stuff, and the wrench of Oscar the Grouch created a nice intrigue, as did 'intricate decorative pencil drawings'. I just saw yesterday that Yvonne Rainier has returned to choreography, which I thought was potentially very good news. Add my crossed fingers to yours, man. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Oh, that's a nice use of the word/title 'Bounce'. I like it much better than 'Road Show'. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. Significantly different? Mm, no, it's recognizably him. More ... refined and other developmental things? It's very good, naturally. Cool about the roof. That initially supportive reader switching positions is just weird. Man, sucks that the opening section is proving to be such a beast. I don't get it at all. I got your email and emailed you back and thank you so much! Never done anything on Jean Echenoz, no, and that's an excellent idea, obviously, and consider it a mission that I will undertake in hopes of finding sufficient usable material right away. Thanks! Yeah, saw that about Joshua Yates's film, and that's exciting. Let me pass on your thing. Everyone, here's Chilly Jay Chill aka new fiction maestro Jeff Jackson, and please listen up: 'Some exciting news: Joshua Yates, who did the amazing book trailer for MIRA CORPORA, is planning to adapt my story "The Dying of the Deads" into a short film. The story is one of the best things I've written and involves lost teens, black metal bands, occult maps, parking lot purgatories, and dead girlfriends. Yates is a great visual stylist and he's raising funds through Kickstarter. If anyone is able to help him out, he's offering some cool perks. More details here.' Bon day! ** TimelessZine, Hi, Xavier! Exciting to have you in here. Yes, I wrote back to you this morning. I'm sorry it took me so long. ** Steevee, Hi, Steve. Look forward to reading your reviews! Everyone, Steevee aka film critic of ultra-note Steve Erickson has two new reviews for you to read, and you should! Here's his 'review of Tsai Ming-liang's wonderful STRAY DOGS', and here's his review of the Israeli doc THE GREEN PRINCE. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. I hope you're completely de-wiped-out by now. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hey, Ben. Thanks for speaking to peterbd's construct. All I read about Cameron's visit/speech/plea was some headline that said he told 'Scotland' that if you guys left it would 'break his heart', which is, like, ... so? Sweet that Episode 1 is almost finis! Cool, man! ** Keaton, Howdy. I like Earth a lot too, but I have to be in the right mood. They're, like, Gisele's favorite band, I think. A lot of the best things in life are almost wrong, though, no? I guess I would need to think more about it before making such a grand statement. The rectum is the point where the body shapeshifts or does it magic trick or something. ** Hyemin K, Hi. Peterbd does that same kind of thing to everybody he writes to, so he's probably not particularly a fan of my stuff, but the idea that he could be is nice. Ooh, very cool about the posts! I'm excited, if you have the time, thank you. Both sound beautiful. Awesome thoughts on Blanchot/Barthes, thank you for sharing them. Interesting idea that they would be considered oppositional. Huh. I never thought about them that way before, and I think I will for a while just to see what happens in my head. 'The one the absolute and the other plural': that's so great. Wonderful, thank you again! ** Misanthrope, T'aint nothing in this world quite like a sexy Barry White voice coming out of a skinny white body, admit it. I probably do need a doctor for all kinds of reasons, yep. My mom was a real passive-aggressive type too, and I've been trying to avoid using that horrible weapon all my life. Oh, pooh, about your lack of wit, man. Get with the program. ** Sypha, Hi. I only know, like, three jokes, or three jokes that I actually like, and I tell them over and over. Having a jokey, funny dad must be interesting. ** Jeffrey Coleman, Hey, Jeff. When I started looking into John Mueller yesterday, and liking what I heard a lot, I realized that I did know the name from Stephen (O'Malley) due to the Khanate connection. And I did listen to Volcano Choirs back when. Yeah, thanks again, and for the new links which I didn't come across in my searching yet. And I'll look into Battle Trance too. I know the name, but I think I'm a virgin re: their sounds. Best to you, generous Jeff. ** Rewritedept, Hi. I doubt that his Oscar is a nod to ours. Peterbd does hit and run things mostly, I think. So I doubt that he's versed in this place. But who knows? I'll look for your 'TMS' email. The Breeders and Mould shows should be good. Yeah, why did you tell me about the pharmaceutical grade opium? It sat weirdly. My day was quiet, events-wise, but productive and busy in uninteresting-to-recount ways. No, we're in the immediate process of finding someone to hire to gather and organize the footage over the next few weeks while Zac will be away visiting his family so he/we can start editing as soon as he gets back. I'm working my way into heavy work on the novel in anticipation of my brain being freed up to concentrate on it, hopefully by early next week. I hope both of our Fridays go very well, yes. ** Okay. I wrote/made another horror novella in gifs for Zac, and tangentially for those of you whose eyes are seeing these words too. Hope you like it, duh. See you tomorrow.