Overheard in this house: "I'll trade you the teeth for the blueberries."

Happy Father's Day

Rings a bell.

I got a big post office day tomorrow catching up on stuff, so if anyone wants a signed copy of one of these OUT OF PRINT contemporary classics, let me know. I'll also throw in a signed bookplate you can slap on your copy of Head Cleaner or your forehead.

This fog (?) rolling in is looking a lot like the wave at the end of The Abyss.

I bought this just so I could finally say: "Play Play Misty for Me for me."

[slow zoom] "Hello, darkness, my old friend..."

Dire Straits should have been the name of a heavy metal band, King Diamond should have been the best Neil Diamond cover band ever, Cypress Hill should have been folk, Kurt Vile should have been punk, Soundgarden should have been prog, Eagles of Death Metal should have been actual death metal...

But what about the Whale Loneliness Epidemic?

I heard this one is about a year too late. Mentally preparing myself for CLICKING SOUNDS, SLOW ZOOMS, and AWESTRUCK FACES.

Uhhh how about "all of them"? Is this what happens when tiny little babies make a trivia show?

Who is that garbage teen sneaking a middle finger into the yearbook photo of his graduating class? Starts with a D and ends with an AVID.

Watching this guy pick up my two hundred dollars of spicy chicken sandwiches like Affleck clocking the armored car in THE TOWN.

Love these two pictures. Little me under a tree. Not sure what I was up to, but my dad came by, maybe to encourage or discourage whatever plan I was hatching. Wish I could remember.

A bird flew into our English department meeting. I was on Zoom. So was the bird.

New Head Cleaner review: "A fun ride with a wacky, bracing energy, especially for those who lived through the pop-cultural era it zanily, lovingly resurrects."

Deleted scene from Good Will Hunting when Morgan was cranking it into a baseball glove upstairs.

Whoah, wow: thrilled, floored, and honored for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter to have somehow won both a Bram Stoker Award and a Nebula Award last night! Thanks, all. Signed, a horror writer stumbling around Edinburgh, Scotland.

Watching The Rip. Does this stand for "Are We the Goodwillhunting Guys?"

Our trivia nights at this tiki bar on the pier has been a series of second-place wins (I'm not saying the first-place winners are cheating but........) Doesn't matter because second place gets a cool mug. Trophy case is growing.

I made this. The least you could do is tag yourself.

A band of... horses? Imagine the stage afterwards. Yikes.

Garage door repair guy is here and wants to know if someone bent up the track with pliers trying to fix it. Moonwalking back into the house.

Going out of print today. Propeller Hats was my first "hit" (some coverage in the trades and the only Starred Review at Publishers Weekly I'll probably ever get). Guitar Case was what they call "autofiction," and it never really found its audience, but it might be my favorite. Thanks, PMMP.

When Blade talked about ice skating uphill he was referring to me desperately trying to pay attention to someone describing their dream.

The end of Perpetual Motion (I know, right?) means that after today Tales from the Crust, the most notorious anthology I've ever worked on, goes out of print. I'd recommend snagging it. I panicked and bought a box of them so I guess this is what we'll be eating for awhile.

Pick one tape.

Made a couple unforced errors here: One, it's not the Alan Parsons *Project* (and the project part is very important) and two... it's a CD-ROM. I have no way to play this.

On my way to work I stopped by the Barnes & Noble that just opened in Los Gatos and they had Head Cleaners so I got out the Space Pen...

Crime Scene Day in my class is always wild.

Are you okay, babe? You're not cranking up "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" on your Rollerball soundtrack.

My mom with one of her grandchildren.

Every time a huge pile of branches drops in our backyard I want to have someone over on the porch and tell them to never visit the pet cemetery and then show them exactly how to use it.

On my way to read. Giving them a little lizard dude to look at while it happens.

Taunting your club sandwich as you eat the olive off the toothpick.

This guy was my Uber driver last night. Now we're both stuck in traffic. CHECKMATE.

This is a decent way to get your Catherine Wheel fix. At least three songs are amazing Catherine Wheel throwbacks and the rest is harmless but catchy pop (plus half a Zevon song). But I just like cracking up at this hilarious album cover. "Feets don't fail me now!"

evergreen

Glad to find a copy of this. A piece rattling inside so I'll have to do some tape surgery. My introduction to James Spader, the tiny but monstrous villain.

Stopped by Barnes & Noble to sign more Head Cleaners after they'd sold out again and they said, "Okay, let's take advantage of this. How about doing an in-store event?" Never read at a B&N (though I worked at one for years) so that's cool. Working on a date, August sometime at the one in San Jose.

My kid listing all the most dangerous animals on the planet.

Reading on the roof before the rain comes. : ) I love the cover art on "Head Cleaner" a novel by David James Keaton.

Whenever I give someone an Alice in Chains Jar of Flies CD with the little plastic flies.

My 3-year-old showing me she doesn't need my help stabbing the straw into the juice box.

Continuing my Loose Movie Rings series with Mickey Rourke in The Rainmaker. Shoulda called a RINGMAKER amirite.

Heard Tarantino say this has the best opening scene of all time. I'll report back.

My publisher sent me Head Cleaner bookplates and bookmarks to send out to booksellers who requested them. They sent me a *ton* of these so if any more bookstores want some just let me know. Check it out. They kinda look like little TVs. And you can watch my handwriting deteriorate in real time.

Every office job I've had was torture yet some of my favorite movies look like this.

A new cassette? From a band I like? Made it a different color than the CD? Gives me a reason to dust off the Walkman? I had to get it.

This computer gives unsolicited writing advice.