Phase 1 of garage conversion refresh/remodel done. Shelves hung.

Ran 7 miles. Had Valentine’s lunch with my wife and our boys. Cleaned gutters. Reattached a bit of flashing that blew off in a storm to the steepest part of our roof pitch. Did some cleaning away on the garage conversion we’re remodeling. Having a Shiner now.

Got new phone and when I signed into iCloud it dumped some old pics into my photos. My son’s first ATV ride….

It's Friday morning. You could order my book (ebook or paperback) and have it read by the end of the weekend. Wouldn't that be something? COUNT THE DUST is available from @leftoverbooks.bsky.social: a.co/d/0iZOmLRT

It's Friday morning. You could order my book (ebook or paperback) and have it read by the end of the weekend. Wouldn't that be something? COUNT THE DUST is available from @leftoverbooks.bsky.social: a.co/d/0iZOmLRT

Started out this week with the flu then spent a couple days bouncing back & catching up so I'm a little late on the follow through for last week's giveaway.... ...but congrats to @mikewood73.bsky.social and @cwblackwell.bsky.social! DM an address and I'll get your copy to you.

What used to be my home has changed to just a place to stay A crumbling last resort when day is through Sometimes between sundown and dawn somehow I find my way To this Home Motel on Lost Love Avenue Out of bed and back at it. Listening to Willie to get trough it. Spin #1:

Fever, chills, body aches. Home sick in bed. Blegh.

"The Lord moves in mysterious ways and tonight, my son ... He's gonna use your car" Joe Ely & Ryan Bingham perform with Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band: www.youtube.com/watch?v=20oL...

"Heart drawing by Terry"

Very exciting news on Terry Allen et al from Paradise of Bachelors....

She is to me like the breeze That blows up from the sea Now if she is like the breeze That blows from Corpus Christi Then I must be like the trees 'Cause Caroline blows through me Born on this day in 1947: the great Joe Ely

You might call it sad confusion You might even call it off But once you called me more than just your friend Now there's more to what I'm thinkin' Than the Mississippi Line And Tennessee's not the state I'm in New version released today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Og...

She is to me like the breeze That blows up from the sea Now if she is like the breeze That blows from Corpus Christi Then I must be like the trees 'Cause Caroline blows through me Born on this day in 1947: the great Joe Ely

My current WIP—ASA OKLAHOMA (SQUATTER)—is well in hand, heading toward a finish. But I keep being nagged by this Mike Disfarmer script I work on, on and off. But how can a capture a fraction of the depth of his photos?

Happy Friday y'all. Thanks to them that have bought COUNT THE DUST from @leftoverbooks.bsky.social. Today I'm offering to give away 2 copies. Repost this post between now and the end of the weekend and I'll put your name in a random draw machine thing Monday and pick 2 winners.

Take a look folks - get yourself a free copy. I have mine already and this little tale IS A GEM. Win it. Buy it. Just read it already!

Happy Friday y'all. Thanks to them that have bought COUNT THE DUST from @leftoverbooks.bsky.social. Today I'm offering to give away 2 copies. Repost this post between now and the end of the weekend and I'll put your name in a random draw machine thing Monday and pick 2 winners.

He got his yellow belt.

Y'all should reward yourself and obtain and read (and reread) COUNT THE DUST by @vanwinkle.bsky.social. A terrific tale - dust and all!

Update: a lot of South Carolina snow for these parts.

Actual South Carolina snow (not just ice that looks like snow).

My book's not really this small. But it's a pretty quick read. Some even say it's a good read. Get yours: a.co/d/7N7JvSJ

Hey! It's Count the Dust day! A 5-star, one-sitting inhale radio play novel!

My book's not really this small. But it's a pretty quick read. Some even say it's a good read. Get yours: a.co/d/7N7JvSJ

Ed Ruscha hasn't really read my book (I mean probably not...though theoretically possible). However, a lot of cool folks have read it and said mighty fine things about it. You could too...https://a.co/d/3PZ8YKu

Johnny, he don't like Jimmy Jimmy, he don't trust Jean Jean, she loves everybody It might be the codeine... Sounds like a story I'd write...but really just listenin to @gurfmorlix.bsky.social again.

"paper listening movies" Terry Allen, Cowboy and the Stranger, multi-media courtesy @LALOUVER & @pofbachelors the song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0LX...

Having students do blackout poetry in creative writing today. Giving them the first and last pages of The Last Picture Show.

Terry Allen, RED ANGEL MOTEL, 2019 (mixed media on paper, two panels)

On this date in 1948, a plane chartered by the U.S. Immigration Services crashed, inspiring one of Woody Guthrie's timeless songs, “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee),” although the song's music would be added after Guthrie's death. . . . www.chimesfreedom.com/2013/09/05/n...

haircut

Cowboy Jamboree says so.

Y’all: get it. Cherish it. 10/10. @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social

Yellow belt testing this morning 🤞

Goddamn. Poor Verna. Slain as a young bride and mother in a gruesome (trailer) home invasion. Who is her surviving daughter? How does she get along 30 years later? Who gave the journal of Verna's poems to Nanette Russell? Just...COUNT THE DUST: a.co/d/1FHXcGX

Goddamn. Poor Verna. Slain as a young bride and mother in a gruesome (trailer) home invasion. Who is her surviving daughter? How does she get along 30 years later? Who gave the journal of Verna's poems to Nanette Russell? Just...COUNT THE DUST: a.co/d/1FHXcGX

One evening getting late well I met her at the gate I asked her if she'd wed me in the fall But she only turned away and nothing would she say That aggravating beauty Lulu Walls... John Prine does the Carter Family: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YNm...

Well every time I try to love another I never know exactly what to do I'd like to tell her just how much I want her And I could find the way if she were you Feels like a John Prine kinda morning. Up first:

Meet Ginny, Gail, & Gemma. They work the counter at the filling station out on the highway. One lived through a horrific household murder thirty years ago. They are all survivors... a.co/d/4voPwrZ

Starting to realize that pico de gallo might be the key to all things…

Using some Leigh Chadwick poems as models in the creative writing class today because they're 🔥

Meet Ginny, Gail, & Gemma. They work the counter at the filling station out on the highway. One lived through a horrific household murder thirty years ago. They are all survivors... a.co/d/4voPwrZ

She weren't no maid of cotton and he weren't no hell of a man So they must have loved each other like only the lonely can Cause they slow-danced through the neon like a sorrow through a song... REK does Terry Allen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPn6...

Too tall Annie kept her money In a Bible she never read They found Lefty, her first ex-husband In his new pickup truck at the bottom of the river bed Starting off the work week with REK this morning.

It's Friday, y'all. Trying to remember how that old Tom Waits song goes... Blind or crippled, sharp or dull I'm reading COUNT THE DUST by a 40 watt bulb* What price freedom? Dirt is my rug Well, I sleep like a baby with the snakes and the bugs *Real, actual praise below.

Take a guess which book these digs are actually about? I do like to use the dirty little words though...

Spoiler: COUNT THE DUST is NOT “A complete exhibition of the art and mystery of whaleology.”

the answers are a) cocaine and b) bob dylan’s hat obvi

It's Friday, y'all. Trying to remember how that old Tom Waits song goes... Blind or crippled, sharp or dull I'm reading COUNT THE DUST by a 40 watt bulb* What price freedom? Dirt is my rug Well, I sleep like a baby with the snakes and the bugs *Real, actual praise below.