The New Podcast is...

The new podcast is up and running!

Yes, a melancholy moment of romantic ennui, featuring the poems "The Faerie: Love", "Waiting for the Pentecost" and "She Dances Away When I Awake".

From Out of the City for February 4, 2007

Thanks to Shye for the inspiration and assistance. You can get dressed now.

My Superbowl Pick

Had to, people.

If Grossman throws for at least 200 yards or a Bears running back gets at least 100 yards, I predict the Bears will win. If neither condition comes true, the Colts will win.

I know that's just a conditional thing, but I have to call them as I see them, and the only wild card in this whole mess, as I see it, is the Bears' offense.

the insanity that is February 4th

Strange morning. Hey, it is February 4th. My baby brother Mark's 41st birthday.

Not just that. February 4th and May 3rd (my Mom's birthday) seem to be the strange days of my life. If I am going to make a life-changing decision, or an anvil is going to fall...that's the day. Unbelievable weirdness oozes from these days, and not always weirdness that I control, but streams that connect to me from outside forces (sometimes travelling seventy miles an hour...ouch!) when these days roll around.

So, here I am, making some changes. Many of which I can't talk about right now. On the plus side, it helps overcome inertia and wake the dragon

I will be putting together a podcast for tonight, for those of you seething because I haven't been doing it on a regular basis.

I will also give updates as I can. Let's just say some weird stuff is going down and I have to move into the eye of the storm to be most effective. Those of you in the know will appreciate this.

Those of you not on the inside? Well, sorry. Even Jaz is out in the cold on these moves.

Thanks to model-photographer Shye for her assistance in putting together some new designs for the City of Legends...I hope to unveil them later this week.

Getting Pumped Up

Barring the "love or money" exceptions, I leave on June 1st for the

World Domination Tour, Part II

My goal is to team with local authors/poets in venues they know and love (and who know and love them) or with Barnes & Noble outlets, coast to coast. The tour will start in the East, sweep through the Midwest, then either tack north into the great plains or into the deep south before meeting the midway point of Amarillo, then West into West Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and finally, California.

I have had some pleasant requests for company on the trip, but I think I will keep it all business. Last time I was dumb enough to allow such an on-tour distraction I ended up married to her.

Books and CDs will be sold. If the venue is a bookstore, such as a Barnes & Noble, we will work through their channels. If not, we'll do what we have to. Sponsored gigs (those that pay, if only enough to pay the transit and overnight) take precedence.

I want this to be a brutal endurance contest, to see if I still have what I once had, in terms of fire. I don;t really doubt it, but I've thrown downt he challenge to myself. Dates are still open...but I want to be able to settle the course by National Poetry Month, in April, so we can plug the hell out of it.