Also, you have to send me chocolate. (Or Graeter's....)

Not anymore...

You don't think I'd stop with the parking spaces, do you?

Of course not. They're mere tokens of your megalomania.

I just need a Pinky to run around fetching garden hoses and live chickens and such.

When Julia gets her working papers, I'll send her your way.

Excellent!

I got to see a performance by Baxter Black yesterday evening. It was great fun, and I laughed so much that tears were running down my face.

I only mention it in this thread because of what happens afterwards. Baxter Black pre-signs the books he sells after the show, but he adds personal inscriptions, and the interesting thing is that he writes them upside-down and backwards so the customer can see it as he writes. It comes out really neat. I wonder how long it took him to develop the skill. I didn't get a chance to ask.

Pictures here: [link]

(poking head in, because it occurs to me I hadn't shared this, and then back out)

So, it looks as if Andy Summers - guitar player for the Police - may be blurbing the Kinkaids. We got to talk at his Haight Street signing. His editor has offered to forward anything I send, and Andy wants to read.

So, there's that.

Back to work.

Hey, that's excellent!

And my copy of Cruel Sister came in - -just started reading it and enjoying it so far.

HMOG. Here's a conference erika should be at: [link] I mean, I'd like die to go, but you have to be admitted with a writing sample and NSM.

dcp, I can write upside down and also mirror-wise, and neither one was especially hard -- I could just kind of do it. I definitely get better with practice, but the basic principles are just there.

OMG, Jesse. That is so something I do need to be there for. Stupid no money. Stupid big country. But could I write while squealing like a fangirl? Tim Goodman does it...and we all know what a baseball geek Olbermann is. I suppose it could be the same thing.