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B'more-istas and DC-istas, I'll be flying into Baltimore on the 16th, out on the 22nd. I'm staying with a friend in Pasadena, MD, but have high hopes (and amorphous plans) for Baltimore and DC visits! I'll be heading into F2F to try to plan some hookups...

Urgent, urgent, urgent....

S and I are leaving San Francisco today, and need to get a loaned care package back to javachick today, or even to a SF-ista. If local people could email me their phone numbers to my profile addy, I'd really appreciate it. We'd like to get on the road as close to noon as possible, but we have a few errands we need to get done before we leave, so our departure time is a little fluid.

I need some Jobma! I emailed my resume to a great job today (where my aunt works) and she called me tonight to say her boss asked her some questions and said he'd call me tomorrow!!!!

I have sworn to finish my new play by spring and as part of that goal, I am limiting my online goofing around activity in early 2008. You should not see much of me around these parts until my first draft is done--and if I show up, please tell me to get back to work!

A friend in Illinois is selling some amazing furniture pieces on the Chicago Craigslist. I thought I'd post them here in case anyone's interested.

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Hey ya'll, if we could just send some ~ma out to my neighbor across the street. Evidently things are really shaky over there and he took a handful of valium and swallowed a bottle of Everclear. He's got a wife and 2 cute kids that I spent a few hours babysitting tonight. Last I heard they've got him in the hospital. He's a good guy but has some issues to really iron out.

Thanks

Buffistas! My book will be in stores by the end of next week.

(which means if you ordered it from Amazon it might arrive a week from Saturday. or so.)

My publisher has been kind of enough to print up some promotional postcards for me and I need your assistance.

I would like some market penetration by which I mean porn in several big cities such as: New York (Manhattan and Brooklyn in particular), Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, Portland, Seattle. And, I don't know, York UK (looks at SA), Cork, Ireland (looks at Jars) and maybe Bangkok? Maybe Kansas City. New Orleans? I don't know. Cities where Tom Waits fans congregate. I know I'm forgetting some obvious places.

Anyway, here's what would be required. People in those places volunteer and I send them ten cards and they go and leave them at bookstores, bars, cafes, comic book shops, record stores and other such cultural nodal points as they deem useful. Just ten. But maybe bringing them to the attention of persons that work there, or getting them in the window or on a bulletin board. It's up to you and your level of comfort with pimpage.

Also, I would like a little more market penetration (see above) with the Starbucks swilling office crowd that doesn't bother to go to record stores anymore because they just download shit off iTunes or buys things from Amazon. So if you have a bulletin board in a common area or a prominently visible cube/desk, I'm asking you to just stick one of the postcards up where it will be seen.

Once the book comes out, marketing is pretty much up to what I can cobble together so I would very much appreciate anything you'd be willing to do my book's behalf.

Any volunteers, please pipe up in Literary. Thank you!

::curtsies low with dirndl sweeping the floor::

I have photos! Wallybee and I spent the Christmas break in Tasmania, at Cradle Mountain and Hobart, having a phenomenal time. Check 'em here: [link]

I usually don't do vibage for people not related to me, but Mr. Jane's coworker and our good friend Kevin had his mother go to the ICU last night. She's a cool lady and even at 70 something can hang with the most hard core of us.

Please, send her some health~ma.