Yes, I’m back, no eclipse monsters. The eclipse and accompanying road trip were Big Fun!

I have galleys to proof today (!!!) for a story com out first week of May! So that’s fun. Talia is leaving in a couple days to visit her Mom, so that’s not fun. But at least I have baseball season to distract me. Mets are playing some pretty good ball! (Sorry Red.)

That’s a mighty fine looking pie Ape. Have you tried writing a flash or micro to break the writer’s block? Or is it more like writer’s ennui?

Looking forward to reading your poem Elyse. It’s been crazy busy here!

Coffee and a cookie please. Seize the carp!

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Got some nice hot Nicaraguan medium in the coffee pot. Teas du jour are English Breakfast and Raspberry Royale. Fresh lemonade and iced tea are in the fridge and hot water is ready for other teas or hot chocolate.

Have a great weekend, y'all!!

Cool gif!

Hey all. We are back from Okie-homa. The clouds threatened to swamp the eclipse - we saw the first 15 minutes, then nothing but clouds for nearly an hour, but minutes before totality the clouds parted. REALLY spectacular stuff. I think the clouds made it even more dramatic.

The road trip was nice too, though got a bit long by the end. I really love that part of the country - even the Texas parts . I derive deep comfort from the food and the accents and the culture.

I hope all is well. Acupuncture today! I'm psyched!

You guys should start a WWII memory/snippets thread. It would be read with much enthusiasm.

We’re in Oklahoma (or as a an old girlfriend called it, Oh Glaucoma). Sunny here now. Storms roll in tomorrow but the forecast is improving - I am optimistic we will see the eclipse.

Today we are going to a little country church and a tiny graveyard on a hill covered in wildflowers and wild grass. One of my favorite places on the entire Earth. I’ll be there one day myself.

I hope everyone is well. Coffee for two please.

We are off! See you on the other side of the eclipse. Forecast is for cloudy skies, so pray for a patch of blue sky for us. I'm pumped for a road trip, so we'll have fun regardless.

Elyse, you were kidding about crushing on Tom Petty!? I'm so disappointed....

Hey, Red, glad you had a good day. Enjoy your Italian dinner.

Have fun in the yard Gill.

A LOT of coffee please.

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Here we are in this dead haven on April 4th. The big one! ----90!

Ninety! That’s a big one. Congrats, Red. I’m honored to be part of your celebration.

We’re off to the eclipse tomorrow. Rain is in the forecast. I’m really glad I saw the one last year because the weather does not look like it will cooperate. Still, a good road trip, and we can visit my family’s gravesite, now that I am the last one standing.

Beautiful day here. My acupuncture session seems to have done some good with my neurological issues, which is a wonderful thing.

METS DOUBLE HEADER TODAY. (Sorry, Red.) (And sorry for shouting.)

I’d love coffee.

I like the flashback approach, Ape. Start at the house.

And I frikkin LOVE the movie Moon. Didn't know a Bowie made that.

The Mets are winless. It's getting depressing.

Off to the acupuncturist! Gonna let them stick needles into my brain! I am expecting almost nothing, but I am open to whatever happens. We'll see. At least it'll give me something to write about.

Hope everyone is well. I didn't sleep well, so coffee would be swell.

Must you play that noise?

No. I tend to drive my cars into the ground

WYE kill a fly with your bare palm!

Tigers. Though they ARE playing the Mets as I type this

Grassy hillside or sandy beach

Mist-gist

Morning everyone.

Slept well, and it’s a beautiful day out.

Slowly preparing for the drive east to the eclipse. We’re getting a little worried by all the hubbub about crowds - there are some counties in Texas declaring themselves disaster areas because they are expecting so many people. We’re going to rural Oklahoma, but still. Worrying.

Today, though, same ol thang. Write, walk, baseball, repeat.

The Mets have yet to win a game. Sigh.

Seize the carp!

Almost certainly

Would you ever leave a boring party early, even if it were held for you?

Tablet. I have tactually never owned an eReader.

When playing as a kid: a cop or a robber?

Sine-mine

Years go by without rain.

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Yeah...I think I fell for David Bowie without really realizing it. Like, I keep liking/following every page I can find and...yeah.

Anyone alive who doesn’t host at least a tiny crush on David Bowie has a heart of stone.

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With response times of a few days to a couple weeks, the pubs here from a variety of formats and genres will let you know soon if they are interested. Many, not surprisingly, specialize in poetry and flash which are shorter and take less time to review. See if there's anything of use to you.

https://authorspublish.com/25-journals-with-fast-response-times/

The Dark magazine has now twice rejected me within a matter of hours. Fast but picky!

Busy day today! Watching the Mets game while I pack for Denver and the Mike Birbiglia concert (he's very funny, you should check him out on Netflix). We'll leave an hour or so after the game.

And next week...the ECLIPSE!!!

Top of the first, no score. Double play, the Mets are out of the inning!

Enjoy the weekend everyone.

My comfort watch, late at night, is old ER episodes.

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Roger would actually have made a good Wilbury. Right style of music, bit of a sense of humour, well-connected in the industry so some of them would already have known him.

My Back Pages. Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton & George Harrison. I was there!

I was so much older then, I'm younger then than now.

So nice to see a little action here. Hi everyone! Welcome back Cora!

Petty was my fave Willbury. I once saw him AND George Harrison AND Roger McGuinn play Dylan's songs - Mr. Tamborine Man gave me chills.

It's not even baseball season yet and the Mets game is already canceled. Wah! Still, I'll watch a few games. But I'm bummed.

We're off to Denver tomorrow to see Mike Burbiglia. You should check him out on Netflix. Half comedian, half one man show, but he's VERY funny.

Seize the carp everyone!

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...well, she understood after I said it was basically working man's rock.

Describes Mr. Petty perfectly.

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Well yeah...I guess that's true.

Oh god. My mom basically described him as 'okie music' today after I tried to explain heartland rock to her.

Ha! Okie music made me laugh (both my parents are native Okies).

Scott, maybe try posting what you have here and asking for suggestions. I've improved stories by posting them here first for reactions. Anyway, just a thought.

BASEBALL SEASON STARTS TOMORROW!

Same old thang here. Talia seems to be taking to retirement well. She's taken up painting! Okay, paint by numbers, but the results are spectacular. Paint by numbers has come a long way.

A coffee ad a cookie and I am out of here!

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I've woken up with Tommy's songs stuck in my head for the past few days. Today it's 'The Waiting.'

Also my PT says him has a whiskey sounding voice but I'm not sure what that means.

There's a fine quiet acoustic version of that song on a live album somewhere.

Not much up today. Warmer and sunnier. Writing memoirs.

Answer to my trivia: I was shot down in Sudbury when I asked the museum tour guide out. But she was really nice about it!

MORE VERBAL TRIVIA: What lake was I at where the family added weed to their cigarette tobacco the entire time?

Coffee and cookies please!

Good morning all.

Nothing much going on here. The expected snowstorm didn't materialize, so it's merely cold.

But...baseball on THURSDAY! (Sorry Red.) (Sorry for saying I'm sorry Red.) And too many words to write between now and then.

A free donut for anyone who can name: In what Canadian city did I ask a girl out and get shot down? You'll have to read Continental Drift to find out!

I'll have a coffee and an Easter cookie!

Just started 3 Body Problem. The 1st episode was excellent, we'll see what they do with it tonight. It's gotten a lot of crap in the press, I've noticed.

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Please stick with it, Ape. You'll find that genre-wise it becomes much more horse-driven with romance taking a back seat.

Time for a Sunday hot chocolate, I believe.

I agree the momentum really starts to build.

Between me and Red there's like 22,000 new-ish words to be read over here. Anyone game?

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You're the second person to tell me they've been lucky enough to see him in concert (the first being my PT) within the last week or so and I envy both of you so bad it's kinda ridiculous.

...also your daughters have great taste. My personal favorites are Hometown Blues and Strangered in the Night, although you really can't go wrong with him's music.

Honestly, I like listening to him more than I like most of the people I know irl.

Glad Gill and I can help. He really was a special talent. I remember buying Damn the Torpedoes (his first big album) and putting it on the turntable and being utterly blown away. The concert to see would have been when he was touring with Bob Dylan, and they were Dylan's BACK-UP BAND!

Lazy Sunday. We had breakfast at IHOP and are now back home, waiting for the NEXT snowstorm to appear.

Coffee and one of those delish cookies!

Hope everyone is well. We're heading down to Pueblo, to visit with family. Of course, since Pueblo has the best Mexican food in all the land, we will be porking out.

Same ol same ol here. Still editing this damn story. Gorgeous day out.

May I have a coffee and a cookie (just one)?