Just finished (3:30 a.m.) the first draft of Auggie’s Wedding, a short story for my good friend Kimmy’s wedding this next Sunday (in which I’ll be serving as Kimmy’s best man). I’d been writing on this for the past couple of days, then today I went for a walk to think about a brick wall [...]

As part of the Literary Arts’ Oregon Literary Fellowship application, I had to answer the question: “Describe the main concerns of your work, or something about your process or intent”.
I doubt any writer (or artist for that matter) likes these kinds of questions, because no one wants to be pigeon-holed (and it diverts you’re [...]

Gads. Spent the last week working on my application for Literary Arts’ Oregon Literary Fellowship. Turned it in today. This is my third attempt at the yearly award, the first year I hand-delivered my application about an hour before it was due, last year about two hours before. This year, I actually had all the [...]

Alright, it’s been over a year that this has been sitting stalled. Now that I’ve quit my job to write (more on that later — really), I can spend some time spiffying this blog up. Posts and explanations to come in a few days, with a redesigned theme to follow in coming weeks hacked together [...]

“Well, while I’m here I’ll do the work — and what’s the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.” — Allen Ginsberg
Welcome to my Drunken Dumbshow … This site is very much still under construction.

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