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From GO LA in LA WEEKLY

Actually I’m not reading… Sally Shore has an amazing cast performing these tales… I will be there to sign books and  hang out though.  Photo by: HallowedInk   James Joyce Would’ve Loved This By Heidi Dvorak Hemingway mastered the art…

Moab

Today in red rock country (Arches UT) Beautiful. We stopped by green river (so named because it’s brown.) I think the early Mormons were color blind… oh wait I remember all that stuff about “Those less valiant in the pre-…

A pimp in a bottle

Debby, my sister who came on the 1st 1/2 of my book tour with me and I were in a jewelry shop in Pacific Grove. It was a quirky shop with fossils and rocks strewn among necklaces and weights. We…

A Fortune Cookie

Today after a long beautiful hike at Castle Craig I had dinner in a Chinese restaurant. I did not see a werewolf, but I did get this fortune in my cookie “You’ll accomplish more later if you have a little…

To:

Today at Word stock, a woman wanted me to sign a book and then to buy it, I wrote to:… and she said “If you write ‘to:’ it means it’s a gift, and I won’t buy it.” “Cross it out,”…

I should mention, readings past

 Reading at Powell’s Hawthorn in Portland was fabulous. Large, receptive crowd and great space. At Books Inc. in the SF Marina the event planner asked me back to read when my children’s book  was out. He actually said “I sometimes…

devil implants

I saw a guy with devil horn implants today No lie. He was outside the upstairs hole in the wall I read at. He had red eyes too! Really strange reading! The manager said there was an anarchist lemming library upstairs…I…

Salem Motel 6

Checking in at motel 6… A nasty, pasty, soft fleshed check in person. “You can wait.” She snarled as I stood at the desk. “Is there hot water in the room for tea?” I asked. “Yeah, in the sink.” I…

Oregon

Tomorrow interview and reading. I refuse to take any Oxycontin tomorrow! My GPS is inhabited by a frustrated poet. It invents lodging with lovely, strange names,like “house underwater,” and Creekside inn,” and when you follow directions they end in the…

on the road

In spite of 110 degree heat Opening at the mystery and imagination was wonderful. So was the drive to Pacific Grove then root canal hit… 2 readings on oxycoton… I was afraid I’d go to sleep a slim liberal and…

Ancient Egyptian

“closed Heaven”— still possible to gain entry. Need someone to mummify you and a personalized copy of the Book of the Dead. You have three souls. The Ka, an exact replica of you, If your body is not correctly mummified,…