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It’s the day before World Fantasy and my reading just made it to the schedule. Hooray! It’s from 5 to 6 PM on Thursday (tomorrow) the 22nd in the Uptown Room, 2nd floor near the hotel elevators. Hope somebody sees this : )

I’ll show you the life of the mind.

Signed a contract today so that The Best of Jeffrey Ford will soon be available in trade paperback from PS.

Lynn drove 32 hours in 3 days.

Driving to Reno

We landed in Rawlings, Wyoming this evening.

The sky on the way to Nebraska.

At the motel we stayed at last night, there was nobody behind the desk, you had to check in with this guy in India on a remote viewing screen. Nice guy. Very Wizard of Ozish. Never seen this before.

Landed for the night in a Motel 8 in Mound City, Mo.,reliving our years at the Colonial Motor Inn on Vestal Pkwy in NY. Having a few and digging the scene.

Some sights from the journey. We just left Hannibal Missouri.

California, here we come. On the road again. Lynn is Neal Cassidy and I’m Gregory Corso’s Orthodontist. Our Dharma is aligned.

US Congress capitulated on the genocide in Gaza. Now they’re doing the same with Ukraine.Miscreant scumbags following the biggest scumbag in history. It doesn’t matter to them if they’re aiding Russia, how many die, how many children are killed as long as they keep whatever power they have.

Me and Lynn today, voting at a place next to Tractor Supply in London, Ohio.

Loving this one. The first in Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy, The Harlem Shuffle. Great characters and a wonderful evocation of 1960’s NYC, especially Harlem.

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I have a story coming out in this anthology -- Through a Glass Darkly -- from PS, edited by Preston Grassman and Chris Kelso, cover art by Myrtle Van Damitz. Some of the other contributors are -- Kaaron Warren, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Thomas, Eugen Bacon, Jonathan Maberry, Paul Di Filippo, etc.

Pass this on the way to town. The Tin Man’s Mar-a-lago.

Mac needs hugs.

At the mailbox. Lucky day. A copy of The Failure of the Century materialized. Nick Mamatas’s play regarding H. P. Lovecraft. I never go to Worldcon, but this year I was sorry not to be there to see an enactment of this play.

My Horror/Western, "La Madre del Oro," is in the current issue of Science Fiction World in China.

In the mail today, my contributors copies of Jonathan Strahan’s The Book of the Dead from Harper Voyager. It will be on the loose on October 6th. TOC on the back cover.

Mac gets kisses from Squeak-a-mo.

While things are moving toward end of summer disarray in the porch flower garden, Lynn’s veggie garden pumped out this haul in the week we’ve been away.

Just watched episode 7 of Reacher, season 4. I do like the show. Have watched all the seasons, but, good lord, it’s got more info-dumps than you can shake stick at. Everybody and their brother is info-dumping right and left. A diarrhea of exposition.

Derek’s Witches. His work will be on display at World Fantasy in Oakland next month. He will have paintings and prints for sale.

This statue at the Tuckahoe Inn can’t even as I swoop in for a kiss.

“Why does my head go round and round while my heart just stands still so much.” Line from an Ink Spots song that snagged my consciousness as it floated by.

From the patio of our place at the beach we caught sight of this red fox in the bushes across the way for the second night in a row.

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Lynn in the park.

In Washington Square Park, watching the pigeons and dogs and listening to live jazz.

One of our relatives saw this bumper sticker on a car in Cali.

Today is our 47th Anniversary. Love you, Lynn. ❤️

Another treasure pulled from the avalanche that is the garage by Jack. Man-Spider. I love that it comes with “immobilizing restraints” as does much of life.

Sept. 8th, I'll be joining Livia LLewellyn, Clay McLeod Chapman, Theresa DeLucci, and Ellen Datlow at The Twisted Spine in Brooklyn to discuss all things Halloween and Ellen's new anthology, All Hallows Eve. Starts at 7 pm. On September 9th, I'll be reading at the KGB Bar with John C. Foster. 7pm

Mac by Jack

I remember once reading an interview with Charles Vess, years ago, in The Comics Journal. He was asked a question about what his goal was as an artist -- and he said that he wanted to be able to draw anything he could imagine. That stayed with me through the years and influenced me as a writer.

From July...just found out it was up: www.inglenooklit.com/an-interview...

Mac loves the sunlight.

Happy Birthday, Ernie Bushmiller!

New York Times Spelling Bee wouldn’t accept “numbnut.” I’m calling bs.

On the Dredge today.