I posted a bit ago (link) about this and here is it! Couldn’t be happier with CB Droege’s performance. Thank you, sir! Also on iTunes and at the Manawaker site.
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You heard me.
Outside the front door. I swear there is a house on the right.
Screen grab from the KELO Miller downtown cam
Screen grab from the KELO Miller courthouse cam
When I finally joined the whole internet nonsense three years ago one of the things that happened is that I found out about writer Gwendolyn Kiste.
Her name would pop-up on Facebook from time to time, always with people I went to school with at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. I quickly deduced (’cause I’m schmaht like that) that she was married to a former schoolmate who, perhaps wisely, has eschewed social media. He was one of the 1400 Bills that were there at the time. Largest concentration in the nation in 1991.
Well, turns out Gwendolyn was a writer. And being a reader, I read some of her stuff and really dug it and let her know and… KAPOW, internet friendship was born. Well, acquaintance anyway. I don’t want to speak for her.
So over the past few years she has been productive as all get out and last year released her first collection of stories, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe.
Today the final ballot for the 2017 Bram Stoker Awards was announced and in the category of Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection is that book. That is pretty. god. damned. fantastic.
I wish Gwendolyn the best of luck and no matter what happens (you goin’ down, Joe Hill!) she has a reader for life in me.
Get this collection. And her recent book Pretty Marys All in a Row. You won’t regret it.
Adam sat at the kitchen table. His elbow firmly planted on its surface, hand of the same arm holding up his head. A sigh escaped his mouth as he slowly blinked.
“I’m so bored.” He drew out the so.
“Nothing ever happens around here,” the twelve year old said to the empty room.
Minutes ticked away.
Three loud knocks came from the door.
Let me just start off by sayin’ that havin’ told this story a time or two already, I expect you havin’ a question or three and maybe doubtin’ the whole scenario. Well, let me alleviate those concerns and assure you this is not a tale of fiction. And if by the end you still want to challenge the veracity of my tellin’ we can have that conversation afterword. And depending on your tone that may or may not involve the rearranging of your nose and or teeth.
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The last few years I have had woefully little new art in my life so I am rectifying that. And here is some of the stuff I’ve picked up.
First, something I have posted about before but I finally took it in to be framed. A fantastic piece by my art school classmate and across the pond buddy, Jen Dixon. The bulk of Jen’s current work is abstract and this is no exception. “Dragon’s Teeth”
Jen is also now doing online art classes on Skillshare. You should check them out if you are looking to work on your artist skills.
And here is a piece by a citizen of the Hub City, Aberdeen, SD. Nick Fischer’s “Mars Patterns.”
Nick and Nicole Fischer’s work can be found here and both are part of the SD Artworks Coop Gallery in Aberdeen where I acquired this.
More recently I picked up this at Artworks, an encaustic collage by Lois Beckner, “Dead Men Walking.”
Rachel Kahn is a professional illustrator and creator of the fantastic web comic “By Crom!” The premise of the comic being Rachel’s spirit guide through life is a certain mighty barbarian created by Robert E. Howard. I have two risograph illustrations from Rachel, the first one being from “By Crom!” and the second being the a powerful wizard of chronomancy, “URMYXI.”
And finally, a bit of mass produced art that I couldn’t pass up CAUSE IT’S A BIG OL’ OCTOPUS! Cephalopods. They are awesome.
I haven’t been in a position to support art in a while so I am pretty jazzed to have possession of these works. There is so much great stuff out there I hope you grab some art from your local talent pool and from not so local when you can.
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Red Headed Stranger – Carla Bozulich
By William DeGeest
On February 20, 2018
In Comments From A Cracked Cranium
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On May 1st, 1975, the album Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson was released. A mix of covers and originals, it was a concept album telling the tale of a red haired preacher who is done wrong and in his grief and anger, does some wrong himself.
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