In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, the answer is right here, sitting in this chair, in front of this machine, working like a fiend. I wish I could be like Callie the Wonder Cat. You know, simple… But she doesn’t have ebooks to format and promote like I do. Today I spent all [...]
Just a note to let everyone know that the latest iteration of the PDF version of TAOS SOUL: Love Stories, Heroes, and Wild Adventure is now available for purchase. I’ve made some changes to the formatting, so that it reads better as a PDF. There’s now a fixed page width, for one thing, and the [...]
Other formats coming soon. This isn’t the official announcement, just a heads-up for readers of this blog and Twitter followers. I’m really proud of this one, though. Press copies available shortly for reviews.
The publisher signed off on this — “Trudge ahead with J’s piquant social commentary. He’s three sheets north of south.” — but I just sent a one with a different ending to the copy editor, so we shall see. In the meantime, and because the chance exists that this may never see the light of [...]
If you aren’t reading Horse Fly every month, then you have more in common with the rest of the world than you may realize. Nonetheless, it’s a one-of-a-kind, and the publisher has the impeccably good sense to not only give me space for a monthly column, but to pay me for it as well. Here’s [...]
Go have a look to see what’s in the Creative Suite Four Master Collection. This is a general overview sort of article, the first of several heavy-duty reviews (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Soundbooth, etc.) I’ll be doing over the next few months.
I forgot to get this posted a couple of weeks ago — gee, I wonder why? — but here it is. Regular readers of this blog will recognize elements of previous blog posts assembled into a new whole. Not quite like building Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, although related, and with much better results. This was just [...]
“The planet is asleep and it’s the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.” (Sun Ra) Is that COOL or what? I grabbed the quotation from the comments section of an article by ex-Fug and founding member of the False Prophets, Steven Taylor, at Reality Sandwich entitled “Is That a Real Reality, or Did [...]
The previous post has a comment by someone I didn’t recognize. He lives in the Cascade foothills and writes at a blog you need to visit, The Farmer de Ville Chronicles. Outstanding writing, as usual a wake-up call to me to stick to what’s real and all around me. He must have a regular writing [...]
Well, it doesn’t look like we’re going to rent the house where I had my “wreck.” You’d think that was omen enough, anyway. It didn’t seem like there was much room to park, which wouldn’t be unusual for Taos, but something else put me off enough that I pestered the California landlord into at least [...]