Top Ten Ways to Make Santa’s Naughty List

10. Playing "CSI: Dreamhouse" with your (or your sister's) Barbie dolls. 9. Telling Mommy she's "pretty" to her face and then adding the words "poor at parenting" as you walk out of the room. 8. Presuming that when you're "grounded" you're free to play with electrical outlets to your heart's content. 7. Texting while driving your Big Wheel on the freeway. 6. Skipping biology class so you can experiment directly on animals at the pet store without supervision. 5. Actually punching Hawaiians to get your hands on their branded juice box. 4. Festooning your bedroom with ropes of snot rather…

Skeeter

Read [an archived version of] "Skeeter" -- a short-short "clickable" story posted to [the now defunct] Tapestry. I wrote this goofy thing by messing around on an ipad. Tapestry files were "sequential" stories. To read, click on the screen to forward page by page.

“French Smilie” — Outtake from Video in Progress

Working up a video related to "The Fridge of the Damned" (which is something exciting to announce in the New Year!). This snapshot of two overlapping fridge magnets is an outtake I kind of liked and felt compelled to share here. I posted a similar one to flickr last night. [The mouths on both are from an old "Freaky Faces" magnet set we picked up in a gift shop years ago.] You'll be hearing a lot more about the Fridge of the Damned soon... hope you'll participate!

Bizarro Reading in Morgantown

I drove out to Morgantown, WV to see the Raw Dog Screaming Press reading event -- sponsored by the Morgantown Poets society -- for stalwart "bizarro" writers and old friends John Edward Lawson and D. Harlan Wilson. This event marked the official print release of Lawson's new book, SuiPsalms, which he introduced by announcing the number for the Suicide Hotline and explained that his book fell in with a new genre he hadn't been aware of until he started writing the book, Suicide Poetry (example here). D. Harlan Wilson read a hilarious excerpt from the tongue-in-cheek Hitler: The Terminal Biography.…