Category: Happiness

  • Twas the night before…

    Just off to bed. Tomorrow the book releases. My car broke down. But tomorrow my book releases. So all is really really good. Off it goes into the world. Although apparently it’s already arrived at Japan’s doorsteps, according my Japanese mom Fusako, and in London bookshops, according to my friend Graham. Really, I’m still somehow…

  • There goes the neighborhood

    The Lutheran church across the street from my apartment building set up a little performance area tonight, with a backdrop cloth that said “Elvis Lives”. When the sun went down, fifteen cars showed up, then people got out of their cars with folding chairs and arranged them about fifty feet across the parking lot from…

  • Fooling Around

    My friend Brooke is helping me do a lot of the local promotion and publicity for my book. The girl knows virtually everyone you need to know around this place to get things noticed, and so my publicist at Bantam sent her a box of books the other week to help when getting in touch…

  • Bookmarks!

    My friend Steven Andrew is a graphic design genius. I heart so many of the things he does. Like his Subpopular.com that he started up, which is a sort of myspace for the local Youngstown arts and entertainment scene. And his own myspace page, which he redesigned because he’s an online design wiz kid like…

  • Oakland Open House

    I’ll be there, as usual.

  • You can stand under my umbrella

    A return to a mood I have not felt in a while. Recently I have been sort of obsessed with the song “Umbrella” which is sung by the very popular Barbados-born Rihanna. And when I say popular, I mean popular. You go to this woman’s myspace page and look at how many “friends” she has.…

  • Something Right

    This is the kind of review that makes me feel like I did something right.

  • Morning

    Found this in my email from my friend Graham this morning: and the day started off with great cheer. It’s a fun internet program, like those church signs you can write whatever on. Nonetheless, I think it fits nicely in the Hollywood hills.

  • Nature and Nurture

    I think people sometimes take for granted the kind of environment they grow up in, and how it plays a part in shaping who they become. Of course we all know that’s a given, that we’re influenced by our environment, but I myself can sometimes get caught up in what-might-have-beens. Usually when people get caught…

  • More Happy Things

    First: The finished copy of the book came today! Me acting like a grade school boy with his spelling bee award or something to that effect. And second: The Endicott Studio’s Journal of the Mythic Arts has its Summer YA issue live now. They’ve got fantastic stories, poetry, art and essays over there, so go…