8-29-01

Tonight, my head feels like an over-inflated basketball. It's stuffed with too many problems, too much stress. I started poppin' Coldeeze because I'm feeling a bit oogie, as well. The world, man. Weighs me down. That big headline on my website - on the front - it really says a lot about how I feel. "It's all one big plastic hassle." It's another name that movie quote.

About the Fred the Gargoyle story. It's been fun to write, flexing my fiction muscle a bit. It started as a dream, but, obviously (if you've been reading it) turned into a story. And I've been challenging myself by improvising the new installment every day. However, two of my friends who read my site say they just aren't into reading fiction online, so they've been skipping it. I was curious if anyone else out there in my massive readership (Hi mom) has been following it and wants me to continue. If you've enjoyed it let me know. At least for now, Fred the Gargoyle is going to take a hiatus. A mental vacances to the French Riveria. I hope he'll relax there more than I can.

If you are looking for something to read, here is a quick list of my favorite books of all time:
The Moors Last Sigh (Salman Rushdie)
The Alphabet Man (Richard Grossman)
Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Gojiro (Mark Jacobson)
Everything by Douglas Adams
London Fields (Martin Amis)
The People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
The Circus of the Earth & Air (Brooke Stevens)
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist (Mark Leyner)
The Fan Man (William Kotzwinkle)
Geek Love (Katherine Dunn)
Gun, With Occasional Music (Jonathan Lethem)
Septuagenerian Stew (Charles Bukowski)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Life A Users Manual (Georges Perec)
The Tax Inspector (Peter Carey)
Vurt (Jeff Noon)
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy (Laurence Sterne)

If anyone out there has read and loved any of these, and you've got an if-you-loved-that-you'll-love-this tip, then please e-me that as well. Thank you.