Despite barely having a handle on my real life, last night I joined Second Life, the online simulated world. After shopping at the adidas store, and lurking in the “gay forest” watching a winged bear bothering some deer, I ran into an author I once sat next to at a book signing, then somehow ended up at a pirate-themed bar chatting with a guy from SanFrancisco. Which, now that I think of it, is basically a normal day in my real life - even the winged bear part.

If you haven’t joined Second life I highly recommend it. It’s more fun than the standard online chat room. And it’s not a “game” so you’re not required to do anything.
(I know the hair is not a faithful rendering of my own, but I’m working on it.)

Last summer I was on a talk show I’d never heard of on a channel no one gets, QTN. Watch me try to explain my Obscene Interiors book while boobs float in the frame behind me.

From the Kansas City Star last week:

“You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting you.”

Chuck Palahniuk chuckles as he says this, steering his pickup down Highway 14 just on the Washington side of the Columbia River. He’s saying you can’t judge an author by his books.

Come to think of it, he’s wearing a black T-shirt that says “Disappointed” in Disney-style script.

Palahniuk (pronounced “paula-nick”) loves the irony of this…

That would be my Disappointed shirt. I gave Chuck one last year after he complimented me on mine at a “Haunted” reading.

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With stickers, my Aunt improves what Monet started.

"Fucking faggot!" was yelled at me from a passing pickup in Hollywood yesterday. I’m sure it was my "Marriage is totally gay!" bumper sticker that caught his attention. But how refreshing, how old-school.

Had a great party for the launch of my book, "Obscene Interiors," book and print collection. Restauranteur, Fred Eric, tickled our tummies and eyes with bizzaro cheese towers among other eats.