Spam, Spam, Spam and More Spam

Something has gone bonkers on my new website, and I am getting spammed with hundreds of messages.  Which means it’s really had for me to filter through the hundreds of messages to find the actual messages from those of you who are real people.  So apologies if your message hasn’t been approved yet.  I’m drowning in spam right now.  I’m sure the great people at Orphic will get it fixed quickly, but in the meantime bear with me. Also, somebody is sending trollish messages...

When “Fame” Strikes

Strange things happen when you appear on movie screens all across the country.  Odd connections are made.  But let me wind back and put this story in context.  I have quite a few Persian rugs.  The one in the living room is an antique, blue and cream and gold and it’s huge, roughly twenty feet by eleven feet.  It hasn’t been cleaned in six years, and it was definitely time.  The damn cats will run off the stone floor and onto the nearest rug to barf.  Gotta love cats, but I...

It’s Exhausting

So my anthropological investigation of on-line dates needs to come to and end.  Partly because I suck at it, and partly because to do it well would require hours and hours of time going through profiles and I have books and scripts to write, a horse to ride, friends to see, books to read, a house to tend, etc. etc.  In short I have a life, and this feels way more like work than anything else.  I need to find a new technique.

A Little Sanity, Please?

So before I get verbally assaulted by NRA types — for the record.  I am a gun owner.  I have a Beretta 9 millimeter pistol.  I would like to get a .40 calibre, I like how they handle.  I have been trained to use said weapon.  I enjoy shooting. AND THIS IS FUCKING NUTS! Please people some rational limits on this please.  Register the guns.  Make people take a safety course before they can buy a gun.  We make make people learn to try and pass a test before they get to drive because cars...

Boycott

It’s going to be a small protest on my part, and have utterly no effect, but at least I won’t have given my money to the new film Zero Dark Thirty.  I really wanted to see this film.  Bigelow is a terrific director, the subject matter dramatic — the hunt for Bin Laden, but the film creates the strong impression that he was found because of torture, and that is simply not true.  In hearing after hearing it was clearly established that it was painstaking research and analysis...

New Mexico Wonder

As I’m driving home from the barn today I saw a critter dart across the road in front of me.  At first I thought it was a coyote, but it was too small.  It paused under a stand of piñon trees, laid down, and regarded me.  Then I realized it was a feline.  I stopped the car, rolled down the window and called.  It blinked at me.  That when I realized it was too damn big to be a house cat.  He/she watched and I talked to the big kitty.  Then I got out of the car, and it started to flee....