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The joke of not ever writing in this blog is that... it's still costing me money to host it and not write in it!

Part of me would like to downgrade this site to something lame and artificially artistic where I pretend that minimal equals serious and that I'm this really serious writer because everything is now a secret. You'd have to click around for a while to find this blog and when you got to it, it would definitely never be updated unless I'd just finished writing something--which never happens.

Let's take inventory.

Right now, I have four writing projects that I wish to consider that I am "working" on.

Ribcage
Halleluiah! Cafe
The Delilah Triangle
Untitled Weight Loss Memoir

One of these is a novel. One of these is a screenplay. Ribcage is... still unfinished as a project and my weight loss memoir is once again untitled until further notice.

One of the four, I will actively work on, starting today. There will be deadlines and consequences and minimum word outputs and everything. I know which one it is and if it isn't now, it's never... so it's now, now, now.

I will secrete more information on my new writing ultimatum as I feel more confident that I can actually uphold my deadline.

In other news, we still hate our jobs and we still have two cats. So not much else has changed. Actually, we REALLY hate our jobs and have 2.5 cats if you count the stray that climbs to the third story to meow at us for food every night. I've decided that we will feed this cat every day so that it can gain some weight for the upcoming winter, but we will never take it in because it is mostly afraid of us. Don't be a cocksucker to a server and don't order water "with a lime". You're not going to squeeze the lime into your water and you know it. It does not make you seem refined, rather than cheap.

I wrote this silly thing for Miranda July's art project Learning To Love You More. www.learningtoloveyoumore.com is the site where she posts random assignments like "Draw a picture of a friend's friend" and the general public does just that. Then, sometimes there are exhibitions of the public's work. Soon, there is going to be a book.

I completed assignment #60: Write a press release about an everyday event.

Then as per the detailed instructions, I sent my press release to three respectable news organizations.

You can read it here. On the top right.

Miranda July has a new book of stories out as well. It's called No One Belongs Here More Than You and the first third has been good to me so far.

Chuck Palahniuk's new book Rant was great in that I expect his books to be batshit crazy now from the get-go. It did not stray anywhere far from being batshit crazy, that's for sure. In fact, I think it's his most batshit crazy book to date. I mean this with love.

Today is Thursday and there is a new thing of fiction over at the place where I used to post fiction...Ribcage.org.

It wasn't an entire year!

For right now, I'll be posting stories as they come to me. Hopefully soon, every Wednesday again.