Born to Hum Sunday, January 18, 2004

Duh. Everybody should buy this book, which came out a couple of weeks ago. It was many months in the making, and reflects well on everybody involved (if I may say so).

Just finished a short story! Hooray for life. Here's the first paragraph (which may change):

Stan Tyrker was an elevator man. He wore brown polyester slacks, a black-and-grey sweater and enormous glasses. He had a large kind face, pitted with acne scars and crowned by white hair. He had false teeth and it hurt him to talk, but not to chuckle, which he did often, almost noiselessly, with a kind of hiccup. The mug on his desk, which was full of pens, said that elevator men did it up and down. Somebody else had bought it for him.

Now back to the first Secret Thing, which as I said earlier, is a game but, for all you eagle-eyed readers, not an adventure. Secret Thing #2 is a long-running project with a friend who holds fast the Last Homely House on Staten Island. This is gonna be a good year, or I'll die trying.

Title courtesy Erin McKeown, a spunky folky with a number of wunnerful songs.

@ 8:53:00 PM,

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