First, CreateSpace is giving me fits. I'm trying to get the audiobook for Love Letters reissued from there, but three attempts at uploading the ZIP file of my .AIF files is going nowhere. And so far support is unhelpful. Not to be a spiteful ass, but is this why the service is free? There's got to be some answer besides sending them a CD of the audio files–I was hoping uploading would take less time, but we'll see. Hell, if they don't work, there's always CafePress, but the joy of CreateSpace was getting them listed on Amazon. I'm trying to work through it, because I want to do Sunday Before You the same way and then more audio beyond that.

Second, as you might have seen, Daily Kicksplode is on permanent hiatus. If you didn't see it, it's because it never really caught on as far as having an audience went. And I just can't spend any time on things that aren't pulling their weight. I loved the concept of the site, but maybe someday if we go full-time with this nonsense, we can re-launch it. But for now, it's done.

Third, Colors Are Overrated is not on hiatus, but posting over there will be slow. As I do have a passion for black but it too has not enough of an audience.

Fourth, my first children's book is online. Emily & Oscar is up at emilyandoscar.com. I'll be building it online as well.

More news shortly, I believe. Stay tuned.

"The Haunted Palace"

"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"

Let me know what you think.

For those folks who might be visiting looking for information on the books, you can find them at the following places:

Mystics on the Road to Vanishing Point is available online under a Creative Commons license here or from Amazon in print form here.

Magnificent Desolation is available online under a Creative Commons license here or from Amazon in print form here.

That's right, you can read the books for free. No, I'm not nuts. If you like them, however, feel free to bookmark shop.needcoffee.com for when you shop online (because we get kickbacks), or heck, if you are in college or something and have no money then you can do other stuff that spreads the Needcoffee/One Tusk love. Either tell your friends about the books (or your enemies if you hated them) or you can bookmark help.needcoffee.com to do stuff that probably won't cost you a dime.

I'm easy.

Huge thanks to Rox of Spazhouse for setting this up for me to come and shill.

I'm also available for weddings and bar mitzvahs.

Hello.

From where I stand
I could lift one finger
and blot you out.

Were I to draw closer
it would take less effort
still.

Still,
when all is said and done, who
will have been the better thief?

Building ramparts from stone and wood,
or carving them from words and air,
either way, things are safer past the reach
of a single finger.

Safer for which of us,
I don't care to discuss.

There are merely moments,
adhering to the script, saluting your image.
Each stone, inscribed, says
just like every cell we've ever shed

–I'm in the wrong place
but you're not–

and we kaleidoscope between these
two vague locales
forever.

Forever and
always.

Always, the line never consummated.
Lovers of and in the mind.

The words turn into so many lovely colors,
all there to test what we have learned.

What we have learned.

And I paused.

Then I said, um, whose mind are you listening to?

10. "Silent Seven" – Controller.Controller
9. "Blue" – A Perfect Circle
8. "Drove Through Ghosts to Get Here" – 65 Days of Static
7. "Naked Cousin" – PJ Harvey
6. "In Transit (for you)" – Matchbook Romance
5. "We Know Something You Don't Know" – DJ Format
4. "Hide and Seek" – Imogen Heap
3. "Ode to Divorce" – Regina Spektor
2. "Untitled (everything but suicide)" – Gnarls Barkley
1. "Human" – Carpark North

Incidentally, a new chapter of Overkill is live here.

Okay, that's it. That's my rhyme. Take it to the streets.

And Episode 51 of Something Else was my contribution.

Plus, a new chapter of Overkill has gone live.

New music I dig this time around is "Turnstile Blues" by Autolux. Thanks to Communications Major, English Minor for the headsup.

Something Else's 50th episode is now online. I'm jazzed as hell. Thanks for everybody who's supported it, both in its original home and now here. Many thanks.

The latest chapter of Overkill is up here.

The third page of Next Wave #4 is up here.

Tee's latest segment of his DBM "Ginger" story is online here.

And here's the new music that helped fuel this stuff:

• Polloxniner tipped me off to Okkervil River's "For Real."
• Gorilla vs. Bear has a sweet track by Gnarls Barkley
• Between Thought and Expression pointed out a nice Ludacris/White Stripes mashup…and you know how I am about mashups…
• The ever helpful Aurgasm provided Hanne Hukkelberg's "Ease" and (in a separate post) Lhasa De Sela. Very nice.

Here was the original plan:

1. Get Sunday Before You published. Done.

2. Get it sold out. Working on it.

3. Reprint it and the out of print Love Letters in a single bound book along with a third "book's worth" of poems and lyrics entitled What I Did On My Summer Vacation. This would be the "outtakes" of the previous two books and all the remaining poetry I had that was worth a damn that was theretofore unpublished. Vacation would be book-only, to try and inspire folks to buy the thing.

Now that everything's going up online…there's no reason not to proceed and get it published. So therefore, as of now, my third bound book has the working title "Broken as Designed," a line from one of the songs and an album title I unfortunately never got to use. Once I get it organized, you'll get it up here and it'll be in the pipeline to get published.

In other news, the latest Something Else is now available here which kicks off the third season.

And the latest chapter of Overkill is up here as well.

Somebody asked what was going on over at the Internet Archive, and yes, I am putting things are they are finished over there as well as the audio page. If you like the stuff you've downloaded from here that's listed there, slap it a review up, would you? Every little bit helps.

P.S. The Lady Porphyre has the best line I've read in a week's time: "I'm in the wrong place, but you're not." It's pretty much a summary of the poetry I've written to date, in eight words. She's just that way.

Something Else #49, the third season opener, has a first draft completed.

I recorded "With Such Permanence as Time Has" this evening…I should have that up over the weekend. Nope, couldn't wait. It's up here.

And Next Wave #2 is now converted and online here.

And the first three tracks of The Sunday Before You are online on the audio page:

"Mithradates – He Dead", "Your Body is an Alien Thing" and "Laughed to See Such Fun".

Also, I love my Sidekick, true, but not this much.

In other news, the second part of my reading of "Call of Cthulhu" is now online.

You can expect the third season opener of Something Else to hit in the next few days. Episode 50 is already being sketched out.

I'm hoping to have some sketches of Eye up this week. My art supplies have been temporarily misplaced, however, so bear with me.

As you were.

So is the latest section of HTQ4's "Ginger" story from Dark Blue Monstropolis. Find that here.

And I'm converting Next Wave as fast as possible. The first fifteen pages are up, plus the cover.