waah! it's goodbye to DA... that new rights agreement that you get when you submit work is too too much. i'm not a lawyer, i don't know exactly what all that yadda yadda means... but i might like to sell my work someday. when the submit button is telling me that DA can

display, copy, [yadda yadda], and electronically or otherwise publish any or all of the Artist Materials, including any part of them, and to include them in compilations for publication, and

sublicense to any other person or company any of the licensed rights in the Artist Materials,

etc etc etc. that sounds to me like waaay too much to give over to DA.

but i'll miss y'all! you've been very kind. i'll miss your generosity & your general oddballness... i think i bought a subscription here (can't remember) for a while (maybe 6 months?) so anyway i'll check in to say hi & see what y'all are up to. meanwhile i'll be posting my work at [link] . ya, they have a rights notice too, but at least it's in english

goodbye! farewell! hasta! zaijian! sayoonara!

Ok so I've been working really really hard on a screenplay and haven't posted anything for a while. but i will post again, i swear! draft 1 of the screenplay is finished, so for the next few days i plan to write some silly silly short stories to reboot my brain.

but in the meantime, i was thinking about what to put on my tombstone, not that i'll have one cuz i'm going to be cremated and either composted or spread out in the middle of nowhere in the arizona desert, but anyway here's what i want my nonexistent tombstone to read:

WISH YOU WERE HERE.

BWAHaAHahAHaahahaHAahaaHaAHa!

what do you want yours to say?

for all of you puzzling over the latest in the Noo Yawk Times, or shaking your skull over Newsweek, trying to figure out how a 3rd rate mediocrity like george bush can destroy two whole, good countries... and whether you should stick to any of the diets that are now being debunked, remember:

WE ARE HERE TO FART AROUND.

that's all. that's a quote from my man kurt vonnegut, by the way. next time you have an existential crisis, read anything by kurt vonnegut. my own personal fave is Galapagos, but whatever floats your boat.

good. glad you're feeling better now.

many many thanks to all the deviants who've commented kindly on my stories and on the DD. you are all most generous... really gives this poor ink-stained wretch a huge lift.

thanks