Hello cats and dogs.

Good afternoon friends. I am writing a quick missive to let you know some things going on in JTown here lately. We have several things in the works right now and I am taking about a week off from this site. Please check back with me soon for some very good new posts. Or at least entertaining posts. I am actually writing a book to be sold via Amazon and through social media outlets. This is not for some vanity project but just to put my toes in the sand with making some of my writing official, as it were. More importantly, I am doing it to leave something funny/entertaining/interesting for my sons to have, as a personal reminder of their parent's lives, their mom's thoughts and other helpful tips.

This book will be the first of several I have been working on (ending in a preposition there, not good). I have had dozens of articles already bought for other people's websites and now am ready to do something that is not "for" someone else (although I totally enjoy writing, in any capacity). So, the next few days I will be doubling down, editing, self editing, mentally thrashing myself for editing, and in general, having minor fits over what words have to go (sorry words, I love you sooo..). I will be back, probably within the week, but in the meantime am creating my new book from posts on here, along with several new ideas that will be "new to you". So, when I come knocking at your wallet door, be ready to shell out the big e-book bucks, about $3. Times are tight, so start putting those pennies away and use them to support your friend's quest for personal bucket list item crossed off! Love you to all, fearless bold and wonderful friends!

Please click on link below, i would not lead you into a trap promise. Thoughts and prayers for the people of Boston and the world in general.

http://bostonmarathonconspiracy.com/

In honor of Pablo Nerudo and his loved ones, as they exhume his body to look for evidence of poisoning. One of my most beloved poets, I discovered him while in high school and, like many poetry lovers, love most of his poems and find others to be only adequate. If you understand this, then I have found one more friend in the big world. Enjoy my friends.

Here I Love You

Here I love you.
In the dark pines the wind disentangles itself.
The moon glows like phosphorous on the vagrant waters.
Days, all one kind, go chasing each other.

The snow unfurls in dancing figures.
A silver gull slips down from the west.
Sometimes a sail. High, high stars.
Oh the black cross of a ship.
Alone.


Sometimes I get up early and even my soul is wet.
Far away the sea sounds and resounds.
This is a port.

Here I love you.
Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.
I love you still among these cold things.
Sometimes my kisses go on those heavy vessels
that cross the sea towards no arrival.
I see myself forgotten like those old anchors.

The piers sadden when the afternoon moors there.
My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose.
I love what I do not have. You are so far.
My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights.
But night comes and starts to sing to me.

The moon turns its clockwork dream.
The biggest stars look at me with your eyes.
And as I love you, the pines in the wind
want to sing your name with their leaves of wire. 

Pablo Neruda

http://io9.com/snowpiercer-passports-shows-us-all-what-life-on-the-pos-470884491

Tilda Swinton is one of my favorite actresses/artists/modern performers. Besides her recent stint at the MOMA sleeping inside a glass box while museum attendees watched, I have to say I've loved her in every single role she has played in films. She even made "Constantine" standable. Looking forward to this interesting looking film! (If you've never seen "I Am Love", then your life just isn't fulfilled).

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/fighting_words/2012/08/christopher_hitchens_mortality_the_unpublished_jottings_of_the_late_great_writer_and_thinker_.html

Take the time to read this article and remember how delicious is was to have Christopher Hitchens around. I discovered him in high school and followed his up and down public life along with his more personal questions about politics and his own following of the right/left crowd. This bothered many people, his changing of the mind after 9/11 but I was proud of how willing he was to be human enough to check out the other side, to see how it fit his mind, and to not bow down to his constituents. I think this made him more of an enlightened writer in the end, having traveled the path of questioning things, and his writing as he died reflects his brutal honesty. I still miss his writing in Vanity Fair, the only reason really I kept their subscription for a while and still read it online. His older essays and more modern ones speak of a person who was really more relateable than he was in his earlier disco era hipster days. But aren't we all...RIP Christopher Hitchens  - we are still enjoying you. And isn't that was writing is all about, leaving something behind.