YouTube

I have this theory that a large majority of the videos posted to YouTube are from middle school boys that land on the Autism spectrum somewhere. There are so many bizarro clips of video games with voiceovers that it's the only theory that works for me.

I'd like to get my music out there more (whatever "out there" means) so I thought YouTube might be a good place to start. I didn't realize that I've had a thousand some views on the five videos I've posted. Two of Eden when she was a baby, one of my niece Harper singing, and two of me playing a show a few years ago. Before I had that pesky nodule removed. More than half of the thousand fews (that's 500+ if you have trouble with division) are from the video of my niece. So, I'm not blowing up or anything ridiculous like that. But, I thought I'd start posting some videos of some songs I've been working on.

Here's the problem: It's super awkward to play in front of a computer for no one. I think I'm going to track down some stock video clips just so no one has to watch my weird mouth movements. But until I figure out how to do that:

Public Reading. Is it a weird idea? I'm undecided.

I have never been to The Loft, but I've heard great things about what it does for the literary community in the Twin Cities. I had a story published last spring in Grey Sparrow Magazine and, after finding out that they were based in St. Paul, I asked if they need any help. Diane, who runs the magazine, is a retired welfare worker and a phenomenal human being. She said I could help by doing some precursory reading for her and I jumped right onboard. It's good to have friends and Diane is a good friend to have. Grey Sparrow won the Best New Literary Journal of 2010 at last year's MLA shindig and it couldn't have gone to a sweeter woman. Or a better magazine. Lots of excellent stuff in there. ANYWAY: Thanks to Diane and Grey Sparrow, I'll be participating in my first literary reading. I'll be reading my short story, Painting Elephants, that first showed up in Grey Sparrow. I'm looking forward to it and if you think you'd like to experience a reading (I'll be a first-timer too) just let me know and I'll get you the details.

October 21st

7 PM

Grey Sparrow reading at The Loft in Minneapolis.