Raising a glass of Kool-Aid (non-electric, but thanks) to Tom Wolfe, who wrote the book that set me on a course of exploring too many books and bands to mention.

I was fifteen or sixteen when I first picked up The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (from my high school library no less), and its wild tale wildly told opened up possibilities of writing that I hadn't considered until then. I started listening to The Dead, wearing terrible tie-dyes, and using ellipses and exclamation marks like crazy. (I stopped with the punctuation because only he could really pull it off). The tie-dyes took longer to shed.

I'm going to put his other great reads on my list to check out soon. Here's to Tom Wolfe and his electric writing.

 

I love photo caption contests. My favorite site for them is the Nashville Cream blog over at the Nashville Scene, which offers one up every few weeks or so. I've entered maybe ten of them in the past few years and somehow won three times, and I'm more proud of that than I should be. But there's just something about having a caption match up with a picture in a funny way that feels so...right. And, you know, prizes.

Had a chance to interview UK's Shame, a great young band that lives up to the hype they've been generating. Check it out in Performer Magazine 

Here's to staring at blank white pages, adding words to them and then obsessively reworking them until they're just right (or just right enough). It's good for the soul.