There are wants, and then there are NEEDS.

Favorite line from today's writing: "No fair, you take worse care of yourself than a rodeo clown."

This latest version of David Lynch speaks to me anew, as though for the first time.

Nerd level-up, 55 points: a Tascam Portastudio 414mkII cassette 4-track. The one-time apex of DIY recording tech. Found locally with ~5min lifetime use, then boxed away for decades like a time capsule. This is unicorn stuff.

I love this image. It’s the cover of the series bible for the in-development adaptation of “The Same Deep Waters As You.” Apologies, but there's no showing the inside.

Favorite line of dialogue written this weekend: “A vague intention mumbled over a whore’s belly, or a table where I may or may not have just vomited, in no way constitutes a sworn oath.” Because it’s always good policy to toss in a few words to live by.

The good news is, another TV deal fell out of the sky late this afternoon. The flipside ... I still can't talk about any of this latest stuff yet.

Henceforth, in perpetuity, you all are deputized to remind me to never again get myself into a situation where I’m in completion-of-novel mode at the peak of ragweed season.

The key to completing a big project: incentivizing rewards. I was not allowed to open either of these until the new novel was done & sent in. After a final 38-hour push, with just a couple hours sleep late Saturday, as of ~3am this morning ... THEIR DAY HAS COME.

THE IMMACULATE VOID gets a great shout-out here. I just got paid for the Russian translation rights to VOID and its companion collection, SKIDDING INTO OBLIVION. So at least it will be back in print, in … umm … Cyrillic.

I forgot this even *was* in audio. 😳

Yesterday, at the guitar exhibition at Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Well played, curators. Well played.

After seeing someone give a feeble moan that Robert Eggers’ THE NORTHMAN looks “pretentious,” it occurs to me that by now I can't help but see the p-word as code for “This demonstrates more ambition than my comfort zone allows.”

Good to see The Immaculate Void getting some of that sweet, sweet listicle love.

It's a deep obscurity that, yes, John Ford and I once had a thing. Al Swearengen just sat back and looked bemused.

For those of you of the book collector persuasion: I’ve listed the last time-capsuled, 27-years-in-cryo, never-distributed hardcover of my 1st collection, The Convulsion Factory, on eBay. Take it off my hands, eh? ebay.com/itm/3256727558…

Well, damn. I’m certainly well employed by that prose training program for AI. On the other hand, would I get a pass for using AI to take over work on my current novel-in-progress as long as I told it to write like me?

A blog post I did at my site the other day, a reflection on the place of the beloved critters in our lives and the sorrow of saying goodbye. Which may resonate with anyone who’s ever loved & lost. The Loss That Never Gets Any Easier to Bear — Brian Hodge brianhodge.net/news-views/los…