City of Legends

Just saw a piece on CNN.com about alienation of affection lawsuits.  I never realized before that I could have filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit when I was living in Mississippi.  Of course, it would have been malicious, self-righteorus and ironic to do so…but such is life (since when did irony ever stop anyone else from behaving the way they do?  Irony drives the human personality!)  Check it out, though:  CNN:  Alienation of Affection Lawsuits.  Interesting material.

Yes, the new book, loveaddict, is nigh.  And yes, in keeping with my usual pattern I am already starting on the next book (Huerta is begging to be the cover of this one).  Plenty of anvils dropped about the name and focus, so I won’t give away anything here.  Do your damn homework, people.

Was reading a poet’s site that they had asked me to check out and I was ticked off.  They had several pieces listed as villanelles that were not, by any definition, the French Sonnet form, except in line count and rhyme scheme.  What, you say, isn’t that what defines a villanelle?  No, you silly un-French ass, the most important pillar of that form is the line repetition.  The poems were quite lovely, but they weren’t villanelles.  Period.  Don’t argue.  Try again.  Do better.

The Holidays are upon us.  I have some interest tales to tell from my recent Texas/Oklahoma visit.  And, yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.  I’m going to give away some of my books to some avid readers, as well as announce the frame of an Eastern-US tour for the Spring of 2010.

All in good time.