Wherein the David Tomaloff gets most beautifully Stuck Between Stations and TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer explodes on impact.

David Tomaloff from Connotation Press on Vimeo.

Much explosion. And a most beautifully rought live Connotation rendition of the Tomaloff's totally crackling Stuck Between Stations from the Dogzplot.  

“So it's sorta social. Demented and sad, but social, right?” We are Dogzplot Flash Fiction - Ben Tanzer issue.

Quite sad. And totally demented. But yes social for sure and very wonderful as well. The always awesome Barry Graham and Dogzplot has gone all Tanzer for its new edition and vast embarrassment aside, it is humbling in its sheer terrificness and we are thrilled about the line-up of contributors, all of whom we find freakishly attractive and sort of love - BL Pawelek, David Tomaloff, Ryan Bradley, Dave Housley, Tom Williams, and yes, even Ben Tanzer himself. Mass appreciations everyone and big love all around.    

We were off the grid. And now we are Dogzplot theme issue. Let goodness ensue.

More here. Big thanks to the G Funk for all of it.

You Can Make Him Like You receives some Top Ten book love from the Dogzplot.

Quite excited are we. And quite heady company that. Big thanks Dogzplot.

We are Fab 5. Sweetness.

Quite geeked we are to be included, along with the Suzanne Burns, in the new edition of the DOGZPLOT Fab 5 series, where authors are invited to share the five pieces of their work they wish could get a little more attention. We chose to focus on pieces that ran in Thieves Jargon, decomP, RAGAD, THE2NDHAND and Dogzplot itself, and we are most appreciative for the chance to do so. Big thanks Dogzplot, drinks, and dogs, on us, when next we meet.

Nothing or Next to Nothing. Review. Pank. Whoot.

We have been terrifically geeked to check out long time TBWCYL, Inc. favorite and This Podcast Will Change Your Life podcastee Barry Graham's soon to be released novella Nothing or Next to Nothing by the stellar Main Street Rag and are now geeked squared after reading this quite fine early review from the Pank. So, please do take a look, please pre-order and please be prepared to have any and all of this change your life, because we think it will, a lot, like now even.

"Nothing or Next to Nothing works. It doesn’t try to be too clever despite the non linear storytelling. It is as gentle-paced as amphetamine and inhabits a universe diametrically opposite from the Waltons."

Ignoring all snow-related worries and thoughts of rampant narcissism, we will be reading at this Thursday night and we are quite jacked about that.

2011 AWP conference reading love.

Quite thrilled we are to be reading as part of this stellar lineup at AWP in February. That said, we now need a ride there, a place to stay and some per diem money, so please don't hesitate to offer any or all of these things because they will be warmly embraced and accepted.

We have new piece. "More Than Anything" is up at the Necessary Fiction and we are most appreciative.

We are quite thrilled and most appreciative to have a new piece up at the Necessary Fiction. It is titled More Than Anything and it is part of a group of quasi-interlocking stories we worked on last summer which also include Goddess at Annalemma, So Different Now at Dogzplot, That's It at CellStories and Never Said at Girls With Insurance. We would add that Spider-Man makes a brief appearance in this piece, well, the idea of Spider-Man anyway, and that for your reading pleasure we have pasted a brief excerpt below.

“So,” she says smiling, “do you think this guy is stalking you or what?”

They are going out to lunch together. She is the intern. She is young and vibrant, if a little weird and awkward, with her interest in graphic novels, Spider-Man, and him, all things he is interested in as well.

He normally makes it a point to avoid the younger employees, especially the female ones.

He wants to get to work, get what needs to be done, done, and then get home to his wife, and his real life.

Because that’s the thing, like Spider-Man he lives in two worlds, and his real life has little to do with work or who he is at work."

New piece. Never Said. Girls With Insurance. Nice.

Yes, quite geeked we are. We have a new piece up at the Girls with Insurance titled Never Said and it is part of the recent group of stories written by TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer following and inspired by the Repetition Patterns virtual book tour. Some of the stories from the group already published include Goddess at Annalemma, That's It at CellStories and So Different Now at Dogzplot. We want to thank P.H. Madore and the crew at Girls with Insurance for running with this one and for your reading pleasure, please enjoy a brief excerpt below.

"We’re at the Park Diner. My dad Tommie is sitting across from me. He looks haggard, tired. His skin is pasty and washed-out. He’s not talking, so I’m not talking either, but it doesn’t matter because it’s hanging there between us.

Cancer.

Motherfucker.

“Don’t look so upset kid,” my dad finally says, “it’s going to be fine.”

I look away so he won’t notice that I’m crying and I see the painting of Icarus across the room. The painting has been there forever which means that Icarus has been falling forever as well, no respite in sight.

“What’s next?” I ask.

“I could go home and die,” my dad says, “one doctor already suggested that, or I can try this new experimental trial they are starting at Lourdes.”

I don’t say anything.

“Look bud, I’m past normal shit, its experimental or its nothing, but there’s this hot shot doctor that just moved here and he’s bringing the trial with him.”

I’m still at a loss, how am I supposed to react to something like this, especially since I have spent a significant chunk of my life hating him and hoping he would die."

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Seventeen - Stories. Redux. And Re-Release.

Tacos, Las Vegas and Barry Graham. Episode Seventeen.

New piece "Goddess" at the Annalemma. Yes, that Annalemma.

Quite thrilled we are. We have a new piece titled "Goddess" up at the Annalemma and this we think is awfully cool. "Goddess" is part of a group of Binghamton stories written by TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer inspired by and following the This Tour Will Change Your Life blog tour for Repetition Patterns. Other stories from this group include "So Different Now" at the Dogzplot and "That's It" at the CellStories. We think more are to come soon, but in the interim please do hit the Annalemma and for a brief excerpt please look below.

"We’re in high school, its senior year and Jenny is a goddess, an untouchable goddess with a brown bob haircut, freckles, crazy green eyes and ridiculous soccer calves. Everyone wants her. Not just me, though maybe no wants her more than me, something she knows all too well."

Metrics. Shout-outs. Mass love. Or if you prefer, a Fire Sale Week One Wrap-up. Well, that and the Rules of Fire Sale.

There has been one week of Fire Sale. We have changed lives and we have sold books, ten alone to the awesomely attractive crew at Dispatch Litareview. The video has been watched almost 300 times on YouTube, the Fire Sale post at Orange Alert has been visited almost 400 times and there have been endlessly heartwarming shout-outs from our newest and bestest friends at HTML Giant, Dogzplot, Hambone's Heartache, Modern Confessional, Moondoggy's Pad, No More Hot Lunches for Eddie Socko and ML Press. We are much appreciative for all of the support, but before we go we just want to be sure we are clear about the rules of Fire Sale. The first rule of Fire Sale is ,you do talk about Fire Sale. And the second rule of Fire Sale is, you DO talk about Fire Sale. Any questions? Cool. And as you were.

CellStories loves us. Well, they love our new story "That's It" anyway. Which is cool with us. Totally cool.

So yeah, we are really geeked that the new and very cool Dan Sinker joint CellStories has run with our story "That's It" for today's daily dose of awesome. CellStories is accessible through any mobile devise with a Webkit-based browser, i.e, your iPhone, iPod touch or Android-based phone, and we hope you will take a look. We also though you might want to know that this story is part of a so-called "story-cycle" inspired by the discussions we had during This Book Tour Will Change Your Life about the themes - fathers, sons, chicks, substance abuse - and locations - update New York, Thirsty's, The Park Diner - in our collection Repetition Patterns. The first story published from this group was titled "So Different Now" and it ran in Dogzplot, which we were equally geeked about. We recognize that this is a lot of geeked, but please note that we are committed to having this addressed. We are also committed to sharing a mini-excerpt from the "That's It" with you at this time and we have done so below.

"I knew though that if my dad had been there and not running around with whoever he was seeing at the moment he would have told me to suck it up, that fear was for pussies."

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Seventeen - Stories.

Bam! The new episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life is here, like right now. It is titled Stories and it stars none other than the quite cool Barry Graham, author of TBWCYL, Inc favorite The National Virginity Pledge and grand master of Dogzplot, Paper Hero Press and the most excellent Achilles Chapbook Series. We are quite geeked to have connected with him before he bundles up the family and heads off to his new gig at Rutgers and we think you will be as well. Please note, that if you choose to access the podcast via the above link it will take you directly to our page on imeem. If you choose to listen below, imeem now limits these embedded recordings to 30-second previews and asks you to follow their link if you want hear the full recording. That link also takes you to our page and so given this you may be wondering why we have embedded the recording here at all. Frankly, we don't know why, but please enjoy our new joint anyway, because we feel fairly confident it will change your life.

This post just might be about something that involves TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer, his writing and the very cool Achilles Chapbooks series.

We are not going to say exactly what it is we might be alluding to, but we can say that we are very excited to be working on a new thing with Barry Graham and his crew at the very excellent Achilles Chapbooks series. Barry is thinking we might be running with this something this coming summer and we are thinking that we are quite geeked about all of this, because we are not only big fans of what Barry is doing with this series, which we would add has published many writers we dig including but not limited to the Jamie Iredell and J.A. Tyler, but we are also big fans of his writing, see our riff on The National Virginity Pledge, and zinesterness, please check-out the quite rocking Dogzplot if you have not done so already. This is all really good-stuff and we are excited to be part of it. Many thanks to Barry for the interest and we will keep you apprised of what's up with this project as it progresses.

So Different Now, more Binghamton inspired story and Repetition Patterns related weirdness at the Dogzplot.

When we were on the Repetition Patterns blog tour and endlessly talking about ourselves, Binghamton, and the themes intertwined throughout the stories in the collection, one of the odd, yet wonderfully unexpected benefits were a series of ideas we had for new stories inspired by Binghamton and said themes - confusion and anger specifically. In a somewhat oddly timed turn of events then during what is already an odd and sad week, So Different Now, the first of these stories has found a home at the kick-ass literary zine Dogzplot and can be read as of today. We hope you will take a look and we hope more of these stories will follow.

Pink and Orange Graham? Yes, totally, its more writer on writer love. Plus some interview.

The highly entertaining and oddly coincidental stretch of recent TBWCYL, Inc. favorite writers talking to other favorite writers of ours continues with a killer interview on What to Wear During An Orange Alert between the possibly real Sam Pink, he of many excellent publications, including Move in With Me, the first ever piece published in This Zine Will Change Your Life and newish best friend ever Barry Graham publisher of Dogzplotz and author of The National Virginity Pledge. It is much fun, so much fun in fact, that the disctinct possibilty that reading it may also change your life seems almost secondary. Almost.