noble snowbeast

Our noble beast and star of
The Orphanage of Abandoned Teenagers

movie time

Watched 2 great movies.
Cry Danger (1951) and
Manhattan Melodrama (1934).
There's a trailer park and a movie theater
in the new book I'm writing. 

valentine

Here's a chapter from my 2010 book
The Mermaid Translation:

Ribbon

Before he went any further, Sanford thought of the mermaid. He stopped at a table set up on the sidewalk under an iron sunflower. A bead of water dripped onto him, off the wide petal above.

He smiled at the seller and she gave him a pen and a ribbon of blue paper. He thought for a little bit. Carts went by, people were talking, a couple laughed, a girl chased a dog past, then he wrote the words to fill the paper up.

“Could you have this sent to the Mermaid Café?” he asked. He put a couple old looking silver coins in her hand and she nodded.

He stood there, watched her scroll the paper into a roll to fit in the little tube tied to the carrier pigeon. The bird flapped itself importantly and lifted off her hands into the sky. There were so many lines flying laundry up above that Sanford lost sight of it behind a wet purple shirt.

movie time

Watched Swing Time (1936) again.
I spent a lot of time watching Fred Astaire &
Ginger Rogers' movies, The Thin Man films,
The Marx Brothers, the uplifting musicals and
comedies of the 1930s and 1940s.

Homeless Sutra

I just sent the latest Good Deed Rain book
off to the printer. HOMELESS SUTRA is
4 adventures: featuring the return of Sylvan
Moore, a flying monk, a water salesman,
and a guardian rabbit. The book will be
published near end of this month. The cover
painting is by Laura Vasyutynska who also
illustrated DIFFERENT PLANET, my sci-fi
book. More soon.

NY Review of Clyde's book

Larry Smith gave a great review of
Clyde Sanborn's book in the New York
Review of Books. Clyde would be over
the moon! Here's the link:

https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/go-flow-tribute-clyde-sanborn

Review