So get this – right now 20th CENTURY GHOSTS is available over on Amazon, as a download for Kindle, for a big fat .99. No, not the title story of the same name… the whole collection. I’m not sure whether this is an AmazonFail, or a one-day promotion; apparently Neil Gaiman’s FRAGILE THINGS was also available for .99, around this time last week, for a single day, leading me to believe the latter. Whatever the case, if you got one o’ them Kindlethingees, here’s your chance to fatten your library with a book of stories on the cheap. Go help yourself.

(Yeah, yeah, I know. You don’t hear from me round these parts for a month, then I go and blog twice in one day. Go figure.)

A singer-songwriter named Aubin Thomas got in touch with me through Twitter, and passed along some old photos of me as a kid; her mother, Robin, used to work for my family back in the early 80s and had a few kicking around. And I hadn’t put anything up in a while, and thought everyone would enjoy seeing me in clownface. The clown in the backseat would be my sister. This particular pic dates from a trip to someplace called “Circusworld” which might’ve been in Florida. I figure I was 8 at the time.

And that is all.