Comments on: Pain Grin Again

By: Wayne Allen Sallee

Wayne Allen Sallee — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:04:11 +0000

Brian, I’m squeezing this out of my brain here. 2744B Valley Forge, Mount Vernon IL 63224. How close am I? Quack quack.

By: Wayne Allen Sallee

Wayne Allen Sallee — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:51:32 +0000

Tell Snake I’ll be hanging with Bunny at the Go-Go Hut if he doesn’t email me. I thought it was Clark Perry you were traveling with. Ah, well. I’m always illogical, Brian. And you might find this odd, but I dreamt about you about 5 AM today. You, me, and Jesus Gonzalez were in jail, on a cot, playing cards. The cell was lit up blue-white, blackness outside. Jesus looked resigned, as if he had been there longer than us. Is that flowing uphill for you?

Hmnn, let me guess. Carbondale? And I’m drawing a blank on the town you lived in on Valley Forge. I chalk that up to old age. Enjoy the wedding, I hope Snake isn’t wearing white.

–Wayne

By: Brian Hodge

Brian Hodge — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:19:23 +0000

Don’t let too many of those logic gateways snap into place. I’ve always thought you do your best work when there’s a prominent undercurrent of illogic running through it … flowing uphill, of course.

(Dispatched from a Super 8 motel, wedding guest room block, a couple hundred miles south of you. And Sean D says to say hey.)

By: Wayne Allen Sallee

Wayne Allen Sallee — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:05:58 +0000

Thanks, Sully, as always. I foolishly counted on my fingers wrong re: the times of day I take my bipolar meds, the times changed since they amped up the dosage in July. Then the Tier 4 unemployment took an extra week and a half to kick in. Back in the 80s, I kept myself on a hunger strike so I could better describe hunger pains of homeless people depicted in THE HOLY TERROR, and I really thought I was going to glide through this miscalculation. Just came back from up north at the readings, maybe the cold weather helped more of what passes for my logic gateways to snap back into place, and I could probably write a decent essay right now. Of course, my head is still empty, logic gateways locked in or not. Take care, my friend. Best in 2010 and watch for the blue moon on the 31st.

Wayne

By: Thomas Sullivan

Thomas Sullivan — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:16:42 +0000

Hell’s bells, man, a little fragmenting of your mental state only frees up those natural hallucinogens that fire your imagination. You are one of the iconic few who can probably do his best work under stress. You just seem to find the most telling details and themes when you have fewer tethers to lock you down. Said it badly, but I think you know what I mean.

– Sully

By: Wayne Allen Sallee

Wayne Allen Sallee — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:46:50 +0000

Thanks, Dave. Now to get over the general feeling everyone has when its a Monday, ha ha. Computer…friend, fire…bad.

By: David Niall Wilson

David Niall Wilson — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:33:30 +0000

If I can find a link later, I’ll add it – to the You Tube videos, I mean. Glad things are stabilizing…and yes, it worked. See, right off the bat even the computer is your friend…

Dave