See that picture up top there? The artsy one, with the most excellent surrealist flare? The one where I’m dipping bacon in coffee and channeling the King?

<= How about this one? Yeah, this one right here, where I look like a lost album cover from Tom Waits Early Years… Or the ones on Google+, Crackbook and the Tweeterz?

Planned, staged, snapped and revamped by my Very Special Lady Friend, formerly known as The Divine Ms Liz, now known as Liz Howerton, master-photographer-in-training.

My beloved is undoubtedly talented, blessed with a natural grace and touched from on high by the Gods of Olympus with the gift of the Golden Eye. She has found her calling and is pursuing it, beginning her travels today, as a photography student, in the highest palace of wisdom in the land. She is facing University Education, staring it down and making it her bitch. Starting today, and continuing every day, she is her own being, her own Woman, and my hero.

Go check out her new website www.lizhowerton.wordpress.com where you can find links to her amazing work and keep up on her journey. And go give the likes to her Facebook page for even more unbridled excellence.

I loves ya baby. Go get ’em.

LIZ HOWERTON on 500PX

I done got Jack’d!

Jack Wallen, (most excellent author of Shero, the I Zombie series, and the Fringe Killer books) invited me over for a little tête-à-tête that resulted in some lively discussion of fiction, fallacy and fallopian tubes (OK, maybe not fallopian tubes, but it was a natural alliterative progression. Cut me some slack!) 

Check it!

Axel Howerton Gets Jack’d

And get yourself on over to Smashwords to pick up a free copy of the Axel Howerton sampler, featuring Living Dead at Zigfreidt & Roy, plus four more weird little gems. All that twinkle and shine, baby! Vegas dead! Office pirates! Los Chupacabras! Galactic Empire plumbing problems! Henry Rollins gets pissed!

How can you turn down that much bizzaro for zero dollars? You can’t do it.

My thoughts on “Freedom in the Age of Idiocracy”

Twain! Jimmy Buffett!  And, yes. I actually say something nice about whatserface that wrote Twilight!

Check me out on Writer Wednesday on Red Tash.com

“Do not yield to the pressures of Corporate culture, who say we need to endlessly replicate anything even moderately successful. Go your own way, create your own reality. Leave off trying to be just like Twilight or Harry Potter or James Patterson. Stop dreaming of being Stephen King. There is already a Stephen King and part of him wishes he could be you, with all the freedom and opportunity you hold so gently in your hand.”