Fanfare has published a very long interview with me. The deal was they’d send me copies of the magazine and tell me when the interview would go on the Website. Neither promise was kept. Color me SHOCKED!!!!!!!!! The interviewer was Robert Schulslaper. Note that it’s a classical-music publication. The was Mike Albee’s idea of publicity….
How to piss me off
March 1, 2014
A few days ago a Scottish mental patient went off on me like nobody has in years. I don’t know the guy. He objected to this post; I can’t remember what he said exactly because the moderator of the site deleted all of his comments. Here’s the gist. “You’re a narcissistic, childish, aging failure and attention…
The rot goes too deep
February 28, 2014
Today I stop trying to hold Mike Albee and Lura Dold accountable for defrauding me of $40,000 by exploiting the suicides of my parents in 2013. The rot goes too deep. What convinced me was this story, which the global media picked up. Nasty LinkedIn rejection goes viral (CNN) — When you’re a city’s “Communicator…
Mike Albee outs himself as a fraud
February 28, 2014
A con artist relies on people not checking too deeply into his background. I was guilty of that when I hired Mike Albee and Lura Dold of Sandpiper Publicity on July 5, 2013. In my defense, I’d just fired another ripoff PR firm—one that has a stellar reputation, by the way—that same day, and the…
Mike Albee was warned
February 25, 2014
When I found out on January 7, 2014, that Mike Albe and Lura Dold of the fake agency Sandpiper Publicity had defrauded me of $40,000 by exploiting the suicides of my parents in 2013, I offered Mike the opportunity to reimburse me. He never responded. PayPal refunded me $9000 after I provided them with incontrovertible…
The pain of cashews and broccoli
February 23, 2014
About two weeks before Mom had her cancer surgery on April 4, 2013, she began to starve herself. I’ve written before why she did it. The law of unintended consequences bit us all in the ass: Mom, her parents, the nuns, Tim, me—everybody. Collectively, we were screwed. There’s no recourse. It happened, and it can’t…
The joys of having a nonfunctional brain
February 22, 2014
The last coherent thing my father said to me was, “It’s hell when your brain doesn’t work.” Since I’d been knocked for a loop by the knowledge that we’d come to the end of the road, and now he’d have to go into hospice, I spoke without thinking. “Well, think of it as a vacation,”…
Watch for patterns
February 20, 2014
In Ghosts and Ballyhoo, one of the Lessons Learned is “Watch for Patterns,” pages 273-274. Watch for the patterns. They might help you perceive your destiny, make the right decisions, dodge a lot of grief, and endure that which you thought you couldn’t. A month ago, my cardiologist told me that I’d lost all the…
Beware what you wish for
February 18, 2014
I was once forced into a family dispute among people I neither knew nor liked. It started when I saw a young woman sitting on the porch of a house, waiting. The elderly man who lived there was a friend of my mother’s, so I approached and asked if there was anything wrong. My parents…
I love you but you are wrong
February 14, 2014
One of my favorite actors is Orson Welles. His masterpiece is Touch of Evil. It’s a perfect film. The characters, plot, music, pacing, dialog, delivery of the dialog, editing, camera angles—everything is exceptional. As an actor Welles conveyed pathos extremely effectively, even when he was a monstrosity. He played monstrosities often in his career: Charles…