Last Thursday I did my first big reading at Barnes and Noble Tribeca.  About a hundred and fifty showed up.  It was a hit.  I had just spent the previous four days in the fetal position in bed from what had to be the swine flu.  I have never been so ill in my life.  I hadn’t eaten for four days, my head was splitting, my voice almost non existant but I did it.  I pulled it off.  My parents had flown three thousand miles to witness the event.  There were construction workers from my past, musicians, Larry Kirwin of Black 47, Chris Campion author of Escape From Bellevue, Brendan OShea.  We all headed over to Scratcher bar in the East village afterward for a party.  I crawled out of there with Renata at about 1.30 and it was still roaring strong.  So that’s it, number one out of the way.  Number two is next Sat at the Book Revue in Huntington Long Island, with an introduction by Chris Campion and then a reading at An Bael Bocht in the Bronx on Wed Feb 4.   If you get a chance come on down and say hello.

Friends, enemies, and fellow countrymen and women while I appreciate the wonderful comments I have been recieving I have decided to keep them all to myself. I feel like they are written to me personally and to publicise them on my blog page would cheapen them in some way. So thank you for all the compliments and writing advice. I will take it all into consideration. Just keep it coming. I am reading them. I have not been on here as much as I thought I would when I first set this thing up. I don’t have the time. If I have a spare minute I’m answering an email or returning a phonecall that’s long overdue. But over the next few days I will post a decent blog to clear the air, let everyone know what I’m up to…actually scratch that, I have absolutely no idea what I’m up to, why don’t you take a minute to tell me what you’re up to. That will be more fun for me. If you want me to contact you leave your email address that way at the end of every month I can throw them all in a big drum close my eyes and just pick one to respond to. Sleep well, love big.