a blog about elvis presley's music and records
I DON’T NORMALLY DO BOOK REVIEWS because I find it difficult to communicate my enthusiasm without including spoilers. But here I offer a short story review. Twenty-five years ago, I was turned on to Lew Shiner’s novel Glimpses. I loved the book and found Shiner’s other novels and read them and I became a fan. [Read more] “lew shiner, elvis, and “mystery train””
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a blog about Elvis Presley’s music and records
Mystically liberal Virgo enjoys long walks alone in the city at night in the rain with an umbrella and a flask of 10-year-old Laphroaig who strives to live by the maxim, “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble; it’s what you know that just ain’t so.
I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a college dropout (twice!). Occupationally, I have been a bartender, jewelry engraver, bouncer, landscape artist, and FEMA crew chief following the Great Flood of ’72 (and that was a job that I should never, ever have left).
I am also the final author of the original O’Sullivan Woodside price guides for record collectors and the original author of the Goldmine price guides for record collectors. As such, I was often referred to as the Price Guide Guru, and—as everyone should know—it behooves one to heed the words of a guru. (Unless, of course, you’re the Beatles.)
