Howdy folks:
Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 293. This one’s available to free and paid subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.
In this episode I wonder if humans getting back together again might be the secret to a new bliss, even though I wouldn’t call it that. I also explore the balance between the mystery of life and the mystery of what’s under the refrigerator. Scroll down for photos and marginalia related to this episode.
Thank you for your terrific support of the new book, which has also put a bounce in the sales of Forty Acres Deep. Orders placed by December 12 should arrive by Christmas.
In other news, what it’s like to go from pitching straw bales in Wisconsin to pitching scripts in Hollywood? How does an L.A. entertainment attorney take his parrot for walks? Why are people who supposedly don’t read, buying books? Why did the twine snap? What would my mother think of what I said in that meeting? What’s Louis L’Amour got to do with it? Is that really the best use of a snow plow? And what is veracity, and can it heal us?
All of these questions and more are answered in an essay I wrote now available online in the “Stories of America” section at Panoptica. Click here to read (paying subscribers to this Voice Mail received advance readings of early drafts as I developed it).
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See y’down the road,
Mike
MARGINALIA
(Annotations from books Mike is reading, or annotations related to the episode)
The refrigerator situation:
“Paralyzed,” by S. Carey:
Below, the auditorium (I understand they now call it the ballroom). Imagine it candlelit with the band in the round down there where those chairs are. Oh, and electric candles, Fire Marshal Bill.
The book cited in today’s episode:
Notes toward the essay that may or may not arise from this:
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Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents is available in print and as an ebook. Also available as an audiobook.
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