I’m going to be interviewed LIVE for a local web show, Positive OUTlook, this Thursday, September 1, at 1pm. Just go to http://outonline.com to watch the live feed. Afterward it will be archived on their YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/OutTVPittsburgh.
The show is health oriented, so talk is going to be along those lines (fantasy as part of a healthy sex life, etc). There’s a number where you can call in and also a chat room, which could be fun.
Repost from old blog, 3/14/2009
Here are pictures from a recent trip a friend and I made to the old Torrance State Hospital in Torrance, PA. I grew up around this place and it is the source of much legend and speculation. It seems that this building is not the actual hospital, but rather the staff quarters. Yes, apparently the staff lived on the hospital grounds 24 hours a day, which makes you wonder if you could tell them apart from the patients after awhile. Still, staff building or not, the place is suitably creepy and just an all-around great abandoned building.
Friends in the Pittsburgh area: I’m going to be reading at the one-year anniversary of the Cyberpunk Apocalypse project this Tuesday. Incidentally that’s the night before I move to a new apartment. So if I’m not stressed out enough, time to kick it up a notch by reading porn for an audience!
The Cyberpunk folks are some of my favorite people in Pittsburgh. A year ago they bought a house in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Lawrenceville and turned it into a writer’s cooperative and event space. They have a pretty sweet sci-fi lending library, and for most of this past winter held an erotica writing group which was fun and varied. They have a visiting writer’s program where you can come live in Pittsburgh for free for a month. They get national press out of, like, nowhere. Mostly I just like that they are casual yet manage to get things done. Dan, the guy who founded it, is a particularly potent writer and a friend of mine from a few years back when we took a autobiographical-writing class together, probably the best writing class I’ve ever had. Everyone connected; I don’t know how it happened.
Anyway, come out if you can!
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