I’m going to write a story about an over-protective dad who murders the bullies at his kid’s school and then blackmails the person at the licensing center into letting the kid pass his driving test. I’ll call it ‘LICENSE, LICENSE, LICENSE’. It’s going to be very excellent, and political also because it’s about authoritarianism and violence.

btw, how come I can’t write a story without someone dying in it? I guess I always write manly stories so that kinda explains it. Even if the stories are always taking the piss out of the men in them, they still have to have plenty of cowboys and rocket ships and strange deaths to make them cool and manly enough in the first place.

Um, how cool are the band Be You Own Pet? Fuck yeah. Girls on TV is an especially awesome song.

Oh, and I’m having a Jean Stafford short story revival. If you’ve never read any of her stuff, get the collected stories and try ‘Philosophy Lesson’ or ‘A Reading Problem’. They’re all American and stuff.