BAD GRAMMAR THEATER

THAT SECOND POST ABOUT DENNIS ETCHISON THAT I PROMISED

So. I read a copy of FEARS, part of a series of anthologies that the late Charles L. Grant edited in the early 1980s. It was in this book that I read "Deathtracks"and I stared at Dennis's name and thought about how this guy could be rooting around in my brain. I will always be a lesser man since his death in June.

At the last Bad Grammar Theater in June, Brendan Detzner allowed me to read "Deathtracks" and it allowed me to tell those gathered that if it wasn't for that story, I honestly would have never met any of them. Certainly not as a writer.

BAD GRAMMAR THEATER JUNE 2019

I had posted about reading the late Dennis Etchison's story "Deathtracks" at last month's Bad Grammar and left it at that. I hadn't uploaded any other photos and now that is rectified. We all know who Brendan is and the smiling fellow at the front entrance is Harold Holt, who happens to be my South Side Ride every now and then.

RAPID TRANSIT VOLUME ONE ON DISPLAY

Had some fun with the book at the Red Line stop at 87th & State. Mark Kolodny wanted photos of me in my Bobby the Mitch mask. And lastly, here I am holding the postcard for the book on the last night that Forte Framing was open for business.

THE SEPTEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING YEAR...

I was doing a reading at UIC as part of Brendan Detzner's BAD GRAMMAR THEATER, it was the middle of the month because Labor Day weekend throws everybody off. It had rained earlier in the evening and so there was fog. I walked from Halsted to State, over the Amtrak trains underneath Roosevelt Road. So this is my Thinking of Dad photo for the year.

BAD GRAMMAR THEATER AND POSSIBLE APRIL SNOW

But at least the ice is gone.

BAD GRAMMAR THEATER: JOY MOTEL

Not much to report of late, I'm heading up north in a bit and if I decide to read at Volumes, it will be to continue with Joy Motel.