Shenanigan Report - Gallowmass is Approaching
This is going to be a long one. Be sure to head all the way down to the bottom for a sneak peak of what's coming to the Gallowglas Army site.
GATHERINGS
Every month, we do the Final Friday Social Hour from 5:30pm to 7pm (Pacific Time) on Zoom. I'll post the link in the Gallowglas Army Discord, or you can message me somewhere.
Starting in May, I'll be hosting Creative Co-Working Sessions on Thursdays and Saturdays from 7-10 in the Gallowglas Army Discord. If I'm running a class or workshop, I'll pop in to start the session, then bow out to do the class.
Also starting in May, I'll host the Second Saturday Show Off, which will be part open mic, part show and tell. Read us something. Show off that new thing you got. Tell us a story about a recent adventure. Brag about something cool you have or have done!
We're two weeks away from my birthday, which has grown beyond my control, thanks largely to the Gallowglas Army. Y'all continue to amaze and astound me with your support. With that being said, get ready for...
13 Days of Gallowmass!
I've got many in-person and virtual events throughout the whole celebration. Keep checking the schedule page. Even a couple of days ago, I had to move a couple of things around because my schedule changed up. That tends to happen in the life of a hustling creative. I hope to see some of y'all at the events.
We'll kick off with an in-person birthday party in the Northern Sacramento Area on May 5th, Cinco De Michael. The Adventure Chef is making Irish Tacos. I don't know what those are, so we'll find out together. Let me know if you want to attend, and I'll send you the virtual invitation. I don't want to dox my friend's house.
IRISH TACOS!!! (Also good wine, whiskey, hot tub, heated pool, and I might do some performing.)
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!
For those of you who enjoy my performances, I've been posting a poetry reading a day on my Patreon absolutely FREE for people to enjoy.
Day 1 - Urban Odyssues
Day 2 - Laundromat Boogie
Day 3 - Totally Not a Poser
Day 4 - This Innocent World
Day 5 - Kaleidescope Faith
Day 6 - No One Here Sells the Map of All Your Memories
Day 7 - Daedalus Remains
Day 8 - Voice-Over Narration of My Meta Memoir
Day 9 - Family Thermodynamics
Day 10 - How Shall Childhood Be Remembered?
Day 11 - Strange By Design
Day 12 - What Stories Shall We Remember
Day 13 - All That Glitters
Day 14 - Thought Experiment
Day 15 - Coming Second
Day 16 - On the Other Side of Blues St
Day 17 - What Legacies Shall We Leave?
Day 18 - The Gallowglas Poetic Form
Day 19 - What's Outside a Name
Day 20 - Poetry On the Down Low
Day 21 - Wander Into More Ancient Realms
Day 22 - Seasonal Changes
Day 23 - Spin
Other Patreon Goodies
I'm wrapping up work on the Nathanal Hayze adventures, ending in May. Those are handwritten letters of a man conscripted into naval service. Current patrons have been receiving them in their snail mail. I've got two more of these coming up. One will be posted each day of Gallowmas and then emailed collectively on the Monday afterward. I'll also start a new monthly adventure in May. This one will be about a young woman who follows her grandfather into the desert to find their lost family goldmine.
I'm also posting daily audio recordings of The Wondering Project, a book I wrote a day at a time in 2023, where I mused about writing.
Short Story Saturday is returning. Patrons get to suggest titles for some of the stories.
UPCOMING RELEASES
April 30
Cameos 2
The Nemo Point
May 23
Legend of the Dragon Bone Flute
The Re-Imagined Dragon
June 10
The Sharpened Edge of Fate - Tears of Rage, book 5
UPCOMING CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
May 16 - 4 Principles Primer - FREE
May 30 - Reading as a Contact Sport
June 13 - What Show Don't Tell Really Means
June 27 - Reading as a Contact Sport
July 9-12 Write Summer Now - A hybrid in-person and vertual wriing retreat.
That about wraps it up, but I promised a sneak peek of something coming to this site, just for people who sign up here. Starting on my birthday, and every Monday after that, you'll get new installments of Perchance to Dream, a post-apocalyptic, magical-surrealism story about a young woman who can give people dreams.
Here's a teaser:
Not for the first time, hell... not for the twentieth time... I peddled past the abandoned three-story house on that one corner in Midtown New SacTown – the one with brown paint and off-white trim with the words nogodNOgodnoGODnOgOdNoGoDnoGODnogod spraypainted in white on the side facing south, and thought, "Not even the end of the world can stop free-market capitalism.
Some nights, I'm super lucky, and the cloud cover keeps the moon from shining on the letters, and I get past the house without seeing those letters in their over-sized, ultra-bright whiteness and get on with my deliveries withoutn those words burned into my vision like a photonegative of staring into the sun. But this night was during the summer of silver smaug, so we hadn't gotten a truly dark night in the last several months, shat with all the shimmering clouds floating about and occasionally turning people into scaled monstrocities.
If you're reading this down the timeline, you either weren't born yet, were still in a fugue state from Armegodden Day, were spat out of some terror god's anti-dimension back to earth, or one of the luck maniacs whe we've managed to cure since the Summer of Silver Smaug.
More to come on May 5th!
