This was the last full week with the kittens, the last two of whom are leaving for their new home on Monday.
Miss u.
"I'm ready to leave New York City." -- Hodor
"When I first got here ten weeks ago, it seemed like there was a lot of opportunity in the city. Artists could afford to live in the city without slaving away 24/7 in a job you hate, there was a real sense of community, downtown wasn't overrun with all these asshole financial types and foreign investors willing to pay $10 million for a sweet-ass Tribeca loft. I'm not sure where I'm going...maybe Detroit."
"I remember having a lot of fun three or four days ago. Now everything seems sort of unobtainable." Meanwhile, the garden showed signs of color thanks to the new cosmos we planted.
Here's an aerial shot.
We have a light-challenged garden, which means that we have to channel it in like water into Los Angeles.
Pretty soon this blog is going to revert to pictures of leaves and statues.
"And battle-hardened soldiers in the War of the Flying Snakes." -- Elektra
"These kittens need some time in the real world."
Hellebores are secretly the most mysterious of plants, as this picture proves. (They're also immortal.)
"I guess I'm in New York City for the long haul. I've never even left Manhattan." -- Dante
"Do they have shoes outside of New York City, because that's all I really care about." -- Orestes
"Nothing fits here anymore :("
"We're thinking of starting a comedy troupe called 'Kittens in the Hall' lol?"
"Take care, little ones, you'll fly away with a piece of our soul."
"Remember us just as we will always remember you. <3 <3"
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07/18/2015
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A RADICAL NEW MYTH ABOUT SEX, FAITH, AND THOSE OF US WHO WILL NEVER DIE
A young boy wanders into the woods of Harlem and witnesses the abduction of his sister by a glowing creature. Forty years later, now working as a New York City homicide detective, Gus is assigned to a case in which he unexpectedly succumbs to a vision that Helen is still alive. To find her, he embarks on an uorthodox investigation that leads to an ancient civilization of gods and the people determined to bring them back.
In this colossal new novel from the author of The Metropolis Case, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice collides with a new religion founded by three corporate office workers, creating something beautiful, illogical, and overwhelming. Part sex manifesto, part religious text, part Manhattan noir—with a dose of deadly serious, internet inspired satire—#gods is a sprawling inquest into the nature of faith and resistance in the modern world. With each turn of the page, #gods will leave you increasingly reborn.
Praise for #gods
“#gods is a mystery, an excavation of myths, an index of modern life, a gay coming-of-age story, an office satire, a lyrical fever dream, a conspiracy. One of the most ambitious novels in recent memory—and a wild, possibly transformative addition to the canon of gay literature—it contains multitudes, and seethes with brilliance.” —Mark Doten, author of The Infernal
“Matthew Gallaway’s #gods is a novel so brilliant, so funny, so full of strange and marvelous things, I couldn’t stop writing OMG WTF I <3 THIS SO MUCH in its margins. It’s rare to find a novel that so dazzlingly reinvigorates age-old meditations on faith and f&!*ing, art and eros. Luminous, enterprising, and sublimely cheeky, #gods tells the story, the myth, the dream of the human soul in all its glorious complexity.” —Suzanne Morrison, author of Yoga Bitch
“Matthew Gallaway’s storytelling manages to be both dreamy and serious; lean and luxurious. His words carry an incantatory power of mythic storytelling where beauty and savagery wrap around each other like bright threads in a gorgeous tapestry.” —Natasha Vargas-Cooper, author of Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America
“If the ancient gods were just like us, only more so, then the same could be said for this strange, wonderful book, in which the mundane sorrows and small triumphs of very ordinary lives glow ever so slightly around the edges, sometimes quite literally. At once an oddly romantic send-up of dead-end office culture and an offbeat supernatural procedural, #gods is terrifically weird, melancholy, sexy, and charming.” —Jacob Bacharach, author of The Bend of the World
'It’s to the credit of Matthew Gallaway’s enchanting, often funny first novel that it doesn’t require a corresponding degree of obsession from readers, but may leave them similarly transported: the book is so well written — there’s hardly a lazy sentence here — and filled with such memorable lead and supporting players that it quickly absorbs you into its worlds.'
-- The New York Times
Music: Death Culture at Sea and Saturnine
Listen or download songs and records from my indie-rock past with Saturnine here and Death Culture at Sea here.
Music Video: Remembrance of Things Past
Watch the rock opera Remembrance of Things Past written and performed by Saturnine and Frances Gibson, starring Bennett Madison and Sheila McClear.
Video: The Chaos Detective
The Chaos Detective is a series about a man searching for 'identity' as he completes assignments from a mysterious organization. Watch the first episode (five parts) on YouTube.