Off The Grid

Until further notice, I don't exist anymore. Nicole - you need to get a clue. Family - my brother-in-law is the only one who's bothered to read this. Others - well whatever, enjoy what's already here. I have created a private blog for myself because I need to keep writing. Maybe someday this blog will continue. I am now on my own. See ya.

Update January 26, 2009

I'm sorry if this withdrawal seems selfish. There are many issues I need to deal with right now. I know that I am to blame for much of it.

A while ago I voluntarily checked myself into a halfway-house recovery program and I am working very hard with some knowledgeable and experienced people to help me defeat the demon of my alcoholism. This is going to take some time and a lot of bullshit is surfacing. I have, of course, been doing a phenomenal amount of writing, but it is all of an extremely personal nature and therefore not being posted to this public blog.

I expect skepticism. I expect the usual, "So what's different this time, Scott?" After 42 years of my bullshit it just fits. But at the moment, I think it's best if I make myself unavailable for that sort of discouragement.

The good news is that Igor Sapien is alive and well and will someday soon return to the path of creative excellence that he was always destined for.

Update February 18, 2009

Today I have been sober for 33 days. Yeah. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. I have put away that stupid alcohol-induced novel (Fanatic Gardens) that I've been working on for almost 15 years and I've begun a brand new sobriety-induced novel. Things are looking good.

2008 Reading List

I read a couple books last year:

Bach, Richard – Illusions
Bach, Richard – Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Baldacci, David – Total Control
Besant, Annie – Lotus Leaves For The Young – Legends and Tales
Brown, Dan – The DaVinci Code
Burroughs, Augusten – Dry
Burroughs, Augusten – Running With Scissors
Calvino, Italo – If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller
Faulkner, William – As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William – Intruder In The Dust
Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gibson, William – Mona Lisa Overdrive
Ginsberg, Allen – Howl and Other Poems
Hamsun, Knut – Pan
Heller, Richard and Rachael – The 13th Apostle
Hemingway, Ernest – 49 Short Stories
Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest – Islands In the Stream
Hemingway, Ernest – The Green Hills of Africa
Hemingway, Ernest – The Old Man and The Sea
Hesse, Hermann – Demian
Joyce, James – Ulysses
Kesey, Ken – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Koontz, Dean – Brother Odd
Koontz, Dean – Forever Odd
Kundera, Milan – The Joke
Kundera, Milan – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Leonard, Elmore – Pagan Babies
Levy, David H. – More Things In Heaven And Earth
Mailer, Norman – The Castle in the Forest
Markandaya, Kamala – Nectar In A Sieve
Naipaul, V.S. – The Mystic Masseur
Robbins, Tom – Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Robbins, Tom – Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Robbins, Tom – Jitterbug Perfume
Robbins, Tom – Skinny Legs and All
Steinbeck, John – Burning Bright
Steinbeck, John – Cannery Row
Steinbeck, John – Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, John – The Pearl
Steinbeck, John – The Red Pony
Steinbeck, John – The Winter Of Our Discontent
Steinbeck, John – Travels with Charley
Twain, Mark – Roughing It
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire – Candide
Vonnegut, Mark – The Eden Express