Jayne Dennis

Jayne Dennis

This is wild. So I finished Anansi's Boys by Gaiman and I began reading Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. I discovered a link to his "wife's" website... Of course, Ellis never married. It's fake. His main character is himself and this wife is fake. I was stoked though because it listed her being in the film version of Mysteries of Pittsburgh, which is one of my most favorite character studies of all time. Cleveland and Phlox are awesome, as are the other characters.

I finished Anansi's Boys and loved it. I really got into it, and it was everything I loved about American Gods without the stuff I didn't like. Then I immediately picked up Lunar Park.

My mother is here. She's visiting my daughter now this week, and I've asked several different leading questions about relationships that have occurred in the past. I find more and more of my next novel revolving around a relationship between two people from my past and how they relate to one another. Of the two, one will remain relatively true to herself, while the other one will become an enigmatic amalgam of what he/she really is and was.

My brother and I have not spoke in weeks. It bothers me, but I know I have not called him. He's sick. We don't know what's wrong with him, but it's some kind of syndrome but he's not the kind of person to ask for clarification or write anything down. I've never seen my brother physically weak and now he is. That scares me. I've seen my father physically weak and caused him to be so, and I've seen my mother physically weak for sometime, but that's something I run and hide from, but now when it's my brother and he's always been the strongest person in my family and now he's not, it's quite scary.

On a lighter note, my daughter's first high school football game was tonight. Out in cow country our high school football team fell too another local team and with a ridiculously stupid name that'll remain anonymous here. She had a nice new little outfit on, played on our laps for the first half and then crashed. We left shortly before the end of the game to beat traffic and drove home.