Dispatches From the Fortress – Day 16

Next week on April Fools Day (aka Wednesday), I will be the guest — via Skype from my Fortress of Solitude here — on Stu's Show. That is the only thing I have on my calendar between now and the first week of August apart from Comic-Con International (still a maybe) in July. Everything else has been canceled.

Not much to report here in All Alone Land. I've been reading Woody Allen's memoirs, which seem to be getting decidedly-mixed reviews. I'm nowhere near the parts involving anyone named Farrow yet but I find what I've read to be delightful. I can't remember the last time I laughed out loud at anything I read off the Kindle app on my iPad but I'm laughing at a lot of this. It is an odd mixture of too much self-deprecation and the occasional brag. Here's an Amazon link if you want to buy a Kindle download. The hardcover version is sold out at the moment.

But I don't feel all that all alone here in All Alone Land, perhaps because I'm well aware that everyone I know is in their All Alone Lands…so we're united in that. And the phone rings a lot. And people FaceTime and Skype and Zoom and I'm getting a lot of writing done. And the ones who don't just want to talk about how terrible things are make it all much more endurable. So here I sit. I hope you're equally well and at peace.