For a decade I wrote a loosely connected Lovecraft themed detective story whenever I stayed at the Oregon coast. It didn’t matter if it was a hotel, vacation rental, or Airbnb; if they had a guestbook I added to the story. It started simple enough, your standard noir style story. But as the years went by the main character slowly started to unravel. I even started to draw weird sigils and Eldridge signs on notes and hide them in the rooms. I’d tape notes and the art behind mirrors or between couch cushions or even slipped into “house rules” binders. I have no idea if anyone ever made any kind of connection but I loved the idea of someone who also spent a lot of time at the coast finding these notes as the character slowly slid into Lovecraftian madness.
If I had one regret, it’s that I never took any photos and document the story. Which is why, after a few years of not visiting the coast, I am starting a new story. And this time, I am taking images of everything I write and hide… I even started taking and leaving Polaroids of places on the coast and scribble notes on the back. It makes me so happy, creating this story that maybe no one else ever discovers. It’s the little things, you know?
I met Annie Baker years ago. My now-wife was producing a festival of three different theatre companies performing her Shirley VT play trilogy, and I was doing all the media marketing for it. Absolutely fascinating human and artist; lovely to chat with and very much on a different plans in the best way. Very excited to listen to this and see her movie!
(Also thanks again for the Roland High Life shout-out 🙏)
Now, to really blow your mind, listen to the Bill Fay song “Time of the Last Persecution,” from the album of the same name, and listen to the arrangement, especially the riff between verses.
and now that's going to be the main thing I take away from this newsletter :/
Although homemade marshmallows are amazing ... they do tend to get all over everything though and suddenly your kitchen is redone in modern marshmallow.
For a decade I wrote a loosely connected Lovecraft themed detective story whenever I stayed at the Oregon coast. It didn’t matter if it was a hotel, vacation rental, or Airbnb; if they had a guestbook I added to the story. It started simple enough, your standard noir style story. But as the years went by the main character slowly started to unravel. I even started to draw weird sigils and Eldridge signs on notes and hide them in the rooms. I’d tape notes and the art behind mirrors or between couch cushions or even slipped into “house rules” binders. I have no idea if anyone ever made any kind of connection but I loved the idea of someone who also spent a lot of time at the coast finding these notes as the character slowly slid into Lovecraftian madness.
If I had one regret, it’s that I never took any photos and document the story. Which is why, after a few years of not visiting the coast, I am starting a new story. And this time, I am taking images of everything I write and hide… I even started taking and leaving Polaroids of places on the coast and scribble notes on the back. It makes me so happy, creating this story that maybe no one else ever discovers. It’s the little things, you know?
I met Annie Baker years ago. My now-wife was producing a festival of three different theatre companies performing her Shirley VT play trilogy, and I was doing all the media marketing for it. Absolutely fascinating human and artist; lovely to chat with and very much on a different plans in the best way. Very excited to listen to this and see her movie!
(Also thanks again for the Roland High Life shout-out 🙏)
Add me to the list of “Sing Women” hearers.
Now, to really blow your mind, listen to the Bill Fay song “Time of the Last Persecution,” from the album of the same name, and listen to the arrangement, especially the riff between verses.
WAIT WHAT
it can't NOT be "Sing Women"
devastated! I knew this was the wrong timeline.
and now that's going to be the main thing I take away from this newsletter :/
Although homemade marshmallows are amazing ... they do tend to get all over everything though and suddenly your kitchen is redone in modern marshmallow.
It IS "Sing women." I don't care what Steven Tyler thinks.
More of us than there is of him.
I feel seen.
Now I feel seen too! :)
Thanks so much!! 😍😍😍