Creepy Podcast Stuff

This evening, Dread Central's Steve "Uncle Creepy" Barton came over to record me reading "The Bad Candy House" (from WAITING FOR OCTOBER) for an upcoming Dreadtime Stories podcast. It went very well, despite one screw-up where I momentarily lost my place and mixed up Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson. Somehow I think the literary world will forgive that particular glitch.

Unfortunately, the night ended in tragedy. We went out to dinner after the recording. Uncle Creepy was wearing a Vincent Price shirt. The food was good, the conversation was lively...and then the college-aged waitress looked at his shirt and asked "Who's Vincent Price?"

That pretty solidly ended Uncle Creepy's good cheer. He's probably still obsessing over it ("Who's Vincent Price? Who's Vincent Price? What the f***?!?") and will have many sleepless nights over the next few weeks.

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