Things are better now

Here are links to the two stories I have in this week's Inlander, a review of The Machinist and a story about a local production company's new movie, and their attempt to drum up local talent for the soundtrack.

Machinist Review

North By Northwest Story [half-way down the page]

My Reader stuff, as usual, will be appearing here in full Baumgarti-media format throughout the next few days. In lieu of payment, last night, they bought me lots of alcohol and gave me a couch to sleep on. The new kid, unable to keep eye contact through the layers of microbrew and grey goose glaucoma that build up when it's late and it's dark and you've shut down a bar early so you and your friends can drink in the back, told me that I should pitch to Salon. That it was my duty.

In lieu of payment I got liquid and verbal self-confidence boosts.

I thank them for that.

Then, foot to the floor on some North Idahoan highway early this morning, frantically racing back to civilization for an early afternoon appointment [being a jetset mogul, now], I had to pull into some separatist's ranch house and unload the contents of my stomach onto their driveway.

I apologize for that.