Thick as Thieves

"I wanted it to be telepathy. It was television."-TLSHONZ

That sums up a great deal of my life, actually.
On a parallel plane, let me explain that things with Nez's book started off creepy:
I was concurrently reading the Micky Dolenz book and noticed that various phrases I rarely hear appeared in BOTH books (okay, you spend 40 years in a partnership with someone, you're bound to think alike. Be careful who you team up with.) But then it was 4am and weird things in general were happening in my mind. Think it's fun having TLE? Well, try having TLE, not sleeping or eating in a while, then reading a pychological mind-twister written by some old rock star you've been having creepy dreams about lately. (By the way, Davy Jones finally did get his recognition as I finally dreamed of him the other night briefly.) Oh yeah, as I was saying, try having TLE, not eating, sleeping, etc. but also being really stressed out about a zillion things AND you're on heavy drugs to boot that have their own plethora of zany side-effects. You really have to walk a mile in those shoes to fully appreciate the ken of what I went through. LG understands. Jess might have understood too. Brian Wilson definitely knows what's up. So anyway in the beginning I was reading the book and seeing all these nutty coincidences that were blowing my mind. Stuff too weird to go into here (and remember, I was socked in the head by TLE, mind-numbing drugs, stress, not sleeping, eating, etc.) No, I won't do this to you. Let me skip to the part that makes more sense. Depending on how you look at it anyway. Okay so then the novel got incredibly boring the past 2 nights--it got NORMAL and things were explained away. I was fed up but then last night it got good again. I had been on the phone all night and had for no apparent reason written down a very obscure word I rarely use (you don't use it much either), even asked my friend on the phone if it was a real word or not. I boxed the word and drew around it, I was really into this word. Then the novel got good again and what do you know but that word turns up in the pages. Coincidence? Of course not you dummy, aren't you paying attention? LSD was fashioned on TLE! If you have TLE and you take LSD, you think, "What a lame piece of---" No, I won't do this to you. You've been a good friend, very understanding and patient. What I wanted to say was that my own latest novel is getting really good right about now. I'm at the part where Cletus meets this hanger-on dilettante Mickey Downs who, a la Dr. Landy, starts trying to move in on the band. It's great because he's going to set Cletus up with all these self-help pseudo-spiritual exercises that are just...stupid. He'll have to be on the tour bus repeating phrases like "I have friends in the world. They depend on me" and "Outside isn't scary, it's a place I can call my home." No, I won't do this to you. You've been a very dependable friend over the years and...oops, I did it to you and now you're either mad or concerned. Time for me to step aside! Remember, I only work here, if you have complaints you must speak to the manager who's upstairs! In other news, hello Lucy! I love you! Please won't you kidnap me and take me to NZ with you and Z?!