Microdosing Monday: 8/12/24 edition
Hey, it’s only a few hours late. Not too shabby. How you been?
Listen, last week was one worth writing about. Not that weeks not worth writing about has ever stopped me, but man, I had that book review/writer interview published from Raw Earth Ink, then read poetry at and emceed Ben’s Backyard Birthday Bash, my biggest show of the summer, and got to see my youngest perform in SpongeBob the Musical with the Children’s Theater Workshop in Toledo. What a week.
Ben Stalets performing with his band at Ben's Backyard Birthday Blowout
Hey! That's my youngest playing their role as Krabby Patty in SpongeBob the Musical
This week looks to be more a week of lying low, working, and getting some writing down and some stuff out in the mail. And I'm still working on the first tour stops for my November tour.
Let the planning begin for November, my biggest, longest, most ambitious reading tour yet. I'm going from here to there, and back in 30 days.
I’m still reading Lady Sings the Blues, the Billie Holiday autobiography, and This is Poetry Volume III: Poets of the West. I’m about 3/4 of the way through both books, and they both come with my highest recommendation.
Reading and writing really is for the birds.
And in my new favorite feature: 1,001 Ways To Get High. Weed review of a cannabis product I’ve tried recently, because legal cannabis is a life saving medication for me, and because we deserve to smoke the good stuff.
Lil Balls is a product of Fat Pack Cannabis, a grower in Pinconning in northern Michigan. Their prepackaged 1/8ths come with an extra half gram. It’s pretty common amongst many growers to separate their big beautiful buds from their small ones, and often times you can find smalls, as they’re commonly referred to, for a lower price. Big pro-tip here: small buds are just as potent as big ones, they’re just not as pretty.
The Lil Balls are the small buds of the Fat Pack strains. I ground up and twisted two strains into cones. It’s good quality stuff. Tastes good and a couple of joints got me good and blasted. Smoke it if you find it on your local dispo shelves.
It’s back to school time in the U.S. and that means notebooks and many art supplies are on sale. Just in case you’re a sucker for 10 cent college ruled, spiral bound notebooks like I am.
Love,
Dan
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