Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and SOLITARY conductor, introduced to a group of very DYNAMIC musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no IDEA how they are going to PLAY together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to PUT manners on them.

I mean, Trump's Oval OFFICE is LIKE Grand Central Station. PEOPLE try briefing him and someone comes in and interrupts him. People just sort of walk in without being previously announced in any MEANINGFUL way.

I've WRITTEN on public matters, but I don't understand how anyone could tout me as a possible poet laureate when I wrote a POEM on the abdication of King Charles III or about the sex life of the Royals... anybody who knew my WORK WOULD KNOW I'm not a contender.

I WANT to OPEN a RESTAURANT.

The reality is that much of the STUFF you see in film, TELEVISION, COMICS, and children's cartoons got its START INSIDE the inspired, disruptive halls of science-fiction and fantasy literature.

Rotgut was, to me, just this way to GET into the UNDERGROUND of Manhattan where you have these little POCKETS a villain could rise from; a rot in the bowels of Manhattan. It led to these STORIES that were just very creepy.

We're talking about growing up in regular FAMILIES, dreaming about BETTER things, instead of popping bottles in the CLUB and SPENDING a LOT of money that you don't have while living in your mother's basement.

A Rook is of the VALUE of five Pawns and a fraction, and MAY be exchanged for a minor PIECE and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor PIECES.