Poetry, Painting, and Pet Update

Please join me and my co-host, Lev St. Valentine, at Charlie’s Queer Books in Fremont from 7-8pm, Saturday Sept 27 to celebrate the beginning of Spider Season, when Seattle’s tiny monsters set about hanging their webs from all our porch doorways and low hanging tree branches. It’s why we have so few flying insects here in the PNW, and walking outside hands-first is the only labor we need expend in the endeavor thanks to spiders. I’ll read from my chapbook, Perhaps It Crawls Inside, and my co-host Lev will read from their newly released collection, Pyre House, and a handful of haunted music and readings will follow. RSVP here.

In other news, we lost another kitty, only a year after losing Her Majesty, Ninja. This time it was our one-year old, Thackery Binx, who succumbed to a ruptured bladder due to a potassium crystal build-up. The process was drawn out over a week, an emotional roller coaster, and it was expensive as well, as everything is. In losing Her Majesty, I became inspired to paint her, and then my friends’ cats and doggos too. In losing Thackery Binx, I am further inspired to paint your cat or non-cat pet, and so officially open my pet portrait service to help pay for both the monetary and emotional cost of the loss. Details on getting your own pet portrait at ChrisPaintsPets.

As always, thank you for reading. I hope to see you on September 27th.