The Chorizo State of Affairs

Fuck, man, I feel like I've been on a bender for a few years. I started Chorizo in my notebook about five years ago, and I feel like I'm only just starting out. I can't easily connect the dots on how I am where I am creatively, good and bad. Could be the booze, could be my weird brain, but it's probably a combination of the two. Something about this past year (2019) hasn’t felt quite right, and here’s to hoping writing will help me figure that out.

In this post, I'm going to try to catalog some of the things that have happened or are being worked on that relate to the Choverse (yes, Choverse) in the last five years or so (in no order):

• tabled my first convention with the Chorizo book (w/ a publisher)

• started a video game

• worked on new stories

• made great new friends

• lost a few great friends

• drank too much

• got fatter

• quit my day job

• got a new day job

• went through a tough breakup

• went through another tough breakup

• went through another tough breakup

• attempted to set up Chorizo like an empire

• saw a Chorizo shirt in a movie

• tabled another convention with a goofball friend

• was a guest on a podcast

• revisited Pithecus (Newark + Space Baboons + Sci-Fi Chaos)

• got into a few stupid fights in real life (dumb)

• stopped posting on Instagram (for the most part)

• have accepted the fact that Chorizo is me and this story is pretty much about how I move through life (if I were instead a pro-wrestling pig in a fight universe?)

That's a pretty boring way to describe what's going on with me and the Chorizo stuff, but I think that about sums up where my heads at. Rather than content dump everything into one post here, I'm probably going to split up each of the topics into their own posts and try to dig in a bit further. It'll probably be more of a therapeutic outlet for me than anything else.

I'm not going to go at this in any order other than what I feel like talking about, so we’ll see which of these topics I talk about next.