I can’t not start with these images… We now resume our regularly scheduled commentary, already in progress. This chapter fully embraces the “use the gifts you gave yourself” method of writing in general and especially sequel-ing. Almost every trope in the TP universe gets up on a familiar stage for a final curtain call. Local…
Author: LBDG
LBDG Commentary 28: Under the Covers
This chapter title was 100% chosen to rile up Brian Ibbott from Coverville. (Maybe I’m glad I ended up with more than 27 chapters…) It also worked well since it is all about Local Boy & Cousin Jimmy forming a band and learning covers from the 27 Club members they have awareness of circa 1976….
LBDG Commentary 27: Doo & Dum
By completely unplanned coincidence, both Timely Persuasion and L Extreme have 26 chapters. Seemed to be the way my brain naturally plots novels, which made me think it would be neat to aim for 27 in Local Boy Done Gone—my normal endpoint plus one more to tie to the 27 Club theme. Somehow I ended…
Additions to the LX Hughesniverse
L Extreme is billed as a novelization of the album A Love Extreme by Benji Hughes, though it actually pulls from his entire catalog through early 2021. January 31, 2025 marked the release of three new Benji Hughes jams via the soundtrack to the film Home Free. Since I spent years mapping out how to…
LBDG Commentary 26: Lyin’ Eyes
Our apostophe’d segments come to a conclusion with this chapter. That’s the truth. Eagle Scout’s honor. Much like the ends of parts 2 & 3, this is a coda chapter designed to ease Local Boy back into his present day with newfound confidence from the future before pulling the rug out. Early readers were mixed…
LBDG Commentary 25: Livin’ In The Woods In A Tree
Nerdy, encyclopedic musical knowledge comes in handy when you have a chapter set in a treehouse in need of a song title containing an apostrophe. Bonus points that it’s also the title of Sybil Rosen’s memoir of her life with Blaze Foley (though she and/or her publisher added the missing G back in). After recreating…
LBDG Commentary 24: Hoverin’
This change of pace chapter switches up the time travel dynamic—or does it? More overtly Quantum Leap inspired than what we’ve read so far, Local Boy occupies the body of his future self while the redhead takes over a future version of his wife. He lives the original history described in Timely Persuasion from a…
LBDG Commentary 23: Ain’t Misbehavin’
The list of 27 is key to the plot and has an iterative behind the scenes origin story worthy of its own blog post. Thankfully it’s pretty much the singular focus of this chapter, allowing time for a deep dive here. My list twist was to originally have Local Boy (and by extension the reader)…
2024 DFRAAs (Dangerous Folk Rock Appeal Awards, fka “Of the Year”)
Welcome to my 2024 annual best of music list, rechristened The Dangerous Folk Rock Appeal Awards (DFRAAs) after Local Boy’s favorite phrase. (Since this is a time travel themed blog, maybe I’ll go back and retroactively change past years…) Despite the name, we like all kinds of music around here—not just folk. Onwards to the…
LBDG Commentary 22: People Talkin’
Two people. Both talkin’. Sometimes talkin’ makes you sound stupid, but they manage to pull it off. Especially the gal with the red hair. Lucinda Williams didn’t have red hair, but people still talked about her. —Remixing the opening lines of Local Boy Done Gone Chapter 22 in the style of the dreamy non-dreams from…