ROCKIN' at Mickey's, Holiday week '06

Here ya go . . . three wiseguys, archivists and heavy diggers all, who collaborated on ROCKIN'. Paul "Four Speeds" Getchell, yours truly, and the inestimable Mickey McGowan, whom you read about in an earlier blog.

We were gathered a few days ago at Mickey's legendary home for his annual holiday party, a house chock full of 10,000 surprises, such as the windowsill of canned snow and the hundred-and-one Santas.

Mickey and his wife Finnlandia brought ROCKIN' to a family gathering in Salt Lake City, where it was ooohed and aaaahed upon. I imagine that will be happening many thousand times tomorrow morning, and that is a wonderful, wonderful feeling for an author.

Happy Holidays, everyone!