Michael Perry's Voice Mail

Howdy folks:

Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 105. This one’s available to subscribers and non-subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.

Included in today’s installment: Mike reads a piece about a cat who maybe spent the night in a tavern and now produces efflux! In the Roughneck Reflection, he explains why the chicken coop is empty for the first time in 15 years, is glad his readers will accept a little anthropomorphism, and then signs off to go play some J.J. Cale.

Today’s essay is from the book Million Billion. The paperback, Kindle and other ebook versions, as well as all of Mike’s other hardcovers, paperbacks, and audiobooks are here at the Sneezing Cow store.

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Howdy folks:

Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 101. This one’s available to subscribers and non-subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.

Included in today’s installment: Mike departs from reading a published essay to sharing an unpublished piece about his accidental, tangential, unplanned, sideways foray into writing for a living. In the Roughneck Reflection, he says there’ll be more next week.

For backstory on the book in the photo (and mentioned in the recording), click here.

For all of Mike’s latest books, including Peaceful Persistence and Million Billion, please visit the Sneezing Cow store.

Above all, thank you, and please consider sharing this Voice Mail with a friend:

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Howdy folks (been traveling and just now got a chance to post this):

Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 96. This one’s subscribers only. Click the player above to listen.

Included in today’s installment: Mike acknowledges world events make it tough to do fluff, but also figures we still need fluff. Then he reads the piece that includes the Garth Brooks story. In the Roughneck Reflection, he shares the story of meeting another country music superstar.

Today’s essay is from the book Roughneck Grace, available in print and ebook form here, along with all of Mike’s other books, music, shirts, and doodads here at the Sneezing Cow store.

Thank you for listening. It’s nice to visit. We don’t take any of this for granted.

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Howdy folks:

Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 88. This one’s available to subscribers and non-subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.

Included in today’s installment: Mike reads the essay about the time he overdosed on pizza in a hotel room, decided to get fit in the course of a single day, and face-planted. In the Roughneck Reflection, he explains the story of the pizza in the picture, describes what it’s like to stay in a boutique hotel so boutique you can’t find the bathroom in your own room, and then he foreshadows next week’s episode, which is about supermodels and chicken coop residue.

Today’s essay is from the book Million Billion. The paperback, Kindle and other ebook versions, as well as all of Mike’s other hardcovers, paperbacks, and audiobooks are here at the Sneezing Cow store.

Thank you for listening. It’s nice to visit.

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Howdy folks:

Welcome to the Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 81. This one’s free for subscribers and non-subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.

Included in today’s installment: They tell us a big blizzard is on the way, so Mike revisits a piece he wrote about being snowed in. He also revisits (albeit briefly) his tussle with the local highway commissioner, a historic (well, for Mike, anyways) battle detailed in much greater detail (spoiler: Mike lost) in the book Visiting Tom.

Today’s essay (titled “Snowed In”) is from the book Million Billion. The paperback, Kindle and other ebook versions, as well as all of Mike’s other hardcovers, paperbacks, and audiobooks are here at the Sneezing Cow store.

Thank you for listening. It’s nice to visit.

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Howdy folks:

Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 75. This one’s free for subscribers and non-subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.

Included in today’s installment: Mike revisits a piece about the pigs, the cosmos, and Victoria’s Secret, then—EPISODE INTERRUPTED WHEN MIKE HITS HIS HEAD ON A BIG SET OF ANTLERS MID-RECORDING—reflects on the passage of time, whether or not his neighbors shut their lights off because of him, and why he’s still happy at the far end of a dead-end road, for now...

This episode based on the “Victoria’s Secret and the Cosmos” essay in the book From the Top, available in paperback ($9.99 sale!), ebook and audio. The “house on a hill” essay referenced is in the book Off Main Street.

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Howdy folks:

Welcome to the Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 66. This one’s free for subscribers and non-subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.

Included in today’s installment: Mike revisits a selection from The Jesus Cow and then reveals the poet who inspired the scene…and how that trail leads back to a literary conference from the past and an Oprah book club pick in the present…and above all, how happy we are for someone we’ve admired for a long, long, time. Go, Miss Honorée!

And here’s The Jesus Cow in hardcover, paperback, and audio.

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See y’down the road,

The Sneezing Cow crew

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Howdy folks:

Welcome to the Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 62. This one’s free for subscribers and non-subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.

Included in today’s installment: When a reader sent Mike an old magazine profile from 2003, he was caught off-guard by his reaction while reading it. “A truckload of emotions,” Mike says, “low-key but deep.” After reflecting on the unexpected life of Population 485 and everything after, Mike reads a favorite excerpt.

Special Voice Mail insider tid-bit: I got publicly yelled at (yah, at volume in a bookstore) after reading this passage in Madison, Wisconsin, by someone who loudly declared “You should NEVER smell dirt! You will inhale [pneumo-coccidio-whatsit-acidi-dosis*], get a lung infection, and DIE!”

*I may not have transcribed that properly.

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Howdy folks:

Welcome to the Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 51. This one’s free for subscribers and non-subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.

Included in today’s installment: How shy people hide in public, and why I wish you wouldn’t do play-by-play on my groceries. It’s Freudian and Scandinavian and some other things. In the Roughneck Reflection Mike discusses hiding in public and why even though he’s happiest alone in his little room above the garage, he’s looking forward to standing in front of a whole bunch of people.

P.S. Boiled dinner can also be a point of cultural commonality.

The excerpt in today’s episode is from Truck: A Love Story, available in hardcover here, paperback here, ebook here, and audiobook here. The general store for everything else from Sneezing Cow can koozies to the original Sneezing Cow T-shirt is here.

We also have two new DVDs available.

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Howdy folks:

Welcome to the first “Ask Mike” episode of Michael Perry’s Voice Mail. Plan is to do one or two of these a month in addition to Mike’s weekly “Roughneck Rewind” and “Roughneck Reflection.” Most “Ask Mike” episodes will go out as a thank you to paid subscribers, but we’re releasing this first one into the wild to help spread the word.

Are you a subscriber with a question you’d like to ask Mike? If so, please record it on your phone or computer and email it to [email protected]. Please keep the question under a minute. You can also submit a question in writing via that email address; we just think it would be fun for folks to hear your voice—we’ll keep it anonymous, although if you want to say “This is [first name] from [place], and my question is…” we’d enjoy that too.

A couple of times per month Mike will take one of these questions and answer it in real time—in other words, without studying or prepping, just as he would if he were doing a live event. Unvarnished, unsmooth, and likely filled with tangents.

Thank you, we’re off to a great start!

The Sneezing Cow crew

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