Who is CB Bassity? (brief bio)

profiles: (what's a profile?)
   A Portrait of Byron  Looks like a dumb hick in a pickup? Look again.  (Published in CROSSTIMBERS, fall 2003)
   Juiced up Jaques-imos  Great food at a great place in New Orleans, and it's this wild every night.  2002
  Massey Metals: I Don't Just Bury It A salvage yard as eyesore, resource, or natural wonder? (Published in      CROSSTIMBERS, fall 2002)
   Find What You Need At the Swap Meet More than just car parts. (Published in CROSSTIMBERS, spring 2002)
   Indian Tacos,Uncertainty, and Burger King  Where's the best eating? 2001
   An Unlikely Character: Bud Exendine Bud, a Delaware Indian. At first, I misjudged him. 1999 (Published in CROSSTIMBERS, spring 2001)
  Bitsches A different sort of character. 1997
  Pete Frick, Who Lived in Farley  A gun-slinging Harley-rider? 1997
  Backstage: The People Who Make it Fly Who are those shadowy people backstage? 1999
  Handle With Care  Eddie ran upstairs with a dresser on his back ... 2000
                                                                              (Brooks, Pete Frick, the Vernons — I've changed names in some stories.
                                                                                           Bud Exendine and Bitsche — these are their real names.)
just fun:
   The Twenty-Nine-Pound Rat Trap You think it wouldn't get under your skin? 2000
   The Real American Cowboy A myth exploded. 1996 (Published in the journal CROSSTIMBERS, fall 2001)
   True Genius Goes Unappreciated A practical mind at work. 1998
   The Price of Plumbing Versus the Cost Your plumber charges too much? 1998
   Flatulent Traffic 1997                                                                    It's Not My Job--self-explanatory image

satire:
   The Real Story of the Day at the Lake  Get yourself a pager, quick! 1996
    Urban Folklore Inspires a Novel  It's not about mothers-in-law. 1996
   Let's Get With the Program  1995 (Just after I wrote this, I submitted it to Satire Magazine. I got a nice letter back.  The editor liked it but said, unfortunately, it's not satire; this is already happening near here.  Just six years ago this seemed outrageous enough to be funny.)

lit. crit.: (literary criticism)
    people "denying the fact of their own castration" —an honest-to-God lit. crit. excerpt.
   Urban Folklore Inspires a Novel  It really has nothing to do with mothers-in-law. 1996
   An Anonymous Manifesto  Ted Kaszinski was a natural product of academia. 1996
   Barthes and a Hot Roasted Chestnut  A meeting of the literati. 1998
    miscellaneous rants and comments  Miscellaneous rants and comments.
    Latour or a Hen? —after reading Bruno Latour's We Have Never Been Modern. 1998
    How Lit. Crit. is Like TV  This is what grad. school did to me. 1998
    Other work I've written: the introduction to my master's thesis, "Creative Nonfiction and Storytelling," and a paper on the hilarious and brilliant 18th-century English novel, Tristram Shandy.

fiction:
   A Leaf In the Wind  Walk a mile in someone else's shoes. 1994
   Runt  It's easy to be strong, when you're strong. 1994
   Thinking it Through  I'm no fan of a certain popular novelist. 1994

Do you like these stories? Email CB at: cbb@ don't spam me ionet.net (connect the cbb@ with ionet.net)

odds & ends and excerpts: or,
        they had to come up with the wind-chill index when they quit making brass monkeys.

(stuff I didn't write): The Bad Writing Contest, prize-winning examples of the most incomprehensible scholarly writing (it's too easy a search).

recommended reading:
    good stuff to read

music:
    Kelly Joe Phelps--one fine acoustic bluesman. He packed the house, and then shook it, at the Blue Door, OKC.
    Don Conoscenti--catch his live performance if he's in your area.
    My brother-in-law Jon Albrink, a fine musician who lives and records in New York City (and performs all over).

Want to see a great movie? Midnight Mile orThe Royal Tennenbaumsor Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?or Duets or Mifune,or Happy Texas or The Fast Runner      Other recommended movies.

Branching out beyond writing: a little about the boat I love, my Klepper kayak.

My résumé.  I'm available as a writer (or editor). Someone searching the internet on "Chris Bassity," my given name, will now find me.

For readers who might be wondering about the lack of new work lately, for two years I've been working on a book (nonfiction of course): Resurrecting Nelia Mae.  I have a publisher interested and now I'm down to revising and completing a final draft.