A Private Eye wrote:

Until then we hope you feel as welcome here as you did at ROV

Thanks - that means a lot.

And I do feel welcome, I really do.

My name is duffydack and I`m an alcoholic.. there, now can I go back to drinking slinger

A new book based on late ALICE IN CHAINS singer Layne Staley's last five years of reclusive life in downtown Seattle is scheduled for release in late 2008. Entitled "Itch, Love Stories about Heroin", the book "will reveal some secrets about the singer, as well as offer an inside look at his addiction and struggles with heroin," according to a press release.

"It will be a struggle to finish the book," author Tanya Vece said. "It will be like closing a chapter on his life, and mine '” not for good but I think saying what he would want to have said."

According to the press release, "Staley did call in an interview to Vece's friend author Adriana Rubio about a month before his passing. Weak and coughing, Staley wasn't ready to comment on his reclusive life, but did talk briefly about his fight with drugs."

"Everyone knows he was addicted," Vece stated. "I want to talk about who he was, and get to the real Layne '” addiction and art."

When asked on her connection to Staley, Vece said "Let me just say there are some things I won't expand on '” some things even I will keep secret!"

Tanya Vece is the current editor of independent art e-zine The Horse Chronicles. She has three other fictional independent books out and is an honoree of the International Press Academy. Her recent accomplishments include press coverage through CNN for the Democratic debate in Las Vegas.