Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
I’ve decided that I don’t really want to be famous, I just want a small but rabid coterie of fans. So get on that, Internet, won’t ya? Current Mood: workingCurrent Music: Various tunes by Nox Arcana
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Sunday, May 27th, 2012
“The X of Doom” is the short story that I’m currently working on. I started it in January with the intention of finishing the first draft that month; it’s now the end of May, and I estimate that the first draft is about halfway done. Characters have been put into place, backstories have been told, [...]
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
Okay, I don’t feel quite the level of angst that the subject of Edvard Munch’s painting seems to, but I still feel some, especially when it comes to my writing. Of course, every writer experiences angst of some sort when it comes to their craft. Is my writing good enough? Will the editors like this [...]
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
Webzines come and go, and stories published in them can be victims of domain expirations, site collapses, and so on. I’ve rescued two of my old published stories, and I am putting them online for your enjoyment. The first is “The Unrevealed Tort, Revealed“. This story appears to be about two men, one of whom [...]
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012
When I was trying to compose the greatest blog post in the history of the world, nothing came to mind. So I present Tenacious D and “Tribute”, which has been my earworm all morning. Enjoy. In other news I had no idea until a couple of weeks ago that Jack Black was involved with Tenacious [...]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
I’ve been a fan of Tom Waits and his music since 1990 or so, when my friend Mike introduced me to Waits’s 1985 album Rain Dogs. I admire his range and I find his subject matter enthralling. While Jennifer says my Tom Waits CDs can “live in your car” (apparently she’s not a fan), I listen [...]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2012
So, our account at our webhost provider was hacked. That was exciting. There was a vulnerability in the version of PHP that the site runs, which allowed a hacker to insert malicious code into certain files; the result of this was that whenever someone visited our site, they ended up downloading malicious code which could [...]
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
So, over the weekend we went to the animal shelter in Sacramento, and adopted this fuzzbutt: Of course we dithered over names for awhile. He’s part Russian Blue, we think, so we tossed around variations of Russian names like Boris and Ivan, then more colorful names like Blueberry. But now I think we’ve settled on [...]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Yesterday I posted to here, to LiveJournal, to Facebook, Google Plus, and to Twitter the question, “What should I write next?”, and I offered three choices: Code Monkey! Wherein a computer programmer embarks on strange and exciting adventures when he finally gets up the nerve to ask the pretty receptionist out on a date; Padma Wherein a [...]
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
I find myself stuck between writing projects. I’m progressing just fine on my short story “The X of Doom” — it’s got pirates in it! — but I’m having a hard time deciding what my next novel project should be. Here are my options, and I’m leaving it up to you, my faithful readers, to [...]
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