| TwitterLitter. |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|11:55 pm] |
Annoying friends and strangers alike, 140 bytes at a time.
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| Pinch me, cuz I'm dreamin'. |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|03:38 pm] |
BUCS
WIN
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: Ahem. :
Bucs 38 - Packers 28.
They came from behind. They found out that there just might be something to rookie quarterback Josh Freeman. And they did it all while wearing the Creamsicle Colors of Doom that only die-hard, Day 1 fans can love.
And at halftime, they honored Lee Roy Selmo, aka The. Greatest. Buc. Player. Ever. Still Tampa's only member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Selmon became the inaugural member of the Ring of Honor at Raymond James Stadium. That's only about 25 years or so overdue, but better late than never.
Oh, and they won.
Suh-weet. |
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| TwitterLitter. |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|11:55 pm] |
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| Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls. |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|11:10 pm] |
Earlier this week, Book View Cafe held a "Twitter Fiction" contest to celebrate the release of the first title to be released under their Book View Press imprint, Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls, a collection of favorite science fiction stories by writers who are members of BVC, and edited by Phyllis Irene Radford (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ramblin_phyl).
The rules of the contest were simple: Create a story using the basic theme "Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls," and compose it for Twitter. In other words, the story could be no more than 140 bytes long. Well, 126, if you count the "@bookviewcafe " which had to precede your tweet.
On a whim, I dashed out the following and fired it through the Twittersphere:
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@bookviewcafe Rocket Boy shouted, "Prepare to be boarded!" The Geek Girls laughed. "Your rocket's too small to penetrate our shields!"
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This just in from the "No shit, Sherlock" Department: Even on Twitter, I'm able to find the gutter.
As luck would have it, somebody at BVC has a sense of humor that approximates mine, as evidenced when they posted the winners list.
I ended up winning a copy of Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls in e-Book form. Not too shabby for 140 bytes worth of work, eh?
Thanks to the kind folks at BVC for hosting the contest, and for selecting my goofy little story. Be sure to check out their site and all the cool stuff they offer, and for those of you looking to get in on the action for a bit of fun, be on the look out for their next TwitterFic contest. They hold them every few weeks or so. |
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| TURTLE WAXXX ON |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|08:35 pm] |
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I have a new comix I'm going to be selling at ZONACON in Orlando, FL this Nov. 20th along with a few issues of my anthology thing I printed in June. Anyways, It's a mini-comix and I think I might be selling it online once I get a proper website up to sell it on with my other comix. Nothing like photocopied books man. That's fucking underground for sure.
those are two pages from the book, I also have online a comix I did with a friend that's in the book.
will-ellwood.com/ncc/index.html
Go give it a read, I'm pretty proud of it in some technical respects.
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| Saturday Synapse Firing |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|05:54 pm] |
* I'm 15,000+ words into my novel for NaNoWriMo or about one-fourth of the way to my 60,000 word goal for the novel. I'm feeling good that there are some really nice passages so far, standing proudly beside the junk. I think there are far more good words so far than bad, and certainly there are some interesting ideas that I've barely scratched the surface of.
* Additionally, I've been able to keep up my daily exercise regimen while writing these words for the novel. That's a major accomplishment for me. Last year, I sacrificed the regimen and gained an ungodly amount of weight over the winter because I did that. I failed myself last year, so this year is about showing that I can spend the time doing the writing without sacrificing anything important. I am spending time with my family, meeting my work obligations AND writing a 50,000+ word novel. I think I'm winning already.
* Hey, how about those football Jayhawks? Lost four in a row now and there's no hope of a bowl game, or at least a decent one. Can't win on the road, can't win at home. What the hell's happened?
* And then there's the Royals trading away the only really good player on their team AGAIN. Jesus, I wonder if they really think like a big-league team or not. They've had the rep of being the MLB's farm team for years, developing talent and then trading it away to eventual World Series Champs. Fuck, I wish I cold love my team for winning and not just because they're my team.
* I've started reading His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, and I love his writing already. It's got real style and though I'm familiar with The Golden Compass from watching the film, I'm totally immersed in the world as he's writing it.
* Jason Aaron's SCALPED is another comic book you should be reading. It's masterful crime comics at their very best. I much prefer R.M. Guera's artwork to Davide Furno and Francesco Francavilla, but the story carries through regardless who's drawing it.
* I really like the new Alice In Chains record. It's not particularly imaginative, musically, but it's solid. Last of My Kind Still Standing is probably my favorite lyric, and the music for Check My Brain is a highlight.
* I'm knocking off the internet for the rest of the night, so be good to each other. There's lots more to do than just tool around and surf for things to distract you. I remind you all that reading is fundamental, it's good for you. So is personal interaction in social situations. Don't take it from me, though. Go out and find out for yourself, okay?
* Almost forgot to mention that I've got the new Stephen King book coming next week. That's probably up for me to read in December. Can you imagine him really writing a SF opus? |
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| TwitterLitter. |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|11:55 pm] |
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| Dogs Are Destroying The Planet And Killing Us All |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|04:04 pm] |
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I told you. I told you all. The Dog is the Enemy of the Human. But you wouldn’t believe me. Now look.
…dogs have a greater eco-footprint than gas-guzzling SUVs.
See? SEE?
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| Links for 2009-11-05 |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|02:00 pm] |
- Oldest American artefact unearthed : Nature News
"The tool shows that people were living in North America well before the widespread Clovis culture of 12,900 to 12,400 years ago"
(tags:history )
- Brazil crime wars: Spiderman’s story of drugs and Jesus in Rio’s slums | World news | The Guardian
""If you add them all up I control 15 communities," boasted Spiderman as his shiny 4×4 hurtled through the narrow backstreets of western Rio de Janeiro. Behind the wheel was Juarez Mendes da Silva, 28, one of the Brazilian capital's most wanted drug lords, better known by the nickname Spiderman. The words "Jesus" and "Christ" were tattooed on to his forearms in black. In the boot his pet dog, Bloodsucker, shared space with an M-16 assault rifle."
(tags:crime drugs pol )
- Detroit: Urban Laboratory and the New American Frontier | Newgeography.com
Not a lot new for Detroit watchers, but I love the phrase therein: "urban prairie"
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- New podcast: Shift Run Stop ? Roo Reynolds
Roo says: "I?ve been working with Leila Johnston on a new thing. It?s a fortnightly podcast called Shift Run Stop and as she explains it?s ?an ambient soundscape sort of production, an undulation of chatter and noise, ideas, games and food?."
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- re-inhabited circle-k?s - mammoth // building nothing out of something
"photographer Paho Mann documents the diverse array of stores that re-inhabit the empty shells abandoned by the national corporation Circle-K; the current lives of Circle-K's include "a dry cleaners, a couple of florist shops, a tattoo parlor, a tuxedo rental place, several mini-marts and dollar stores, and Bridgett?s Last Laugh Karaoke and Fish Fry." "
(tags:architecture culture )
- The Psychedelic Review Archives 1963-1971
"MAPS has posted PDF scans of The Psychedelic Review Archives 1963-1971."
(tags:magazine history drugs )
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| The Haunting Of Kristamas Klousch |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|09:41 am] |
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The self-portrait photographer/"caricature artist" Kristamas Klousch finally has a website up for her wonderful, ghostly and irreal work.
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| Why you should follow infinitydog.... |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|09:54 am] |
...both here on LJ as well as Facebook:
David Mack (infinitydog, bestselling author, Jack Daniel spokesperson, aspiring curmudgeon and all around good guy) wants you to friend him on Facebook. Why? Well, aside from his normal, insatiable need to be validated in the eyes of complete strangers, he's also posted clips from The Shore Leave Roast of Keith R.A. DeCandido, which was conducted at the Shore Leave convention back in July. The clips feature all of the roasters doing their thing. It's one thing to hear me say "Fuck," but it's another thing entirely when roastmaster Bob Greenberger employs the juicy F-word.
[GeorgeTakei]
"Oh, myyyyyyyyyyy."
[/GeorgeTakei]
Keith was a good sport about the whole thing, and managed several zingers in his own defense once he took the podium to deliver his final remarks. Despite the verbal beating he took that evening, I hope he knows we wouldn't have gone to all that trouble if we didn't love him like the annoying little brother we may or may not have.
To learn more about Dave's shameless attempts to attract more friends, and how to view the roast clips, click on this linky-type thing right here. |
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| TwitterLitter. |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|11:55 pm] |
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| WIRED UK: Column 08 |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|07:01 pm] |
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In which I make a case for Paul Morley as national treasure, champion of music journalism and the oldest digital pioneer in newspapers. And also I make a pitch for a TV job. And a statue:
I think we can all agree that I should have been given The South Bank Show after Melvyn Bragg retired from it. If nothing else, it is way past time that the serious arts media gave coverage to those elements of the Japanese film industry that produce such inventive, beautifully designed and thematically muscular works as The Octopus Invades the Vagina, The Fish That Has is Crunched And The Wound is Received [sic] and The Eel and Loach to Attack in Lasciviousness are Insane [sic].
You don’t really want to search those terms from work. Which is why one requires the piercing artistic gaze of a South Bank Show to discover and present such items for the engaged viewer’s consideration. Frankly, I’m the only real choice to replace Bragg when he retires…
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| Strangers And Gypsies |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|04:26 pm] |
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There’s something powerfully weird about this beautiful photoset by Marta Lamovsek, not least in this image, where the model really does look like an alien landed in eastern Europe.
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