Archive for the ‘Misc.’ Category

NaNoWriMo Completed!

It has certainly been a long month… it came down to the final day… but I did it!
The NaNoWriMo commitment of 50,000 words has finally been completed in my thriller/suspense novel titled The Avatar Murders.

Attempting to write at least 50,000 words in 30 days is something akin to literary sadism for anyone without a Benzedrine [...]

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Quietness…

These are the final couple weeks of class plus I am deep into the second half of the National Novel Writing Month aggressively working on my novel to which I will be submitting for that.
Soon there shall be a return to routine posting again.

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The Men Who Stare at Goats

I just spent the day in Iowa watching men stare at goats. Yes, this is a common form of entertainment in Iowa, however, in this instance it came in the form of a satirical film based on parts of the real life insanity that the US government wasted tax dollars on. As for the movie… [...]

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GOP at War with Net Neutrality

Just when I was about to warm up to the Neo-GOP… ok… no, not really.  But seriously… are they trying to win an award for Epic Douchebaggery??
GOP senators declare war on Net neutrality
wow… its almost cartoonish how evil the Radical Right has become… and yet there exists no one championing any form of a moderate [...]

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Renaissomething…

It would appear that good ol’ Baghdad Bob has a new gig for the City of Detroit’s tourism board:

“This is a city that has been going through an incredible renaissance. We have wonderful history, great architecture and fabulous ethnic restaurants. We also have 37% less crime than the national average,”
I love Detroit… but I [...]

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The Great Michigan Adventure…

For the last three weeks or so I had ventured back to Michigan for a tour, if you will, of the state of which I was raised.
On my agenda first was the Hiawatha Music Festival, a traditional music (read hippies in long, grotesquely patterned skirts banging on fiddles, bongos, and the usual assortment of acoustic [...]

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