01.27.06
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I have a creative idea for the word verification words (are they really words, in Blogese maybe). If you post a comment, could you post your word verification along with it.
Thanks.
Sorry, busy day, no three things.
01.26.06
Reading, Listening, Recommending
Okay, I missed yesterday, but I am determined to keep this up. Here’s today’s three:
- If you’ve been with me long you may remember my post about how my mind flits from one thing to another.
Case in point: The Vladimir book I mentioned a while back. I was loving that book. And I got sidetracked onto another book and whoa…what happened. I need to pick it up again. Hmm. Maybe after Darwinia, which I picked up at the used bookstore because I liked the blurb. After that maybe Vladimir. - I’m listening to Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire as I write this. This is great disc. It’s a little like Squirrel Nut Zippers, but more and less so. (Figure that one out!) You can hear some samples at emusic. I wish I knew more stuff like this. Traditional jazz with fiddles and guitars and banjos. Yay!
- I previewed Anne Rice’s book Christ The Lord a while back. After reading I must say I am really impressed. She does a splendid job of handling the question of Christ’s Divinity and Self-knowledge. (Did the 8 year-old Jesus know Whe He was?) I would recommend this book wholeheartedly. The story is told entirely from Jesus’s eyes in a fairly informal tone.
01.24.06
Forced Blogging Part 2
In defense of a Duke, a little about Luke, and Larry the Cuke.
- I just read an old news item about Ben Jones’ reaction to the new Dukes of Hazzard movie. [That's a lotta links in one short sentence.] Cooter was not happy. The context in which I found this story was a blog whereing the blogger was interspersing his own insulting/humorous comments into the story. I wont link it because it was borderline PG-13/R for language and sexual innuendo. Appearantly so is the movie.
Mr. Jones was pretty strident is his condemnation of the movie for sex, drugs, and foul language. He said that none of the original cast wanted anything to do with it after seeing the script. Bravo Ben Jones.
One of Jones’s comments that the blogger attacks is that there was a moral compass on the original show. Indeed, Jones is right. Both The Dukes of Hazarrd and The A Team were hour-long morality plays. They taught us that it was never okay to fight wickedness and injustice with wickedness and injustice.
Were Bo and Luke paragons of decency? No, but they did the right thing. The stood up for those weaker than themselves. Yeah they bent the law, but the law in Hazzard was already pretty crooked. But even the crooked Boss Hogg was not evil, just greedy. It was usually his greed that gave an oppurtunity to the villian (almost always an outsider–see how conservative this show is!) to work evil.
And boys of my generation we watched these role models (come-on they were good looking, kewl, drove fast, and chicks digged ‘em) do the right thing week after week.
- I, like many Star Wars fans, have been hugely disappointed by the recent trilogy. Instead of analyzing why, I’ll refer you to this great essay:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20051003/star-wars-a.shtml - Okay, so I did it for the rhyme. So sue me. I do happen to love VeggieTales. At one time we were all up on the latest and had all the videos. Sophie outgrew them and Paul is just starting to get there. He’s seen one or two and likes them. The tunes are just so darn catchy. Even if you don’t have kids, or your kids are too old, you should give VeggieTales a try. They are hilarious.
01.23.06
Three things
An effort to get back into blogging after publishiung took up all my time.
I just stumbled onto a http://neekole.com/archives/2006/01/15/nicoles-five-the-debut/ wherein the blogger has forced herself to blog five things per day. Thoughts, reflections whatever. (One of those odd sites that come up in an obscure Google search). I thought that might be a way to make me do this more as well. I will only do three.
- Here are today’s three:
- I went to Chattacon this weekend as a dealer and panelist from Mount Zion Press. (Can you find my name on the page without using ctrl-f.) We only sold 5 copies, but the shaking hands and meeting small press folk was worth it. We were only there for Saturday, so we missed the schmoozing of the parties and Consuite. Mike and I are going to try for Hypericon in June and plan to stay at least one night.
- I currently have two stories submitted and am anxiously awaiting the rejection letters. One of the stories has been rejected several times, but doggonit, I think it’s a good un. I have about 3 or 4 other stories I need to finish and get into circulation as well. I’m reading Getting Things Done by David Allen, so maybe I’ll get them done soon.
- I have my Outlook at work set up to remind me to go home. Since I mostly work alone, it is highly likely I would just be trucking along and look up to realize I’m 20 minutes late leaving. Not a big deal, except my kids and wife all expect me home at 5:30ish.
See, there we go. Three things. Nothing terribly amazing or funny, or smart, or…crap why did I do that again. Oh yeah. I’ll start keeping a list on paper and only blog those brilliant thoughts you have when you’re far away from your computer.
‘Til tomorrow.
the Fours
Having been woefully negligent and tagged by Philppa with a Meme, let me then resume blogging.
4 Movies You Could Watch Over and Over
1. Big Lewbowski
2. Master and Commander: Far Side of the World
3. The Princess Bride
4. Lawrence of Arabia
4 Places You Have Lived
1. Norris, Tennessee
2. Berea, Kentucky
3. Long Beach, California
4. Lexington, Tennessee
4 TV Shows You Love To Watch
1. Lost
2. Earl
3. The Office
4. M*A*S*H
4 Places You Have Been On Vacation
1. St. Augustine, FL
2. Edisto, SC
3. Oak Island, NC
4. Garden City, SC
4 Websites You Visit Daily
(other than blogs)
1. Google (many, may times)
2. Order of the Stick
3. Amazon.com
4. imdb.com (not intentionally, but it seems like something always come up)
4 Of Your Favorite Foods
1. A nice thick, bloody steak
2. Chicken Szechwan
3. Chocolate Cake
4. Popcorn
4 Places You Would Rather Be Right Now
1. Home with my kids
2. At church.
3. The Beach
4. Camping
01.11.06
Please forgive me…
It is with great embarrassment that I return, empty-handed, no essay, no prospect for the essay, no worthwhile post, just shuffling in shame.
I really did mean to write that essay. And I will. Mike and I have been really busy with MZSFR and I’ve had little time to think about much else. Also, I often blog from work and works been pretty busy lately too. Non of that excuses my failure to keep my commitment to my faithful four.
I hope you don’t abandon me ’cause I doubt I would keep this up without the occasional comment. (The whole vanity thing I guess. Blogging is at the same time humbling and prideful) The pride part is obvious, but I believe it can be humbling because you are putting yourself out in an open arena with no safeguards. Anyone can come along and call you out for the idiot you are. Still, as one attempting to be a writer, it is a good way to get used to having your work in front of strangers…but I digress.
Please accept my apologies. I will move on now and post on other things. I really do plan to come back to that essay, and when I do, it’ll be here first.
p.s. I just used Bloggers spell checker and…he-he-he..the words “blog,” and “blogging,” are not recognized. ;-)
