… gonna play that gag where I pretend to be a North Korean agent.
BECAUSE THE GREAT GREEN DRAGON OF NORTH KOREA WILL BE UNDETERRED AND WILL VANQUISH ITS AMERICAN OPPRESSORS.
And because there can be no possible unforeseen consequences for a joke like that.
This is the same guy who has assured me repeatedly that the National Security Agency does not monitor my blog. Let’s see how cavalier he is about the possibility now.
XIX. The Waters
by W. H. Auden
Poet, oracle, and wit
Like unsuccessful anglers by
The ponds of apperception sit,
Baiting with the wrong request
The vectors of their interest,
At nightfall tell the angler’s lie.
With time in tempest everywhere,
To rafts of frail assumption cling
The saintly and the insincere;
Enraged phenomena bear down
In overwhelming waves to drown
Both sufferer and suffering.
The waters long to hear our question put
Which would release their longed-for answer, but.
— thanks to Poemhunter.com for the text
Because, dammit, that’s the kind of rebel I am.
Which side will you pick? Service? Then this blog might not be the best place for you, because I have some authority issues.
The universe of J.S. Collyer’s upcoming “Zero” sounds downright intriguing — it’s got an interesting and well constructed setup, and what sounds like a hell of a lot of great world-building and complex character interaction, not to mention a troubled hero that is precisely the kind of protagonist that I like to read about. Jex has a real corker of a story for her debut science fiction novel.
Meet her at the link below, where she talks about her new book, and Dagda Publishing’s new marketing campaign to give “Zero” the visibility it deserves.
Seriously, it sounds like pure fun. If you’re a Battlestar Galactica fan like me, you might be jonesing for some fallible heroes and complex political and military crises.
There are also some wonderfully creative goodies that Dagda is giving away, as well.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zero-the-debut-novel-by-j-s-collyer-marketing-campaign
It’s only nine seconds long, and yet … it re-instilled a sense of joy and wonder that has been absent in me since boyhood. It is a pleasure to behold, or even contemplate.
Play it. Make sure the sound is turned on. And watch the cat.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/scottybryan/a-cat-ran-into-a-door-during-a-french-tv-baking-show-and-it
There was a time in Stephen King’s career when he focused on familiar movie monsters (vampires, werewolves, blobs and boogeymen), instead of more abstract horrors. “Cycle of the Werewolf” is an example of that, and it’s great fun — perfect for a late night horror fix that appeals to the kid at heart. If you’re a fan of King’s work in books like “Salem’s Lot” or “Night Shift,” you ought to enjoy this.
It IS more of a long story than a novel or a novella — it’s brief. The illustrations by Berni (Bernie?) Wrightson, of comic book fame, are perfect.
I thought it would be fun to read this and then revisit its 1985 film adaptation, “Silver Bullet,” which I remember loving as a kid. Gonna have to hunt that one down.
I m going to be up all night thinking about this video.
See the link:
I have been enlisted by my friend Maryanne to find a cool and original name for her new puppy — something with Gaelic, Latin or folklore origins.
I blanked out, but my writer friends came through with flying colors.
Finder-Of-Good-Things Wednesday Lee Friday passed along to me this website, which she said was indispensable for writers. And, MAN is it cool! Check it out:
Thanks, Wednesday!
A friend of mine sent me a note saying she’d be busy today because her children had a “day full of recitals.”
I at first read “a day full of rectals,” and concluded she was being entirely overscrupulous where her children’s health is concerned.
I NEED READING GLASSES.
“At last, as the gray November afternoon tightens down toward an early anvil-colored dusk, he bounds into the kitchen, snatches the Volare’s keys from the peg by the door, and almost runs toward the car. He drives toward Portland fast, smiling, and he does not slow when the season’s first snow skirls into the beams of his headlights, dancers from the iron sky.”
— from Stephen King’s “Cycle of the Werewolf”
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 