My newest rhetorical device.

From now on, whenever I express any opinion on any matter, whether it’s ice cream or separation of church and state, I will append my statement with “JOIN ME OR DIE.”

As casually as possible.

It’s also a social experiment.  I just want to see how people react.

“Inwardly they are ravening wolves.”

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”

—  Matthew, 10:15

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Photo credit: “06 Elk Hunt (194)” by Dean Miller/QuarterCircleS – Own work. Licensed under GFDL via Wikimedia Commons.

Show some respect for my beliefs!! Stop making fun!!!

It’s only postponed because Sarah Connor fought the Terminators!!

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“Jury finds James Holmes guilty of first-degree murder in theater shooting,” CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/16/us/james-holmes-trial-colorado-movie-theater-shooting-verdict/

“My first thought was, he lied in every word …”

“My first thought was, he lied in every word,
“That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
“Askance to watch the workings of his lie
“On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford
“Suppression of the glee, that pursed and scored
“Its edge, at one more victim gained thereby.”

—  From Robert Browning’s “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”

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J. Doyle Penrose’s “Freya and the Necklace,” 1890

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Edward Robert Hughes’ “The Valkrie’s Vigil,” 1906

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“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

—  Winston Churchill

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Vladimir Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz, promotional poster, Bonn, Germany, 2006

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EVERY MAN HAS HIS PRICE. (And mine’s pretty low, as it turns out …)

Support your local writer-nerd!!  Burritos don’t grow on TREES, people!  If they DID, then 7-11 couldn’t profit from their sale!!  (That’s economics.)  Feed me!!

Seriously, though, if you feel so inclined, please remember that my novel and some of my stories and poetry can be purchased in hard copy from their publishers.  The link via this site is right here:

Purchasing.

If you purchase my poetry in anthology format, I will arrive at your home and recite it for you at bedtime.  Which is rather sweet.  Or goddam terrifying, depending on your disposition.  Just let me know your preference.

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Photo credit: “Fujifilm,” by Scott Wylie, United Kingdom, 2013, via Wikimedia Commons

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