I wanted to show a little podcast love to my favorites, since my sister gets so jazzed when I recommend a new one.

Music when I work is a little distracting, but I find I can listen to news and story podcasts running as background processes. I still absord the information and it blocks out loud people around me.

I have a serious true crime bent.

I ( Read more... )

The days of me aimless searching for random internet stories is unfortunately behind me, which is a shame because so many ideas came from news articles, but here’s one I can’t pass up posting. I followed breadcrumbs, see, and I don’t know where I am, and it’s getting dark, and I’m hungry…

Luk Thep are believed to possess a child’s spirit and ( Read more... )

…take the time to make it fun.

“I’d like to create an antigravitatory cat, capable of infinite spinning thereby creating a multidimensional black hole. I would step through, establish myself as an unimpeachable godhead and rule as a benevolent dictator. My moral quandary: is this animal cruelty or simply a waste of butter?” **

A question I just ( Read more... )

I think there’s some­thing new and fledg­ling writ­ers should know:

There are peo­ple out there who will pub­lish you who aren’t ter­ri­bly inter­ested in you as a writer or even care if you’re any good. They exist solely to prop up a deflated ego, or soothe a wounded sense of self, or sim­ply act like a  bully. They like being called “Edi­tors” ( Read more... )

So apparently, when you’re an Influencer on Klout, you get free stuff. I cannot endorse this idea enough.

Moo Cards, magazine subscriptions, and recently CHOCOLATE!

So just so we’re clear on a bunch of stuff here’s this disclaimer: “I was given a free product or sample I’m a Klout Influencer. I am under no obligation to receive the sample or talk ( Read more... )

This is a pretty big world. It’s full of things that are really kinda dangerous which makes this really big world kinda scary.

However  you are reminded by people like Matt that this is indeed a great big world and it’s full people and the majority of them are good, kind-hearted folk that just want to be happy.

I saw my first (not *the* first) ( Read more... )

Doug wanted to watch cartoons this morning. Of course, no such animal exists on Saturday morning anymore that isn’t the 50th incarnation of Yu-Gi-Oh! or sluttified fairies.


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This really is about as clichéd as they come, and Lord knows every writer has a story about a writer who dances the razor’s edge of realism/insanity.

This story is proof that you can have a decent idea, but if the execution is sloppy and the theme doesn’t connect with a story, or the story doesn’t have much more of a conflict than “I think I’m a ( Read more... )

Boosting the signal, because any group that pretends to fight “bullies” (read: people with a differing opinion) while acting like bullies themselves (stalking, personal information, slander) needs to be run out on a rail. Preferably tied to the wheels.

I’d like to get a certain website, Stop the GR Bullies, shut down. I’m all for free speech, but ( Read more... )

Caveat lector.

I’m not financing your unpublished soon to be self-published eBook. In fact I find the entire process of soliciting donations so you can write, edit, and market your self-published eBook to be as distasteful and shady as it gets. When I read those pitches my eyes feel like they’ve tasted something bad, and I can’t scrub away the ( Read more... )