Yesterday, I was crudely awakened from my nap by a woman with a voice that sounded like two garbage cans being drunkenly banged together. She was yelling at a dog she was walking and seemed to be of the "Dogs Respond Well to Humiliation and Abuse" school of thought. While she irately commanded the dog to take a shit on my back lawn, I put on ( Read more... )

Because I (mostly) spend my work-unrelated online time snooping around the websites and journals of writers and artists I admire, I caught news of a little writing workshop on the west coast called Clarion. I heard about Clarion by way of the blog of George R. R. Martin ( Read more... )

Today, I begin to learn Dvorak. This is just one of a number of different skills I intend to develop to improve my appeal within the job market. I know most employers don't give a shit if I know how to type in Dvorak or not, but it certainly couldn't hurt. On top of it, I hear it is just more efficient and I'm eager to try my hand at new ( Read more... )

Now that I have the two chapters on roleplaying done for the Elysium rulebook, I find myself turning my attentions to the much more daunting task of straightening out my little world (setting) and the things that live in it. Intimidating? Yes. Ultimately enjoyable? Also yes. Allows me to concentrate on anything else? No ( Read more... )

Working on the Elysium project and I see that the last significant contributions occured over a week ago. This is unacceptable. I must work harder ( Read more... )

Mondays set the tone for the rest of the week. Since I'm staying home and writing today instead of going to work, I suppose this week will be a week just like last. Last week was a strange week ( Read more... )

My dad came home from an art show the other night and told me about an artist by the name of Michael Raucheisen, whose currently exhibited works featured 365 paintings, one for each day of an entire year. So taken was I with this idea, that I'm going to profile 365 characters over the course of the next year, one a day or seven a week, starting ( Read more... )

It seems to me that several of the writers I admire (and several more whom I really don't) write very compelling blogs which detail not only the progress they make on their current endeavors, but also feature mindless rantings and joyful postings of things they think are just plain cool. Other writers keep terribly inconsistent blogs (yep, that'd ( Read more... )

The movie is "Kick-ass." It has garnered some attention from critics who either call the movie "morally reprehensible" (Roger Ebert) or an all around groovy thrill-ride. I will undoubtedly see this movie. I will likely tear it a new asshole, critically speaking, and bore (read "infuriate") any and all of my poor movie-watching companions. Hell ( Read more... )

If anyone knows of talented artists willing to do concept art and illustrations for a tabletop RPG, please let me know.