October 2011
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So who exactly is behind this whole movement in literary fiction that you’re not allowed to learn what the hell is going on in the story and who is talking to who until it’s half over?
Like everyone else in the world, I’ve heard “show, don’t tell,” half a dozen times per minute since high school comp, but this is getting a little ridiculous.
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If anyone likes Conan the Barbarian and has a Kindle/Nook/other ereader, I’m converting a lot of Robert Howard’s novels and short stories to those formats and handing ‘em out. I already have The Hour of the Dragon. Drop me an email or just leave a reply with your address on this post.
EDIT: Also “The Phoenix on the Sword.”
Now including “The Scarlet Citadel” and...
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If anyone likes Conan the Barbarian and has a Kindle/Nook/other ereader, I’m converting a lot of Robert Howard’s novels and short stories to those formats and handing ‘em out. I already have The Hour of the Dragon. Drop me an email or just leave a reply with your address on this post.
EDIT: Also “The Phoenix on the Sword.”
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Frog blast the vent core!
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Dating Advice from My Brain Archives
diana-vilibert:
Not shaving your legs on purpose works 9 out of 10 times. On the 10th time, you will find yourself drunk on plum wine in the bathroom of a cozy Japanese restaurant, sitting on a toilet with your pants around your ankles, and shaving your legs with hand soap and a razor from the deli around the corner. You will think it only took 5 minutes but it actually took 20. Your date thinks...
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Google Analytics reveals some strange things. Namely, that this year, people from Bloomington, Indiana spent more time reading my blog than people from any other city. Including my own.
Need it be said that I know no one in Bloomington and never have?
Not a one-time traffic spike, mind you. This is over the whole year.
I am at a loss.
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So I gather some people are upset about the Qaddafi pictures being posted everywhere. Well, suck it the fuck up. I’m not sorry that your cozy First World existence was jarred by the experience of what real life is like. No one else should be sorry, either.
This is what the world outside of the cushy, air-conditioned West deals with every single day. When you overthrow a fucking country on a...
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Invalid Topics of Conversation
What you’ve watched on television recently
What you’re watching on television
What your favorite things to watch on television are
What you’re going to watch on television
What you have watched on television in the past
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“Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. It is...”
– Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1966 Krailsheimer translation.
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“No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of...”
– William Wordsworth, “Solitary Reaper.”
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“The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion. And yet it is the...”
– Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1966 Krailsheimer translation.
While I am sympathetic to some of the Wall Street protesters, some of these complaints have a kind of egregious stupidity I can’t even understand, and I’d like to address.
“My bachelor’s degree isn’t worth anything!” Seriously upset that your parents made you take out student loans to go to college? Think that the market place doesn’t require traditional...
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“In my wanderings I once saw upon an island a man-headed, iron-hoofed monster who...”
– Kahlil Gibran, “The Plutocrat,” from The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems.
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“At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its...”
– Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask.
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“Thou canst not prove the Nameless, O my son,
Nor canst thou prove the world...”
– “The Ancient Sage,” Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from Tiresias, and Other Poems.
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“He clasps the crag with hooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,...”
– “The Eagle,” Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Hypothesis: The Big Bang Theory is as successful as it is because it soothes the anxieties of its populist audience by creating non-threatening caricatures of the subset of highly educated intellectuals who control an ever-increasingly disproportionate share of the wealth, influence and cultural currency in the developed world, reducing their complexity to a series of easily digestible symbols,...
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jamiedrew-deactivated20121129 asked: If you break this girlfriend and find yourself in need of a new one, I was supposed to tell you that Sam is back on the market. This was her request.
manuscriptsandbourbon:
jamiedrew replied to your post: Yes, Dennis. I Have Kahunas.
this is legally binding, yes? My plan is to turn this into BOOB CENTRAL. All pictures of boobs, all the time. My boob empire — I mean, YOUR boob empire.
Legally binding? Yeah, I think so. But if I retracted the statement, that would also be legally binding, correct? So let’s negotiate. How about half the time...
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Ways I Angered My Girlfriend Today
When she guiltily bought the new Taylor Swift perfume, told her it smells like “unicorn shit” and is probably “manufactured by the Lollipop Guild”
Asked her when in our relationship she began to worship me. Told her that I will now respond only when addressed as “Holy Chosen One”
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Remember that time I said I was going to put some serious work into rewriting my website? Well, instead I knocked something together in half an hour. Any corrections for my tasteless errors?
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Registering to use the non-commercial image service of the British Museum is a strangely intrusive process. I don’t see why an interest in the Safavid dynasty means I have to give you my home address, dudes.
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