January 2011
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Strangetastic Relaunch
FYI - I recently re-launched my other website, Strangetastic, as Tumblr blog devoted to ghost stories and other spooky tales.
This is the third or fourth iteration of the site, and I’m hoping this version proves sustainable. If I had time, I’d write a long post about the previous failures, but I don’t so I’ll just summarize: it didn’t work, so I’m trying...
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This Morning's 5 Stages of Grief
Why is the breakfast taco place so dark this morning? They can’t be closed.
What do you mean you’ve stopped serving breakfast? I spend $25 a week on breakfast tacos.
I bet I can make breakfast tacos at home.
Eating these homemade breakfast tacos makes me feel like my dog died.
I guess I’ll never have breakfast tacos again.
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Tweeting Your Epitaph
On Friday, I joked that people should have to spend one day a year wearing their internet comments on a sandwich board. On Saturday, a man walked up to a United States Congresswoman and shot her through the head. He shot an wounded 17 other people, and killing six. Among the dead was a 9-year-old girl who’d wanted to meet the politician because she’d recently been elected to her...
There's only one rule.
“There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
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Shootings
A 9-year-old girl died today because she went to meet her congressperson. I can deal with everything else that happened today because it’s all happened before. We expected it would happen.
But a little girl getting gunned down at a town hall meeting? That’s fucked up.
I’m going to kiss my daughters goodnight and go to bed, thankful that I still can and heartbroken for parents...
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Review: Toothless
A confession: I have a near allergy to the sword-and-sorcery branch of the fantasy genre. There’s no good reason for this, some of my favorite books are firmly ensconced in the tradition, but I never buy them and I have to be forced at sword point to read them, so I doubt I would have picked up J.P. Moore’s Toothless on my own. Not that Toothless is even properly part of the genre,...