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Women's March, Seattle, 2018. Here is a collage of said march. My computer froze when I tried to add any more images. Let me know what you think.


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Free ebook! 1000001 American Nights

Oh, happy days! I have the story of shorts now a top 11 (there's a prize for that, right?)! Thanks ya'll and if you haven't gotten it yet, do so and as soon as possible!

If you have a kindle or a kindle app (just download it on your phone if you can), you can just download the book for free. I think it's in the US only, so sorry to the international people out there. Unfortunately the file is so big that I can't have non-kindle publishers carry it.

In the meantime, here it is .

And the paperback.  

 damn, and now it's #7.

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Let's talk about you

So I've been  looking over where everyone is from. It appears that you're from all around the world. Very cool. Thanks for dropping by. I will say that the amount of cities (aside from the ones I lived in) you are from is also impressive. Thanks again and I do hope to hear from you one day!




Edit:

Hey, West Falls Church, you okay? Just making sure...
Edit2. Okay, now I'm looking at the past year. What the hell are you doing to my glorious site?! just kidding. Seriously, though, these are cities I've never heard of. How are ya'll doing? Well, I trust?


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Some Posts for ya

Here we are, another year another chance at redemption. Well, if you want that, then go ahead and buy this framed print of mine. There are a few other styles (canvas poster etc), but all worth it. Mainly, they are conversations combined with a picture of a cafe I've been to. Enjoy it and share as well. There are a few others here.
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Funny maps

Behold my postmodern map of the universe! Here I have colored in black the places I have not visited and in white the places that I have visited. Note that the white is less than one pixel, so don't strain your eyes.

Reading a great book I got for the Holidays: Maps as Art . It's a good way to look at creative breakdowns of the map. Of course, like with much post-modern art, I sense that there are maps that make the cut just because (someone knew someone or was better at marketing a crap map than someone else, you know these worlds). Well here is my


Also, given that this is simply a way of saying one person experiences almost nothing compared to the possibilities out there (the old Arabic saying that a person knows a drop of the ocean of knowledge in the world), this could very well be construed as a way to say how little you know compared to the world in general. So this could be: my knowledge chart and other such things.

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Once Upon A Time

There was a Man who was subject to a Sultan AI's whims. The man had to pay it in bitcoin or else the AI's algorithms would evict it and chop its head off (via vagrancy laws). So the man typed up stories into the ethernet and would earn bitcoin with which he would feed the AI. Thus he survived... until the AI learned to do his job better.
Well, that story didn't end happily (most of my stories don't), but you can read these stories in a collection called 1000001 American Nights. You can save 7$ (2 coffees!) with the discount so go and get it!

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Solve this & You'll Find A Hidden Story!

Like life, I love life; people ask me how life's going, I say silly things like long live the golden spiral of love, whereby one is ensnared by a woman's clutches and goes from simply enjoying the view to falling fast from the garden of eden—I kid, I kid—first the Apple, now this, as I tell my better half. I always look out the window, here in Seattle, and see if there's rain. Lately, however, there's been an incessant fog creeping in and snuffing out the lights. Largely a result of the sound and cold air, it's a little odd that it doesn't add that much ambience to the city. Then, I walk towards some place where I can get some actual work done. At attention, I meander the stacks of the library. At times it can endow me with the impetus to write. And, boy oh boy, does them stories flow forth when looking at the mix of humanity at the library. Of course one day I was lumped in with people who were down and out. My ego took a large hit that day, just imagine if you thought you attained even a little success, then realized you were fooling no one. Well that's when I got the idea for this riddle, not that more than a handful of people read this blog, really, but just to try something new. Because you should know that I've been reading about machine learning programs that can basically create new Van Goghs out of nothing and fools even the best experts we have.
So what then does that leave me with when the machine learning program comes along and fools even the most discerning of literary critics (not that it should be that hard)? So what will I do, old friend, besides sad attempts to add the physical world into my stories. 




Rules: (Unfortunately this is only Available to those in Seattle, and with access to Seattle's Central Library. Note that, if you're half way to figuring this out, the Space Needle doesn't count). 


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100,000 Views!

Not necessarily readers. Still, thank you for coming over and reading what I'm putting out there. These are small numbers for many people, but decent ones for me. So thanks again and I should have the latest book links out for you. Until then, you can see what's on here, or go to another website (medium or itscomplicated.vet) where I have added more work.



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Short video Out

Well, as per the usual pieces out at itscomplicated.vet, I have a short video below. It's a story from 1000001 American Nights and well worth the view. Here's the paperback .


https://youtu.be/CGGeqMmdXlc

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Best Books of 2017

Once again, in keeping up with the tradition of best books of the year (books read by me, not published—I don't care about books du jour) I'm going to give a list of the best books of 2017:

Citizen by Rankine is a beautiful mix of poetry and thoughts that gives some more outlines to the current chaotic zeitgeist we all feel but perhaps don't understand.

Kolyma Tales by Shalamov. Here's a solid collection of stories on the gulags that killed millions. Worth a look because looking into the eye of evil is never easy. And when bureaucratic it's especially interesting.

White Walls by Tolstaya. Okay, so I like Russian lit. Don't think I had any influence on our election, it's just that their writers are damned good at speaking to the humanity in us all. Not as brutal as Kolyma, this is still something worth reading through, if only for her easy mix of fantastical and realism.

Egil's Saga is m first Icelandic Saga and I love it. Amoral tellings of the past are always worth a glance, IMO. Sure I actually managed to visit the island, and that resulted in a story or two, but it's really a worthwhile saga, even if it doesn't follow your modern plot or even idea of what's right or wrong.

The Collected Stories by Singer. So I like collection of short stories, sue me. Hell, I like anthologies even more (you know, a mix of great shorts, how is this not a bigger thing), but I won't add any for now. So read this collection of shorts (then read my collection which is pretty sweet too). 

Honorable Mention:

October : about the Russian revolution. A quick read and pretty comprehensive. There's also the list at the end that tells you what happened to them. "Executed by Stalin" being the main choice or lack thereof.

 So check these books out today!


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