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Wasn’t Count Duckula A Ripoff Of Bunnicula?

Wasn’t Count Duckula just a ripoff of Bunnicula? I mean, the whole vegetarian vampire thing? The first Bunnicula book came out in 1979, and Count Duckula didn’t get going until 1988. Bunnicula was definitely first.

Sure, Count Duckula was the main protagonist and actually was a vegetarian vampire, as opposed to the more allegation-based, secondary character of Bunnicula, but still. Vegetarian vampire. The concept was there.

Someone has some explaining to do, I think.

I Don’t Even Know What Gilmore Girls Is About

I made a joke post about Gilmore Girls recently where I pretended to reveal my favorite episode and then said I didn’t have one not because I didn’t like the show but because I’d never seen it. Not an episode. However, it’s actually worst than that. I actually have no idea what the show is about.

Really, not a clue. I know from the picture I grabbed for my post that it involves two women. I recognize one of the actresses from another show. I imagine it has something to do with a mother and daughter, but that’s pure speculation. There was some Family Guy reference I remember involving some character named Rory or something, but that’s the extent of it.

I just have no idea at all about this show.

Now, there are plenty of shows I’ve never seen before. There are even plenty I know nothing, nothing significant, about. So why focus in on Gilmore Girls? The answer? I have no idea.

Second Blurb For Apocalypse All the Time! Janice Lee!

Second blurb for Apocalypse All the Time! This one is from Janice Lee (Editor of the #RECURRENT Novel Series at Civil Coping Mechanisms, Executive Editor at Entropy, author of Reconsolidation, and more):

[ Apocalypse All the Time ] holds utterly true to its title. This is a world where apocalypses are not singular impending events but habitual, regular, ordinary, even mere annoyances. Indeed, the narrator ruminates, “An apocalypse wasn’t a significant event if it was apocalypse all the time.” This is a funny, clever, and entirely endearing book, a hilarious take on the existential status of existing as a human in a post-post(-post-post?) apocalyptic world, but it’s also heartbreakingly real and honest. Magnifying back to the real world in which the apocalypse has probably already happened, it is within the pages of these book that we learn to find love in spite of disintegration and ruin, we learn to become in spite of uncertainty, and we learn to live in spite of the hope for death. – Janice Lee, Author of Damnation & The Sky Isn’t Blue

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An Animated Gif That Found Me

I didn’t even go looking for this animated gif, it found me. A friend shared it on Facebook and I went out to find it myself in the wild.

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I just had to share it here so you could all go “What the hell?” with me.

Release Event For Apocalypse All The Time and Deer Michigan Saturday January 14 7PM At The BookBar!

Book release party! BookBar (4280 Tennyson St, Denver, CO 80212) at 7PM on Saturday January 14. I’ll be reading from Apocalypse All the Time and Jack C. Buck will be reading from Deer Michigan. You should come out. It’ll be a good time.

Here’s the Facebook event page so you can let us know if you’re coming.

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My Favorite Episode Of Gilmore Girls

My favorite episode of Gilmore Girls:

I don’t have one. I’ve never seen the show. I don’t dislike the show or anything. I’ve just never seen it.

First Blurb For Apocalypse All the Time! Joseph Hirsch!

It’s time to reveal the first blurb for Apocalypse All the Time! This one is from Joseph Hirsch (author of Veterans’ Affairs, The Dove and the Crow, Up in the Treehouse, and so on):

[Apocalypse All the Time] combines absurdism, science fiction, and sly commentary on our current neuroses induced by the twenty-four news cycle, to create something reminiscent of Orwell, Kafka, and Swift, while being entirely its own animal. By turns funny, maddening, and genuinely insightful, it’s one of the most imaginatively weird and original books I’ve read in a while.  – Joseph Hirsch, author of The Bastard’s Grimoire and other novels

 

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Wait…How Could I Stop Talking About Vietnam Without A Vietnam Animated GIF?

Wait…how could I stop talking about our recent trip to Vietnam without a Vietname animated gif?

There we go. This is what a quick google image search for that turned up, like I often look for. NOW we can be done with our Vietnam trip.

Internet Pirates In Hạ Long Bay

I think I might finish up the Vietnam trip stuff now and move on to other things, but I did want to ponder the Internet pirates of Hạ Long Bay beforehand. Those pirates were me.

I know when in a place as beautiful as Hạ Long Bay I should not worry about my work email. However, that isn’t possible. Even the idea of how far I’ll get behind in social media stuff and how long it will take me to clear out the backlog once I get access again after a gap gives me the chills. Thus, when I didn’t have Internet for twenty-four hours or more for an overnight cruise in Hạ Long Bay, I had issues.

Of course, our boat supposedly had WiFi. The crew mentioned it went in and out. My phone detected the access point and I connected to it, putting my phone back in my pocket a second later because we had to do something. That was the last anyone heard of our boat’s access point. Ever again.

We were on that boat for a good majority of the cruise. Though I say cruise, we actually cruised out to a spot and drifted there, taking a smaller boat to go to excursions.  While we floated in that spot, we would come nearer to and further from other boats. The bay was full of other boats.  One of those boats had WiFi.

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The above is a picture of the boat I was scamming WiFi off of. I know that because they had a sign with the same name as the WiFi network. I’d run out on deck when I saw them come close, latch on to their WiFi, and get as much done as I could before we drifted away and the connection was lost.

Such is the peril of the high seas.

You Also Can’t Ride A Tandem Bicycle With That Old Vietnamese Woman

Remember how I mentioned a few days ago that being the only man in your tour group means that an old Vietnamese woman will beat you with a stick while you pretend to be a water buffalo at a rice museum? Yeah, you also can’t ride a tandem bicycle with her.

Okay, it’s an old device for pumping excess water out of a rice paddy, but you will be selected to try to operate it with the Vietnamese woman. The pedals will be configured for her leg length. She will be perhaps four feet tall. You will be just short of six feet.

This will be challenging.