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Congratulations To The Summer 2016 Graduates Of The University Of Nebraska MFA In Writing!!!!!

Congratulations to the summery 2016 graduates of the University of Nebraska MFA in writing!!!!!

Man, it’s been 6 years now since I’ve graduated. 6 years and 12 graduating classes. That’s a lot of fine writing.

The Golden Age Of The Web: The Stinkymeat Project

The time has come already to become nostalgic about the golden age of the World Wide Web. Today? Let us take a moment to remember The Stinkymeat Project:

Yes, around 2000 (approximately sixteen years ago), a guy decided to let meat rot in his neighbor’s yard and take pictures of it for a web site. Is there anything that better epitomizes the golden age of people realizing what all kinds of useless, disgusting things that the WWW could be used for? Isn’t this great?

I certainly think it is.

I can’t believe this web site is still up.

Illiteracy Is No Longer An Excuse Not To Get My Book!

You can no longer use not being able to read as an excuse not to get Not Quite so Stories! It’s now an audiobook! (Of course, people who can’t read can’t read this post about not having to have to read to get my book.)

I’m excited about this. This is my first book to ever get an audiobook release. I’m eager to see what people think, to reach the audiobook audience who doesn’t like to read actual text. It’s a whole new world.

It’s a nice one too. We didn’t just record me reading. They got a professional reader for this, Peter M. Lerman. That was definitely the classy route. I hope ya’ll dig!

I Just Need To Keep This Handy For All The Pokémon GO Discussions

Excuse me, but I just need to keep this handy for all the discussions going on right now about Pokémon GO.

I don’t play it personally, but I need to keep this particular video where I can find it easily for various ongoing Pokémon GO discussions.

Restore Dennis Cooper’s Blog and Email

I don’t normally share a lot of petitions because I think the majority of them are pointless, showing people who already know how many people are against them how many people are against them. It’s not as if most of them are unaware, they just don’t care. As such, it’s kind of a fruitless make yourself feel good enterprise in many cases. However, I do think Google needs to know if you are upset about them suddenly (and without any real explanation) shutting off Dennis Cooper’s accounts.

To quote the petition page about this:

On June 27th, 2016, the blog and personal Gmail account of writer and artist Dennis Cooper were deleted by Google for reasons that the company has failed to disclose, beyond a generic reference to a terms of service violation.

Yes, Google is free. Yes, it’s their machines and their decision. However, if they are going to behave as a certain kind of company, people need to realize that and treat them accordingly. This is not the kind of company I thought they were, and I wanted to let them know that. If they wanted to do this sort of thing, I’d think it best to move away from having contact with them. I certainly wouldn’t want to support them.

But, I’d let them know that first. As such, one of the few petitions I’m sharing. If you agree, consider letting them know too. Personally, I think they should at least provide him access to the stored content and explain why. Let him go somewhere else if they don’t want his kind of content on their servers, but provide him the ability to and let us know exactly what it was that bothered them so much.

I want to know what kind of company they are.

The 2nd Annual Flash Fiction Festival Is Tomorrow!!!!!

Don’t forget…the 2nd annual flash fiction festival presented by the F-Bomb is tomorrow (Tuesday July 19th at 7:30PM at The Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St, Denver, Colorado)!!!!!!!!  Nancy Stohlman is hosting and the features include Christopher Bowen, April Bradley, Mathias Svalina, and ME (promoting, of course, Not Quite so Stories)!

The theme is Elvis Luau, though I’m not sure what luaus have to do with the son Chickenhawk from the duo in The Dixie Fryer who tried to eat Foghorn Leghorn while he was vacationing in the south for the winter:

You should come out. Hear all the featured readers and/or read something at the open mic yourself. Again, it’s going to be packed, so get there early to sign up for the open mic portion, and be sure to keep whatever you’ve got to read to 3-4 minutes or less so there’s time for everyone.

Maybe I Shouldn’t Write My Blog When I’m Hungry

Maybe I shouldn’t write my blog when I’m hungry.

Right now, this seemed like the most profound thing I could say.

Ever Run Into The Perfect Animated Gif To Use As An Ad For Someone Else’s Book?

Do you ever run into the perfect animated gif to use as an ad for someone else’s book? Of course not, I’m the only one sitting here paging through animated gifs purposelessly. Thus, I’m the only one who’d be in the situation where that thought would occur. Regardless, here’s an animated gif that would be a perfect ad for Die You Doughnut Bastards by Cameron Pierce:

Wouldn’t it be a perfect ad for it? Wouldn’t it?

 

The Art Of Storytelling Tonight at 7PM!

The Art of Storytelling reading series is tonight (Friday July 15th) 7-9PM at the Collection Gallery in the Aurora Arts District. It’s at 9801 E Colfax Ave Ste 120 Aurora, CO 80010, across the street from Aurora Fox Theater and the MLK Library). They’re doing a special summer reading and art show for some talented 9th grade writing and visual art students. There will be 3 readings, and 3 artists with their work up. Julia Boughner, Jada Dunn, and Sam Reiser. Then open mic.

You should come on out.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

Vive la France!