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June 28, 2015
Apparently I’ll Be In Montreal Soon So I’m Thinking Of This Again
Yeah…so I’m apparently going to be in Montreal again soon. This is all I keep thinking about:
June 27, 2015
I Think Of This Every Time I Drive Across Nebraska
I just drove across Nebraska again. I think of this every time I make that drive now:
June 26, 2015
Can We Stop With The Whole SCOTUS/POTUS Thing?
When did we start with the whole SCOTUS/POTUS thing? I know these are valid acronyms for the Supreme Court of the United States and the President of the United states, respectively, but they sound awful. SCOTUS and POTUS sound like some cheap cartoon about two redneck kids who hang around together and go fishing while cracking puns.
I don’t like it.
Is Congress COTUS? Is the Senate SOTUS? Is the House of Representatives HOROTUS?
Where will this end? AGOTUS (Attorney General of the United States)? FOTUS (flag of the United States)? GABOTUS (geographical approximate boundaries of the United States)? ATCOTUS (all the citizens of the United States)?
This is ridiculous. Please, stop now.
June 25, 2015
I Still Don’t Have Facebook Messenger
Well, it’s been almost a year now and I still don’t have Facebook Messenger on my phone. I’m still just using a web browser to open Facebook when I need to send or read a Facebook message. It still works a year after they removed messaging from their mobile app.
As long as it still works, I’m probably going to keep not downloading Facebook Messenger. I see now reason to change if they don’t take this away.
Just wanted to keep ya’ll updated.
June 24, 2015
NOW I’M DOING IT!!!!
I usually try to calm other writers down when they get too worked up about the submission process. At the very least, I usually try not to read too much into things. There are only two times submission statuses are important, when they are received and when they are rejected or allowed.
Nothing else matters. Nothing else really means anything.
BUT NOW I’M DOING IT TOO!!!!
I submit to The Collagist from time to time. I’ve got something over at them right now for consideration and, wait…it’s taking longer than normal. Normally they get back to me within a month and it’s been over with them for three. Surely this means that they might accept this one! That must be why it’s taking longer! It couldn’t possibly be that they simply HAVEN’T HAD TIME TO GET TO IT YET!!!!
Why am I doing this? Why do so many writers do this? The time in queue means nothing. We know it means nothing…but yet we do this. We torture ourselves as if queue times had any significance at all.
I can’t believe myself.
June 23, 2015
Mainline!
Mainline is open again!
Have you got your manuscipt in yet? Are you coping?
June 22, 2015
Bugdroid (The Android Robot) Is Canadian!
I just realized this, but Bugdroid (the Android Robot) is Canadian! Just take a look:
See it? Bugdroid clearly has a flip-top head. What did South Park teach us about Canadians? They all have flip-top heads.
See? Canadian. I rest my case. I have no idea why a Canadian mascot was chosen for Android, but there we go.
June 21, 2015
My Books! How Could I Forget About My Books?
My books! Here I’ve been pestering you about reading my book reviews and stories and I’ve entirely forgotten to remind you about reading my books! What was I thinking?
Buy them, read them (and if you’ve read them, review them on Goodreads and Amazon). Be a pal.
June 20, 2015
How About My Stories? Do You Read Those?
I asked you yesterday if you were reading my book reviews. How about my stories? Are you reading those? Here are links to the stories of mine published online in the last year:
“Hollidays Gone Wrong” (no, that isn’t a typo) published March 22, 2015 Bartleby Snopes.
“To Kill a Mokkingbird II – Kill Harder by Ahrrper Leeeeee” published February 5, 2015 in Cease, Cows. Thanks to Jon Konrath for letting me use the title and inspiring the story.
“The Declaration of Insufficiency: Getting Quality Work Out of ‘The Jeff’” published in issue 20 (December 2, 2014) of Hobo Pancakes.
“Somebody Misplaced Montana” published in issue 17 (September 2014) of Used Gravitrons.
“The Las Vegas Strip Disappeared This Morning” published September 9, 2014 Smashed Cat Magazine.
“And Now a Word From Our Sponsor” published August 15, 2014 in Paragraph Line.
The rest were print only. Sorry, I can’t give you easy access to those.
June 19, 2015
Do You Read My Reviews?
Do you read my reviews? Maybe you don’t even know I write book reviews. Maybe you should check them out. Here’s all that have gone live in the last year:
My review of The Devils That Have Come to Stay by Pamela DiFrancesco published June 18, 2015 at [Pank].
My review of What Lies in Wait by James H. Duncan published June 15, 2015 in Issue No. 8 of Buffalo Almanack.
My review of Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good , published April 30, 2015 at InDigest.
My review of American Past Time by Len Joy, published December 29, 2014 at [Pank].
My review of The Memory Hunter by Jon Konrath, published September 11, 2014 at InDigest.
My review of Hagridden by Samuel Snoek-Brown, published August 18, 2014 at InDigest.
My review of Black Cloud by Juliet Escoria, published August 4, 2014 at The Lit Pub.
My review of Don’t Tease the Elephants by Jen Knox, published July 28, 2014 at InDigest.
My review of If There’s Any Truth in a Northbound Train by Ryan Werner, published July 7, 2014 at InDigest.
My review of What Happened Here by Bonnie ZoBell, published June 25, 2014 on [PANK]’s blog.
My review of Above All Men by Eric Shonkwiler, published June 20, 2014 at Sundog Lit.
My review of Victoria Hetherington’s I Have to Tell You, published June 19, 2014 at InDigest.
