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January 11, 2020
Diogenes Week Day Three
BEHOLD A MAN! Diogenes week day three:
January 10, 2020
Diogenes Week Day Two
BEHOLD A MAN! Given yesterday’s post, let’s make it Diogenes week. This would be day two:
January 9, 2020
Another Thing I Did Before
Plato:
Diogenes: BEHOLD A MAN!
Here's Terry Funk throwing a raw chicken at @Goldust's head. #TerryEveryday pic.twitter.com/U0dfFfS4gx
— Allan (@allan_cheapshot) June 14, 2017
I commented on someone’s (@JaimsVanDerBeek) later post of this on Twitter already, but I liked it too much not to bring it over here.
January 8, 2020
2019 Year In Writing
Since I’m doing my other 2019 look backs, I should probably look back on the writing as well. Things were slower than usual. I was writing, but other things kept getting in the way and I just didn’t get around to submitting much. I had 4 pieces accepted in 2019, the lowest since 2010 (the last time I had none accepted). I should probably get on that more. For now, here’s what I did get published accepted in 2019:
“People Go On and On About the Cholesterol Benefits of Cheerios But No One Wants to Talk About How Many Hamsters They Execute As Part of Their Annual Company Picnic Sack Race Awards Ceremony” published December 6, 2019 in Spelk.
“I Tried to Juice my Fruit Dehydrator and Caused a Temporal Anomaly that Broke the Universe” published June 2, 2019 in issue six of Cherry Magazine.
“We’re Still Debating Whether ‘Mud’ was Really the Name of the Doctor Versus the Monster or if it was What he Called his Sled Since Those Tapes are Due Back to Blockbuster on Thursday” published March 10, 2019 in Potato Soup Journal.
Now I should really get back to submitting.
January 7, 2020
Readings And Such Attended in 2019
Here’s all the readings and such I attended in 2019 (a few of which I may have done a little reading at). I went to a few less in 2019 than 2018, and missed going to any during two different months (February, where I was lazy, and November, where I was in South Africa for half the month and frantically taking care of things so I could go to South Africa for the other half), but I still got to quite a few things .
January
Queen City Companion.
The Art of Storytelling.
February
Missed going to anything.
March
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
April
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
Noir at the Bar.
May
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
CLASH COMES to Denver.
June
Queen City Companion.
At the Inkwell.
July
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
A number of readings while visiting my old MFA program.
August
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
September
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
October
Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series.
The event for Drowning with Others by Linda Keir (Linda Joffe Hull and Keir Graff).
Pizza and Prose (a reading series a writer at my work puts on, this one featuring a stories by Shirley Jackson).
At the Inkwell.
November
Missed going to anything.
December
Memorial reading for William Seward Bonnie/Andrew Boeglin.
January 6, 2020
Let’s Break Up The 2019 Posts A Little
The first few posts of the year are always about the previous year. I’m sure I’ve got a few more looking back at 2019, so let’s break that up with a dancing hot dog animated gif:
Yeah, I needed that.
January 5, 2020
How Did My Reading Stack Up In 2019 Against Other Years?
Yesterday I posted all the books I read in 2019. Now the question is how that stacks up against other years. I only read 226 books, which would put 2019 as my third slowest reading year of the last ten. However, I kept reading a ton of long books. Poor Fellow My Country; Ducks, Newburyport, the Mission Earth series; the Malazan Book of the Fallen series; and so on. I may have only read 226 books, but that’s approximately 71,729 pages, or 6th place in the total page count. Way higher than that 226 would suggest. 2019 ties for first place for longest average book length at 317 pages. It’s not always a straight comparison across the board given the different size of different books, different complexity levels, and so on. Anyway, here those stats for the last ten years listed out:
2019: 226 books 71,729 pages 317 page average per book
2018: 202 books 46,859 pages 231 page average per book
2017: 333 books 86,157 pages 258 page average per book
2016: 250 books 59,509 pages 238 page average per book
2015: 225 books 57,506 pages 256 page average per book
2014: 303 books 86,425 pages 285 page average per book
2013: 313 books 87,441 pages 279 page average per book
2012: 247 books 72,973 pages 295 page average per book
2011: 318 books 90,266 pages 284 page average per book
2010: 169 books 53,593 pages 317 page average per book
January 3, 2020
The French Continue
The French are continuing to spam comment here. The comment:
Avoir graduations pour aller à, avoir des réunions pour aller à, je ne veux pas être dans mes réunions tous les maux ou être à l’obtention du dipl?me de mon fils tous les maux juste à cause de quelque chose Je l’ai fait dans le passé.
The Google Translate:
Having graduations to go to, having meetings to go to, I don’t want to be in my meetings all the bad or being my son’s graduation all the bad just because of something I have it done in the past.
Not sports related this time. Not sure how I came to the attention of French spammers.
January 2, 2020
There’s Something Extra Silly About A Proust Animated GIF
There’s something extra silly about a Proust animated gif.
I couldn’t find one of him with a hot dog.
December 31, 2019
Get Ready For It!
Get ready for it!
