Roland Denzel's Blog: The sound of one man clapping, page 19

Goodreads giveaways sent!

I just want to thank everyone for the interest in the book, The Real Food Reset!

The copies are in mail, so you should be getting them in just a few days!

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks for entering the contest.

Roland

We'll always have Anaheim

[image error] I should have been writing, but instead, I got sucked into the vortex of 'which ____ are you?' quizzes, which was fine when I ended up Han Solo or Aragorn, but it got weird with Anchorman. Who cares which newscaster I am?

Then came the question with which we will all one day be faced: "What Princess are you?"

No surprise, here, I'm Aurora!

Which Disney Princess Are You?
...although I actually DO have trouble meeting men. Go figure.

I just don't know how accurate the quiz really is. My heart has al...

2014 - Here we go...

Happy New Year, everybody!

Some stuff for 2014, not in any order of significance:

1Christine Henderson interviewed me on her site. She interviews writers, so in this case the interview was more than fitness and nutrition, which was fun! An Interview with Roland Denzel

2I've got two non-fiction books in the works, one with Gal and one on my own. I think one (the one with Gal, and mostly her brainchild) will be our best work yet.

Gal came up with a great idea that we are both really excited about....

In defense of Love Actually

Many of my friends and family LOVE Love Actually. Many of you know that it's a movie that I watch year after year. This Love Actually Season, the detractors (movie reviewers more talented than I) came out of the woodwork to try to knock it down, but they just don't get it. Others DO get it.

Me, I want to love. I look for it. Seek it out. I sought it out, and found it. I want all aspects of it, even the pain of lost love (insert cliche, cliche, blah, blah, blah). What about the pain or angst of...

The next batman

should either go 'light' and be more like the Super Friends Batman that I grew up with


OR get real with a gracefully aging Batman with an actor like Bryan Cranston.


Now that he's no longer seen as Malcolm's Dad, Cranston would make an awesome, grittier Batman. Just make him a little funny, too. Not Adam West funny, but self-deprecating funny.

I never took the Super Friends seriously, but I can't really take the bitter, angry Batman we have today for much longer, either.

faint heart

"Faint heart never won fair lady" - Robin Hood, 1973

eet

In the olden days there was no true backspacing. Typewriting writers simply kept going. You could go back a character or two and overtype your mistake with Xs or something, but that's about it. Later, someone figured out how to squeeze a ribbon of 'white out' under the hood, but fixing more than a word or two wasn't pretty.

Saturday's blog post was inspired by hearing the following song, Regina Spektor's 'Eet,' which is about a mythical key on a typewriter that allows you to overtype words on...

Why is there no Firefly fiction?

There are a million Star Wars books, thousands of Star Trek books, and plenty of books based on total crap sci-fi.

Why no Firefly?

backspacer

When you flirt over skype, be careful that you turn off the option that shows that you're typing when you're typing something.

If you don't turn that off, the person at the other end knows you're working on something, and if there's a long, long pause and you end up sending something short and sweet, they know you changed your mind.

It means you backspaced. You're a backspacer. "What were you going to say, backspacer?"

Flirting over skype is like an interactive love letter; it's a dialog that fa...

when someone loves you...

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. ” — Jess C. Scott

I saw the quote on Goodreads.com, and while I love the sentiment, it's a tough sentence to follow.

Roland