Monthly Archives: April 2007

“Give Me Your Poor, Your Tired, Your Pixel Stained…”

I’m not sure my work is of “professional quality,” but because nobody can stop me I decided to post a story for International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Wretch Day. (The “wretch” is sometimes left out, but I feel that it gives the … Continue reading

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From the Land of Sky Blue Waters…

Not bad for an automated quiz: it picked the speech region where I and both my parents were born and raised. What American accent do you have? Created by Xavier on Memegen.net Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland … Continue reading

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Ironic, Iranic, Irenic

And ride in triumph through Persepolis! Is it not brave to be a king, Techelles? […] Is it not passing brave to be a king, And ride in triumph through Persepolis? –Marlowe, Tambulaine (Part One) I’m not one to run … Continue reading

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Um. Wow.

The Pantheon dome and its oculus as the Moon and the Earth. (From APoD.)

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Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One…

“Boy meets pig. Boy frames pig as a jewel thief. Boy loses pig, and has all his leather-clad supermodel/cat-burglar sidekicks karate-chopped into submission by pig. It’s practically the world’s oldest story.” (From the “Inventory” feature at Onion AV Club. The … Continue reading

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Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit

At the risk of vexing people who’ve seen enough about the shootings at Virginia Tech, I thought I’d pass on some messages about Jamie Bishop (a German professor at VT and son of sf writer Michael Bishop) from an unlikely … Continue reading

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This week’s Writer’s Five. Questions about where your main character lives Answered for Morlock, as usual. 1 – What type of home is it? Morlock is essentially homeless, so he lives wherever he is. By preference he’ll live in a … Continue reading

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The H. V. Hendrix Experience–Electric Webbyland

More from Howard V. Hendrix. (Then I first saw the name a few days ago I thought it was a legal case–Howard versus Hendrix.) This installment by way of GallyCat. He regrets the inflammatory choice of words (without reference to … Continue reading

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Egomania Update

The pixel-stains on my virtual fingers were fading a bit, so I engaged in a bit of technopeasant wretchedness by updating my egomaniacal shrine to myself website. Most of the changes are to the stories page, where I shifted things … Continue reading

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Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.

Kurt Vonnegut died last night in Manhattan (according to Reuters and the NYT).

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