There was an old discussion on Slashdot on the viability of the blognovel as an artistic medium, with specific reference to the plan b blognovel experiment, which raises some interesting points for pondering. The comment that struck me as particularly true: It seems to me that this is similar to other ideas, both that the [...]
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<– Chapter 2 / Chapter 4 –> He wakes from dreams of sand with the taste of cordite in his mouth. He dodges a last couple of Russoturk tracers fired at his head as he peeks over the ragged lip of a wind-carved canyon, rolls to his right and plummets off the side of his [...]
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It occurs to me that since I’ve set the precedent of pimping poetry once already, I would be remiss if I failed to mention another poet for whom I hold a great deal of respect. (I’m no poet. I just happen to know people who are.) Arnie Strong is a site moderator over at Trupoets.com [...]
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I’m not a twitchgamer. To be honest, I’m not sure I even know how to turn on my kids’ XBox 360, and when it is turned on, I’ve proven repeatedly that I don’t understand the controls. My kids don’t seem to mind this when we’re playing Halo 3 for some reason. Apparently having a combat [...]
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Things to Remember: 1. The keys to the shed are on the nail inside the garage door. 2. The dog is allergic to Cap’n Crunch. You’re allergic to naproxen. 3. Everyone you know wants something that you’ve got: your time, your money, your wife, children. Otherwise they wouldn’t be your friends. 4. There’s only one [...]
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I recently e-mailed Creative Commons champion and BoingBoing editor Cory Doctorow about this whole idea of generating free fictional content for the web. (And yes, that’s shameless name-dropping. Cory doesn’t know me from Adam.) In the five days since I put up my blog, I’ve gone from having a novel that sat on my hard [...]
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Cubemate Laura said I needed a blurb and a better organized presentation of direct links to the chapter posts, especially for first time visitors to the blargh who might not have the benefit of knowing what I’m doing here. So there you go. D. This post courtesy of Riot!, the new album by Paramore featuring [...]
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Late this afternoon, I had a meeting with the blargh’s Creative Consultant, also known as Cubemate Laura, about issues of page design and layout. In short, Cubemate Laura was pointing out that slabbing big wads of creative writing text into a blog post is aggravating for the reader at best and possibly an act of [...]
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It’s seventy degrees and glorious in central Indiana today, so I stepped outside my office for a smoke this afternoon. As I puffed away sitting on the bench in front of my building, a gentleman in his late-40′s or early-50′s settled in beside me and bummed a cigarette. Within thirty seconds of lighting up, he [...]
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<– Chapter 1 / Chapter 3 –> The first thing everyone learns about Paraclete is that there is no actual, locate-able, stroll through-able, smell-the-flower variety garden on the Garden Level. There are no hydroponic growth vats, no specialized lighting, no actual fauna which might be even vaguely confused with explosions of greenery and/or vegetable caliber [...]
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