Tag: dumb lists
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Answering stupid meme questions because I don’t feel like writing
Somebody sent me this on facebook. Any time I try to write more than 38 characters on facebook, it usually crashes or tries to sell me auto insurance, so I will answer it here. Also, I am so bored of the book I am trying to write that I almost went and googled “writing prompts”…
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More Various Trivia
James Cameron came up for the idea for the Terminator screenplay after his Audi 5000 was recalled for unintended acceleration. One in five American domestic house cats are unable to digest aspartame. Fiber supplements containing more than 9 grams of insoluble fiber are illegal without a doctor’s prescription in Sweden. Serial killer Richard “the Nightstalker”…
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List: 30 Ways to Reach First Base
Hit a single. Reach on an error. Walk on four balls. Get hit by a pitch. Catcher drops the ball after the third strike. Fan interference. Catcher interference. A pitching infraction that results in a 4th ball. A pitched ball lodges in the catcher or umpire’s mask on the third strike or fourth ball. Replacing…
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2010, we hardly knew ye
2010 has come to a close, and I am getting a slow trickle of end-of-year letters and holiday cards in the old fashioned paper format, both things I always wish I would do, except I think about them roughly two days before xmas and all of my postal addresses are years out of date and…
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LA impressions
Another week is done, and all of our stuff arrived in mostly one piece. After a few more days (or months) of rearranging, it will be business as usual here. Which brings me to thoughts about what I like, what is good, and what’s odd about this place. Rather than try to write some prose,…
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junk
I don’t feel like writing, but feel a need to update, so you get another bulleted list: I chopped off all of my hair today. It’s down to about a #2 guard, so it looks like I just got done with basic training. Much easier to wash, much more comfortable. I saw the movie Old…
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Stupid Facts
I like the new Coke can design. It’s cool. I’m trying to figure out how the impending Broadway musicians’ strike will actually affect me, since I’ve never been to a Broadway show and never really intend to. I almost bid on a 1976 Gremlin in Staten Island that was up to $300. I wanted to…
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random stuff
A bunch of random stuff: Wendy’s just shorted me a spicy chicken sandwich, and gave me a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger instead. I hope you rot in hell, Dave Thomas! I put on ad on fark.com to see if the $10 would make a difference or not toward book traffic. There’s more traffic, but no email…
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Questions
Questions When people talk about “hate literature”, how much of the hate literature out there is done via limerick? Is this a lost art form, at least in the genre of racist literature? I think the government should fund more hate limerics so they will have more of them to ban. Can you go to…