Month: January 2012
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Longest Novel Ever
I’ve been vaguely thinking about scraping some of the old essays I’ve posted here and turning them into a book, so I imported all of my old entries on rumored from 1997 to present into Scrivener just to see what it looked like. It turns out I’ve written about 650,000 words here, which means if…
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The Allure of Used Media
I was just reading today about some rumors surrounding the system that’s being called, for lack of a better name, the XBox 720. It’s supposed to be coming out in late 2013 or 2014, which is bad for a couple of reasons. One, if they screw the pooch and don’t get it to hit that…
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41
I turn 41 today. Five years ago, I ate dinner at Per Se in New York. I had a twelve-course meal that cost something like $750. Then I went home and watched the movie Idiocracy. Then my iTunes library crashed, and I spent the next day restoring it, so a huge chunk of my songs…
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The Cult of Keyboards
As I approach the end of my 40th year, my body is falling apart. Okay, that may be an over-exaggeration, but every morning, it feels like another piece has been overextended or abused or mutilated, from the various discs in my back to the muscles and joints in my shoulders or arms or knees or…
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My new book, The Earworm Inception, also in paperback
You know that new book I posted about the other day? Well, the print version is now available, too. So if you’re not cool with all this kindle stuff and still like to read your books dead tree style, check it out over at amazon. The print version is 134 pages, and costs $8.99. It’s…
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List of Books I Have Not Completed
As I mentioned in my last post, I have a new book out. It’s called The Earworm Inception, and it’s only 99 cents on the Kindle. So please go check that out. This book is the latest in a series — can I call it a series if there’s only two and I vaguely plan…
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My new book, The Earworm Inception, is now available
Abraham Lincoln and Helen Keller opened a Subway sandwich shop on the corner of MacDougal and Bleecker to finance their speed metal band, in which I was auditioning as their road ileostomy technician, so I spent a lot of free time in that neighborhood. A lot of touring bands, at least the serious ones, switched…
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A Hundred Years From That One Rush Album
I guess I haven’t written in here yet in 2012. Oops. I’ve been busy working on getting a new book released, another collection of short stories and flash, and that’s about done. But it’s been hard to get started on something new, and I really need to. Part of this is that I’m trying to…