Month: July 2019

Technological Tuesday: Once An iPod, Now A Paperweight

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Technology marches on, but we always need to keep papers from blowing away.

That 70s Dust Jacket Author Photo

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Me in the 1970s, dressed to the 9s. Or the 8s, or however old I was when it was taken:

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Strike a pose

You would totally buy a book with this photo on the back of the dust jacket, right? No? Is the unbuttoned jacket a bit much? How about this, then?

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If you won’t buy a book, perhaps I can interest you in a used car?

Oh yeah. Everyone loves a dimple and a little dot on the chin.

Teaser Tuesday: “The Branches of Time”

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Recently having decided to switch, at least for a while, from my previous habit of picking a random book to read, and instead reading them in roughly the order in which they got them, I have lately been picking up* books that I acquired way back in the halcyon days of 2015. The one I’m reading this week is The Branches of Time, by Luca Rossi.

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Not A Review Of “Stranger Things 3”

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So on July 4th, Netflix released the third season of their show Stranger Things:

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Random Thing From My Files: “Oh Boy” Magazine

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So this week I decided to reach into my giant stack of rejection letters. As usual, I went to random.org to decide which section of the file to pull from, and it told me that this week, it would be the letter O. Despite its ubiquity as a vowel, my file folder for the letter O turned out to be virtually empty. (O, The Oprah Magazine wasn’t in operation when I was submitting a lot of short stories places. Not that I would have submitted anything there anyway, since that wasn’t exactly my target market.) However, I did find something a little unusual: Submission guidelines to an ancient fanzine called Oh Boy.

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