March 2012
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Known Issues
My Tumblr inbox says it contains more messages than it actually contains. This is a known issue. That message count gets my hopes up, making me feel interesting and curiosity-inducing, until I click through and see that I am not as interesting or curiosity-inducing as I thought. Then my self-satisfaction ticks downward, just a smidge. This is a known issue.
February 2012
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onepretentiousbastard asked: if you could have the IP of one TV show (or TV that hit the movies) what would you pick and what would you do with it?
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"Suffering Is A Form Of Corruption"
This was said, quite casually, in Monday’s session of our Nobilis game campaign (by the player portraying the power of Hope) and I have been thinking about it a lot since then. It is not a new idea but for whatever this particular bullet made it through my vest and struck me.
jefftidball:
We should be more cognizant of the reason we use the word “pay” to talk about what we do with our attention. Our attention is precious, and limited. We should dole it out only to the things that really matter. We should more freely part with our money.
Yes. But, also:
How many monies equal one attention?
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Since I was obligated (by me) to give my Hamlet-derived story a Hamlet-derived title, I went with “As Adders Fanged.” I know you were wondering.
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Doubt Thou The Stars Are Fire
I’ve just finished trimming down a very short story of mine that messes with some of the components of Hamlet to create a petty little crime scene. In doing so, I have rediscovered how hard it is to title a story based on a passage from Hamlet—most of them are already the titles of other things.
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Cut from another post and in search of a home
This is where I search my soul when, by “search my soul,” I mean ransack my scarred and shivered psychic flotsam like an amnesiac stranded on a beach, going through wet luggage for some sign of just who the fuck I am.
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onepretentiousbastard asked: What is your current favorite scotch and why is it your current favorite? what scotch did it replace?
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(I wrote this for a stranger whose spouse is far off right now but I thought you might enjoy it. Except I fucked this up when I sent it to that stranger, who could misconstrue it in a depressing way. So this is the revised bit.)
My wife, before she was my wife, went off to school on a distant coast. We were weeks apart, sometimes months. Rain fell. Nights lasted days. But during that time we lived...
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“Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition,...”
– Michael Chabon
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"I wouldn’t go telling my past self to do things... →
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“This is a quote about writing and about being a writer. You’re a writer....”
– Will Hindmarch, on Tumblr right now
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“When people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost...”
– Neil Gaiman (via “25 Insights On Becoming A Better Writer”)
(I’ve posted this before. This occurred to me again today, though, so I am sharing it again.)
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“Doubt grows with knowledge.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sprüche in Prosa (Proverbs in Prose, 1819) (via)
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“All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.”
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton, King Arthur (1848-9), Book XII, Chapter XXVIII (via)
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“Don’t you know / the lengths i would go / to be anyone that you wish i...”
– Brad Sucks, “Understood By Your Dad”