So, I’m thinking that they should use that time machine to go back to when they were struggling to record La Villa Strangiato and tell themselves: “You know, dudes, this song that it’s taking you like, 40 takes to record? When you’re like, old, and pushing sixty, you’ll play this live … in concert … at the end of a difficult set that involves playing one of your most technically challenging albums in its entirety … and you’ll do it uptempo, playing it faster and rocking it harder than you ever have before. In one take. So take heart.”
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Sigh. Fortunately a friend of mine out here for the Rush concert is a WordPress blogger and keyed me in that I hadn’t enabled Akismet, WordPress’s built in comment spam fighting plugin. Doing that now…
-the Centaur
P.S. What really gets me is that these spam comments are arriving at the blog of someone who actually studies spam. I know The Algorithm doesn’t know that, but still…
Which means the moment I hit that icon … well, the funny thing would be that I’d say I’d disappear. But, sadly, as my friends know … if I have a choice between playing a computer game I love and have been waiting for for years and writing … I’d rather be writing.
So Starcraft 2 will wait, probably until the weekend.
Tomorrow morning at 7:20am, I’ll be reading from FROST MOON on Ann Arbor’s Unbedtime Stories radio program on KFJC. Actually, we plan to have me reading from FROST MOON every Wednesday for the rest of August! Tune in and enjoy…
Finishing Line Press is about to publish a chapbook of my friend Hester Furey’s poems, titled Little Fish. Little Fish is available for pre-order at $12 with $3 shipping through September 1st. After October 29, it will be available on Amazon, but production is based on what people order now, so if you order now, it will help her and her publisher.
Hm. They don’t make it easy to include a link to buy the book, do they? You can find it if you scroll down the page, but in case you miss it … let’s see, Google Chrome has a nice element inspector … doop de doo … grabbing the HTML … OK. Let’s try this: you can preorder Little Fish here:
That should send you directly to the Finishing Line Press PayPal page where you can preorder Little Fish. Hopefully that will work! So please, check her work out, and support Finishing Line Press!
-the Centaur
P.S. You can also find some of Hester Furey’s earlier scholarly work via Project Muse and JSTOR.
P.P.S. Me saying something nice about Finishing Line Press does not mean I don’t also want you to go check out the many fine books available from Bell Bridge Books. Yes, yes, yes, I know they don’t even remotely compete, I’m trying to show support, work with me here.
At the beginnings of their careers, a lot of authors and other creative types are obsessed with making money off what they produce and are deathly afraid of people stealing it. I’ve seen people charging their friends for copies of short stories printed in magazines, putting their artwork on the web behind passwords or with huge watermarks, or pricing their software out of reach of the people who want to buy it. But this doesn’t help them – in fact, it hurts. And I’m here to tell you to give stuff away for free.
If you want to read the whole post, please check it out at her blog, A Novel Friend – it should go up sometime this weekend.
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Especially if there’s no relationship between the salsa of text and the post. I mean, come on, if you’re going to comment on my WordPress theme don’t do it on the Pound Cake Alchemy post.
8 more spammy comments … marked as spam.
-the Centaur
Some issues with lines but … not the zoo it was last year. Maybe I am better at navigating it; maybe they’re working out the kinks. Regardless, a great con this year – the highlights for me were the urban fantasy and ya panels and the bigscreen finale of Doctor Who.
When ordering at a Thai or other Asian restaurant, find out if they serve family size portions. If so, order n-1 dishes where n is the number of diners, or you will be sad.
By day, Anthony Francis makes computers smarter; by night he
writes science fiction and draws comic books. He lives in San
Jose with his wife and cats but his heart will always belong in
Atlanta. More...
By day, Anthony Francis makes computers smarter; by night he
writes science fiction and draws comic books. He lives in San
Jose with his wife and cats but his heart will always belong in
Atlanta.