I have surpassed the 10,000 hit mark. Yay for The Badgerine. Hopefully I will have more published stories to report here soon.
One of my favorites, “Desert Walkers”, was just rejected by Fantasy and Science Fiction. I’m still waiting on “The Cost That Lies Between Heaven and Earth” which was sent to Weird Tales and “Little Pieces” which is currently being evaluated by Pseudopod.
On the eve of the Jets-Colts AFC Championship I am filled with great optimism. Yes, I, a Jets fan, have finally, once again allowed myself to dream.
1998 was a great year. The Jets were 30 minutes from the Super Bowl and they blew it. So, it was still a great year. 1999 was going to be THE year. Nothing would stand in our way. Yeah, that lasted 5 minutes into the season.
There is not enough space on the internet for me to list the litany of errors, the reek of failure, and the stench of futility that has surrounded the Jets.
This time it feels different. I think the Jets will beat the Colts. I’m not used to feeling that way and I like it. Win or loose I am also hopeful for next year as well. The same core of guys are coming back and our QB and head coach won’t be rookies anymore.
Also, I have finally lifted my boycott of buying an overpriced Jets jersey. Everyone has Sanchez, and although I want one I think everyone will also have a Revis with the exposure he has gotten this post-season. I’m thinking maybe fellow New Jersian Shonn Greene or Wisconsin Badger Jim Leonhard? What do you guys think?
I have ended 2009 on a high note. I’m not talking about all the beer I drank at the Borgata. On new year’s eve my short story “Painkiller” was excepted for publication by House of Horror and is slated for issue #10.
The link is: http://www.houseofhorror.org.uk/#/home/4534063502
Painkiller is a tale of suffering and temptation. The editor said, “I really enjoyed this one, very original and entertaining read. Great job!”
Painkiller now joins Infestation on Pseudopod.org on my list of publications. I honestly expected to have published more than 2 stories published in 2009 but I didn’t realize how long the process took.
Anyway, I’ll let you know when it’s up and I hope to publish many more in 2010.
Happy New Year!
I read quite a bit, always have but I never read Sherlock Holmes. So, I give this review with no knowledge of how the characters should be portrayed.
I thought this was a great movie. Both Holmes and Watson were strong characters with a lot of depth. Downey and Law had a great chemistry that was fun to watch.
The fight scenes were great and the music fit nicely as well.
Another great aspect of this movie was that is was not JUST an action flick. The detective aspect of Holmes was well played. Batman must be partially based on Sherlock Holmes. Again I haven’t read Holmes so maybe the movie version of him is based partially on Batman.
I thought this movie was very, very good and to be honest I was surprised to learn that this is a Guy Ritchie film, as I have liked none of his previous films. I have to give him credit for this one.
Another semester of Fiction Writing Workshop in the books. I have taken Jeff Ford’s workshop at Brookdale Community College for a couple of years. I won’t say how many!
I think I put some pieces together this year. My writing has improved from last year and so has my storytelling. I have a few pieces that should get published but who knows. It takes so damn long. Hopefully 2010 will be my year. The Badgerine will be the first to know.
I was checking out Jeffrey Ford’s blog and he wrote a bit about Joshua Hoffine.
Hoffine’s work is amazing and scary. He is a horror photographer and his pictures are great and his blog is interesting. He also goes through many of his pictures and the painstaking detail he put into each one.
There was one photo of a werewolf chasing a girl down a flight of stairs that was great but I couldn’t get it to copy
check Jeff out here:
http://14theditch.livejournal.com/
and check Joshua Hoffine out at:
http://joshuahoffine.wordpress.com/
I was lucky enough to be at game 6 of the World Series. Congrats to the Yankees. The Phills were tough and I had to listen to delusional Philly fans for a week but in the end we crushed them.
Glad we won. For me this tittle was the sweetest since ‘96.
What luck I’ve had this year in regards to baseball. My last four games were:
I was also in St. Louis for work in 2006 when the Cards won it all. Being in the streets when a city wins it all is a surreal experience.
Is it rejections you dream of?
The first is a children’s story that has the Sandman, Easter Bunny, and Santa himself among other characters. I am excited for this one and hope to get it out into the world this weekend.
The next one has to do with a man’s journey across the desert in a burning world as he searches for his daughter. I have a lot of hope for this one too.
Only time will tell but I am getting better at the very least.
Can’t say why this one does it for me either. I find the song haunting and I love some of the lines:
“Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going to california with an aching in my heart.
Someone told me theres a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.”
I particularly like:
The sea was red and the sky was grey,
“Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
As the children of the sun began to awake.”
One day I’ll use these images in a story.
There a few songs that get my creative juices flowing EVERY time I them. The one song that never fails me is “Street Fighting Man’ by the Rolling Stones.
The words create such vibrant images, my brain just lights up.
“Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy,
‘Cause summer’s here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy”
and
“Hey, said my name is called Disturbance;
I’ll shout and scream, I’ll kill the King, I’ll rail at all his servants”
Can’t quite explain it. Is it the way Jagger wails “street fighting maaaaaaan?
Or maybe its the haunting sitar that lurks in the background?
This is one song that just does it for me.
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