Apparantly Amazon is finally getting the bonus tracks for Shinedown's Sound of Madness (Son of Sam and Energy) but they are album only. I already BOUGHT the album damn it >(.

While I wait for my story to feel ready enough to make a go at it (after how badly my last novel attempt went I'm trying to avoid going off half cocked this time, I'm going to have to start over entirely on that one if I ever want to complete it), I've been reading on writing to see if anything will help me lock the story in and make me feel as ( Read more... )

My copy of The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines, Sixteen Master Archetypes arrived. Been looking at picking up this book for a while. All 3-5 star reviews w/5 star average on amazon, so hoping for lots of useful, thought provoking info ( Read more... )

Due to being so busy with other things in life, I had fallen behind on the crazy awesome show Kings once they started airing the remaining episodes of this season, which have been insanely delayed due to the people at ABC being douche bags. I won't spoil but I have to say, the story telling and acting only continue to improve as time goes on ( Read more... )

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On a whim I've decided to start writing reviews of the books I've been reading lately (unsurprisingly all fantasy) to help me focus my analysis of the stuff. Since I'm trying to figure out what various authors do well/poorly to adapt it to my own writing interests, I believe forcing myself to do this in a concrete form will help gather what I'm ( Read more... )

Saw this come up on news.ycombinator and decided to give it a watch. Highly recommend giving it a look, under an hour and a half long

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4278914640642723357&hl=en

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Was browsing one of the many link aggregator sites I frequent and saw this link come up for a TED talk about creativity by EG, the writer of Eat, Pray, Love. Something about it just struck a chord with me so thought I would link it here ( Read more... )

http://www.suntimes.com/technology/1420241,ihnatko-wozniak-dancing-with-the-stars-abc-020809.articleRead more... )

I know the DS is a handy little device, but this just kinda fucks with my head, I don't think of it as some sort of cooking assistant ( Read more... )